BL/ELL/02/05 21st January 2005
Learning association opts for online solutions
The British Learning Association (BLA) is the latest professional association to provide members with an online ‘one-stop shop’ for self-learning.
Virtual Learning Solutions (VLS) is a new initiative, developed in conjunction with Echelon Learning, to support the BLA’s remit to advise on best practice, techniques and technologies in learning, and issues and events. A library of 1,600 downloadable bite-size performance solutions, VLS is available on a just-in-time basis for both companies and at-home learners. Its resources are electronically adaptable to support business and learning objectives.
Most solutions are priced at between £2 and £5, with a number available at no cost at all.
Solutions can be accessed on an individual basis, via secure credit card transaction, or on a team basis, by setting up a corporate account enabling members to download solutions via a password.
An additional feature of VLS is the means for users to record learning through a free Learning Log, whether learning is derived from within or outside the site, for the purpose of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Learning events can be categorised and recorded against customised headings, which can be derived from a personal development plan, guidance on the creation of which is also provided.
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) are amongst other professional bodies using Echelon’s www.learningmatters.com resource to provide learning support to their members and other users.
Further information on VLS at www.learningmatters.com/bla and www.british-learning.com
Echelon Learning Ltd is based at Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, London W5 4RP.
Tel + 44 (0) 20 8568 1500. email partners@echelonL.com
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Released January 2005 on behalf of Echelon Learning Ltd by BLP&PR
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About Echelon
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing house that integrates electronically-delivered knowledge and learning into the development of management skills and business performance . Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s service with the development of new content in meeting clients’ requirements. This is usually derived from analysing employee knowledge and learning needs captured during client learning programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing then offers this new content to a wider audience by publishing the material in generic format. This is made available in the form of easy to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development information licensed exclusively from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the electronic systems which enable content to be published, distributed and usage tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a global audience. Now Echelon’s blended learning based on a bespoke site populated with material selected to support specific courses, builds knowledge prior to the event and refreshes application when back at the desk.
