News
April 2008
Global Vision Media and the Victorian Whole of Government E-Services Panel
In late 2007, Global Vision Media's status as a leader in online communication and eLearning was formally recognised with our appointment to the Victorian Whole of Government E-services Panel. Since then, and in particular in recent times, we we have liased with a wide range of government bodies and departments to improve their use of the internet in trainig and communication. This has proved to be a very successful partnership and positions us as key players in raising the efficiency of training delivery across government in Victoria. Our appointment to the panel means that the quality and reliability of our services has been fully audited to the extent that we can be engaged by state instrumentalities under a simple user-friendly process, without the usual requirement for competitive quotes.
March 2008
Users' group meeting
Reinforcing with our ongoing commitment to our customers, Global Vision Media held its inaugural users' group meeting at Williamstown this month and what a day it was! Held at the gorgeous waterfront venue Pelican's Landing, we welcomed the administrators of Learning Management Systems from all around Australia as well as invited speakers from overseas.
After a day in which we heard each other's stories and several formal case studies we were uplifted by the creativity of GVM's clients in their use of the system. We know that some ideas have been adopted by other attendees already.
Nothing beats personal experience and it certainly speaks volumes for our LMS supplier's commitment to the Australian market that they sent two top people from Hong Kong down for the day to give us all an insider's view on the product and its roadmap, Watch this space for User Group 2009!
March 2008
GM Training College turns to GVM for localised eLearning
Raytheon Professional Services is a global leader in learning services and outsourcing. In Australia, Raytheon is contracted to operate GM Training College which is General Motors' training facility for Holden and SAAB dealers across the country. In 2008, as part of an urgent upgrade to training online, Raytheon had a need to localise and restructure a series of learning modules developed overseas. The task proved complex as the modules had been developed in a proprietary framework which, while compliant with the SCORM standard, was not designed to allow developers to localise the content.
Having worked with Global Vision Media over a period of some years, Raytheon turned to GVM to resolve the issue. Their decision to commission us for the task was based on our reputation as a nimble and flexible supplier able to turn a complex task around on time and on a fixed and affordable budget. Our methodology of detailed analysis before proceeding to development paid off handsomely and allowed us to retain all the original framework's standards, draw on as much of that framework as possible yet extend it to facilitate change.
February 2008
DP World and GVM - saving lives
With maturity of both legislation and a general social conscience in Australia over recent years, Occupational Health and Safety has grown to become an integral part of everyday business. Such change has highlighted recognition that a Safety Management System can no longer be slated only for use following an incident, but must be communicated to stakeholders such that the risk of an incident occurring is minimised.
Careful communication is vital in establishing skill levels and responsibilities among people in an operation, and it is that ability to interact on a personal basis which is fundamental in preparing stakeholders to maintain a successful and safe workplace.
DP World, one the biggest stevedoring companies, renewed its commitment to Global Vision communicating its safety message in 2008 with the commissioning of four new DVDs on the company's Fatal Risk Standards.
January 2008
Improving safety for BHB Billiton
BHP Billiton is one of Global Vision's oldest clients and our association with them has continued into this year. BHP Billiton's Emergency Management Induction can now be carried out effectively, consistently and without delay throughout the English-speaking world and in South America, thanks to an online induction tool created by Global Vision Media. This self-directed online training incorporates a variety of interactive experiences within a carefully devised instructional design. The success of this training resulted in BHP Billiton commissioning Global to create a further online tool to train staff in using their Emergency Management website.
GVM's unbeatable turnaround sways Goldman Sachs JB Were
Global Vision enters 2008 with a contract to continue providing Goldman Sachs JBWere, one of Australia's leading financial services houses, with video for the firm's website.
With its staff located in several major financial centres around Australia, GSJBW needed an effective mechanism for rapidly delivering up-to-date training seminars from high-profile international finance experts. Global Vision Media provided the solution: online video/slide training, recorded in Melbourne and Sydney, edited in a short time-frame, and delivered throughout Australia on the GSJBW intranet.
