Peakdean have been producing high quality (and award-winning), bespoke e-learning programs since the early 1990's, meeting the needs of some of the largest and best organisations in the UK, and elsewhere in Europe.

Bespoke e-learning is online, interactive training designed and developed specifically for your organisation's training and business needs. It can be for your staff, or for customers requiring product training and support.

Delivery is via intranet, internet or CD-ROM. Peakdean's e-learning can be produced for mobile devices as well as the PC.

And how do we do it?

Our highly experienced Instructional Design team members work closely with your Subject Matter Experts to define the objectives, scope and content of the learning. We then design the most appropriate solution to meet the requirement.

Using proven learning methodologies, we develop storyboards for the learning content, incorporating the agreed structure and interactivity. These provide a platform for our creative team to apply their skills in creating the graphic design, audio and, where appropriate, video for inclusion.

Finally we assemble the program using the most appropriate tool for the delivery platform. Our quality process ensures that you receive a first class product that achieves your organisation's learning objectives every time.

Where budgets are limited - in terms of both time and cost - rapid e-learning can be developed using one of the specialist tools available on the market.

An existing PowerPoint presentation or Word document will often form the foundations of a rapid e-learning program. Tools are available to convert these and add simple, tracked assessments.

Peakdean offer real expertise and experience in developing rapid e-learning, and have developed winning solutions for a number of leading UK corporate organisations in recent years.

As well as creating entire courses, we can:

• help you develop a rapid e-learning strategy
• advise on the most appropriate authoring tool
• develop templates or individual items of content
• supply graphics, animations, video and audio.

At Peakdean we pride ourselves on being an all-round learning consultancy. As well as producing bespoke and rapid e-learning, we have a long track record in the design and production of paper-based materials and the development and delivery of classroom-based courses.

Blended approaches, such as interactive workshops with printed learner support materials and e-learning / e-assessment elements have proved particularly popular in recent years.

In addition, we offer Training Needs Analysis consultancy to clients defining a requirement.

If you are new to e-learning, we can help you every step of the way, for example by advising you on integration with Learning Management Systems, building a simple user recording and reporting system, or helping you grow design and development skills in your own in-house team.

For clients considering the use of e-learning for the first time, we are offering a limited number of free workshops in 2010 that are designed to tell you everything you need to know before embarking on your first project. Topics include methods of tracking program usage without an expensive Learning Management System, following a sound development methodology, creating a functional specification and how to specify content. It also explains what rapid e-learning is, and how you might go about making it yourself.

With over 10 years' experience and a proven track record working with many of the UK's leading educational publishers, we'll work with you to transform your ICT concepts into reality. Whatever your requirements, we'll deliver a solution carefully tailored to meet your needs and your budget.

Whether it's adding value and exploiting your existing material to reach new markets or simply embracing the benefits of the ICT approach, Peakdean has the expertise to help you produce engaging, interactive, exciting and stimulating resources for all ages and abilities.

We excel at producing digital materials and pride ourselves on continually achieving a wide range of successful outcomes using leading edge development technology and delivery media to meet the ever-changing needs of modern day teaching. We're happy to advise on recommended solutions or take your lead, carefully balancing complexity and effectiveness with realistic budgets and timescales.

Our experience is varied, stretching to all sectors of the educational arena, from early years, through the GCSE and A level curriculums to areas of post-compulsory education.