Batelco conducts post e-learning trial workshop

With that in mind, Bahrain's leading telecommunications company (Batelco) continues to take pioneering steps in this field by organizing its first post trial e-learning workshop.

The workshop was attended by Batelco's e-learning trial participants, their line managers, and the company's HR and Training specialists. All participants benefited from the variety of activities undertaken during the workshop, which included brain storming sessions on different e-learning issues. These sessions have resulted in feasible outcomes. The feedback gathered during the trial, in addition to the one gathered from the survey and the post trial workshop, will be further analyzed and used to set the e-learning deployment strategy and action plan within Batelco.

The workshop was conducted upon the completion of a ten-week trial on a Time Management e-course provided by Thomposn NETg. The e-learning trial has given Batelco's Training Officers a better idea of how e-learning works and how it can be best managed. It has also granted Batelco e-learners an opportunity to explore a new era of learning.

"The e-learning trial has given us a sense of how to bring learning to people instead of people to learning,"

said Shaikh Ahmed Al-Khalifa, GM Human Resources at Batelco. "The post trial workshop was an excellent beginning for Batelco to evaluate where the company stands in its initiating e-learning programme with a firm knowledge of all the strong points that it could build on and the weak ones that it must improve",

Shaikh Ahmed emphasized that the trial was a great success whereby all participants benefited from the experience considerably, and that the workshop's feedback was encouraging toward deploying e-learning in a larger scale to all Batelco staff.

"The results of the e-learning trial and the workshop were so remarkable that we are going to present them during the ITU Global HRM/HRD Symposium now running in Bahrain under the theme of Developing ICT Resources for Strategic Advantage," he said.

"This is a successful story that would make a solid case study for all Bahraini corporate and government organizations to consider e-learning in their training portfolio and would pave the way for Batelco to provide e-learning services to the community in the future," he concluded.

The e-learning trial workshop was organized & presented by Enas Al-Fardan & Catriona Shaw who briefed participants on the trial results and moderated the sessions.