- Dental Professionals Attend Virtual Dental School
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ISLANDIA, N.Y., and PHOENIX, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ --
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world's leading eBusiness solutions provider, today announced that e-dentist.com, a leading provider of content and services for the dental profession, has selected CA's KnowledgeTRACK as the foundation of a far-reaching series of Web-based education products and services.
e-dentist.com will use CA's KnowledgeTRACK solution to rapidly convert the organization's rich content collections for training dental professionals into multimedia, topic-based, and reusable training components that can be delivered over the Internet.
Students enrolled in e-dentist.com's training programs "attend" their own personalized virtual campus. This private campus provides access to courses, experts in the needed field, mentoring, peer-to-peer chat rooms, and other resources. The campus is the place where each online experience is fully integrated providing the tools necessary for personal and career success.
"Through the use of CA's KnowledgeTRACK, we can provide eLearning solutions that enable dentists, their staff and industry professionals to learn at a much quicker rate and more readily put their newly acquired skills into practice," said Dr. James M. Powers, Jr., e-dentist.com's president and CEO. "eLearning is a natural extension of our core practice enhancement business, which has historically provided dentists with traditional instructor-led training, seminars and regional workshops."
Dentists as well as other busy professionals increasingly prefer virtual training to traditional training methods using instructor-led seminars or videotapes.
Classroom seminars involving travel are expensive and expose professionals to unwanted downtime during peak office hours. eLearning eliminates these barriers of time and geography, allowing professionals to access multimedia training materials at their own convenience, from their own offices, proceeding at the individual pace that works best for them.
The e-dentist.com training courses feature interactive, multimedia delivery over the ordinary low-bandwidth Internet connections found in most dental practices, as well as hands-on labs and live demonstrations. Courses range from teaching emerging dental procedures to the business aspects of managing a practice. Each course guides students through the material, allowing students to leave and return to the materials at their convenience; testing their mastery of the materials when they are ready. The system also keeps track of each student's progress and test scores.
Using KnowledgeTRACK allows e-dentist.com to combine content, technology and services into a comprehensive training solution for dental industry professionals around the world. The integration of e-dentist.com's robust training content and service offerings with CA's technology creates a solution that positions e-dentist as the premier enterprise training solution for the dental profession.
e-dentist students can now access the most up-to-date information on the tools, technologies and practices of the dental trade right from their desktop. Through the KnowledgeTRACK conversion engine's interactive training solutions, visitors to e-dentist.com's Web site can access the full catalog of interactive training, hands-on labs and live demonstrations that tackle practical, work related scenarios.
"We are excited about the opportunity to provide comprehensive eLearning solutions to the dental market," said Terri Seppala, CA senior vice president and general manager, worldwide education. "eLearning has a tremendous impact on learning effectiveness because it is adaptable to the student's situation. Users become totally immersed in a learning environment and that makes it easier to retain new knowledge because it is presented in hours rather than days."
KnowledgeTRACK is a computer-based training engine with a toolset that converts company-specific content collections into topic-based, reusable content objects. It is one part of CA's eLearning offering, a far-reaching series of educational products and services designed to effectively leverage advanced CA technology and the Internet for maximum training, flexibility and effectiveness.
Each eLearning component can be utilized effectively as a powerful standalone solution to a specific training problem or integrated within the context of e-dentist.com's virtual university concept.
For more information on CA's Web-based training programs and the latest CA Education Learning Center course schedule, please visit http://www.ca.com/education or call 1-800-237-9273.
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), the world's leading business software company, delivers the end-to-end infrastructure to enable eBusiness through innovative technology, services and education. CA has 20,000 employees worldwide and had revenue in excess of $6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. For more information, visit http://www.ca.com.
e-dentist.com (formerly known as Pentegra Dental Group, Inc.) is currently implementing its new eCommerce strategy that offers its core business as well as an expanded array of services to the entire dental industry through its dental portal. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, e-dentist historically provided practice enhancement and administrative services to dental practices throughout the United States. e-dentist has affiliated dental offices in 29 states with approximately 140 dentists in approximately 100 dental practices, representing an annual revenue run rate of $75 million in patient revenue. Since its formation under the name Pentegra Dental Group in March of 1998, the Company has utilized its virtual private network over the Internet to process transactions currently representing an annual run rate of over $50 million in net revenues. For more information, visit http://www.e-dentist.com.
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