SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ProProfs, the leading provider of online assessment & training software for trainers, marketers, and educators, today announced that it currently generates more than one million views per day from a growing community of companies seeking virtual training solutions. The ProProfs customer base includes large institutions such as Sony, Cisco, Harvard University, DHL, and other Fortune 500 companies. Nearly 70 percent of registered users have joined in the last year.
Sameer Bhatia, Founder and CEO of ProProfs, stated that part of ProProfs’ rapid user expansion stems from its ability to support any large-scale marketing or survey need – a trait that distinguishes ProProfs from its competition. For example, online-course company Coursera only offers university classes.
“We’re not just for college courses; we believe anyone can teach and should teach,” said Bhatia. “We’re the YouTube of courses and tests. While our competition is for open courses only, ProProfs is free for open courses, and premium for private courses inside companies or schools.”
Bhatia added that while Coursera’s teaching units can only be offered as courses, ProProfs provides a wider definition of a teaching unit. Units can be courses, but they can also be stand-alone flashcard sets, quizzes, tests, or other formats. ProProfs refers to this format as a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC).
“We’ve found ProProfs gives us a new tool to use with our geographically diverse work force,” said Troy Marble, District Safety Manager of Kiewit Pacific Co., a Fortune 500 construction, mining, and engineering powerhouse. “Now our mobile workforce has access to testing & training tools that don’t hinder their productivity in the field. We've had over 15,000 training courses taken.”
Along with its claim to the MOOC platform, which was launched using Training Maker 2.0, ProProfs has other unique features. These include:
- The ability to customize learning paths based on learning analytics
- Revenue models for teachers wishing to opt in (paid courses are powered by e-commerce)
- Public quizzes and flashcards embeddable into any website
- Course management across mobile devices
- Integration of web pages, blog posts, and other content into a course.
Bhatia noted that these new features make it even easier for trainers, marketers, and educators to take advantage of this unique instructional opportunity.
In addition to its free public MOOC offering, ProProfs’ enterprise-grade LMS enables employers and/or educational institutions, including many Fortune 500 and top-tier colleges and universities, to offer limited-enrollment courses at a fraction of major competitors’ prices.
To get started with the ProProfs Training Maker, visit www.proprofs.com/training.
