I hope all this going to work. Spent lot of time on development and design, not accounting money spent on printing.

Albert

American University of Armenia
Extension Program

Project Management Training

COURSE OUTLINE
This training is developed to teach Project Management Fundamentals to general audiences. It addresses topics which are generic and Cross-Sector Industries. During the training participants will learn all aspects of Project Management both from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. The course is divided into 12 specialized topics addressing different aspects of Project Management. The training will be conducted over three weeks consisting of 15 Lessons of 2 hours, plus an online examination. Practical examples of problem solving will be introduced with full theoretical background which will give the participants an excellent appreciation of strategic project management components based on PRINC2 and PMI standards.

Each training topic includes:

• Theoretical background,
• Practical tools/techniques and experience sharing,
• Practical tasks consideration and problems solving.

The teaching approach will include the following aspects:

• eLearning: Training Material will be copied to an eLearning system where all students will have full access to a number of materials. Recommended literature will be provided to the students in digital version.
• MS Project: During third topic “Planning/Scheduling” participants will be introduced to Microsoft Project 2003 with guest lecturer from AUA Extension Department. This will help students to practice scheduling with MS Project. The course also includes special two weeks long assignment (Task) especially targeted for practical usage of MS Project.
• Experience sharing: An important activity for students will be presentation of real cases and sharing own experiences of problem solving and Project Management decision making in their organizations.
• Documents: Additionally all students will get templates and forms for practical management of projects developed by Project Management Institutes. The Trainer will customize each form and template for some general business cases presented by students.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• People with little or no experience of project management
• People who are intending to start managing projects soon
• People who need to learn project management skills for further promotion
• People who need to know how to effectively manage current projects
• People who need to improve current projects and lower risks

DURATION:

Total of 30 hours – conducted over Three Weeks (15 Lessons of 2 hours and plus online examination)

MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 20

FEE: 100 000 AMD (including VAT)

REQUIREMENTS:

Participants should be fluent in English as all materials and lessons will be provided in English.

START DATES:

This course will be held from January 28, 2008 for three weeks.
Lessons will be either from 14:00 to 16:00 or from 18:30 to 20:30 – depending on popularity of the time slot

REGISTRATION DEADLINES:

For the first offering – January 25, 2008

REGISTRATION:

Please bring your completed application form, your passport and one photograph (3×4cm) to Extension Office. You will be asked to pay the tuition at AUA Cashier’s Office – 5th floor, room 59, open hours – 10:00-16:00, Monday-Friday (13:00-13:45 lunch).

CERTIFICATE

Students will receive a Certificate of Course Completion based on their attendance level and exam result.

AUA Extension Office – Room 19, American University of Armenia, 40 M. Baghramyan ave., 0019 Yerevan Business Hours: from 9:00 to 17:30, Monday – Friday; Telephone: (374 10) 51- 27- 06

eMail: extension@aua.am; http://www.aua.am/extens.htm

Albert Poghosyan

Today’s information environment demands that we all save time, improve efficiency and are more creative in our thinking. As a result, more and more people are turning to Mind Mapping as an essential business tool to add to their intellectual armoury. The Mind Mapping training takes Tony Buzan’s widely recognised technique for effective thinking and learning, and shows you how to apply it and benefit from it, in the business environment. Mind Mapping will enable you to think more creatively and incisively, plan more effectively, improve your memory and raise your effectiveness in the work place to ever higher levels.

OUTLINE
• Your brain – discover how the structure and functions of the brain is mirrored by the design of a Mind Map®
• Learning to learn – understand how we learn new skills and how to overcome the fear of failure
• How to Mind Map® – learn the basic technique of how to construct Mind Maps®
• Practice your Mind Mapping Skills – with a range of note-making, note-taking and learning applications

Action Planning – a chance to think through how you are going to use Mind Maps® in your work environment and how to benefit from the skills learned in this course.

Applications of Mind Mapping for Business
• Planning and organising
• Preparing and delivering presentations
• Problem solving
• Option generation and decision making
• Note taking in meetings, workshops and more
• Staff assessment
• Enhancing creativity and learning skills

APPROACH
• Develop organisation skills – present information in an organised and easy to follow format, on one page, which is simple for others to read and add their own ideas
• Enhance creativity – promote free thought and become more creative
• Save time – Mind Maps can be adapted to almost any task and will improve efficiency
• Improve memory – the structure of a Mind Map makes it easier for you to remember more

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Professionals and Managers, who have to work with large amounts of information, including:
• Managers and leaders in private and public sectors
• Professionals and technical experts
• Individuals studying for exams and professional qualifications

DATE: Saturday, December 01, 2007

DURATION / SCHEDULE: 7 hours (including Lunch &
Coffee Breaks) – From 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (17:00)

MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 35

FEE: 15,000 AMD (inclusive of 20% VAT)

REQUIREMENTS: Participants should be fluent in English

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 28, 2007

CERTIFICATE: Students will receive a Certificate of Attendance

Me and American University of Armenia is announcing new weekend – Saturday – one day Training Program specially designed for busy
professionals. It provides the opportunity for busy individuals to attain certain Knowledge and Skills – through effective training – on Saturdays. All of the one-day training sessions in this program address innovative topics in today’s business world and have been designed and put together such that will help you improve your business effectiveness and business processes.

This intensive style training will give participants theoretical and practical knowledge of the relevant topic – helping them improve
business/work performance. Each training session will last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will provide full handout documentation and the opportunity for discussion and networking.

