The presentation describes the successful experience in creating and launching a portfolio of different training methods for various categories of adult students, which combine job and study.

1. IMPLEMENTING
E-LEARNING AND COMBINED
TRAINING METHODS
TO INVOLVE
A WIDE RANGE OF STUDENTS
Danil Dintsis
Ph. D.
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www.specialist.ru, info@i-mokymas.com

2. BRIEF ABOUT THE PRESENTER
 Ph. D. in System Analysis (Doctorate degree, ISCED verified)
 Ph.D. in Technical management (Candidate degree, ISCED verified)
 Human – machine interaction specialist
 Portfolio manager and project director in e-learning and IT consulting
at the Specialist center at BMSTU in Moscow (Russia)
and the “Ismanusis Mokymas” in Vilnius (Lithuania) teacher and coach
for 15+ years
 IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) EMEA
Board member

3. WHAT IS THE GOAL
OF THE WEBINAR
 Deliver a brief on my experience in launching training
methods
 Find colleagues and share experiences in the community
 Find points of common professional interest
 Improve my scientific and professional experience
 Deliver projects and trainings as “guest lecturer”

4. LIFELONG EDUCATION
IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
PORTFOLIO LEAD: COMBINED
TRAINING FORMATS

5. LAUNCH IN FIRST CRISIS WAVE, 2009
 Decrease of corporate trainings
 Increase number of self-payed students
 Travel and accommodation expenses
 Number of students total decrease
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6. NEW AND OLD DEMANDS
 Learn and work
 Brief training programs – learn only “what I need here and now”
 Repeat training material after the training ends
 Individual training tempo from highly intensive 3-5 all day long studies
to one class per week.
 Decrease travel and time expenses
 A trainer “is my lead”, a student needs his/her advices and
motivation actions не получать избыточных сведений («дайте мне
только то, что мне нужно»)
 Different demands for visual/audio/text training materials
 Labs, practices and cases are the MUST items of the learning process
 Prestigious certificate for career development
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7. DEMAND ANALYSIS
 Develop analytical structure:
 Psychological types
 Computer awareness
 Course species
 Student’s location
 Analyze external restrictions and assumptions
 Develop training methods
 Choose start point
 Combine different methods
 Train the trainer and the administrative staff
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8. IDEA:
ANALYZE LINGUAL DEMANDS WITH COMPLEX FUZZY SETS
s(i), if an object compares to a modelling
s(i)=  j*s(i), if an object exists only in a formal model
 subject (1)
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9. DEMAND ANALYSIS
 Develop sets according to their analytical structure:
 Psychological types
 Computer awareness
 Course species
 Student’s location
 Analyze external restrictions and assumptions

10. Student
Introvert
Shy
Extrovert Self-organized Sloven
EXAMPLE: PSYCHOLOGICAL TREE
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11. COMPUTER USER SKILLS
 By professional specialization
 Technical and information areas
 Humanitarian
 Economics
 Art and design
 Management
 By age
 generation “Y”
 Generation “X”
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12. LEARN ANYWHERE – OFFLINE REGIME WANTED
 On trip
 At home
 On vacations
 At a workplace
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13. LEARNING SUPPORT TOOLS DEMANDS
 On- and offline studies
 Based on different platforms, i.e. browsers, smartphone apps
 Search engine
 Collaboration by course and inside a certain group

14. EXAMPLE: TECHNICAL TOOLS
CAUSE AND EFFECT DIAGRAM
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MultiFunctional
EasyToUse

15. COMMUNICATION TOOLS
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High Quality
Internet
Broadband
demands

16. TOOLS EXAMPLES
 Cisco Webex
 Citrix GoTo platform
 Adobe Connect
 Microsoft LYNC
 TrueConf Teleconferences
 Clickmeeting.com

17. «INCLASS» WEBINAR BY “SPECIALIST” CENTER

18. MAIN FEATURES OF “INCLASS” WEBINAR
 Students in a class and ay webinar study together and simultaneously
 Both categories collaborate under trainer supervising
 Training materials and lab environment are the same
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19. WEBINAR INCLASS ADVANTAGES
 For students:
 Study in a comfortable environment
 Worth for people with disabilities
 Decrease travel expenses
 Communicate with colleagues worldwide
 For an educational organization:
 More students in class
 Wider group activities
 Recordings fpr second use and for control
 Trainer self control
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20. COMBINED CLASS & SELF STUDY
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A KIND OF FLIPPED LEARNING

21. THE METHOD MAIN FEATURES
 Provide a kick-off lesson
 Use webinar recordings and e-materials for self studies
 One study per week/fortnight in class
 Common finish
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22. CLASS AND SELF STUDY ADVANTAGES
 For students:
 Worth for busy people
 Worth for well-organized students
 The method is more friendly to students
 It’s cheaper
 For educational organization:
 Reuse of webinar recordings and training materials
 Extend training schedule (for example, once a week on Saturdays or
after work day time)
 Worth for long-term educational programs (MBA, second high
education)
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23. OPEN TRAINING
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24. EXAMPLE: OPEN GROUP
A single class group
contains many virtual
groups
Number of
students, total
Number of
webinar
students
Network Infrastructure 6 2
Database administer 3 1
Network security 3 1
Database indexing 4 2
… 1
Total 16 6

25. OPEN TRAINING ADVANTAGES
 For student
 Personal tempo
 Worth for introverts and shy people
 Individual communication with a teacher
 Appropriate training schedule
 For educational organization
 Reuse of webinar recordings and e-learning materials
 Full classes
 Individual contact with students
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26. TELECONFERENCES / VIRTUAL CLASS
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27. TELECONFERENCE STUDY ADVANTAGES
 For students:
 No travels
 Comfortable environment
 Teacher’s control
 Visual contact and collaboration with all group members
 For educational organization
 Low expenses
 High level of student’s involvement and control
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28. TRAINING METHOD CHOICE
Training methods /
Demands
Class
based
Webinar Open
training
Combined
class and
self
Fast training
*** *** *** -
Cheap training
* ** * ***
Personal tempo
* * ** ***
Slovens
*** * ** *
Introverts
* ** *** **
Extroverts
*** ** - *
Live far
***

29. SPECIALIST: MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
 More than 25000 webinar students
during 5 years, 7-8% of total number
 More than 20000 open training
students during 3 years,
 10+ long term programs (second
high education) in class & self study
format
 Students around the clock from
Russia to New Zealand, and from
Japan to Argentina
 LERN awards 2010 and 2011
 Microsoft – IAMCP “Enter the Cloud”
competition 1st prize - 2011
 Citrix partner success story (website
and facebook published) - 2014
 IAMCP EMEA best practice in
partner involvement tools in 2013

30. THANK YOU!
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RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danil_Dintsis