Treasury Agency Services, FMS, IRS and Skillsoft have partnered to provide FMS personnel an expanded library of 2,400 courses to support your administrative, technical, project management and Information Technology needs. These courses are e-learning web-based courses. While the "e" in e-learning means electronic, it also makes this venue for learning, Exciting, Engaging, Effective, Economical, and Empowering.
What is e-Learning? e-Learning is an exciting way to gain new skills and knowledge through training over the Internet. Training offered via e-Learning provides individualized, self-study courses on a wide variety of subjects. The courses are:
Highly interactive and use the latest technology.
Accessed through a computer and Internet connection.
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
What Are the Benefits? There are many advantages of e-Learning. This new way of learning:
Provides access to over 2,400 training courses (depending upon where you access the courses).
Allows you to take training at your own pace, anytime, and anywhere.
Sharpens your computer skills.
Gives you new skills, techniques, or knowledge that will help you enhance your current and future job performance.
How Much Time Does e-Learning Require?
The amount of time required for e-Learning varies by course and individual. Completing one course could take anywhere from 2 to 10 hours. e-Learning courses are divided into modules and lessons. When you leave a lesson, the eLearning system remembers where you were in the lesson depending upon your computer location (see Note 3 below). These smaller learning units make it possible for you to take courses without being away from the job for long periods of time on any one day. In fact, e-Learning courses are more effective when completed in small portions over a few days.
Important notes to remember:
FMS employees must initially access the eLearning web site (learning.treas.gov) from Inside the FMS firewall (via the Intranet) in order to establish an account with eLearning.
Access to all 2400 eLearning courses (both Information Technology and Business Skill categories) is possible from Inside the FMS firewall. However, only the Business Skills related courses are available Outside the firewall (through the Internet or LMS).
If you start a course from Inside the FMS firewall you must complete the course from Inside the firewall in order for the system's bookmarking features and credit for progress to take effect. Likewise, if you initiate one of the Business Skill related courses from Outside the FMS firewall, you must complete the course Outside the firewall in order for the system to recognize your progress or use the system's bookmarking capability.
Access to eLearning web site from Inside the FMS Firewall: from the Intranet home page - click on Training (left hand column menu selection). On the right hand side a menu of choices will appear and select: learning.treas.gov.
