E-Learning for the Workplace Case Studies – Conference Board of Canada

Compliance and regulatory training form the basis of KeySpan Energy Canada’s business case for e-learning.

KeySpan is a gas processing company operating pipelines and other facilities in Alberta. To operate safely and efficiently, and to produce quality products, KeySpan’s workers need to be well trained, and capable of adapting to new technologies and new regulations.

The Bank of Canada, the country’s central bank, uses information and communications technologies for a range of initiatives, including its online Second Language Café.

Online training has enabled Calian, based in Ottawa, Ontario, to increase the performance and productivity of employees, as well as reduce costs and eliminate traditional barriers to learning and sharing information like time and distance.

E-learning helps employees of Centra Gas BC Inc. maintain and update their skills and, at the same time, allows the company to be a leader in compliance and regulatory testing.

NorskeCanada, one of the largest groundwood paper companies in North America, uses workplace learning to increase efficiency, improve safety performance, and extend the working life of its machinery.

The Bank of Montreal (BMO) has been using e-learning since the early 1990s. Today, BMO’s e-learning strategy integrates web-based learning technologies with organizational performance.

BMO’s approach to e-learning grew out of organizational change; the advent and use of new technologies; and an evolution in the company’s thinking around learning and employee development.

E-learning helps telecommunications company TELUS provide training to employees in diverse geographic locations.

E-learning has changed the way communications company Aliant goes about training its employees.

With a workforce of approximately 10,000 people located around the world, delivering learning programs via the classroom was a timely and costly undertaking for Aliant. But e-learning has given Aliant a way to maintain its commitment to professional development in a cost-effective manner.

Air Canada is using e-learning to deliver timely, relevant training to those who need it, when they need it.

Employees on the ramp at the airport are critical to aircraft maintenance, passenger safety, and baggage handling. Through e-learning and online knowledge management systems, employees at Air Canada’s Halifax operations have the opportunity to learn and to access workplace knowledge on an as-needed basis.

Cisco Systems, a world market leader in networking technology, uses its own Internet networking solutions to train and develop its employees.

Cisco designs, develops, tests, markets and releases many new products each year. Relying solely on traditional classroom training to get employees up to speed on new products would be ineffective and inefficient.