Finland showing the way to other EU Member States
At the end of September, training managers from EU countries’ Foreign Ministries convened in Helsinki. The agenda included e-learning. The visitors were introduced to a concrete example of e-learning in the form of the eOrientation e-learning package that Prewise had implemented for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has been considered a pioneering project.
Last year, Prewise and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined forces and implemented an e-learning package aimed at locally employed non-Finnish speakers working in Finnish diplomatic missions abroad. The induction programme, implemented in English, introduces the foreign employee to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an employer and gives general information about Finland and its history and culture.
The eOrientation e-learning package commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has generated interest in the big world. On 18 September, when training managers from EU Member States met in Helsinki, the Ministry invited Prewise to introduce its eOrientation package to them.
Interest in e-learning
- This was a great event which reinforces in the minds of both the customers and the customers' stakeholders the impression of a successfully implemented e-learning package. This e-learning application, commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is generally considered a pioneering project. That is very positive for both Prewise and the customer, Laura Antila, Prewise’s Account Manager, sums up.
During the event, people were naturally interested in the results and costs of the e-learning project. With regard to the actual implementation of the project, questions were made about the division of roles and the production process, the language versions, the applicable media technologies as well as the ease of access to the training package.
- Interest is rapidly growing in the exploitation of e-learning and people already understand the benefits it gives. Cost, however, is still a bit of a problem and the overall process is not clear to everyone, either, says Iiro Pohjanoksa, CEO of Prewise Group.
Other EU member States have relatively scant experience of e-learning, although network-assisted cooperation and orientation has been successfully implemented, principally by means of an Intranet. On the whole, however, Finland appears to have taken the lead in this sector.
- Prewise is a young and relatively unknown company, and it is of particular value to us to be able to recount our successes in public forums. And appearing in front of such an esteemed international group of representatives brings quite specific added-value to Prewise and, hopefully, also to our customers, says Mr Pohjanoksa.
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Text: Jaana Raaska