New offerings from an expanding TATA Interactive Systems
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, is building on its impressive successes in the UK and Europe over the past year by expanding its range of offerings to clients. These new products and services are on display at the TIS stand at this year's Learning Technologies show, being held in London's Olympia, on 26th and 27th January.
Already well known for its award-winning simulation based learning objects (SimBLs), TIS is expanding its range of these learning products by offering custom built SimBLs covering any subject matter. Produced in association with the University of Phoenix in Arizona in the USA, the SimBLs concept was originally developed for use by Master of Business Administration (MBA) students and covered topics such as finance, operations, marketing, human resources and economics.
TIS has further refined the concept of learning object based materials to launch story based learning objects (StoBLs).
Sambit Mohapatra, head of TIS in the UK and Europe explained: "StoBLs are structured in a similar way to SimBLs but they are based on the premise that human beings prefer to learn through stories. StoBLs are specially constructed e-learning materials that allow discovery learning through following the experiences of a 'master performer'."
The most revolutionary of TIS's new offerings in the UK and European e-learning markets is the launch of its consultancy services arm.
Mohapatra explained: "We have already completed one project in the UK - for Cranfield University. This project has helped the university to define its requirements for a virtual learning resource centre and what learning materials this should contain.
"With its highly mobile consultancy services team based in Mumbai, India, but with local representation in the UK and USA, TIS has also completed consulting projects for Corinthian University and North West Airlines in the USA," he added. "This latter project involved analysing the typical competencies required to perform two of the 67 defined 'job codes' within the airline; testing those employed within these jobs; identifying skills gaps, and producing remedial training programmes."
To cope with the increasing range of products and services on offer to TIS clients in the UK and Europe - and to cope with the demands made by the company's increasing workload in all areas of its operations - TIS's UK office staff has grown, in terms of employee numbers, by some 25 per cent in the last two months.