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Executive Overview

The importance of training

Knowledge is critical to the success of any company or institution. In the asphalt pavement industry, knowledge is the key to achieve efficiency, improve quality, effectively optimize processes and this ultimately drives revenue, increases profit, and minimizes costs. Developing and maintaining an educated, well-trained workforce through continuous training is strategic for success in highly competitive industries like paving where technology is constantly evolving.

But training comes at a cost: traditional classroom approaches like seminars and courses have significant “hidden” costs and impediments that need to be factored in such as travel and accommodation expenses, prolonged absence from the workplace, and lack of schedule flexibility.

The benefits of Pavia Systems’ offering

Cost and flexibility

The Pavia Systems online e-learning solution conveniently delivers a wealth of information on asphalt pavement materials, methods, and practices, enabling cost-effective high-quality training programs for the pavement construction industry. Through Pavia Systems, employees can now have access to a variety of rich media courses delivered at any time, anywhere with a personal computer connected to the Internet, immediately removing all the additional hidden costs of classroom training. Moreover, as an Application Service Provider (ASP), Pavia Systems directly hosts all of the training material and the surrounding infrastructure allowing enterprises to avoid many of the costs of implementing and maintain e-learning, and enabling faster deployment

The online e-learning approach ensures greater efficiency and flexibility: users can consult training material on demand at any time, and learn at their own pace (content can be accessed multiple times, paused, and re-played). Employee productivity is therefore increased instead of being disrupted by lengthy absence from the workplace due to off site classroom training.  Flexible on demand delivery of high-quality content avoids interrupting on-going projects and daily duties, fitting the busy schedule of today's workers.

Top Quality Content

Content is the foundation of Pavia Systems’ product. In collaboration with a team of world renowned researchers at the University of Washington who bring more than 35 years of experience in the pavement industry, Pavia Systems is proud to offer best-in-class training material specialized for the pavement-related construction businesses.

With thousands of graphics, animations and video along with hundreds of hours worth of researched text, Pavia's course offerings cover a comprehensive breadth of topics as well as a thorough depth of subject detail, covering areas such as materials and pavement types, structural and mix design, construction, lab and field testing and maintenance. Detailed pictures and instructive videos help illustrate difficult concepts and provide visuals for job-specific processes

Effective learning methods

With founders coming from the academic and educational world, Pavia Systems has the expertise to  provide meaningful and appropriate learning paths, realistic objectives, and useful accountability measures that will help organizations educate their employees effectively and efficiently.

In self-directed learning modules, topics are linked together in a meaningful way that allow students to experience course content at their own pace and in a personalized manner. Utilizing the guided learning modules, students can be walked through the subject matter by an expert narrator to re-create the in person experience of a classroom. Blended learning modules combine traditional classroom training aspects with online methods to deliver a more social and interactive learning experience: in some cases, organizations choose to supplement the online training with an in-class component to further extend concepts conveyed through e-learning; in others, additional collaborative tools such as discussion forums and workshop modules help creating a virtual classroom to facilitate open, interactive discussions.

Testing and management

With the capability of maintaining a profile of each employee course history and performance through its Learning Management System tool, Pavia Systems provides a valuable and unique way to track training effectiveness within an organization and to more easily quantify the return of investment (ROI) of the educational effort. Specific tests are designed to evaluate trainee knowledge retention and statistics such as courses taken, test results, per module time tracking, number of quiz attempts, etc. are maintained to build a complete learning history of each employee.

Scalability and consistency

Training online allows companies to scale the reach of their educational effort and enable a much larger number of employees to benefit from learning, independent of their location. Additionally, variance in the message conveyed from one classroom session to another is minimized. Leveraging the unified training offer from Pavia Systems, organizations ensure consistency of messages, knowledge and skills, fundamental requirement in the pavement industry to build interchangeable workgroups. Multi-language support allows distributing exactly the same type of content independently from the geographical location of the employees, removing yet another constraint that needs to be taken into account while organizing classroom training.

Standards Compliant

Compliance with standards is critical in e-learning deployments to ensure compatibility and interoperability between various training content providers. Pavia Systems On Ramp is designed to support the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) standard. Relying on standardization, Pavia Systems can be transparently utilized to host the complete training program of an organization, including third-party learning content.