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August 17, 2010

LearnLive Connect Aids Accounting Firms Focus on Cost-Effective Professional Development



Professional service firms are focusing on cost-effective professional development by rebroadcasting certified content as "live" events using rebroadcast capabilities that have been built into LearnLive Connect.

LearnLive Connect is a webcast delivery platform from LearnLive Technologies.

By rebroadcasting firms can also maximize instructor time, by allowing them to record content that can be offered (with live proctoring, NASBA (News - Alert) certification) multiple times.

Rebroadcasts are a live replay of a scheduled event which allows firms to meet important live CPE requirements for certification. Rebroadcasts can be proctored and can include live polling, full audience participation, Q&A and more, including simulating a "live classroom setting.

Grant Thornton (News - Alert) LLP, one of the six global accounting, tax and advisory organizations, used LearnLive, to grant CPE to CPAs for attending rebroadcasts, gave its professionals multiple date and time alternatives to accommodate their schedules, as well as reducing the number of times its program leaders must present a session to just one.

LearnLive also provided Grant Thornton with the opportunity to convert some face-to-face programs to webcasts and web-based self-study courses.

Richard Rykus, director, Strategic Learning, Grant Thornton said that the first year saw the firm's investment pay for itself quickly, with savings going into six figures.

LearnLive Connect is a platform for professional services that automates the process of turning a live recording into a NASBA compliant self-study course.

CAMICO required a platform that would enable efficient and seamless delivery of educational and training opportunities to the CPA firms it insures, in addition to its own internal training for employees.

Suzanne M. Holl, CPA, CAMICO vice president of Loss Prevention Services stated that the flexibility of rebroadcasting enables them to meet the needs of their policyholders while reducing their loss of billable hours.

Holl added that not only did their instructors have a final say on whether the webcast is good to go or not, but they could also view the archive before a rebroadcast is run and, if not satisfied, re-record and tweak the content for that specific audience.


Vinti Vaid is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Vinti's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Juliana Kenny
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