December 2007
Telstra's videos run like clockwork
In close consultation with both Telstra and its event company, Global Vision is tasked with recording the Telstra's Results briefing as delivered to the financial analysts, the media, and Telstra staff. Increasingly, delivery is by intranet and we have worked with the client to develop an efficient procedure involving filming specifically for our requirements. We work closely with the AV company to ensure we get the kinds of shots and audio we need for the very best results. Essentially we take responsibility for directing the crews and managing quality control.
The format is a briefing to staff from the Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo and one other senior executive, followed a question and answer session with the staff. Turnaround is tight with same or at most next day for both a full briefing and a highlights package. The client is generally unable to provide detailed input and so our ability to distill the briefing to a highlights package hinges on our understanding of Telstra and its key messages. It is only long standing commitment to the client that makes this possible.
All the packages are edited to incorporate the graphics used for the event. They are then encoded to the Telstra specifications, tested and uploaded for review. Sign off follows quickly from what is a reliable and fuss free process.
December 2007
MFB office induction
When the MFB launched a new training complex for 200 people, it needed induction courseware to train the staff in the layout and features of the building with emphasis on the Environmentally Sustainable Design Strategies which characterised the complex. Global Vision Media created highly interactive multimedia courseware, delivered via the MFB intranet and downloadable to staff's desktop computers.
Walking through the building, the learner can find meeting rooms and other key facilities, view safety and other features and learn about the environmental aspects of the workplace in preparation for moving in.
Best of all, this revolutionary tool has been built so that it can be used with any building simply by changing the description of the building that sits under a state of the art engine.
December 2007
Game Over: Global Vision gives leading consultancy unmatchable lead.
CSC has been serving Australia's and the world's business and technology needs for nearly 40 years and is one of the world's foremost experts in application services, labour supply and outsourcing. The rate of change in the IT industry was turned from a challenge into a unique opportunity for CSC through the power of EKP's testing and validation tools. EKP offers the perfect solution to demonstrate to each partner that CSC staff are the best trained, most experienced and most up-to-date team available. It took EKP's unique competency management and evaluation mechanisms to provide CSC with an efficient tool to prove beyond doubt that its team is ready now to take on leadership roles as their clients confront new IT challenges. The result was such a success, CSC patented an aspect of it!
November 2007
TAFE NSW gets SET to recognise prior learning
Global Vision and TAFE NSW have commenced work on the Skills Express Tool (SET), an innovative online tool developed by Global Vision Media that enables users to identify their current skills and skills gaps and address them.
A key focus of the tool is on tasks and skills. These are incorporated into projects or functions normally carried out in Hairdressing and Beauty salons. Users work through specific tasks associated with particular skills and record the actual evidence to support their claims. An additional feature is a series of activities with which users may interact to cross-check their knowledge and skills.
Unique to the Skills Express Tool is its cluster methodology. This entails harvesting Performance Criteria from several Competency Units and clustering them to cover a specific function, e.g. Haircutting, Cut and Colour Hair, Manicure and Pedicure and Acrylic Nails. While other RPL tools focus line by line on a single Competency Unit, SET's cluster methodology approach is designed to combine information in a more applied way.
The target users include people currently working as hairdressers, people seeking to re-enter the industry, people from overseas seeking currency in NSW and people who hold a qualification in another industry e.g. retail or business and are seeking a career change. Finally there may be people who seek to manage a salon using their business skills.
The development of the Skills Express Toolkit is a joint venture between several TAFE NSW Institutes and a private provider. Its is funded by monies provided by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). The developer is Global Vision Media based in Melbourne.
November 2007
GVM takes Australia from the 19th century to the 21st!
The Le@rning Federation has commissioned Global Vision to turn a CD-ROM on Australian history 1850-1901 into a series of online activities. TLF, which is an initiative of Federal and State education Ministers, is reflecting the current interest in Australian history by getting GV, which made the original CD-ROM in 1997, to ensure the huge resource of the CD is still available for schools. Other CD-ROMs made by Global Vision over the years, including one on the history of democracy, will also be transformed into contemporary online formats.
