Just before Christmas I wrote to our steering group to ask them about what was going on in their Learning Pool related world. My request was 3 fold: what had they achieved in 2009, what was in the pipeline for 2010 and what had gone spectacularly wrong during 2009 that they had learned from.
As usual, the response was comprehensive and honest… here’s a summary of what went down last year!
A lot of people launched their e-learning strategies last year with help from the team at Learning Pool. Customers like Havering, Lambeth and Linc Cymru all launched with material like equality and diversity, Recruitment and Selection.
These subscribers said that launching around these topic meant that they got a decent number of learners through the programmes quickly so that they could iron out any bugs… a good strategy that allows you to make rapid progress.
The DLE was a big feature last year with lots of councils either using it for the first time like Lambeth and Suffolk or concentrating on building usage like Bournemouth.
This is a really smart way to spend resources as encouraging usage of e-learning makes it much easier to demonstrate return on investment – crucially we see customers using this technique more and more to encourage their authority to make more use of e-learning.
The big 2009 winners on this where Government Connect users who managed to train lots of learners quickly. It’s interesting that many of these customer – Suffolk for example – managed to get really high levels of completion on mandatory training like this… certainly more than they would have gotten in the classroom.
Authoring’s been a big area for lots of members too. Some of them have got to a really advanced level but most have got to grips with developing good quality e-learning quickly and at little or no cost – this has got to be good as it provides Learning Pool members with a firm and local foundation from which to build the rest of their e-learning offering.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly the thing that came through in the feedback more than anything else was the power of the Learning Pool network and the community that now exists within Learning Pool.
This is great to see and we’re working on some features right now that will make this even easier and even better – the Learning Pool events where also cited by many as a great part of being in the community (and why not!) so there’ll definately be more of those this year.
Thats all for now – coming soon, the main points of interest for the Learning Pool public sector community for 2010….
by Paul
Public sector share e-learning reviews and goals with Learning Pool
Just before Christmas I wrote to our steering group to ask them about what was going on in their Learning Pool related world. My request was 3 fold: what had they achieved in 2009, what was in the pipeline for 2010 and what had gone spectacularly wrong during 2009 that they had learned from.
As usual, the response was comprehensive and honest… here’s a summary of what went down last year!
A lot of people launched their e-learning strategies last year with help from the team at Learning Pool. Customers like Havering, Lambeth and Linc Cymru all launched with material like equality and diversity, Recruitment and Selection.
These subscribers said that launching around these topic meant that they got a decent number of learners through the programmes quickly so that they could iron out any bugs… a good strategy that allows you to make rapid progress.
The DLE was a big feature last year with lots of councils either using it for the first time like Lambeth and Suffolk or concentrating on building usage like Bournemouth.
This is a really smart way to spend resources as encouraging usage of e-learning makes it much easier to demonstrate return on investment – crucially we see customers using this technique more and more to encourage their authority to make more use of e-learning.
The big 2009 winners on this where Government Connect users who managed to train lots of learners quickly. It’s interesting that many of these customer – Suffolk for example – managed to get really high levels of completion on mandatory training like this… certainly more than they would have gotten in the classroom.
Authoring’s been a big area for lots of members too. Some of them have got to a really advanced level but most have got to grips with developing good quality e-learning quickly and at little or no cost – this has got to be good as it provides Learning Pool members with a firm and local foundation from which to build the rest of their e-learning offering.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly the thing that came through in the feedback more than anything else was the power of the Learning Pool network and the community that now exists within Learning Pool.
This is great to see and we’re working on some features right now that will make this even easier and even better – the Learning Pool events where also cited by many as a great part of being in the community (and why not!) so there’ll definately be more of those this year.
Thats all for now – coming soon, the main points of interest for the Learning Pool public sector community for 2010….
by Paul