e-Learning and Training

To meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world, and provide growth opportunities for their personnel, organisations are initiating training programmes using computer based and distance-learning technologies. As a learning solutions provider that has served the market for over 40 years, Vangent offers an unmatched combination of experience and capabilities in providing services and the technologies needed to make e-learning programmes work.


Our e-learning, education, and training solutions integrate:


Customised Web Portals

Using our existing data repositories, technical infrastructure, and processes, Vangent custom-designs educational Web portals to meet the specific needs of each e-learning programme’s users. Our portals provide easy-to-use, integrated access to all services needed to successfully complete educational programmes.

Features of our educational Web portal solutions include:
  • Customised desktops for each user group, providing the features, functions, and access privileges appropriate to each group, based on each user’s unique ID
  • E-mail, threaded message boards, and synchronous chat for all user groups, including students, course instructors and tutors, academic advisers, mentors, and programme and system administrators
  • Consistent “look and feel,” and consistent navigation, for all online educational programmes and support services
  • General information to the public about the specific e-learning programme, to market the benefits of the programme to prospective students
  • Interactive demos and tours, complete “help” functions, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and online technical support to assist users

Learning/Content Management Systems

Vangents’ learning management systems (LMSs) integrate all educational, administrative, and technology support services provided by Vangent and our partners. Our LMSs access information located in several systems at participating educational institutions and other programme partners, providing seamless access and aggregation of data from highly disparate information systems.

Features of our LMS solutions include:
  • Virtual classrooms
  • Online course catalogues
  • Online learning resource repositories
  • Online education courses
  • Online diagnostic, self-assessment, and self-help tools
  • Decision support tools
  • Educational advisory services
  • Administrative support services
  • Technology support services

Custom Courseware Development

Vangent works in close partnership with educational institutions and courseware providers to develop online courseware that offers rich educational experiences for students and meets accepted interoperability standards. With more than 150 instructional designers and graphic artists, and several hundred subject matter experts to draw upon, we offer a robust approach to the development of customised courses and full-scale curricula for our customers.

Features of our custom courseware development solutions include:
  • Ready-made courses in the areas of Leadership Development, Financial/Investment Management, and Sales Management
  • Computer-based training (CBT) distributed on CD-ROM or via the web
  • Self-paced tutorials

Delivery and Management of Services

Vangent provides complete design, development, and delivery of both “soft skills” and “hard asset” training services, for civilian and military agencies. We follow a documented Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model to construct the training programmes for our customers. The ISD model defines the process for determining what to teach and how to teach it. The use of a documented, well-defined model helps assure our customers that training will be designed and developed in a predictable, cost-effective manner. Our ISD model includes five phases: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Features of our training services include:
  • Computer-based training
  • Web seminars
  • Videoconferences
  • Instructor-led classroom training

Rapid Design Workshop

As the pace of change accelerates, organisations struggle to keep employees informed, trained, and ready to perform. To support these accelerating training requirements, the training industry has developed tools to create training more quickly and to prototype more rapidly. But ultimately good instruction depends on good design, and the thinking that goes into a good design becomes the bottleneck that slows down training development. It just takes time to think through a design, and no tool can speed that up. But there is a process that can, and at Vangent we call that process Rapid Design. To provide a visual distinction, consider the flow of the traditional design process for a course:



This process can take one or more months to complete. And often, each group can end up undoing work from a previous group because they have a different view of the end product. This can cause a repeated cycle of rework. Think what would happen if all groups were able to work through their views together and benefit from the perspectives offered by the others. This collaboration is the core principle driving our Rapid Design Workshops.



As the project begins, Vangent will conduct a Rapid Design Workshop consisting of a two-day, in-person collaborative session between the Vangent instructional designers, subject matter experts (SMEs), the client, and other stakeholders. Typically, the session is conducted at client facilities, but if desired, a Vangent location may be used. The purpose of the workshop is to ensure collaborative involvement of all involved parties in a real-time situation. This highly participatory session will ensure that all parties’ input is heard and considered. This in-depth discussion and dynamic involvement significantly enhances the analysis process. Within this session, ideas are offered and often lead to the generation of additional thoughts or suggestions, leading to higher quality results. Vangent Instructional Designers will guide the discussions to focus on several key areas of the learning:

  • Audience characteristics and expectations
  • Goal
  • Learning objectives
  • Strategies to present the information in an interesting and engaging manner
  • Structure and topic flow
  • Content gaps and resources
  • Visual and media elements
  • Evaluation strategies (e.g. pre/post tests)
During the workshop, the group will make decisions, validated by the client team, which will become the foundation of the course design. Because this is so important to the project, the client decision makers should expect to attend the entire two-day event. Without their input, the results may not reflect their intentions for the project.

When compared to a traditional analysis and design process, the Rapid Design Works shop offers significant benefits. These benefits include:
  • Facilitates flexibility and openness toward ideas
  • Enhances results via sharing of perspectives in real-time
  • Ensures collaboration
  • Involves direct input from team
  • Builds Consensus
  • Ensures team members share a common vision and vocabulary
  • Improves risk mitigation planning
  • Ensures stakeholder buy-in, Minimises rework
  • Identifies issues or gaps in content earlier in the process
  • Establishes strong relationships for addressing and resolving problems
  • Provides clear direction for moving forward
  • Reduces analysis and design time
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