12 Days of Learning Pool Gifts

 

We’re bringing festive cheer to our ethos of sharing and collaborating with our 12 days of Christmas campaign starting on Thursday, 1 December until Friday, 16 December 2011.

Our presents to you this year include exclusive access to new learning resources and up-graded services.  And, since it’s Christmas, you’ll also have the chance to win some great prizes throughout the 12 days.

We’re celebrating how lovely learning can be for your public sector peers and the whole family, so look out for a daily email from us during each day of the campaign or visit here to view each gift as it’s revealed.

 

 

On the 1st day

Learning is lovely: 101 inspirational learning quotations

On the 2nd day

Pass the Parcel with your 2011 highlights to win chocolate goodie

On the 3rd day 

Engage More to Learn More webinar 

Download this free e-book to motivate your learners and show them that everyone, no matter what their age should always embrace the opportunity to gain new knowledge.

The quotes from famous scholars and philosophers to respected writers and musicians would make a great addition to your learning and development programme. Download below.

Keep the conversation going with your own learning and development highlights of 2011 to win.  We’ll be jumping into the conversation, just like Pass the Parcel, to give out gifts.  If you’re the latest person to have posted a highlight when we check, you will receive some chocolates.

There are several boxes to be won and you can enter more than once so get posting! The game runs from 9am until 3pm.

Tip:  don’t give away all your highlights in one go if you want the best chance to win!

Play Pass the Parcel

Today’s Engage More to Learn More webinar featuring Andrew Jacobs, LB Lambeth and Stuart Gilbert, Blackpool Council, talking about the benefits of belonging to Learning Pool’s community,  

Plus all webinar registrants get an exclusive 10% discount off Learning Pool Community Day 2012 entry.

Sign-up for the webinar.

 

 

On the 4th day

Learning is Lovely Activity book for kids

On the 5th day

One free consultancy day with your Learning Consultant, worth £600

On the 6th day

How to get started with e-learning

Keep the kids or young at heart grown-ups entertained this Christmas with our learning is lovely activity book.

With maze puzzles, colouring sheets and dot to dot games, there’s hours of fun!  Check out what adventures Peggy Pig is getting up to now.

Our Learning Consultants ensure you get the most from your Learning Pool subscription.

We frequently receive glowing reports about the effective support and engaged understanding you receive from Dawn, Ben, Carol, Chris and Kevin!

To enter, simply tell us:

What aspect of your training programme would you hope to improve if you were the winner of this consultancy day and why?

The competition runs until 4pm on Wednesday, 14 December.

Enter the competition by emailing peggy@learningpool.com.

Download this free e-book to get guidance on rolling out e-learning for the first time within your organisation or freshen up your skills if you’re an e-learning pro!

Dip in and out of the e-book as needed with answers to many of the questions our subscribers ask themselves throughout their e-learning journey. This includes, how to define your e-learning strategy, who should be in your e-learning team and how to assess the ROI.

Let us know what you think of the e-book and share your own tips in the e-learning strategies group in the Learning Pool community.

 

 

 

On the 7th day

The essential blended learning toolkit

On the 8th day

Downloadable desktop wallpaper calendar for 2012

On the 9th day

An Apple iPad worth £400

Enter our competition to win this great toolkit which contains everything you need to hold a face to face training session.

Alongside a signed copy of The Blended Learning Cookbook by Clive Shepherd the toolkit holds plenty of learning goodies to hold a fun and interactive workshop.

Enter the competition by posting “Blended Learning” in the 12 Days of Christmas  conversation in the Learning Pool Community.

The competition runs until 4pm on Wednesday, 14 December 2011.

We’ve had a great response to our e-book: 101 Inspirational learning quotations and now we’re giving you another way to enjoy 12 of the best.

Click the link below to view the simple download instructions for both PC and Mac users. Don’t forget to share the wallpaper with any colleagues who admire your lovely and motivating desktop!

 To be in with a chance of winning-

  1. Sign-in or register as a member of the Learning Pool community
  2. Write a blog post about how you think technology like iPads can be used innovatively within learning and development within the public sector.
  3. The blog post can be short and informal.  Don’t worry, it will not be published until it’s been reviewed by us.
  4. Email your entry to peggy@learningpool.com by 16:30 on Friday, 16 December 2011.

 

 

 

On the 10th day

The Learning Pool Community Yearbook 2011

On the 11th day

Public Leadership Voices

On the 12th

Brand new Authoring Tool templates webinar plus exclusive Authoring Tool microsite

It’s been a busy year for Learning Pool with new services introduced, more modules added to the catalogue and over 30 new public sector organisations joining.  We also won a clutch of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards and were finalists in the Cabinet Office’s Innovation Launch Pad competition.

But it’s not just about us.  Our yearbook contains your highlights of 2011 too.

View the yearbook

We’ve interviewed inspirational leaders from across the public sector about challenges facing leaders today.  Eleven interviews can be viewed in our Learning Catalogue today, covering topics such as:

  • Building leadership capacity
  • How to inspire people

In the New Year we’ll be launching more video interviews, together with transcripts and summaries of all the videos, in modules created in the new version of our Authoring Tool.

View public leadership voices

Click here for more information about the video

We’ve made some major enhancements to our e-learning Authoring Tool to give L&D authors the ability to create great e-learning with improved accessibility and even more engaging design.

Sign up to the Authoring Tool templates webinar (Friday, 16 Dec at 10.30).

View the exclusive Authoring Tool microsite.

 

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