GoSkills

Fantastic Website for Continuous Learning

Commentaires : Absolutely fantastic website for learning a vast variety of content on the fly. There are some improvements and course reviews to be made, but overall it is a great way for continuous learning.

Avantages :

Easily manageable bite-sized lessons, can start learning whenever there's a gap of free time, even a small one.

Inconvénients :

When viewing GoSkills through Apple devices, instead of the videos showing up in the default quicktime player, the video plays from the website's browser, which can sometimes cause a bug where no audio comes though, and this can only be fixed by refreshing the webpage. The website's browser also leaves the whole URL bar visible, which is not fully utilising the screen space. This can probably be fixed by creating their own app.

GoSkills Value Driven Learning System

Avantages :

GoSkills holds the ability to assign specific courses to our entire Trauma Department. This is extremely beneficial for us because it supports our continuing education requirements to stay on top of department specific knowledge.

Inconvénients :

GoSkills should expand into customizable features where department leaders can pull advanced reports throughout any given day. This can be achieved with enhancing filter settings based on important department specific criteria which analyzes different situations into a central reporting data.

Easy, quick and easily personally paced learning system

Commentaires : These courses, even though they are very good, are still fairly "light" compared to some large-scale industry certified trainings. But I think these work well for junior, or if you want to learn more but not necessary are ready to take the step for the many weeks or months of studying (e.g. some PM certifications). But for e.g. a PM, I think you would be able to do the work well on GoSkills certificate alone.

Avantages :

I like that this GoSkills VERY quick to take to use. Just minutes. I also like that you can do a bit of learning each day - like all professionals, I am very busy at my work, and it's very hard as a consultant to dedicate full days for learning. I also learn better when I can process it in between. I like that there are actual exercise files and quizzes to ensure the learning.

Inconvénients :

The software is fine, but I do not like those courses where only a person is speaking and there is no actual materials shared (like a presentation). That's just being lazy. I would also like to receive the share presentations as e.g. PDF, as you would in any other training. (Which would cost more of course.)

Bite Size Lessons - Comprehensive Program for Lean Six Sigma Training

Commentaires : Their support is excellent. Anytime I found an issue or had a question about their slides, I got a response back within 24-48 hours.

Avantages :

Bite size lessons (usually between 4 and 8 minutes), of which each flows into a topical order. The courses I took were on Lean Six Sigma and that topic builds from one lesson to the next which is exactally how it should be taught. There are practice problems at the end of each section and practice worksheets to complete which help enforce the material. The instructor provides some personal feedback on his experiences well which is nice.

Inconvénients :

There could be some additional practice questions and the final exam could incorporate some new questions rather than just repeating the end of lesson quiz questions

Basic Excel

Commentaires : I am learned many new features of Excel.

Avantages :

I am so glad to learn about how powerful that Excel is and learn new features that I can use in my job every day.

Inconvénients :

I would love to use all of the features I learned but am concerned that some are very complicated and may be difficult to replicate.