Advancing Adult Learning
American Research Institute, Inc. (ARI) is a leading provider of education and training services, allowing customers to achieve maximum effectiveness through high-quality, educationally sound, and mission-critical training. ARI offers a wide range of services, from designing custom training solutions to full outsourcing of training operations. ARI specializes in assisting clients by designing creative training solutions using the latest instructional design technology and delivery infrastructure.
The explosive growth of the Internet, wireless, and other technologies provides the opportunity to develop more cost-effective and efficient methods to train adults than either classroom or early computer-based training offered. Today, corporations and government agencies require strategic education solutions to remain competitive, and to ensure worker competency. ARI has learned how to effectively blend technologies and techniques using innovative approaches to create or improve learning programs designed to optimize the results of any education plan.
Background
For over fifteen years, the American Research Institute, Inc (ARI) management team served as senior managers within the largest IT training companies in the world. Under their direction, these organizations successfully developed hundreds of technical courses that required not only rapid development, but also frequent changes due to the volatile nature of information technology. Our management team has real world experience with using course authoring tools, collaboration platforms, remote lab infrastructures, and Learning Management Systems (LMS) integration to create training programs using a mix of delivery methodologies. One of the goals in founding ARI in 2002, was to bring this experience and expertise in courseware creation and training services from the IT training industry into other commercial and government sectors requiring rapid development, cost effectiveness and results-driven learning.
ARI has taken this “training as a business” mentality and used it to create continuously improved management processes and tools to better meet the training needs of our clients.
Philosophy
Flex-Sourcing
ARI offers our tools and services in any combination of ways to fit your needs. You can:
- Buy only what you need
- Mix and match best-of-class solutions
- Quickly and easily adapt to change
- Integrate with what you have
By using open standards as well as open source, ARI provides:
- Transparency - You can see and access all the information you need (versus having it locked in a proprietary format).
- Flexibility - You can easily change how the system works, or extend its capabilities, because the standards are open and available. You don't need to depend on us for changes.
- Integration--- Easily interface with other systems that use open standards.
Best-of-Class Components
Our offering structure allows us to swap out parts for newer, better solutions as they become available, making sure you have the best components available for your training needs and are not locked into a sub-standard application because it “comes with” a monolithic training solution.
Link Training to Measurable Business Results
All considerations of what to teach and how to teach it are made with the desired business result in mind. We ask: What skills does a particular person need to contribute to the success of the organization?