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AGC's
Online Institute
The Need
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Increasing
construction volume and maintaining quality and profits are
difficult tasks when qualified new employees are expensive and
hard to find. Not to mention the construction industry faces a
major shortage of workers from craft workers to management
personnel in the next millennium. Education and training
program for employee are the answer. With
the emergence of the World Wide Web, it is believed that
education and training program can get benefit from it as
efficient, worldwide, and inexpensive tool for delivering
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The Technology
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The Associated General Contractors of America
(AGC) understands that demand for the information far exceeded
the ability to offer personal instruction of the course
material. After extensive testing of various distance learning
techniques, it was concluded that an Internet-based program
offered the ideal solution.
The AGC Online Institute offers Continuing
Education Unit Credits (CEUs), easy access, and is available
at anytime from anywhere one has a computer with an Internet
connection. Project Manager courses are monitored by
instructors who will answer any question within 24 hours. They
include a reference library supporting the course information
and require students to participate in activities outside the
electronic pages.
The Online Institute consists of the following
four Centers:
- Learning
Center
- Faculty
Center
- Administration
Center
These
Centers have been modeled after a traditional learning
institution and enable students, instructors, and
administrators to efficiently structure their time in the
online learning environment. Take the tour to learn more.
In order to
deliver the instruction seamlessly to the students, the Online
Institute require the student to have Web browsers version 3.0
and above of both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape,
and plug- ins such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer G2,
Shockwave and Flash Players.
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The Benefits
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The
Online Institute is a powerful, Web-based tool that delivers,
manages, and tracks training through the Internet. It enables
organizations to efficiently train any number of employees,
customers, or the general public through self-paced courses.
This innovative Web-based training service gives our members
"anytime, anywhere" access to quality,
cost-effective training materials. |
Status
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Current courses
include Pre-planning, Short Interval Planning, Conducting
Effective Meetings, and Equipment Utilization.
Future courses will include Legal Issues (Killer Clauses),
Cost Controls, Handling Subcontractor Default, Project
Closeout, and Oral and Written Communications. The
subject matter is currently focused on project managers, a
class on improving written communications will be added soon
and work on a construction safety class will begin in the near
future.
The AGC online
courses are the first Internet classes to receive approval,
allowing AIC associates and certified professionals to fulfill
a majority of their annual requirements via an Internet
connection.
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Barriers
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The
limitations of this service are:
- The Online
Institute is available limited to AGC and AIC members and
University Students.
- The subject matter is
limited, i.e. currently focused on project management.
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Points of Contact
- Ernest W. Jones, Director,
Construction Education, Phone: (703) 548-3118, E-mail: jonese@agc.org
- Mark Undeberg, AdvanceOnline
Special Services Manager, Phone: (206) 324-0055, E-mail: marku@advanceonline.com
References
- The AGC Online
Institute, http://agc.advanceonline.com/
Disclaimer Statement
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Neither the Construction
Industry Institute nor Purdue University in any way endorses this
technology or represents
that the information presented can be relied upon without further investigation. |
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