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LDO now official quality auditor of Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)


Toronto, August 20, 2002 Microsoft Corp. launched a new partnership with the CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) program to ensure the “highest quality” for its industry-leading trainer certification program, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). CompTIA (the Computer Technology Industry Association) is the world’s laregest IT Professional certification body.

As CompTIA's authorized quality evaluator, Learning Designs now becomes the authorized quality assurance auditor for all courseware and learning materials developed for Microsoft’s MCT program.

Contact:
Dr. Lynette Gillis or Allan Bailey
Learning Designs Online Inc.
1510 Jalna Avenue, Mississauga, ON
Canada L5J 1S5

Tel. (905) 823-3367
Fax (905) 923-1675

Email:
lgillis@learning-designs.com or
abailey@learning-designs.com

Extending quality assurance services now provided to CompTIA, LDO will evaluate all MCT learning products, using the CAQC standards, to ensure they meet the rigorous quality requirements demanded by Microsoft and CompTIA.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.

About CompTIA

CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, is a not-for-profit trade association providing the technology community standards in the areas of Internet-enabled service provision, e-commerce, vendor-neutral technical certification, CRM, public policy, workforce development and training. Representing the converging computing and communications market, CompTIA has more than 8,000 corporate members in 60 countries, and thousands of individual professional members. Almost half a million individuals worldwide have earned CompTIA certifications.

About Learning Designs Online

Learning Designs Online is an industry leader providing quality assurance for eLearning and print courseware developers. Under the leadership of Dr. Gillis, Learning Designs has excelled in the development and implementation of courseware evaluation systems and quality standards for corporate training buyers and for vendors of training materials. Learning Designs provides evaluation and benchmarking services to help corporate clients select or develop best-in-class courseware. Learning Designs also provides strategic consulting services to help clients develop integrated enterprise eLearning solutions and select optimum vendor solutions (LMS, CLMS, and Competency Management Systems). For more than two decades, the company has designed and developed custom courseware—high-quality print, eLearning, CBT and classroom—for clients in the corporate, university and government sectors.






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