About Us.

Watsonia Publishing is a dynamic and constantly evolving company with offices in Australia and in the UK, immensely proud of our long reputation for producing quality IT Training courseware. From humble beginnings, the company now employs 20 full-time staff with thousands of published titles used in classrooms across 5 continents.

Watsonia was founded in Melbourne in 1983 by Ron Krupa, a visionary IT Trainer who was (and still is…) bored and frustrated by poor quality learning materials. Nearly 25 years later, our products are the established market leader in Australia and New Zealand, and quickly becoming so in the UK and Ireland.

From then, to now, our core beliefs are centred around well designed learning materials and exercises which can be used for a variety of purposes, and which can be used in a “written once, used many times” paradigm. Modern IT Training has evolved and changed rapidly in the last few years, with vibrant, task-oriented bite size learning becoming the norm for most organisations now - large and small. Our unique EngineRoom software continues to evolve and improve, depended upon by time-pressed trainers and marvelled at by our competitors.

Unlike most publishers and other courseware companies, all Watsonia training content is written internally by our own full time instructional design team. Our writers are all very experienced trainers, each with an in-depth knowledge of the issues facing both trainers and students daily in an IT learning environment.

Our clients are diverse and wide, but they all have one thing in common - little or no time to keep writing and updating courseware themselves. They also share a need for training documentation of an exceptionally high quality that is both flexible and customisable, and which can be instantly tailored and branded as their own.

Watsonia Publishing was named after the suburb 15 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, where we got started back in those early days. The Watsonia itself is a wild flower with 52 species, named after naturalist William Watson, and introduced to Southern Australia in the late 19th century.

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