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SMT Learning offers a variety of learning solutions, comprising the development of online courseware, instructional design services, learning advisory and consulting services, knowledge enterprise learning infrastructures and

competency assurance strategies and implementation.© 2013 SMT Learning a Division of SMT Plus.

Who is SMT Learning?SMT Learning is Your Choice for e-Learning and Instructional Design

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Harness the Insight & Experience our Instructional Design ExpertsAnd Join the Growing Community of SMT Learning Customers

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e-Learning has come a long way since 1999

• 1971 – The Open University opens in England, offering open admissions and broadcasting lectures on Television

• 1989 – University of Phoenix launches its for-profit online university

• 1993 – Criteria is created by William Graziadei III, PHD and sets the standard for portable education

• 1999 – the term e-Learning is coined at an educational seminar

• 2004 – Salman Khan starts “broadcasting” on YouTube to help his cousins with Math…this leads to the formation of the Khan Academy

• 2008 – 1 in 4 US Colleges offer an Online Course

• 2012 – 4.6 million College Students will take an Online Course

• 2013 – 77% of US Companies are offering e-Learning to their employees

The Power of the Internet has forever changed how people learn…and this rate of change is growing exponentially…are you ready for it?

•“Online learning will rapidly become one of the most cost-effective ways to educate the world’s expanding workforce.” - Jack Messman

Milestones in e-Learning and Instructional Design

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What are You doing about e-Learning?

Are you Hiding from the future?

Or Leading the Pack?

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Engaged Employees are Productive Employees• Total cost of disengagement in 2012 - $11 Billion per year

• Training and Development ranked # 3 Top 6 reasons for Disengagement

• 26% of your employees are likely to be Disengaged right now

Learning and Development is not a Silver Bullet but Engaged Organizations show:

• 37% lower absenteeism

• 25% lower turnover (in high-turnover organizations)

• 65% lower turnover (in low-turnover organizations)

• 28% less shrinkage

• 48% fewer safety incidents

• 41% fewer patient safety incidents

• 41% fewer quality incidents (defects)

• 10% higher customer metrics

• 21% higher productivity

• 22% higher profitability

The Real Cost of Training and Development and Employee Engagement

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How can

Help you organization?

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Custom Courseware

• High-quality, dynamic custom courseware – that’s our speciality.

• We employ a multi-step process, during which we work closely with you and your subject matter experts to ensure that the final product addresses all of your requirements.

• During the initial phase of development, our Instructional Designers will work with your subject matter experts to identify the information or knowledge that your employees need to acquire.

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Courseware Conversions

• SMT Learning offers a range of courseware conversion services. We’ll take your existing content, update it, and transform it into an online course.

• When we talk about course conversions, we could be talking about taking a PowerPoint presentation and converting it into an online course or we could be talking about taking an existing online course and improving it from both a functionality perspective and a design perspective.

• Regardless of the format that your existing material is in, we can transform it into a fully functional online course.

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Instructional Design

• What is Instructional Design?

• Well, when we use the term Instructional Design, we’re referring to the process that we use to design instructional strategies and activities that ensure learners will acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes.

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Development Services

• We offer a full range of media and production services that stem from our broad set of development skills. For example, our graphic artists can help you liven up existing online or print-based training materials by:

• Incorporating computer-generated static images

• Developing 2D and 3D animations

• Enhancing existing digitized photographs, images, and technical drawings

• Producing and editing video

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Consulting Services

Project Management of Large-Scale Learning Projects

SMT Learning has significant experience managing large multi-million dollar learning projects. We can assist your organization with structuring a project,

planning timelines for tasks and milestones and managing resources.

Workforce Competency Development & Assurance

SMT Learning is available to consult on workforce competency development and assurance. We will work with you to identify the specific competency goals of your

organization and develop strategies to improve and optimize workforce performance.

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Consulting Services Continued

Implementation of Learning Management Systems & Learning Content Management Systems SMT Learning uses a powerful, enterprise-level

LCMS (Learning Content Management System) to power the development and deployment of

our learning solutions. Additionally, our familiarity with this and several other LCMS and

LMS platforms has made our development personnel experts in their implementation of

these systems. We are available to consult with and assist organizations in the process of

implementing, launching and maintaining these systems.Analysis of Existing Knowledge-

Based Platforms & Infrastructures

Whether your knowledge platforms need a slight adjustment or a complete overhaul, SMT

Learning can consult with you to develop a high-level understanding of the current state of

your training infrastructures.

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Thank you

I am your dedicated Business Development Executive, feel free to contact me anytime!

For more information please

contact:John Prpich

+ 805) 354-5828 Ext 220

jprpich@smtplus.com