Online TRAINING course comparison

Comparison with other courses
	CALISO Online Training courses		Other courses
Cost	50-60% more affordable than other courses AND there is no training material or travel cost. Travel costs for sending employees to training courses and seminars, often represent 20% of training budgets....	Charge a premium because they have fewer registrants and much narrower reach in a class environment than the CALISO online training, which has trainees from as far as South Africa, Malaysia, Iceland and Japan.
Content	The courses use the exact excerpts of the standards or regulations with no distortions and innacuracies because of paraphrasing or trainer's "own" interpretation.	Because of time and cost constraints regular class courses use material that very often paraphrases the standard and use the trainer's own experience and interpretation. This results in a lot of inaccuracies and distortions.
Learning experience	With no time limits on the training or on taking the quizzes you can really absorb the information and provide more accurate answers on quizzes.	Time constraints very often make for incomplete learning experiences. People learn at a various speeds and rates; time constraints prevent effective learning. Very often in a class-training environment without a continuous evaluation mechanism such as in the CALISO courses only a fraction of the attendees benefit from the training.
Convenience	You don't need to travel to go attend a seminar or class out-of-town. You can take it from your office, your home or any other location, at your own pace and take as much training as you want until you complete the course.	On most class courses you have to go off-site for at least one day if not five days for lead auditor courses where you also stay in a hotel. They also very often get canceled because of a lack of attendance, thus delaying your training plans and schedules. On-site courses will also have you spend at least a day locked in a conference room.
Approvals	CALISO developed its own accreditation scheme to train internal auditor and supplier auditor at a lower cost in 1999. The goal was to meet a growing demand for auditor training by companies and individuals that do not intend to work for registrars. Since then, we have become the largest training provider in the US with over 20,000 certificates issued and a training certification recognized by all registrars as evidence of training for internal auditors and supplier auditors for ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, GLP, GMP, ISO 16949 and other ISO standards and FDA regulations.
Recognition	Very large and reputable organizations such as Philips Medical, CISCO, Intel, FDA, the Military, Dell, Sears, Baxter and Raytheon are using our online training programs to train more employees effectively and save on cost.
Benefits for implementation	Very exact knowledge of the standards results in streamlined and beneficial implementation. The more employees are trained effectively on the standard or regulation the better the implementation.	Very often lack in preciseness as to standard requirements and lead to over or under implementation.
Benefits for internal audits	Training relating directly to the standard requirements result in value-added audits.	Except for a few good courses from costly training provider, they often yield to subjective and disruptive non-beneficial audit results.
Benefits for external audits	Better communication with external auditors by referencing requirements of the standards or regulations, not subjective interpretations. This is often the key to succesfully passing your external audits.	Except for a few good courses from costly training providers, the trainees are unable to communicate clearly with registrar and customer auditors on compliance to specific requirements.