Vubiz Elearning Joins Izzui to Enhance Social Learning Offering

Vubiz is excited to announce their debut on Izzui, the first e-learning app for Facebook. Izzui is the first social media app uniquely focused on e-learning that uses Facebook to launch, track and manage courses with e-commerce capabilities to charge and pay for course subscriptions.

“This exciting strategic partnership between Izzui and Vubiz represents a new era in social learning. We selected dozens of our bestselling courses and published them on the Izzui app. Accessing Vubiz custom learning pagehttps://apps.facebook.com/izzuiapp/vubiz, Facebook learners can choose from topics like business skills, personal development, time management, stress management and customer service,” Robin Rapino, Vubiz VP U.S. Operations, explained.    

This innovative free social learning app already has over 200,000 installations and more than 400 courses available to all Facebook users including new Vubiz content. “Through Izzui, Vubiz course subscribers can invite friends, rate, evaluate and comment on Vubiz courses, as well as share their course activities on their Facebook profile,” Rapino highlights.

“We are happy to have Vubiz join our growing family of content publishers. On Izzui, we provide a unique way to use Facebook to create learning channels that are relevant, fun and engaging. Our goal is to blend e-learning and social media into a seamless digital social experience to connect people and brands online,” Alfredo Leone, Izzui’s Managing Director says.

About Izzui
Izzui is a Facebook app that provides a free, collaborative elearning community for creating, sharing, and viewing a wide variety of interactive and engaging content via online courses. Izzui is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Izzui’s founders and developers focus on learning and development with a relentless commitment to improving the way people see and use e-learning.
You can also access the app directly at https://apps.facebook.com/izzuiapp/. Stay informed on our social platforms: @izzuiapp

About Vubiz
Vubiz is an award-winning elearning company with unbeatable pricing, quality online courses and outstanding customer service. We're experts at making online training effective at the very best price. Proud winner again in 2013 for Best Compliance and Certification elearning.

Vubiz Wins Best Compliance Award at Best of Elearning Awards 2013

Vubiz wins Best Compliance and Certification Elearning Award for the second year in a row by Elearning Media Group.

This Award of Excellence from Elearning Media Group is solely based on voter ballots. In its 9th year, the Best of Elearning! Awards are the exclusive reader’s choice awards program for enterprise learning solutions and workplace technology products and services. This highly competitive enterprise learning awards
program features the new and the next in enterprise learning and workplace technologies.

“We are honored to win this award for the second year in a row” said Jim Rapino, President of Vubiz, Ltd. “We’re excited to acknowledge our team’s commitment to creating the best compliance online training available at the best competitive price. Thank you to the Elearning Media Group, our clients and our team.”

Vubiz has also been recognized with awards for outstanding customer service, and best
content. Vubiz has a large “off-the-shelf” library of online content from business skills to health & safety to customer service topics. Vubiz has a deep catalog of award-winning compliance courses from Harassment Prevention to Banking compliance to Health & Safety courses.

New Online Program Helps Companies Execute Strategies

Vubiz announces the launch of one of their most popular elearning courses completely redesigned. The Balanced Scorecard: Looking at an Organization from More than One Perspective is a four module program providing an in-depth examination of the Balanced Scorecard, an important tool for strategically managing an organization's performance.

Vubiz President Jim Rapino says, this valuable elearning program improves results “the balanced scorecard approach helps companies successfully execute their strategies which is why this program is so popular.” The program looks at how the balanced scorecard ensures the proper execution of strategy and balances an organizations current performance against the long-term health of the organization. It offers a strategic view of the organization including all perspectives, a process for managing the organization strategically instead of tactically, building a risk scorecard, scenario planning and a common terminology for discussing strategic issues and communicating strategy to the entire organization. Rapino says, this course improves organizational performance by measuring what matters and focusing on the drivers of future performance.

Available in English and French, the revised, updated and expanded course now includes detailed case studies of two balanced scorecard implementations: MDS, a private sector company, and the RCMP, an example of a public sector organization. The new program enhances the learning experience with audio, video clips, heightened interactivity, frequent review questions, illustrative charts, diagrams, photos, references and citations. A final exam helps learners gauge their understanding of the material in the course and, when passed, generates a certificate of completion.

This online program qualifies for 9 professional development hours.

Video in Elearning

Video in eLearning

When you need to relay crucial information to staff or business associates in a short amount of time, typical eLearning methods may not be sufficient. Integrating video into your eLearning can solve this problem. Video helps distill essential information and distribute it quickly and effectively. With high-definition video, you're not just telling learners what they need to know – you're showing them. Effective videos increase learner engagement. And increased engagement has a positive effect on learning retention and learner satisfaction.

When Should You Use Video?
Video is ideally suited to explaining or demonstrating a process or activity. A short 10 to 20-second video clip, in many cases supported by text and audio, conveys a message more dynamically than simply using text and still photographs or graphics. The message is delivered faster, the learning retention rate is higher, and the content is very easy to deliver.

Video enhances understanding when learners can see an example of a specific situation. A good example is a global construction firm which uses video to illustrate health and safety requirements. A visual demonstration of the correct way to handle hazardous material, put on a safety harness, or conduct lifting operations resonates with learners more than a simple text explanation of the same actions.

Video is also extremely effective for delivering personal messages. A welcome message from a CEO to kick off a new employee orientation/onboarding program adds a personal touch that is hard to replicate in text alone, while the use of endorsements from experts or peers to introduce a new concept or support a new initiative adds credibility to training. In both cases, learner involvement with the content is increased and, as a result, retention.

