With CLT Phone, dp has also proven innovative in individual training, transferring a proportion of its conversation training to the telephone and an internally developed administrative platform. As for live trainings, they can now simply be re¬located to the new CLT Virtual Classroom.


Offline learning with constant support from an online tutor - that's CLT Plug&Learn. The new system functions like a regular USB flash drive but can do a whole lot more. Whether CLT students are on a business trip or simply unable to access the Internet, they can access their course content and results from dp's internally developed USB flash drive at any time.


As soon as the client computer is able to establish an Internet connection, all saved data and course results are automatically synchronized with dp's central Learning Management System and immediately forwarded to the student's personal tutor. CLT Plug&Learn doesn't leave even the slightest trace on PCs. And should the stick get lost, all important data can easily be retrieved from the central server at any time.


The new course format CLT intensive pro is aimed at language learners who utilize a blend of self-study, online tutoring and live trainings, but are either unable or unwilling to regularly participate in group courses in a classroom environment. For this growing target group, dp has created the first complete curriculum based on the official European framework for language learning, which intelligently combines the technical potential of the Virtual Classroom with the integrated concept of the CLT online language school.


With CLT intensive pro, otherwise time-consuming live trainings take place on the Internet. Students from around the world can thus participate in the study group of their choice, regardless of location. All course contents and results from the Virtual Classroom are synchronized with CLT's central administration system.


CLT Phone adds another dimension to dp's assortment, namely synchronous language training on the telephone. In accordance with the integrated concept of the CLT online language school and based on an internally developed lesson plan, the periodic telephone trainings are utilized not only as targeted communication training, but also as a substitute for live training.


The program conveys listening comprehension, pronunciation and realistic patterns of communication, a factor of particular importance when students' requirements include telephoning in the target language on a professional basis. For this solution, dp has tapped into its many years of experience in Southern Europe and France, where telephone training has long been a recognized constituent of multimedia language learning.