August 2007
TAFE NSW eLearning
Staff of TAFE NSW needed training in how to deal with drugs and alcohol misuse in the workplace, whether by colleagues or students. Global Vision helped by turning a set of paper learning materials developed for face-to-face instruction into six videos. The video format, for distribution both online and by DVD, helps dramatise the issues and make them more compelling and interesting. How to deal with drugs and alcohol misuse.
June 2007
Pharmacy certification system going strong
In 2005, the Australian natural health company Blackmores chose Global Vision Media as its partner in a project aimed at upgrading the training and certification that they deliver to retailers and pharmacists across the country. Two years later, and that partnership is still going strong with 2000 retailers accessing a wide selection of online courses and certifications and over 7000 retailers granted certifications through a straightforward, cost effective system.
May 2007
PricewaterhouseCoopers Stage 2
PwC reaffirms its commitment to Global Vision and the Enterprise Knowledge Platform learning management application. After a rigourous trial PwC made the decision to get GV to help them manage their extensive training requirements.
May 2007.
Global Vision Media hits the airwaves to help you make the switch
Global Vision takes a giant leap into the communication of environmental sustainability issues, with the development of a TV show on how Australians can make the switch to a new clean, green way of going about their lives. See the program archive at the Making The Switch site.
March 2007
Stories from the Great Divide
Global Vision has delivered a major DVD production for the Department of Sustainability and Environment, called Stories from the Great Divide to wide acclaim
The story of the enormous fire menace that was tackled in extraordinary fashion by the people of DHS in the summer of 06-07 is told by the people themselves - all of them fulfilling vital roles in the widespread and sustained battle against the multiple bushfires threatening Victoria.
We also hear from the people who witnessed the courageous efforts of the people of DHS and the other stakeholders, including local community residents, Parks Victoria, DPI & CFA staff.
We see the stories of those who calmly and confidently provided briefing after briefing for communities, handled communications, rakehoed, drove trucks, fire spotted, cooked, deployed resources, etc, etc, etc.
Where appropriate a comment or two is included from relatives or friends - people who were affected by prolonged absence in some cases and who are quietly proud of their family member or mate (male or female).
Through the eyes of these witnesses and participants - individuals directly affected - we appreciate what was achieved by the people of DHS.
21 August 2007
Global Induction. Easy to do. Easy to prove.
Now your staff can receive induction training online, registering proof of completion.
Designed with your own branding, Global Induction offers four modules in plain English: privacy, discrimination, health and safety, as well as information specific to our clients.
It's cost-effective and takes only days to set up. Is your induction training up to date? Prove it. With Global Induction.
Global Vision has joined forces with Australian Workplace Training Services to create four induction awareness courses on areas crucial to business compliance.
Together we offer courses in Health and Safety, Privacy, Harassment - and also a general induction course about specific customers' businesses that is not finalized until we get input from the customer. The courses are offered in Global's Enterprise Knowledge Platform system, so testing, scoring, tracking and recording results are all available to be switched on.
You call that learning?
Global Vision's Director of Professional Services, Peter Hawkins, argues that in many cases a game is the most efficient way to teach. After extensive research, and even a bit of game playing, Peter argues that too often we are inclined to believe that "fun" and "learning" are mutually exclusive.
He says: In many cases we recall tedious learning and reconcile those experiences with 'it hurt so it must have been good for me'. Too often the truth was that it hurt because it was prepared by someone without imagination. While games are not the only way to teach, there are situations and learning modes for which they are ideal.
The very reason that a game is fun is that it does precisely what teachers seek to do! It meets our natural instinct to want to "figure it out on my own" and to be challenged with minimal hints and to not simply to be told the answer. A teacher calls this "learner autonomy" and "metacognition" and it is precisely this that employers seek in their employees.
