Visit us at Online Educa 2005

Again, Comartis will be represented with their own booth at the Online Educa in Berlin/Germany from November 30 till December 2, 2005. Online Educa is the conference for international e-learning and distance education industry. The conference provides strategists and practitioners from all over the world information on trends and developments on the e-learning market.

The i-qBox Team looks forward to welcoming you at booth number E 101 in the Gartenlounge II to demonstrate the latest i-qBox news. Please contact us at sekretariat@comartis.com to reserve an individual presentation at the Online Educa.

Activities by Comartis at the Online Educa

Omar Lahyani, CEO, Comartis AG will be giving a presentation on "Boosting the Enterprise Learning Process with Fully Integrated Learning Quality Management" together with Frank Schnäbele, Head of Quality & Performance Management, Credit Suisse. 

Place: QUA22
Date: Thursday December 1, 2005
Time: 14.00 to 16.00 h

QM with the i-qBox

The i-qBox Learning Quality Management System is one out of several i-qBox Modules. The i-qBox LQMS contains the tools for an automated implementation of learning performance measurement based on the well-known method of Kirkpatrick/Phillips.

The i-qBox LQMS application supports the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the training offered in your organization. With the i-qBox LQMS your learning performance measurement can be applied to the following quality levels:

Level 0 The pretest collects the attendees’ standard of knowledge at a certain time – representing the starting baseline. Level 1 The course evaluation measures the attendees’ satisfaction with the training. Level 2 The learning success control verifies the knowledge gained by attendees after the training. Level 3 The transfer analysis determines the effect of the training – has a practical application taken place? Level 4 The business impact evaluation determines the effect of the training on the overall business performance. Fore more information look at our QM-Movie (2.4 MB).

Quality of further education as a building block for succeeding in business

The magazine "Wissensmanagement - Das Magazin für Führungskräfte" published an article about "Quality of further education as a building block for succeeding in business".

The entire article is only available in German.

An abstract in English.

Kirkpatrick Evaluation Certification Technology Partners

Since this year’s ASTD in Orlando, Comartis works closely together with Jim Kirkpatrick. Based on the Four Level Evaluation Program, which was developed by Donald Kirkpatrick (Jim Kirkpatrick’s father), Jim Kirkpatrick and CUE (Corporate University Enterprise, Inc.) have developed an according certifying program. Two Principal Certification sessions are scheduled at this time with future dates to be announced. The first took place on October 24-25 at University of Toyota in Torrance, California, and the second one is on January 25-26, 2006, at MGM Grand University (MGM Grand Hotel) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On these events the i-qBox Modul Learning Quality Management will be presented as Comartis is  technology partner for the Certification Program:

Corporate University Enterprise, Inc. (CUE) is an educational consulting firm designed to bring a strategic approach to workforce education in both private and public organizations. The company was incorporated in 1998 and has since served clients throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
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In his role at CUE as Senior Consultant, Evaluation Services, Jim Kirkpatrick, Ph. D leads the launch of the Kirkpatrick Four Level Evaluation Certification Program, a robust approach to scorecarding and evaluation practice to support learning organizations through their corporate universities. Jim considers his expertise with balanced scorecards and transferring learning to behaviors as his greatest assets.
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Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D is in the Board of advisors of CUE. He has written seven supervisory/management Inventories and seven training and management books including EVALUATING TRAINING PROGRAMS: THE FOUR LEVELS which is used all over the world as the standard for evaluation.
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Case Study Raiffeisen Group

Since the beginning of December 2004 the Raiffeisenbank has trusted for its over 9'000 qualified employees and partners when it comes to e-Learning in the i-qBox developed by Comartis. Until then the Raiffeisenbank of Switzerland was more focused on traditional seminars and workshops for further training measures. The need for an online support in know-how managements has arisen out of the following considerations:

• Know-how controlling: Quality evaluation of training offers by means of feedback forms and quizzes
• Realization of blended learning – to concepts with the goal projects and campaigns in order to increase the sustainability
• To realize internal technical certifications
• Compliance: proof of test results relating to legal regulation (specifically money laundering law)

Thanks to big flexibility and short development time it was possible in less than one year to generate an entire learning platform that has build up on the already existing module of the i-qBox e-Learning solution and that has brought in consideration at the same time the customer’s specific needs.

The complete Case Study, published in "who is who in e-Learning 4.0" can be downloaded here (only in german available).

Torsten Maier, Director Compartment-/Sales- and IT-Education: "The current tempo of the project starting in September 2004, surprises me myself. We are on the right path to become more professional in our field of activity and thus to contribute significantly to the Raiffeisenbank Group of Switzerland."