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Charities offered resource library


The Charity Learning Consortium is partnering with Accredited Skills to offer its members access to a range of learning resources. Accredited Skills has a library of online resources, using a multimedia mix which includes videos, offline workbooks, infographics and artwork. These include marketing help for learning professionals, along with images to support the in-house creation of course materials. Adam Kara, managing director of Accredited


Skills said: “We’re delighted to be working with the CLC to be able to make our resources available to a much bigger network and ultimately help charities deliver vital services.”


Members of the Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) – a group of more than 120 charities, housing associations and not for profits collaborating to make learning technologies both affordable and effective – can subscribe to the Accredited Skills collection.


Martin Baker, founder and CEO of the


CLC, said: “Accredited Skills has started from scratch and torn up the old e-learning rule book, but with a really clear vision: that e-learning has to be engaging in order to have any effect.”


E-book writes out LMS benefits


Taggart: establish corporate unity


An e-book, from learning management system (LMS) producers, Create eLearning, outlines how an LMS can help organisations achieve their goals via their people. Mark Taggart, the chief executive of Create eLearning, said:


“Used responsibly, an LMS will help you establish a corporate unity, ensuring that all employees are on the same page in terms of learning and education concerning their job responsibilities, corporate training and development.” An LMS can add to flexibility at work which may


have a positive impact on employee retention, thus reducing the costs associated with staff recruitment and selection. The book is available on the company’s website.


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Free e-learning to support cancer care in the community


A free e-learning programme is being launched to help health and social care workers broaden their knowledge of cancer care in the community. The Royal Marsden School which has a national and international reputation for excellence in cancer education,


Four modules by The Royal Marsden


commissioned Sponge UK to create the new healthcare training. The e-learning course is made up of four modules on cancer prevention and screening, diagnosis and staging, treatments and living with and beyond cancer. Louise Pasterfield, managing director, Sponge UK said: “Using intelligent design, we have been able to create e-learning that works for a broad range of professionals, with video and animation to emphasise key areas and ‘deeper dive’ resources for those who want to know more on a particular topic.”


The e-learning is suitable for all qualified and non- qualified community- based health and social care workers, including community matrons, nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech


and language therapists, dieticians and support workers who meet patients with cancer. The materials have been written by clinical specialists and experts at The Royal Marsden and include real life scenarios and engaging video clips to help bring the subject matter to life. Evidence shows that many cancer patients have unmet needs particularly at the end of treatment, whilst others are struggling with consequences that could be either avoided or managed.


Partnership aims to attract global students to Masters programme


Falmouth University has formed a partnership with English language programme specialist Cambridge Education Group to open its courses online. From the 2016-17 academic year, Falmouth will offer a portfolio of four part-time Masters programmes – advertising and marketing, creative app development, creative events management, and photography – which are designed for professionals in-work and are primarily delivered online with opportunities for face- to-face workshops at Falmouth or regional centres around the world. CEG will help Falmouth University to develop, market and deliver the courses to students in the UK and worldwide. Students will be registered at Falmouth and will receive a Falmouth degree upon successful graduation. For international students there is no requirement to gain a visa due to the very nature of the part-time and blended learning courses offered. The partnership responds to a growing


and pressing need in the HE sector. Geoff Webster, managing director of CEG Digital, said: ““Global demand for post-secondary education is expected to rise from 165 million in 2013 to 263 million by 2025. If this demand was to be met by traditional delivery, it would require four universities to open every week for 10 years. While technological developments have enabled universities to explore new models of delivery, transitioning to high-quality full university programmes at scale requires dedicated resources, funding and larger capacity for risk than most institutions are willing to bear.”


e.learning age april 2016


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