| Company News |
Oct 19, 2001
DigitalMentors Selected to Support RTE's, e-learning needs
- DigitalMentors Expands Reach in Television broadcast market
The world's
first e-Learning company servicing the global Digital Television and Home
Networking Industries, today announced an agreement to deliver DigitalMentors'
e-Learning to RTE, Ireland's National Broadcaster.
One of the main challenges facing companies operating within the Global
Digital Television industry and Home Networking Industries is training
and up-skilling their workforces to cope with the transitions into the
digital age. To enable enterprises prepare for this challenge, DigitalMentors
has created a number of e-Learning products and Certification programs
that will give people the skills needed to support rapidly changing demands
of the Digital Television and Home Networking industries.
The agreement between RTE and DigitalMentors provides RTE with access
to DigitalMentors' Digital Television Learning Library. By using DigitalMentors'
Learning environment, RTE can mix and match content from different DigitalMentors
courses and align "Knowledge Objects", partake in simulations,
assessments, and interactive movies.
"Due to our innovative and unique range of e-Learning material tailored
for the Digital Television Industry and RTE's commitment to up-skilling
its staff for the up coming roll out of Digital and Interactive Television
services, DigitalMentors was the obvious choice to help enable RTE to
embrace the new opportunities that DTV will create," said Eoin McCormack,
Director Business Development DigitalMentors.
"The RTE Training Centre choose DigitalMentors as one of our e-learning
training products because it fits in well with our existing tutor led
course structures. It also augments our existing e-learning catalogue
by adding a very leading edge Digital Television subject that is not available
from other suppliers." Fergus Graham, Head of Training, RTE.
About
DigitalMentors:
DigitalMentors is an e-learning solution and certification company committed
to providing courseware, certification programs and integrated e-learning
solutions, to address the training needs of the global digital television
and home networking industries.. DigitalMentors content is distributed
to corporations and organizations through its customized e-learning portal
at http://learning.digitalmentors.com. DigitalMentors two major brands
Digital Television Certified Professional (DTCP) and Home Networking Certified
Professional (HNCP) programs offered by DigitalMentors creates the professional
skills required to develop and implement solutions in the age of digital
convergence. The company is headquartered at the Innovation center, Plassey
Technological Park, Limerick, Ireland. For more information, visit us
at www.digitalmentors.com, or call +353 (61) 503023
About
RTE:
Radio Telefís Éireann is the Irish National Public Service
Broadcasting Organization. A statutory corporation, it provides a comprehensive
service on radio (since 1926) and on television (since 1961), and a large
range of ancillary services. In a highly competitive broadcasting environment
RTÉ is the distinctive leader in the Irish media, noted for its
cost-effective performance in transmitting programs of cultural, educational
and informational excellence on five radio and two television channels.
DIGITALMENTORS
CONTACT:
Eoin McCormack
+353 (61) 503023
emc@digitalmentors.com
