Integrated Documentation and Training

GTCI takes a single source approach to training and documentation creation. Using XML based standards we can integrate the knowledge creation process. This way we can develop information once and use it many times. This streamlined approach creates consistency, reduces cost and shortens development time.

Technically speaking, information coded in XML is easy to read and understand and it can be processed easily. XML is a W3C standard, endorsed by software industry leaders. In addition, tags, attributes and element structure provide context information that can be used to interpret the meaning of content. Simply put, XML tags describe meaning not presentation. Where HTML says: "I know how it looks", XML says: "I know what it means, and you tell me how it should look." This makes updating easy (in one place) and customization fast and efficient (create the look based on content and how information is tagged).

Experiental Learning

There are countless theories, evaluations, systems, programs, styles and abstractions on the concept of learning. Individuals have been scientifically studying, analyzing and psychoprobing how people learn for more than a hundred years. From Kolb to Gardner to Bloom, the approaches and the perspectives are as varied as the backgrounds of the experts that developed them.

Regardless of whether you believe one expert more than the other or agree with one particular theory over the next, the threads of learning are the same.

People learn differently

But the ways in which people learn can be boiled down to a few similar characteristics involving perception, experience, conceptualization and application. These are the fundamental components that make up the process of learning for everyone.

GTCI has developed its processes for learning development and delivery utilizing the application of these theories. While it is difficult to develop a single course that meets all of the learning styles simultaneously, it is possible to organize the material and present it (i.e., the delivery mechanism) in a way that all of the participants will benefit.

At GTCI, we don't just develop and deliver training, we teach people how to learn and how to maximize their learning potential based on their own learning styles.