Stories about creating efficiency savings
LB Lambeth’s Andrew Jacobs shares how, in under 12 months, they’ve successfully rolled out training to nearly 4,000 new learners via their Learning Pool DLE, despite limited resources.
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Westminster City Council’s Manish Bhartiya explains how the council saved £40,000 by using e-learning whilst Aruj Haider outlines plans for Adult Learners’ Week 2011.
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As a result of financial constraints and capacity issues, Blaenau Gwent considered how traditional training delivery needed to change to cope with these new challenges.
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Finding ways to carry out essential activities more effectively and with fewer resources is more important than ever and getting it right can yield good returns. Simon Green explains how Blaenau Gwent council uses its DLE to help monitor compliance to ICT policy.
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Ian Liggett, Bury Council’s Organisational Development Officer, shares his insight into their journey from the initial switch to e-learning to the successful engagement of learners today. Read how Bury Council delivered nearly 2,000 hours of e-learning in one year, saving £30,000 in trainer fees alone.
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Rebecca Johnson used to spend over an hour each time photocopying delegate material for Cardiff City Council’s Sickness Absence classroom course. Thankfully all that is set to change as the council embraces e-learning and reduces the number of classroom based courses.
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After using various other e-learning providers for six years, Homes for Islington (HFI) joined Learning Pool in late 2010. We spoke to Emma O’Brien, Organisational Development Manager at HFI, about their decision to join and their long term plans for e-learning.
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North Tyneside Council introduced an electronic Business Management System (BMS) to provide an integrated system that holds all employee and payroll records, giving PC users access to up to date information as they need it.
Learning Pool was commissioned to design, develop and deploy a suite of e-learning modules and assessments to support the roll out of the BMS.
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By sharing the Government Connect e-learning module they created using their Learning Pool authoring tool, Plymouth City Council enabled efficiency savings to be realised by other Learning Pool subscribers who have downloaded and repurposed it for their organisation.
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Rotherham MBC has delivered over 478 hours of Safeguarding Adults training to 1,500 officers in just 3 months. This case study details how such impressive statistics were achieved.
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We asked some of our customers to calculate the return on investment they had experienced by using Learning Pool tools. This small snapshot details nearly £1.5m worth of savings. Check out who has saved what and how.
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Stories about engaging learners
Rotherham MBC has recently relocated over 1,500 staff from 4 sites to one whilst simultaneously implementing Agile Working and hot desking arrangements. Read about the essential role that bespoke e-learning from Learning Pool played in the smooth transition.
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Norfolk County Council has been one of the first councils to adopt Classroom Connect, Learning Pool’s online system for managing classroom and online learning via the DLE. Vera Cooke, L&D Manager, shares their experience to date.
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Lorraine Squires, Strategic Learning and Development Officer at Bournemouth BC explains how they use the DLE to hold all e-learning courses and talks about its unique branding, designed by Learning Pool.
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Camden Council wanted to ensure that learners only had to sign in to all their internal networks once, including to their new Learning Pool DLE. The solution was to add The Shibboleth® System to the DLE, which was a brand new and exciting challenge for Learning Pool.
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One of the earliest adopters of the Learning Pool DLE, Rebecca Johnson, from Cardiff County Council tells us how it has helped to facilitate the learning of Cardiff’s ILM students.
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An enthusiastic and active council, London Borough of Bexley is using its Dynamic Learning Environment (DLE) to help facilitate its Equality agenda by using the online chat to allow more people to attend its Black Workers Group and Disability staff groups.
Staff who cannot always be released from their office can now join a meeting being held elsewhere in the borough via the chat.
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London Borough of Waltham Forest has commissioned Learning Pool to develop content for them. We spoke to Lorraine Burke about her experiences.
Lorraine said “The quality of the content and our positive experience working with the development team encouraged us to commission further work.”
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As the remit of UK Housing Associations intensifies, Linc-Cymru has recently diversified into the direct provision of care.
“Ultimately, our vision is one that deploys better trained staff to enhance our services to our clients,” says Sandra Walsh.
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Powys County Council is the first to develop an e-learning module entirely in the Welsh language using Learning Pool’s Authoring Tool. Child Protection is one of the mandatory training courses for staff and those working with children.
It is now available as an e-learning module in both English and Welsh enabling learners to choose their preferred language to undertake the programme.
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Sondra Dobbs, Learning and Development Adviser at RBK, explains their approach to e-learning.
“E-learning is a massive shift from the way that people have traditionally learned and developed. We need to support our staff and ensure that they are aware of the many different ways of learning and e-learning is just one method that they should try,” says Sondra.
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Stories about rolling out your e-learning
Lynn Weston at Sandwell Council explains how one safeguarding e-learning course has saved the organisation £11,000 in just nine months.
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When Simon Green, Organisational Development Advisor at Blaenau Gwent CBC, was confronted with the Government Connect programme deadline, he decided to use Learning Pool’s Dynamic Learning Environment (DLE) to ensure that all ICT users accessed and agreed to the Authority’s ICT acceptable usage policy.
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Ian Liggett of Bury Council explains the difficulties that organisations may face when they initially adopt e-learning but reassures us that there is light at the end of the tunnel!
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Engagement of key stakeholders in the e-learning process has been crucial from the start and Spencer Drain describes what ingredients are essential for the perfect learning mix.
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Jane Jeffs, Partnership Workforce Development Coordinator at North Dorset DC has given us an insight into their journey to date with e-learning and says “Getting people to discuss issues and share ideas doesn’t always have to be instructor-led.”
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Powys County Council’s Barbara Simpson talks about the challenges she overcame to introduce e-learning into the council ago against a culture of classroom based training.
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Allison O’Reilly, Staff Development Manager at University of Wales Institute Cardiff tells us about their journey to Learning Pool.
Allison says “With a managed learning platform, over 300 e-learning courses, an intuitive Authoring Tool…the decision to join [Learning Pool] didn’t require much deliberation!”
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A strong internal brand together with a structured and well planned roll out has ensured a successful launch for Wycombe’s DLE. Learner feedback is excellent with 86% saying they would recommend the course they completed to a colleague.
We spoke with Sarah Taylor, Training and Development Manager at Wycombe District Council about the process.
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Stories about working collaboratively
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.
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Read why the Learning Pool DLE was GMPTE’s choice of learning management system for their pan European project, Amobilife.
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LB Haringey commissioned Learning Pool to create two e-learning modules; one on Personal Budgets, the other on Community Capacity Building. Both have now been shared with other councils. Wayne Haywood, Interim Head of Change Management for Adults tells us why.
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