OMTI offer courses, tuition and help in a variety of ways
Drop-in
With drop-in, you can come into the centre whenever we are open and use our learning materials to learn the subject of your choice. This could be word, Excel, ECDL, whatever.
You spend as much time or as little as you can spare in the centre and you will have tutor support while you are here.
Courses
We offer a wide variety of tutor-led courses which include Excel, Using the Internet, Sending Email, Intro to Digital Photography, Introduction to Computers, Word, Video Editing and many more.
In all, we are offering 28 new courses this quarter April 2010 to Jiune 2010. Click the courses link to the left to see the latest courses on offer.
Remember, all our non-accredited courses are free (although some carry a refundable deposit). There are exam or accreditation fees with the courses which carry qualifications with the exception of ECDL to Kendray Residents.
Download the latest OMTI newsletter here, which lists all the up-coming courses
1 to 1
For those who really struggle we can help you with a few 1 to 1 sessions. We can book you a 1 to 1 session with a tutor at a mutually convinient time. This way you get to go through exactly what you want with the tutor. Once you have done a few 1 to 1 sessions you can progress on to a tutor-led course. You can have a maximum of 10 sessions on a 1 to 1 basis.
E-Type
Don't forget the new E-Type course for those wanting to improve there keyboard and touch-typing skills. It is a level 2 qualification with a charge of £50 for the exam fees.
New Courses
OMTI has begun to offered new courses in Excel, Making a newsletter, Prep for ECDL, Databases, PowerPoint, PC Maintenance, Web design and Managing Files.
The courses all remain on our course programme for this new quarter, April to June2010. See Non-accredited courses section for more details or click here
ECDL
The ECDL is the most sought after qualification around at the moment. To enhance your job prospects this is the course to do.
We offer both the ECDL as both tutor-led and self-paced courses, with the ECDL advanced modules offered as self-paced only.
You can start Self-paced ECDL and ECDL Advanced courses whenever you like, and you get tutor support from omti staff.
Click the ECDL link to the left to see full details of the ECDL and ECDL advanced or click the Courses link to find when we are delivering tutor-led courses.
The British Computer Society (BCS) oversee the ECDL in the UK. On 01/09/09 they updated the syllabus to version 5. This reflects new challenges in ICT and brings it right up to date with current technology and qualification framework.
Module 1 has changed from Basic concepts of IT to IT security. This module is much smaller than the old one, however, most of the basics stuff such as acronyms, hardware and software have been added to module 2.
Module 2 is now called IT Fundementals. This replaced the old Managing Files & Folders module. Its quite simular to the old module 2 but with the added IT basics and theory from the old module 1.
Modules 3 through 7 remain the same but are updated for todays technology.
Unit-E (module 8) has been discontinued as this information is now included withing the other modules. So one mess module and exam to complete.
Other changes include module 1 exam is now a written multi-choice exam and not and online exam as there is no need for any external exam marking in the new qualifications framework.
BCS IT User Level 1 is still there and is called ECDL Essentials and is awarded on completion of modules 1,2 and 7.
BCS IT User Level 2 is still the present as well and is also called ECDL Extra. It is awarded on Completion of modules 3,4,5, and 6.