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Mary’s Top 10 Learning Pool Achievements of 2009

by Learning Pool on January 4, 2010

Reflecting on the busy year that’s been 2009, these are the top 10 things that have given me most professional pleasure this year:
1. The Club
Welcoming 50 more public sector organisations to the growing Learning Pool ‘club’ including our first Scottish authority, our first Northern Irish authority, our first charitable organisation and 5 more housing associations.
2. [...]

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Engaging with your e-learners part 3

by Learning Pool on December 9, 2009

This is the third and last post in our series about how to communicate and engage with your e-learners.
This time we’re covering what happens once the dust settles after your launch.
See previous posts on Phase One:  Pre-elearning implementation and Phase Two:  Pre-elearning launch.
Phase Three:  Post launch – general maintenance
1.  E-learning drop in sessions continue to be [...]

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Engaging with your e-learners part 2

by Learning Pool on December 8, 2009

This second of three blog posts gives twelve ideas on how to get ready for a successful e-learning launch within your public sector organisation.
Phase Two:  Pre-elearning launch
1.  Plasma screens around the organization to display messages relating to forthcoming e-learning launch – display boards include e-learning posters, leaflets etc.
2.  Dedicated e-learning intranet pages are created and [...]

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Engaging with your e-learners part 1

by Learning Pool on December 7, 2009

As the number one e-learning provider to the public sector Learning Pool has collected lots of ideas and best practice on how to engage and communicate with your e-learners.
This first of three blog posts looks at eight ideas on how to capture the attention of your learners and stakeholders prior to implementation.
Phase One:  Pre-elearning implementation
1. Engage [...]

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Public sector E-learning networking at Barnsley

by Learning Pool on December 4, 2009

Our meeting in Barnsley kicked off in quite chilly weather but we were quickly warmed up by all the lovely pastries and hot drinks served up at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Learning Pool’s second public sector e-learning networking meeting in as many weeks came hot on the heels of a successful networking meeting in Brighton the week before, where we were [...]

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Modern Councillor: Helping London get ready for the 2010 Elections and Beyond

by Learning Pool on December 2, 2009

Last Thursday, the London Borough of Southwark opened the doors of its new, environmentally friendly building to about 80 people responsible for training councillors.
How many new councillors next year?
The forecast for the London Elections in 2010 is a turnover of quarter to a third of councillors so timing was perfect and it made good sense [...]

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Cardiff, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent Produce E-learning Together

by Learning Pool on November 27, 2009

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 agencies have joined forces and launched an e-learning Module on Consultation and Engagement aimed at managers and professionals.
Steve Jarman from [...]

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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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