Challenges of Video
Organizations that develop eLearning in multiple languages should be aware of the potential for additional costs if videos have to be shot in two or more languages. Careful upfront planning will help control costs. Processes and activities can often be filmed without dialog, with explanatory audio in the required languages added in post-production. This isn't an option when delivering a personal message, but simple strategies such as filming all language versions at once, rather than spreading them out over several shoots, help keep costs down.

Video and Instructional Design
It is essential to integrate the use of video into the instructional design process from the very start of the project. Careful storyboarding ensures that videos are instructionally sound and contribute to the learning experience. Storyboarding also helps control costs by reducing the amount of unused footage that is shot and speeding up the editing process.

Stock Video
Stock video – that is, video that is not shot for a specific project – is a very cost-effective way to add the excitement and interactivity of video to eLearning. To help our clients begin to integrate video into their eLearning in a cost-effective manner, Vubiz has built a library of stock video clips illustrating concepts such as customer service, human resources, team work, equity in the workplace, and even safe driving. Shot without audio, stock video clips can be used with any language.

By Anne McCourt and Val Blokowski

For More Information
Contact Vubiz to learn more about how our new video unit can help add value to your eLearning elearning@vubiz.com

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                          Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace

Vubiz helps companies drive bottom line results with a new e-learning course called Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. This new program benefits companies by taking participants through a creativity and implementation plan so they can successfully innovate. Today, organizations are challenged to balance routine business with the need to explore new ideas for growth and evolution. Successful companies grow and evolve by embracing an “idea culture” where solutions and opportunities are identified by encouraging creativity and innovation.

The artist Henri Matisse once said “Creativity takes courage.” This online course helps learners embrace an “idea” culture and gives learners the tools to cultivate creativity and drive innovation. The skills required to create ideas and to produce innovative solutions are quite different, and this timely course teaches how to develop a creative environment, apply creativity techniques, build personal and group creativity, and identify and successfully implement innovations.

Business benefits of this new course include encouraging employees to see new ways of increasing revenue and reducing costs and increasing employee engagement and motivation through idea participation.

The key topics in this exciting new course are developing the creative environment, applying creativity techniques, building personal creativity, defining the innovation gap, explaining the innovation curve, working in the innovation funnel and implementing innovations.

Contact Vubiz for a complimentary sample.

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Complimentary Online Courses for Bankers 

ICBA (Independent Community Bankers of America) in partnership with Vubiz Elearning, is offering 50 online compliance courses complimentary to its members until September 30th. ICBA made the announcement at their 2013 ICBA National Convention and Tech World Conference in Las Vegas last week. The ICBA convention attracted over 3,300 community bankers and industry leaders. As ICBA’s online training partner, Vubiz Elearning was invited to present at ICBA’s Education Booth at the Convention. The Vubiz and ICBA elearning library provides bank staff with in-depth training on current topics bank employees need to know. The library contains bank specific compliance courses covering every major law, rule and regulation. Bestselling topics include The Bank Secrecy Act, Common Frauds, Regulation CC, Robbery Response, The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Fair Lending Practices, Ethics for Bankers, Compliance for Tellers, Red Flags Identity Theft and IT Security Primer.

ICBA will offer 50 Compliance courses to its members complimentary until September 30th and then for $99.00/year afterwards. All courses will be available to all of their member banks staff for the single $99.00 annual fee.

Reaction to this announcement was extremely positive as bankers saw an easy and inexpensive way for them to address their growing need to train staff on the large number of required compliance topics. Regulatory compliance is a chief concern for banks as almost daily, a new regulatory statute is being written or coming into law. Banks that do business not only in the U.S., but globally as well, must be aware of an every-changing regulatory landscape and ensure they are compliant. The government expects all levels of bank employees to study, understand, and implement a wide range of banking regulations.Online training is quickly becoming the method of choice for bankers to train staff as opposed to the traditional in class training that removes staff from their banks and costs heavily in travel and other related expenses.

The Independent Community Bankers of America®, the nation’s voice for nearly 7,000 community banks of all sizes and charter types, is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education and high-quality products and services. ICBA is committed to upholding the highest professional standards in community banking and providing programs tailored specifically for community bankers. Through ICBA educational courses, certification options and continuing education programs, community bankers are better able to serve their customers and stay profitable. ICBA's mission is to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish.

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Vubiz and Farm Sanctuary partner to provide complimentary online course to volunteers

Vubiz Elearning and Farm Sanctuary together announce the release of a new online certificate program for Farm Sanctuary volunteers. Farm Sanctuary is America’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection organization. Their three shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for almost 1,000 rescued farm animals. These animals are ambassadors for the billions on factory farms who have no voice, and their stories help raise awareness about the harsh realities of factory farming.

Vubiz created the online course in partnership with Farm Sanctuary whose goal is to streamline education and help volunteers with strategies to improve their advocacy on behalf of animals. The new program, called The Fundamentals of Compassionate Campaigning, is offered free by Farm Sanctuary and includes topics such as the power of activism, how to effectively promote a vegetarian lifestyle, four tools to use to maximize the impact of activism, how to effectively use social marketing and many more resources. The program includes a test and certificate.

"This online class is perfect for anyone who cares about farm animals and wants to learn how to be a more effective advocate for them,” explains Nick Cooney, Farm Sanctuary’s Compassionate Communities Manager.

Here is a link to the program on Farm Sanctuary's website:
Farm Sanctuary Volunteer Course

Vubiz is proud to be part of this initiative by Farm Sanctuary. Vubiz is an award winning elearning company in business for 15 years offering quality courses at unbeatable prices.

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