| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Online learning and knowledge services |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder(s) | David Dinh |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Key people | Private technology consortium |
| Products | Alphastudy.com |
| Employees | undisclosed |
| Website | http://www.alphastudy.com/ |
Alphastudy is a private Australian company that enables users to create their own web based learning and knowledge portals. The company's office is located in Sydney, Australia and was founded in 2008 by David Dinh.[1]
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The idea started in 2008. Alphastudy was initially deployed as a prototype healthcare knowledge and training system in December 2008 which subsequently went live in April 2009 to assist clinicians develop learning communities, manage training and conduct rapid projects and clinical studies.[2]
Early adopters took advantage of Alphastudy to integrate quality management with organisational compliance and knowledge training. With several initial projects Alphastudy helped bring down the cost and barriers to the creation and dissemination of organisational knowledge, research and training.[3][4]
Since 2010, Alphastudy is now available as Web subscription and Enterprise dedicated service with instant learning and knowledge portal creation. Alphastudy now delivers instant elearning, learning management, training and knowledge portals instantly through its proprietary online cloud based platform. Features developed within Alphastudy include online learning, social learning, forums, knowledge sharing and informal learning environments.[5]
On the 24th June 2011, Alphastudy was acquired in a confidential deal for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition was completed by a private technology consortium which aims to use the Alphastudy technology in several new projects leveraging from the Alphastudy platform and implementation technology. The management and development team aims to work closely with the new technology consortium to "launch more innovative and simple to use online tools".[6]
In September 2010 Alphastudy was recognised with a NSW Health Quality Improvement Award for improving training capacity and research capability at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.[7]
In the following month Alphastudy was recognised with a NSW Health and PWC Smart Choices Award for improving training capacity, making the most effective use of finite resources and extracting the best outcome by increasing knowledge sharing across healthcare.[8]
Alphastudy has been used within the healthcare industry, particularly for medical education environments, clinical departments, clinical research, healthcare compliance and audits and healthcare knowledge sharing. Alphastudy's success in healthcare has been achieved via the ability for multiple users to set up portals and network together to disseminate learning and knowledge content relevant to their peers. Academic research into the use of Alphastudy highlighted the majority of healthcare staff agreed or strongly agreed that Alphastudy had improved learning capacity with the organisation.[9]
In an academic paper published in 2011, it was highlighted the main potential advantage of Alphastudy was the improved efficiency of knowledge management translation of evidence into practice. This is particularly important in an environment of mobile workforces, training networks, regular shift workers and knowledge intensive organisations and the model has proved a success for industries ranging from finance, human resources, and property- for training and development, skills competency management and regular skills compliance.[10]
Academic institutions have also taken up Alphastudy for elearning and knowledge management. For example is it currently used at the Nihon University Medical Faculty for daily elearning and student management. Staff can keep track of regular online quizzes and tests, collect and report on student results, upload and maintain training material and training content all online. Quiz questions can be analysed later to assess knowledge gaps and student participation and detailed statistics summarised into easy to view monthly reports [11]