That is not the only benefit. Immersing a learner in a rich content area builds familiarity with all of the cues that are around him or her. The learner interacts with these cues in context. This is why people learn language better when they go to foreign countries than when they sit in a classroom - all those implicit cues coming to them aid learning. All educational game designers know this and endeavor to make the environment as rich as possible.
Another key aim of the educational game designer is to give out information in context. Certain material is best learned just in time and on demand and the learner should get verbal information close to when he or she is going to be able to see how it works in the world. This is often the most effective way for the learning and the experience to connect to give real meaning.
In other situations, a game is a world in a box. There is a level of simulation in even the most rudimentary game and that is perfect for education. People learn most deeply when they are placed in a situation with an identity and experience what it's like to feel that way, to value that way, to talk that way. This is a great strength of games and inevitably offers a deeper form of learning.
Simulations are often the most effective way to teach inherently systemic things such as interactions between people and groups, manipulating and modeling. Wherever we introduce simulation and visualisation, fewer people struggle with it. Being able to ask "what if?" is tremendously enlightening in a way that looking at material where the alternative is text. Another of the most effective uses of simulation is as a mechanism to surface assumptions. We pose a situation, people play it out and as they do so they begin to question the underlying rules of the game
Like good learning material generally, a well designed game is distinguished by the incorporation of frequent and or rapid decision-making. When you play a game, you make a decision typically every couple of seconds, or if it's a turn-based game, every few minutes. Being forced to make those decisions increases the learning enormously.
You may find the following link useful. It is a very readable and authoritative discussion on game based elearning http://www.pixelearning.com/docs/seriousgamesbusinessapplications.pdf
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27 April 2007
GVM wins top award
Global Vision Media, a leading training and communications company, has won a major award for excellence in business strategy.
Global Vision won the Australian Institute of Training Development's annual business strategy award, meaning our initiative improved organisational performance by providing best possible outcomes for learners, adding value to an organisation’s human capital and providing a unique business solution.
The award was for Global Vision's deployment of an online training system and content to protect Australia's ports from terrorism.
AITD is Australia's leading organization for Training, L&D, HR Professionals and those with an active interest in Learning and Human Resource Development. The award was presented at the Institute's gala dinner, held during last week's two-day conference attended by 280 industry professionals.
Australia's two biggest stevedores are using the Global Vision system to train employees and contractors in workplace health and safety as well as security.
The stevedores, P&O Ports (now DP World) and Patrick Stevedores created 1-Stop, an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) technologies and e-commerce systems solutions company, to meet the challenges of implementing the Federal Government's maritime security requirements.
During 1-Stop's tender process in 2005, Global Vision demonstrated that the Enterprise Knowledge Platform by NetDimensions was the best LMS for the compliance purpose and that Global Vision could create the most effective content to populate it.
The result is a training management system which complies with legislative requirements, is more efficient than face-to-face delivery, is effective for people for whom online training is often considered unachievable, and has since been expanded to provide site induction.
Two key selection criteria for Global Vision Media as the provider were its experience in such complex collaborations, and its understanding of the challenges involved in designing online training for workers such as truck drivers whose first language may not be English.
The e-Learning system Global Vision developed is a means to link truck drivers, contractors and regulatory bodies and also to ensure that safety standards are met.
Eventually 1-Stop envisions all workers accessing a wharf in Australia using the Enterprise Knowledge Platform, a figure to estimated to reach 80,000.
In Australia, where there has been growing demand to build greater security and safety through electronic improvements to the container handling chain, 1-Stop and Global Vision Media feel they have the answer with the EKP, an award winning e-Learning management system.
"With EKP Gold, 1-Stop receives a powerful, flexible, and ready built platform to integrate with their own training and communications solutions," said Philip Chubb, managing director of Global Vision Media. "The combination packs quite a punch."
