With this in mind, the eLearning Centre, an information resource about eLearning and learning technologies for business education, not-for-profits, and the public sector, has added technology-delivered language courses in French, Spanish, German, and Dutch for English speakers to its growing portfolio of eLearning courses. Moreover, it has added courses in learning English for French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese native speakers.

All these eLearning courses, which can be delivered to a range of devices, have been developed by the Belgium-based language specialist, Altissia.

"We believe that the Altissia multi-language learning platform, which is SCORM compliant, provides engaging and effective eLearning of an excellent standard," said David Patterson, a director of Learning Light, which runs the eLearning Centre website. "Each eLearning programme is immersive, practical, and progressive and as such, we believe should be hugely effective."

"All the Altissia courses scored extremely highly in Learning Light’s eLearning-content evaluation tool (E-Lcet), which provides an objective assessment of any piece of eLearning," he added. "Indeed, all the eLearning materials that form the 'courses' section of the eLearning Centre have had to meet quality criteria set through this tool."

"This means that anyone who is looking for eLearning materials can be confident of the quality of those available via the eLearning Centre website."

The Altissia language courses can be studied, effectively, purely via eLearning materials, but Learning Light can also arrange with Altissia for those who want to improve their pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression to talk to a native speaker of that language via videoconference.

"These language courses are available both to individuals and, as a language platform, to organisations that want to standardise the language-learning materials for their employees," said Patterson.