eLearning

IAMSP is committed to assisting our memberships as they work to improve their level of services and professionalism. This support is a key element of the Association’s efforts and the eLearning effort makes us unique within the community in that IAMSP is the sole organization that offers that opportunity to its membership as part of its membership fees (Full and Associate).

The eLearning effort is broken down into five major elements. They are the following:

  • The drafting of the eLearning module in a way that clearly communicates the information;
  • The quality assurance system that ensures that the system is kept up to date and relevant
  • The  confirmation process, where each participant completes a quiz that provides confirmation of their grasp of the presented material;
  • The organization of the eLearning modules in such a way as to offer a range of more comprehensive certifications; and
  • The continuous improvement cycle that incorporates the comments from the membership and other qualified stakeholders that, after considering the impact of new information, returns the process to the drafting cycle.

 

For those seeking to pursue this opportunity, you will find the pages for each specific course listed as subpages of this page on the menu bar to the right. On this page, you will find the following:

  • The worksheet that describes the course, its origins, its maintenance and its weight in terms of continuing education;
  • A brief description of the module;
  • The link to the presentation (PowerPoint show, Podcast or other media); and
  • Link to the Quiz.

 

The quiz results are captured automatically by the website, meaning that there is little opportunity for inappropriate human intervention in terms of the results.

You will also find that certain codes are used to describe courses. While these may be somewhat arcane in the beginning, they follow a systematic approach that clearly identifies where they fit into the overall hierarchy. These include the following:

  • IAMSP – Owner of the course material, made to identify where attribution should be made if any part of the work is used outside of the learning process;
  • AWR – Awareness level training in that the goal of the training is not to generate an expert in the topic immediately, but rather to introduce the topic;
  • FAM- Familiarization level training where the goal is to generate an adequate level of detail that the individual has a working capacity with respect to the topic; and
  • TRG – Training where the individual is presented with more challenging and detailed scenarios regarding the topic and that is intended to assist the candidate achieve a level of advanced standing in relation to the topic.

These are consistent with the various structures that are used within the Vetting of Training and similar documentation.

We look forward to the challenges and the rewards of rolling out this truly unique capacity into our membership. We look forward to being able to work collaboratively with others in the industry space in developing these kinds of tools. We will also be examining ways that corporations can gain limited access to the material in such a way that they can incorporate this training into their own internal training regimes. We expect to have a number of alternatives ready for this in the future.

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