From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Welcome to the Learning Pool Blog - feel free to subscribe for free updates by RSS or email. Thanks for visiting.Consulting and engaging with residents and hard to reach communities is vitally important work for local authorities. As a result, Cardiff Council, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, Torfaen County Borough Council and their local partner [...]

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Learning Pool’s e-Learning Networking Meeting in Brighton 25th Nov 09 from Liz Azyan on Vimeo.
Fast forward to the end to check out Nick Foster’s interview!

I had a bit of fun at Brighton’s Breakfast Meeting last Wednesday and took some pictures as well as videos for my collection.  I decided to use all those shots [...]

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Brighton & Hove City Council saves over £70k

by Liz Azyan on November 27, 2009

I’ve recently (25th Nov 2009) been invited to tag along on one of Learning Pool’s exciting breakfast meetings in Brighton for a networking meeting with Tracey Hughes (Learning & Development Manager for Brighton & Hove City Council) and other local council officers to have a discussion around e-Learning developments.
Loving Brighton….
I had a delightful time in [...]

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Havant Borough Council’s Recipe for e-learning Success

by Learning Pool on November 23, 2009

On the road to achieving the vision of e-learning is Havant Borough Council’s HR and Learning Adviser, Spencer Drain. Engagement of key stakeholders in the e-learning process has been crucial from the start, and Spencer describes what ingredients are essential for the perfect learning mix.

Why did you decide to buy a Learning Pool subscription?
The potential [...]

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Create accessible e-learning with Learning Pool

by Learning Pool on November 20, 2009

Learning Pool has made some significant enhancements to its e-learning Authoring Tool by giving authors the option to create accessible e-learning.  This post gives the background to what we’ve done and why.
There are two key accessibility challenges for Learning Pool:
• how users with disabilities access electronic information, and
• how Learning Pool can enable the AT & DLE [...]

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Learning Pool announces price freeze

by Learning Pool on November 17, 2009

With talk of significant public sector budget cuts on the way here at Learning Pool we appreciate that your money needs to work harder than ever before.
That’s why we have decided to freeze the price of our Learning Pool core subscription at today’s current rates until at least April 2011.
This good news follows the pricing [...]

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Zimbabwe: E-Learning Centre for Customs Agents

by Learning Pool on November 17, 2009

The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority in conjunction with the World Customs Organisation has launched an e-learning programme for customs agents that is going to benefit 22 member states in the East and Southern Africa region.
Principal director in the Ministry of Finance Mr Pfungwa Kunaka said the launch of the e-learning facility in the country’s revenue collection [...]

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Learning Pool meets Steve Earle

by Learning Pool on November 16, 2009

left to right:  Maeve, Kenny, Alan, Paul, Mr Steve Earle, Mary, Sam, Janet, Louise
We were thrilled to meet the legendary folk and blues singer songwriter, Steve Earle, last night at his gig in Derry’s Millennium Forum.
Steve played a fantastic two hour accoustic set, based mainly on tracks from his latest album, Townes.  This album is [...]

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