Vodium Awarded Contract with the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC)

Company selected by NETC as the provider of online training and education technologies and services across the Navy.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 10, 2005 -- Vodium announced today that it has been awarded a two-year contract with the U.S. Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) to be the provider of video webcast technology and services to deliver distance learning courses. Under the agreement, Vodium will provide over fifty hours of multimedia on-demand courses through the Navys Integrated Learning Environment (ILE) as well as Navy Knowledge Online (NKO) portal. These training courses will be delivered to Navy Seamen throughout the world.

The focus of the NETC initiative is to increase effectiveness through improved communication and understanding and to drive a more rapid transformation while also reducing overall Navy program costs. Restricted travel budgets, time considerations, and the growing backlog of pertinent and evolving issues, changes and priorities in need of immediate delivery, have led the Navy to recognize the need for NETC to develop and provide distance learning educational information and professional development courses to the entire training and education organization.

The goal of the project is to leverage existing materials, capture key leadership briefings, conferences, and high cost contracted training events and export them to the entire organization to increase their knowledge and understanding in order to align efforts across the enterprise. The plan is to capture and digitize these key events and all supporting materials and build them into learning enhanced, Internet deliverable versions of these same events. The envisioned capability will offer NETC the tools to track usage of online curricula, test students on completion and comprehension, segment and compartmentalize access to courses, deliver and receive student experience surveys, deliver the courses effectively both domestically and abroad, deliver course material to high and low bandwidth Internet users, and remain an online reference tool for NETC. The end result will become an on-demand, training library of content for the Navy workforce to access from their homes, offices, or abroad, at any time.

"The Navy selected Vodium because of our unique technology platform which allows training courseware to be combined with knowledge management, our high levels of service, and competitive pricing", said Cameron Clarke, President and CEO of Vodium. Weve been striving to educate the training community about the value of building online learning libraries across disciplines, and we are thrilled to see that the Navy shares our vision. Vodiums platform is a great fit for their needs and we look forward to delivering more of this type of solution to the Department of Defense and civilian agencies," continued Clarke.

About Vodium
Vodium is a full-service, leading provider of webcasting and streaming media communication solutions, including online training, knowledge management, virtual conferences, and corporate communications. From creation to the delivery of synchronized searchable rich media presentations that include audio, video, transcripts, graphics, reports, and web content, Vodium serves audiences from 10 - 10,000. Vodium's customers span across Fortune 100 companies, federal agencies and the educational sector. For more information, visit our website at www.vodium.com.

Media Contact:
Michael Ahern, Vice President of Operations
mahern@vodium.com
202.223.1800

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