Leading e-learning provider Productivity4you has established a new office at Dubai Knowledge Village to promote web-based e-learning tools and technologies to governments, commercial companies, professional bodies and educational organisations across the Middle East region.
Established in 2001, Productivity4you develops, publishes and markets learning solutions that combine technology-based and instructor-led training. It has delivered e-Learning solutions to more than 500 clients in the UK, Europe and Middle East region including the BBC, Lloyds TSB, Sony Europe, Hewlett Packard and more than 100 colleges and universities in the UK.
Now the company is set to expand its business in the region by offering a unique 'one-stop shop' approach to e-Learning from its Dubai office at Dubai Knowledge village.
Productivity4you provides a range of market-leading tools and technologies including rapid authoring, learning systems and virtual collaboration/classroom platforms which allow students to see and hear their lecturer's PowerPoint presentation online, with accompanying voiceover. It also offers innovative consultancy and training services tailored to individual business needs and varied learning cultures and budgets.
The company prides itself on the knowledge and experience of its highly qualified senior management and consultants, many of whom hold postgraduate degrees in technology and education and whose skills range from initial generation of ideas through to detailed implementation.
Company chairman and CEO Professor Sa'ad Medhat said: "Productivity4you is devoted to making e-Learning easy and accessible to all. Our aim is to provide customers with a portfolio of quality products and services that enable them to deliver productivity and improve business performance".
"Our range of innovative and cost-effective technologies, coupled with our multidisciplinary teaching and technical knowledge and experience, enables us to provide successful business solutions across a broad range of market sectors."
Productivity4you products and services have been used by some of the world's leading companies for staff training and development programmes. The company's products were used by Lloyds TSB to develop internal IT training throughout its UK branches, a development that will be rolled out worldwide over the next two years.
Sony Europe chose Productivity4you tools to develop a new product for staff language training, while the BBC called on the company's products and expertise to develop a range of e-Learning programmes for new policy and legislation training.
In the energy sector, British Nuclear Fuels used Productivity4you products to develop e-learning for safety and mission critical systems training and, in the health sector, the UK's National Health Service commissioned the company's expertise to develop e-learning training for staff induction, health and safety issues and IT training.
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Kuwait Oil Company, Oman Telecommunications Company , Petroleum Development Oman LLC, Qatar Steel.
Productivity4you product portfolio includes technologies for:
Speedy creation of online animated presentations with Viewlets
Delivering virtual conferencing and web collaboration
Publishing PowerPoint presentations on the web
Turning a whiteboard into a digital capture workspace
Content authoring and publishing tools
Content and course delivery and management (LMS and LCMS)
Assessment authoring and management
Web quiz authoring to make learning fun
To find out more about the full range of products and services from Productivity4you, visit www.p4you.com
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Notes for Editors:
Professor Sa'ad Medhat, Chairman and CEO of Productivity4you, will deliver the opening keynote address on the future of e-learning to the Middle East Learning Technologies (MELT) conference at Madinat Jumeirah Convention Centre on April 5, 2005. See accompanying brief entitled The Future of E-learning for details.
Professor Sa'ad Medhat is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator in technology and business. He is also chief Executive of the New Engineering Foundation, a UK charitable trust that promotes modern science, engineering and technology education in further and higher education. He is an advisor to the UK Government Minister of Science and Innovation and a court member of Bristol University and visiting professor to Bournemouth University both in the UK.
He works closely with UK government's Department for Education and Skills and HM Treasury on matters relating to educational and skills development and economic growth and innovation policies and advises the Higher Education Funding council for England on quality assurance and teaching strategies.
Professor Medhat held the IBM worldwide Professorial Chair for Concurrent Engineering (1995-2000) and various other senior positions including Founding Principal and Chief Executive of Dubai university College, Dubai chamber of Commerce and Industry (1996/7) and Vice President of Futuremedia PLC, a NASDAQ technology company. He also played a pioneering role with both the UK government and the European Commission in the introduction of Technology and Knowledge Transfer and innovation programmes to improve companies' productivity and competitiveness.
Professor Medhat has published more than 60 papers and books worldwide and holds a number of invention patents. His book 'Concurrent Engineering - the Agenda for Success' is published by Wiley and Sons and is the standard text used by companies and universities throughout the world.
Productivity 4you is a recent winner of the Media Today Group's Business Achievement Awards. The award for e-Learning Solutions 2004 was presented to Productivity4you in recognition of its complete package of e-learning tools and technologies, with the award panel highlighting the company's commitment to enable and enhance its clients' learning potential.
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