“Keeleklikk” (“The Tongue Click”) grew out of the nescessity to provide better Estonian-learning tools for the Russian-speaking locals. The further goal is to give people better chances in the job market and in the public life in general – by bringing the language learning right at their homes. Now the course is available for Engslish-speaking people as well.

The first challenge in the course development was how to make the mandatory language training more appealing to the learners. We found our way in friendly comedy. The interactive exercises, cheerful videos and animated sketches effortlessly guide the learner from uttering the first words to the certainty of a language skill.
The course is being developed in collaboration with the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and receives funding from the European social fund.

The best way to learn something is by doing. On the other hand, it might be difficult to get started and keep going alone and without any basic knowledge. This holds especially true in the digital world. Such is the mindset for our Office 2010 courses. The programs react “like real life” but they stay on the path we designed. We guide and the users actually do all the things they learn. The Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook tutorials make it possible to get started with Office as well as learn new tricks. The courses are in English and Norwegian.

Explosions are so cool in the movies!

In real life, however, we want people to get home alive and in one piece. Work in factories, gas stations, workshops and oilrigs mean constant exposure to flammable and explosive substances. The workers must therefore know exactly how hazards work and how to be protected against them.

In this course we take a thorough look at a field that involves extreme precision and responsibility: the safety of electrical works that take place in explosion-hazardous areas. To create the course content, we collaborated with an expert who conducts electrical works on an oil rig himself and who also trains others in safety. He helped us explain how the various methods and tools protect people and what the basic principles are behind safety rules.

We are truly proud of this course and know that each grain of knowledge gleaned from it will make the world a safer place. A very special acknowledgment of our skills is that many Norwegian companies have chosen to take this course instead of the traditional classroom-courses.

Electricity is so much fun in the cartoons!

In real life, however, getting a jolt is far from fun. To make sure electric current does not harm people, electrical works must be done with great care and precision. Fortunately, prior experience provides us with lessons learnt. It is exactly by learning from experience that the rules and regulations get written down.

The FSE is the Norwegian electrical safety regulations manual. In our course we examine why these rules have been developed, how they help to prevent hazards and choose a proper emergency response. This course is our way to help electricians work more safely.

Why won’t they listen to you? Why won’t they ever follow your directions? Why do they misinterpret you over and over again?

Such are the questions we address in this course. We take a look at how communication might function under ideal conditions – and see how it functions in real life. We discover how meanings go far beyond mere words and how making sense of something requires more than just the senses. We learn how to notice and harness communication’s most powerful function – to create and maintain the connection between people.

This is the second course in the leadership and human resource series, accompanied by “Coaching” and “Stress less, achieve more”. We developed these courses in collaboration with the top experts in the field

The course is in English and Norwegian.

The best way to learn something is by doing. On the other hand, it might be difficult to get started and keep going alone and without basic knowledge. This holds especially true in the digital world. Such is the mindset for our Office 2007 courses. The programs react “like real life” but they stay on the path we designed. We guide and the users actually do all the things they learn. The Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook tutorials make it possible to get started with Office as well as learn new tricks. The courses are in English and Norwegian.

It’s not that hard to get children to use computers. We want them to learn how to make spreadsheets and … hold on, Junior, what’s the rush now? Oh well, it is not quite that easy to keep children learning what we would like them to. Better let them try out those things themselves. Even better, lets have some animals keep them company and help navigate the programs. This is how we made the course where the programs function “like real” and the environment is playful. The course is aimed at Norwegian elementary students.

Electricity is so much fun in the cartoons!

In real life, however, getting a jolt is far from fun. To make sure electric current does not harm people, electrical works must be done with great care and precision. Fortunately, prior experience provides us with lessons learnt. It is exactly by learning from experience that the rules and regulations get written down.

The FSE is the Norwegian electrical safety regulations manual. In our course we examine why these rules have been developed, how they help to prevent hazards and choose a proper emergency response. This course is our way to help electricians work more safely.

Electricity is so much fun in the cartoons!

In real life, however, getting a jolt is far from fun. To make sure electric current does not harm people, electrical works must be done with great care and precision. Fortunately, prior experience provides us with lessons learnt. It is exactly by learning from experience that the rules and regulations get written down.

The FSE is the Norwegian electrical safety regulations manual. In our course we examine why these rules have been developed, how they help to prevent hazards and choose a proper emergency response. This course is our way to help electricians work more safely.

Electricity is so much fun in the cartoons!

In real life, however, getting a jolt is far from fun. To make sure electric current does not harm people, electrical works must be done with great care and precision. Fortunately, prior experience provides us with lessons learnt. It is exactly by learning from experience that the rules and regulations get written down.

