Delivering ISI courseware where you need it

When students can’t come to where important training is being offered, ISI can bring the courseware to them with Distance Learning solutions. ISI maximizes the benefits of the worldwide telecommunications infrastructure -- enabling students to learn and communicate with mentors from any location, at any time. This is a major improvement over legacy distance-learning programs that required participants to convene simultaneously in a traditional “class” format.

For example, since 1997, ISI and Union County College (UCC) in New Jersey have formed a unique partnership to create a take-home laptop distance learning program called “Project Learn.” (Passaic County Community College joined the Project Learn partnership a few years later.) Most of the project participants are female welfare-to-work participants who are provided with access to ISI courseware on laptops. This gives them opportunity to study a wide range of subjects from home so they don’t have to worry about arranging for child care. Technology allows program managers to monitor the students’ progress from wherever they have access to the Internet.

Whether developing Office Worker skills…working towards certification as a Nurse Assistant…or brushing up on basic academic skills, ISI courseware and this laptop program give students the freedom and convenience of studying at home -- on their own time and at their own pace. The ISI Web-based management system gives instructors and students the assessment tools to track time on task and scores achieved. Instructors can view student reports and provide instruction and intervention on an ongoing basis.