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GAC Corporate Academy goes to E-Learning 2.0
(Feb  8  2010)

The GAC Corporate Academy (GCA), an in-house corporate development initiative set up to offer development opportunities to GAC employees since February 2007, has launched its new ‘E-Learning 2.0’ platform.

The new platform aims to further refine the teaching materials offered through the GCA online learning management system, GAClearn, and streamline third party developers’ content to make its courses more relevant to students' needs, making them more interactive, and responsive to changing demands.

The GCA programmes operate through a Learning Management System environment where participants join virtual classrooms. Participants form learning communities to engage in industry-based case studies and learning processes.

Damien O’Donoghue, the Academy’s general manager, notes that since some of the initial GCA course material was provided by outside developers, using generic content, those models had limited potential for social interaction and relevance to the GAC World.

This created an element of inflexibility, as content could not be changed, and added the expense of purchasing the material from third-party providers.

“Now, after nearly three years since the launch of the GCA, we are ready to move on to the next stage - a new model that lays the foundations for us to build in-house communities to spread learning across the GAC world, with the flexibility to adapt in response to feedback from participants,” said Mr O’Donoghue.

“It’s GCA for GAC – and it puts us in charge of own destiny, promoting GAC’s unique way of doing business.”

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