The FSE is the Norwegian electrical safety regulations manual. In our course we examine why these rules have been developed, how they help to prevent hazards and choose a proper emergency response. This course is our way to help electricians work more safely.

OpenOffice isn’t just any other Office. For starters, it is free. And then there are the little differences. But learning is still most efficient when doing. This tutorial examines three OpenOffice programs – Writer, Calc and Impress. We go through the essential functions step by step, moving from beginner tasks to more advanced challenges.

The tutorial is in English and Norwegian.

The best of the best gathered around to give some good counsel. Tiina Saar, a renowned Estonian career counsellor, wrote the content. She also brought along a posse of experts as guest performers.

To realise the concept we summoned a team of illustrators and animators, among them one of the coolest local comic strip artists, Joonas Sildre. This was one of the biggest projects we have ever handled – we completed around five-and-half hours of animations and video in less than a year. Another achievement was making the great collection of interactive exercises and the tool to save them in a user portfolio.

The course is in Estonian and Russian, and free of charge. The project received funding from the European Social Fund and Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund.

This free-of-charge e-handbook explains the new Employmnet Contract Act. Our task was to unravel the legal jumble into clear points in plain language and convey them to the user verbally, as well as visually.

The result shows a colourful environment where vibrant animated characters go about their business on the legislation landscape. There is the slightly officious Employer who always has a calculator and a hand-stamp in her purse; the fearless Employee who is the Jack of a dozen trades above and below ground, water and air; the sideburned Competitor in his suede suit; the Inspector whipping out a magnifying glass and book of regulations; not to mention the countless co-workers, offspring and livestock. Getting to know a law has never before been so easy and exciting.

We made the handbook in collaboration with the Estonian Trade Union Confederation. The project received funding from the European social fund.

How to get a team to function well? How to set the ground rules? How can a commanding boss become an inspiring team leader instead?

In this course we take a tour in the back alleys of good leadership and teamwork and view the different aspects of the leader’s role. The tour takes place through animations, videos and exercises. This is the first course in the leadership and human resource series, followed by “Communication” and “Stress less, achieve more”. We developed these courses in collaboration with top experts in these fields

The course is in English and Norwegian.

Why do we even need stress? What is stress useful for? When is stress harmful? How can we recognize the harmful effects? How can we deal with those effects?

In this course we unravel all these questions. We examine how the body and mind work hand-in-hand to de-mystify stress-related processes. We hear useful tips for preventing and releasing excess pressure. Together we seek the path to balanced functioning between active and relaxed states.

This is the third course in the leadership and human resource series, accompanied by “Coaching” and “Communication”. We developed these courses in collaboration with the experts on the subjects.

The course is in English and Norwegian.

Studying in your native language is definitely the most convenient and natural way for schoolchildren to learn. But there are many children going to Estonian schools who have different mother tongues. It is not in our power to educate all of them in their mother tongue. However, we can provide them with tools to help them manage better in the Estonian school environment. Teachers with years of experience with foreign-language students have compiled vocabulary, and from that we built an interactive dictionary and workbook environment. The material is suitable for middle school pupils regardless of their mother tongue. We practice to hear and see, read and write, connect and shuffle the words. The learners can navigate and repeat sections of the handbook as they please.

The handbook was supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals.

The course “You choose” is an example of our custom-made courses. It reviews how to safely operate forklift vehicles in a factory environment. Sør-Norge Aluminium AS is a large Norwegian company that produces aluminium billets. Their goal is to prevent all accidents and injuries. This means their staff of 400 people need constant training in their specialist skills as well as in general safety.

In the course, we present information in short videos. Each video demonstrates a forklift-related accident scenario, clearly showing specific hazards and their origins. After each scenario, the user practices removing those very hazards in interactive exercises. In the making of this course we had to follow the specific needs of the company and at the same time reflect on the strict safety culture prevalent in Norwegian industry in general.

The course is in Norwegian, English, Swedish and Icelandic.

Advantec supplies electro hydraulic control systems and Workover Control Systems for the international subsea market. They operate and service subsea instrumentation and hydraulics; rent instruments and equipment; offer testing, commissioning and operational support services. The company is run by specialists and has extremely high quality standards. Chiron Media has made a multimedia presentation that covers the products and services Advantec AS offers.

In large-scale industry it is always useful to harness more of the smart solutions and less of the brute force. The smart solutions also result in extensive profits – decrease operational costs and excess management; increase production, quality and safety. Future Operations Management, FOM, develops Integrated Operations software solutions to steer and regulate work in oil fields. They compile customized work and resources management software according to the customer’s specific needs. After installing the system, they continue to consult and support the user.

Our task was to visualize FOM’s area of expertise and to present their management solution templates. We used an existing presentation foundation and fit the new content and illustrations into it.