They create the online courses, webinars and essentials together with co-creation partners and put a lot of emphasis on accreditation and recognition. SkillsTown offers different packages, all for a fixed monthly fee.
Online mentor
With an online mentoring system, the participant (mentee) learns by themselves and with the help of a mentor, not a trainer. A mentor is someone who already has the experience and knowledge that the mentee wants to learn and who wants to help someone else. It is an informal form of learning. In the United States, mentoring is mainly used to help (vulnerable) young people, students and women. In the Netherlands, it is also used in the business world. The mentors and mentees then usually come from one organization or network, for example to support junior colleagues with a senior mentor. In the US, there is the platform eMentorconnect and Mentoring Complete , in the Netherlands there is Metro.
4. Metro
Metro Mentoring Platform by MentesMe is an hospital mailing lists online platform where the user can find a mentor and offer themselves as a mentor. The site matches on competencies and offers an online coaching process with which the mentee, with the support of the mentor, goes through their own growth process.
The online mentoring platform Metro does two things: it facilitates the process of finding a mentor and it facilitates and records the mentee's
Communication can be entirely via the platform. The founder of Metro Mentoring Platform, a psychologist, saw the potential of a platform for 'informal learning' within organizations. Metro works for organizations and networks that want to facilitate informal learning of employees or members in a structured way.
Online platform
By using an online learning tool, the participant learns mainly in practice. The participants receive assignments and often have to record behaviors and forward them to others who give feedback. It is often about setting goals and achieving them step by step.