Most of the subjects would benefit almost any target professional and/or managerial audience. We intend to include in this
program subjects that would address immediate training requirements of many organizations and businesses. We are looking for suggestions to expand the portfolio and would do our best to offer additional topics of your interest.
This months activities including following list of trainings:

November/December 2007
• November 17 – Using Moodle for local Courses

• November 24 – The New Economics of Culture and Commerce: The Long Tail

• December 01 – Mind Maps for business advantage

• December 08 – Blogging and Blog Marketing

• December 15 – Customer Relationship Management based on SugarCRM

• December 22 – Building an eBay Business

I think this is great idea. Anyway you could come for first FREE training to see how it is.

REGISTRATION: Each participant should bring your completed application form and your passport to Extension Office. You will be asked to pay the tuition at AUA Cashier’s Office – 5th floor, room 59, open hours – 10:00-16:00, Monday-Friday (13:00-13:45 lunch). Application forms are available at Extension Office reception desk, or can be downloaded from our website: http://www.aua.am/extens/seminars

Also you can download file from my host: http://egov.re4blog.org/publish/AUA Extension Weekend Training Seminars.doc

Albert Poghosyan

I think it would be very nice if we could start organizing special eLearning courses in Armenia. That’s very easy to do with Open Source, with simplest explanations – it’s free. :) So here is description of intensive seminar:

Using Moodle Open Source eLearning
System for local eCourses

Based on example of Armenian Distance Learning Network (www.e-courses.am)

And based on “Moodle E-learning Course Development” book

Dates: 15th
October, 2007

Time: 14.00 – 18.00

Location: CRRC-Armenia, 52
Abovyan Street, 3rd Floor, Room 333, Yerevan

Language: Armenian

Overview:
This intensive seminar aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the administrative functions of a Moodle eLearnign system. Participants will learn how to adapt the layout of a Moodle site, how to manage users (including authentication, enrolments, course groups and the roles system), back up an entire site and individual courses. In addition, participants will
explore many of the features which impact on the experience of tutors and learners.

Training outline:

The seminar covers the principal areas required to successfully administer the layout, modules, blocks and users on a Moodle system.

• Site layout
• Customising the interface terminology
• Installed theme options
• Module, block and filter options
• Calendar options
• HTML editor options
• Adding and editing user accounts
• Manual and Email authentication
• Manual enrolments
• The roles system
• Site / Course back up

Approach

Under the guidance of the trainer, participants review the principal administrative options of a Moodle site. Wherever possible participants engage in activities to assess the impact of the various settings and options. Activities are designed to be “neutral” so that participants may derive equal benefit from the workshop regardless of their sector e.g. academic, business, charity, government

Who Should Attend?

Individuals responsible for the day to day administration of a Moodle site.
Those who need to understand Moodle from a more strategic perspective.

Moderator
Bio: Mr. A. Poghosyan holds a Master Degree in Electronic Governance from Salford University (UK). Currently he is doing research on Identity Management and Authorization technologies and teaching IT Project Management. For more information check out his blog at this address: http://egov.re4blog.org/?page_id=2.

Registration: If interested, please send your C.V. and a brief letter of interest to crrcnews@crrc.am by October 12, 2007, 5:00 PM. Please note that the seats are limited and only those with advanced statistical analysis skills will be selected to participate in the training. At the end of the training successful participants will receive Certificates.

Albert Poghosyan

Well,
I was bearing this idea already one year. As always I am running for some new ideas all the time so now I am about Project Management which in my version is Panacea for all problems in business.
One of the main targets of this training project is to help development and dissemination of Project Management knowledge within quickly developing sector: IT. This field is very important for any kind of organization and lack of skills in this field affect companies very much. Actually based on my experience and experience of my friends, percentage of projects that failed in Armenia is very high. This fact affect to whole industries which is actually based on project management, such as Information Technologies.
Mainly lack of required skills is cause of this problem. Practical and theoretical knowledge on main areas of project management should be provided to middle and high level managers which hasn’t been done by any University or Institute in Armenia. Additionally there are special issues affecting successful project management in Armenia. First of all it is customer and supplier relationship management which in fact affect project life circle and successful completing of project. Secondly there isn’t strong controlling environment in organizations.
Armenia is targeting himself as developed IT industries production market but without this skill we mainly break all possible and impossible boundaries of projects so far done in Armenia. So even we are getting any outsourcing projects, the companies do not stick with Armenian counterparts. It is because of low level service providing and failed projects. This is very important issue for whole economics. It is affecting every part of export products production and services produced by local companies.

The course will be based on practical examples of problem solving with full theoretical background for better understanding of strategic project management component based on PRINC2 and PMI standards. Additionally it includes full review of Project management tools such as MS Project. Course includes special week long assignment especially targeted for practical usage of MS Project. The teaching strategies of this course are based on following points:

• eLearning: All courses will be copied to eLearning system where all students will have full access for any kind of materials, plus all recommended literature will be provided to students in digital version on web-site. All assignments will be detailed discussed on forums for each topic.
• PM tools: During the course the trainer will introduce students to MS Project software with detailed overview of functionalities of that tool. This will help students to practice scheduling with MS Project and finish assignment. Additionally will be offered to research other pm tools to be much advanced in practical scheduling of IT projects.
• Experience sharing: The most important responsibility of the students will be the presentation of real cases and sharing own experience of problem solving and PM decision making in their organizations.
• Documents: Additionally all students will get templates and forms for practical management of IT projects developed by Project Management Institutes. The Trainer will customize each form and template for some general business cases presented by students.
• Handouts in advance: Everyone will get handouts by registration just to be able to read it in advance.

Please get the announcement here:

http://egov.re4blog.org/publish/IT%20Project%20Management%20Training.pdf

Albert Poghosyan