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Looking for help managing tasks? Improving your writing or project management skills? Mastering Outlook email?
Thanks to a new arrangement with Skillsoft, an online learning provider, Dal staff and faculty will have thousands of new opportunities to learn this fall.
Through a partnership between Human Resources and Information Technology Services, Dal employees will have access to more than 3,000 of Skillsoft鈥檚 online courses in business topics, desktop software and IT. The arrangement is a one-year trial, allowing staff and faculty to take courses as part of their ongoing professional development 鈥 at no charge to units or individuals.
鈥淪killsoft鈥檚 offerings allow us to increase the accessibility, flexibility and variety of our PD offerings in a cost-effective way,鈥 explains Katherine Sheehan, assistant vice-president of Human Resources.
鈥淭he trial runs until June, so this is really an opportunity for everyone who works at Dal to see how online learning can fit into their own professional development goals.鈥
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