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British Petroleum (BP) Fuels Up Online Training |
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Thursday, 17 March 2005 |
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British Petroleum (BP) signed a major elearning online training agreement to transform learning across its business – making use of the latest technology to enable a worldwide learning organisation. The agreement, with elearning and online training provider SkillSoft, allows British Petroleum to supply up to 80,000 users with its own custom-developed online training and third-party vendor modules as well as with SkillSoft and Books24x7 content. Online training and 24x7 online mentoring will be delivered through a BP customised and branded version of SkillSoft’s learning management system, SkillPort. BP will also have the ability to customise SkillSoft online training courses if required. SkillSoft’s entire courseware library of over 4,500 courses will be available to BP employees, contractors, and even BP customers. The agreement includes courses available in 15 languages.
Online training and elearning content incorporates IT, desktop, business skills, and UK and US health & safety courses; 24x7 support for 50+ IT and project management certifications; and full access to over 7,000 online IT, desktop and business books via Books24x7. Users will be able to search on a specific topic and view all the resources available to them within seconds using the SkillSoft Search-and-Learn facility.
Claire Hamlin, Head of elearning and online training at BP said “This agreement will enable us to create one consistent global platform for elearning under our Weblearn online training portal, consolidating and delivering any type of learning - both formal and informal - right across the entire BP group.” |
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