K-State faculty/staff can take online training courses ranging from Microsoft Office to a variety of technology skills and work-related topics in the Business Series 2012 (PDF) from MindLeaders, a company with more than 25 years of experience in developing interactive, self-paced online training.
For a fee of $16.50, a faculty/staff member can have unlimited access for a year to all training topics in the Business Series, thanks to a State of Kansas contract with MindLeaders.
Technology training topics include:
- Communicating in the World of Social Media
- Dreamweaver
- E-Mailing Your Way to the Top
- Flash
- FrontPage
- Instructional Design
- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access)
- PC Applications & Computing Concepts
- Photoshop
- PowerPoint
- QuickBooks
- SharePoint
- Visio
- Windows
According to a “Web-based on-demand training” article (K-State Today, May 16, 2011), MindLeaders offers “online training in other areas such as technical courses from Ajax to Java to SQL and they have eBooks with full-text electronic versions of over 1,800 business, software, and technical titles. Interactive, online training is an excellent, low-cost way to allow employees to remain on the cutting edge in a rapidly evolving environment.”
For more information, visit the Human Resources Training website or contact Gina Lowe (785-532-1878, glowe@ksu.edu). She is willing to meet with departments about MindLeaders and provide demos on request.
