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Beida-Online Becomes China's Largest Web-based Training Provider
Beida-Online announced Wednesday that it has formed a partnership with the world's largest educational product developer, SkillSoft, to tailor training solutions for companies in China through e-learning.
The cooperation not only secures Beida-Online's leading role in China's on-line professional and business education sector, but also signifies SkillSoft's entry into China, said Ni Jinlei, CEO of Beida-Online, jointly founded by Beijing University and Beida Blue Bird Group.
The cooperation will lead to the localization of over 480 SkillSoft's computer-based courses covering a wide range of business and professional development skills such as management, leadership, communication, finance and marketing.
At today's presentation, Beida-Online showed 25 localized courses, which involve marketing, and project and personnel management. The audience witnessed multi-media interfaces demonstrate graphics and characters of various courses, which provide interactive exercises and tests.
Lu Benfu, director of the Internet Development Research Center with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that many Chinese companies are eager to improve the quality of their workforce in the transition to embrace a computer-based economic era.
He said that the e-learning method can provide them with a low cost and efficient training option, which allows individuals and company employees to take self-paced training at the place and time that best suits their needs.
The cost of the web-based training is only one third of the expenditure of traditional training, he said, pointing out that the technology-based course delivery is most suitable for large companies performing nationwide or worldwide.
The latest survey result announced by the China Internet Statistics Center shows that 54 percent of the surveyed people consider on-line schools the most promising Internet business of the future, which would outpace B2B and on-line shopping.
Meanwhile, 90 percent of large and medium-sized state-owned companies and foreign-funded firms have intranets and access to the Internet.
Increasing web usage in China has created huge potential for the e-learning market, said John Catlin, CEO of SkillSoft Asia- Pacific Region.
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