TEMPO Courseware Development

In my last post I told you how TEMPO uses PowerPoint and a simple coding scheme to allow you to build state-of-the-art interactive courseware while eliminating the need for expensive courseware development tools. In this post I’d like to show you how the TEMPO courseware development approach expands your reach and solves many common training problems.

Most mature training organizations that have a large number of people to train on a consistent basis have gravitated to video-centric training. There have been some very good reasons for this. People are used to getting their information from video. Its production techniques are well understood. The huge installed base of consumer television equipment has had pricing advantages. The broadcast industry has been a driving force for innovation for years.

But just as the bandwidth for video centric training across the Internet has become affordable for even the smallest organizations, the playing field has expanded. The job of delivering training has become much, much tougher.

More and more people are on the go and need training wherever they are: in the office, at home or on the road. Now you need to deliver training to TVs, desktops, laptops, smart phones and tablets. Most of these are attached to the Internet, but not all the time. Not everyone is on the same continent, let alone in the same satellite footprint. That means not everyone can participate at the same time, so you need the on-demand experience to be as rich as the live experience.

There have been piecemeal approaches to delivering training across all of these environments, so it’s possible to address each scenario individually with point solutions. But it is most ideal to address them with a single, integrated, video-based training and delivery platform. You need an enterprise-wide solution. You need a system that understands that it must be part of a complex environment with subsidiaries, divisions, regions and districts. You need a platform that integrates with your learning management system and yet can also track the training activities with more granular data.

TEMPO is the first of its kind video-centric delivery platform that addresses all these training needs using a single integrated tool. It allows you to deliver synchronous training to a remote class or a remote individual. Mobile workers on laptops, smart phones and tablets can participate in a live training event or catch up on their own time by viewing an interactive video-on-demand.

For the first time, there is an integrated platform that provides the high quality video-centric training demanded by business in the 21st century.

Rick Darby
Rick Darby is President of SEDATA, LLC , consultants specializing in video-centric Interactive Distance Learning and technology-based training.