Seven public sector organisations were recognised for their learning excellence during Learning Pool’s Public Sector E-learning Awards at Camden Town Hall this month. The awards, in their 4th year, drew nominations from thirty councils and public sector partnerships and were voted for by fellow public sector organisations who make up Learning Pool’s online learning community

Cast your vote today on the nominees for Learning Pool’s highly acclaimed Customer of the Year awards.

At Learning Pool, we’ve been involved in a few projects in recent months with prospective customers who wanted to buy ‘just a learning management system’. Paul McElvaney writes about why he thinks that buying a learning management system is such as bad idea.

Learning Pool, the home of online learning for local government, today announced that its turnover and profits have increased for the 5th consecutive year.

Last week’s Learning Pool Steering Group was a bustling affair as always with a great attendance and lots of great contributions as always. One of the best things we did was to get feedback from everyone about what was good and bad in their authorities right now. Read more to find out what was said.

Learning Pool exhibited at the COSLA and Improvement Service Annual Conference in St. Andrews last week - the key event in Scotland that addresses major issues facing local government.

Hear Learning Pool's Director Paul McElvaney BBC Radio Ulster interview about the launch of My Learning Pool and how it fits into the Big Society agenda in the UK and the focus on charity and voluntary groups doing more.

Last Thursday evening I had the honour, regardless of how dubious it sounds, of being awarded Learning Pool’s “Mrs Doyle Award”. The award is presented to an individual who, and I quote, “cannot function within the organisation without tea (or coffee)”. Now knowing that both Paul McElvaney and Mary McKenna were not eligible for votes I knew I was in with a good chance of receiving it.

On his travels over the last while, Learning Pool's Paul has found that a strange thing has started happening which he'd thought he'd write about. More than once in the last few weeks people have told him that while they love the DLE and everything it can do for them, they feel they need an LMS as well to make their strategy complete. By way of setting the record straight, lets be clear... the DLE is an LMS ...we just like to think it's a little bit more!

Monday night, when most of London life was outdoors enjoying a cold al fresco beer in the post World Cup depression that’s descended on England, Dave Briggs, Paul McElvaney and Mary McKenna went to the London School of Economics to catch celebrated American academic and author Clay Shirky.