Royal Canadian Mounted Police To Centrally Manage Employee Training
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has chosen the WebCT Vista academic enterprise system to centrally manage on a single platform its diverse courses, Web presence, and learning objects for its staff.
“Continuous learning is a life-or-death matter for us and for our citizens, so it’s paramount to make training as effective as possible,” says Simon Pare, manager of RCMP’s technology-assisted learning unit. “WebCT Vista will help us consolidate our disparate offerings, streamline course development, share content, regulate access to sensitive materials, and continually evolve our offerings. WebCT Vista has all the traits we sought in our extensive RFP process, and we look forward to going live in February and continuing to evolve our program from there.”
WebCT Vista will allow the law enforcement agency to use a single learning object for each piece of content instead of creating a separate instance of that content for each course using it, saving huge amounts of time when content needs changing and providing employees with access to updated files no matter from where it is accesse.
Also, real-time integration between the learning system and the agency’s PeopleSoft human resources management application will give senior officers access to current officer competencies and allow them to verify qualification and certification.
Use of WebCT fits into RCMP’s shifting from instructor-led training to small-group, problem-based learning and from comprehensive online courses to operational support knowledge delivered in short nuggets upon officer request.
Abstracted by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center(NLECTC) from Government Technology (02/06)
