ispeakuspeak General Presentation (05/2013)

Michael Handforth

Director, Barcelona

History

Leader of corporate language training solutions in Spain, with offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.

More than 250 clients, 500 teachers, 35,000 students and 500,000 hours per annum.

Working with clients like Coca Cola, Ricoh, Bacardi, Siemens, Orange, Bayer, Iberdrola, Inditex, Abbot, IBM etc.

Specialization in blended programs with in-company, telephone, tutoring, online and intensive/residential modules.

Based on the work of Training Express:

The Best of Man & Machine

Motivation

Personalization

Feedback

Fluency and Listening

Relevance

Discipline

Mobility

Structure

Tracking & Control

Self study

Reduced costs

Global Reach

In 2007 ISUS was born…

ISUS is a revolutionary online platform that connects language learners to top trainers around the world.

Learners are assigned a dedicated trainer who analyses their needs, identifies their goals, and then guides and motivates them through a personalized one-to-one program that makes learning fun, engaging and highly effective.

ISUS is not traditional learning. ISUS is not e-learning. ISUS is technology-facilitated, human-driven learning. ISUS is eLearning 2.0.

What is ISUS?

How does it work?

Learners prepare with a range of individually-assigned interactive online activities that cover all key skill areas.

Prepare

Learners connect with their trainer over the phone or online through Skype for 25 minutes of live 1-2-1 speaking.

Connect

Learners consolidate their learning with a follow-up activity and a personalised feedback report that’s prepared by their trainer.

Consolidate

Prepare Connect Consolidate

Prepare Connect Consolidate

Interactive activities which develop:

Grammar

Vocabulary

Reading skills

Listening skills

Writing skills

TELEPHONE

Prepare Connect Consolidate

Speaking sessions of 25 minutes with your personal trainer

Prepare Connect Consolidate

Class Feedback and Report Tracking Tools

On-Demand Class Re-Scheduling

Need to change your class? You can re-schedule by either viewing your preferred trainer’s availability or by selecting a new trainer based upon your preferred class time.

Why ISUS?

Anytime, Anyplace

Top trainers

Guaranteed quality

Personalised programs

Real language, real-time

Needs Driven

Intuitive design

Blended Learning enabled

Multiple languages

Supported by ISUS Magazine

With no geographic limits, ISUS is able to employ the best trainers around the world. Staff are subject to rigorous recruitment, training and certification procedures. Key characteristics include:

Native-speakers

Business experience

Teaching qualifications / experience

Strong communication skills

Positivity and warmth

Availability + Flexibility

IT literate + well-connected

Top Trainers

Quality 100% Guaranteed

ISUS includes a real-time monitoring system that provides up-to-the-minute statistics and proactive alerts on class quality levels, trainer performance, activity effectiveness and a range of other key performance indicators.

This enables our pedagogical support team to take proactive steps to address any potential problems guaranteeing maximum quality at all times.

Personalized Programs

ISUS programs are 100% personalized so every minute is spent on interesting and relevant topics.

Classified by language, level, type, sector, author and date, trainers use advanced search tools to hand-pick activities from a sophisticated library of >5000 core curriculum activities.

Students work on their own specific needs and job related requirements at their own individual pace.

With powerful ‘mashup’ capabilities, ISUS links with up-to-the-minute content across the web, including video, news, podcasts, and journals, opening-up more than 20 billion exciting learning opportunities.

Forget text books!

This is real language, in real time!

Real language, real-time

Needs Driven & Open Source

Preparing for an important presentation? Need to deliver a report before the end of the week?

No problem. With needs driven activities, trainers build the class around the task a learner is working on, helping them deliver the best possible results and develop some key skills at the same time.

ISUS also comes with a full suite of authoring tools, so our pedagogical teams can create client-specific activities in less than a day.

• Dedicated team of specialist multi-lingual program managers around the world.

• Powerful suite of workflow management tools that ensure smooth, easy launches of thousands of students at a time.

• Invaluable experience from more than 500,000 online training sessions.

• Sophisticated real-time monitoring and reporting systems that provide detailed data across all key performance indicators.

• The choice of top companies around the world.

Built for Business

Magazine is a new concept in e-learning developed with ISUS technology.

ISUS Magazine is simple but uses dynamic contents which are:

Based on current events happening that week

Highly motivating

Interactive and attractive

Magazine delivers over 200 hours of fresh self-study content per year and is available to all ISUS virtual students.

Supported by ISUS Magazine

Magazine delivers business, culture and leisure knowledge to students and practices linguistic skills and professional competencies. There is a strong focus on communication and the acquisition of social language through real-life expressions and everyday conversations. Content is boosted through the integrated use of multimedia and social networking tools: webcasts, podcasts, Vimeo, YouTube…

Practical Content

For Beginners

The sports section

Current Events

What’s happening in cinema, music, culture and entertainment

English for Executives

5 Structured Sections

Every Monday morning the new edition is published containing more than 4 hours of self study

You choose those contents which most interest you

You have access to all previous editions and records of your activities for revision

Fresh and Flexible

Who’s using it?

Find your voice with ispeakuspeak!

Anytime, Anyplace flexibility - Top trainers - Guaranteed quality - Personalised programs - Real language, real-time - Needs Driven & Open Source - ‘Blended Learning’ enabled - Individual feedback - Intuitive design -

Multiple languages - Built for Business - No Software or Setup - Dramatic Results - Unprecedented ROI