In 1997, Bell Canada became one of the first major Canadian corporation to appreciate the significance of eLearning. That year, Bell made a corporate commitment to exploit new learning technologies as a strategic tool to promote growth—for Bell and for its corporate clients.

Bell Canada selected Learning Designs Online as exclusive eLearning partner for this initiative. Throughout this three-year partnership with Bell Emergis (Bell’s innovation arm), Learning Designs provided eLearning strategic planning and instructional design services for Bell and its 26,000 employees. During this period, Bell Canada established a reputation as Canada’s leading corporate innovator in eLearning.

The Bell Canada-Learning Designs team conducted extensive needs analysis, technology assessments, and ROI analysis to develop and map an eLearning strategy for the corporation. The resulting business case and development blueprints created the strategic and tactical framework to help Bell Canada transition to enterprise elearning.

As part of this effort Learning Designs also developed a corporate Quality Assurance process using our company’s proprietary Quality Standards. Learning Designs helped Bell develop, procure and implement the best-in-class elearning technologies and courseware.

Learning Designs also provided Bell’s corporate clients with eLearning expertise for strategic planning, instructional design, quality assurance, and business case development to an extraordinary range of corporate and academic clients, including:

Toronto Stock Exchange

Industry Canada

Nortel Networks

Symantec

Eatons

Canada Post

Agriculture Canada

Parks Canada

Canadian Heritage

Ontario Ministry of Education

Fire Marshals of Ontario

University of Western Ontario

Sanford Fleming College

Ryerson University

Lambton College

St. Clair College.

These engagements gave Learning Designs and Bell Canada an early lead in eLearning an extraordinary opportunity to explore, investigate and resolve most of the key challenges corporations must address as they embrace the new era of enterprise elearning.