Representatives from 1-Stop are equally positive. "With such a wide scope of backgrounds and language barriers, we needed a system to be simple to deploy and understand, yet still feature robust options. EKP met all of our criteria and then some"
"The main challenge was to find a way to provide the training requirement for all employees and workers who need access to the ports in Australia and are now required by law to have a Maritime security card (MSIC)," explained 1-Stop's CEO Peter Kosmina. "In addition to complying with this new legislation it also ensures that any obligations with respect to safety training on the wharves (including protection from terrorism) are met."
The learning management system is provided by NetDimensions and managed by Global Vision Media. It is run on 1-Stop hardware.
10 April 2007
Congratulations, you are a finalist !
These are the words GVM read when we opened our mail last week from the Australian Institute of Training and Development. What exactly are we a finalist in? We submitted a proposal for the 2007 AITD National Awards for Business Strategy for online training in waterfront security.
To comply with tough new security–related legislation, Australia's biggest stevedoring companies provided a single online Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC) implementation procedure through a jointly set up entity called 1–STOP.
Global Vision Media developed the online training system which 1–STOP needed to train and test the 80,000 truck drivers and contractors accessing port facilities throughout Australia.
The result is a training management system which:
- complies with legislative requirements,
- is more efficient than face–to–face delivery,
- is effective for people for whom online training is often considered unachievable, &
- has since been expanded to provide site induction within P&O Ports (now DP World) & Patrick Corporation (now Toll).
The Awards will be announced on 19th April at the AITD Conference and dinner.
30 March 2007
Global Vision Media exhibits at the AITD Conference
Maybe you work in learning and development or maybe you work in communications.
Well……. come and learn more. Global Vision Media has some free passes to the exhibition at the Australian Institute of Training & Development Conference in April 2007 at the Sebel Hotel, Albert Park Melbourne (ex Carlton Crest Hotel). There will be plenty to see and do. If you’re interested in attending the conference program as well, let us know and we will be able to assist with a discounted fee.
Want to know more? Go to www.aitd.com.au and follow the links to the conference.
Contact Us with your enquiries.
30 March 2007
Return on Investment – online evaluation tools
Although finances are not the only consideration for your organisation, they do provide a compelling argument in the Board Room!
Many people contemplating the introduction of e–learning find an ROI shows them how much they can save with online training or partly online training (blended learning).
There are ROI techniques specifically for online, blended and face–to–face learning.
Limit your risk by taking the guesswork out of ROI. Back up your plans for e–learning and blended learning with sound calculations.
Would you be interested in having an evaluation of your training strategy or e–learning content?
What about obtaining an ROI to compare the costs of online and face–to–face training?
Global Vision has staff dedicated to helping you with your ROI. Contact Us to receive your resource pack.
29 March 2007
Going green with online and e–learning
We all think that online is ‘green’ – and it certainly is when we reduce our paper printing and stay in touch without using transport. E–learning delivers terrific benefits in this regard.
We can be even greener if we remember to switch off the computer at the end of the day along with the lights and the air conditioner. Even better if we switch off appliances at the wall. It all adds up.
12 April 2006
Global Vision Media launches new look web site and corporate branding.
We are delighted to announce our new look web site and corporate branding for 2006. This web site launch begins phase one of our rebrand, updated web presence and marketing initiative.
14 March 2006
Online Learning Management System for Stevedoring Industry.
In 2005, Patrick, P&O Ports and other maritime organisations banded together to create 1-stop to provide a single online Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC) implementation procedure to service all their port facilities.
1–stop's Business Objective: to provide the training requirement for all personnel who need access to the Ports in Australia and New Zealand, and who are now regulated by the need to have the MSIC (www.dotars.gov.au). In addition to complying with this new legislation, the system will also ensure that Patrick and P&O Ports meet their obligations with respect to safety in port areas (including protection from terrorism).
The driver for 1–Stop was to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the training that has been traditionally conducted in a face–to–face environment with no testing for understanding.
1–Stop selected Global Vision Media after an extensive search and a rigorous selection process.
All personnel (P&O Ports and Patrick employees, truck drivers, sub–contractors, etc) accessing a wharf in Australia and NZ are expected to use the training totalling around around 40,000 overall users of the system.