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PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF:
Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield Technology Parks, Suite 21, Cooper Buildings, Sheffield S1
2NS, UK
Telephone: 0114 307 2357/2368; Web
www.learninglight.com
10th October 2014
Learning Light offers trainers practical expertise in the light
of BIS FELTAG response
Learning Light is offering its expertise to private sector training
organisations which are having to develop strategies to meet the
response from the UK Government's department for Business Innovation
and Skills (BIS) to recommendations from The Further Education
Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG).
The BIS response to these recommendations has been not just to allow
Individual Learner Records to include provision for online learning
but also stating that, from September 2014, learners must receive a
minimum of ten per cent of their learning via materials delivered
online.
'This ten per cent rule is only the beginning,' predicted Learning
Light Director, David Patterson. 'Given Learning Light's expertise
as independent market analysts and advisors on all aspects of online
learning - and the fact that we deliver qualifications using
e-learning into the waste and environmental services industry at
levels 2, 3 and 4 as funded qualifications (NVQ) - we're happy to
tell training companies, who now have to make provision for doing
the same thing.
'Up to now, it's Colleges - early adopters of e-learning from the
National Learning Network days - that have attracted Government
attention but, in the light of BIS's decision, pressure will mount
on the several thousand private sector training organisations listed
on the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Register of Training
Organisations (ROTO),' Patterson added. 'The ROTO comprises both
large and small training organisations, along with large companies,
such as BAE, which have contracts with the SFA.'
Learning Light believes that, in the light of BIS's response to the
FELTAG recommendations, UK employers will be given greater
responsibility for setting out their own skills provision. This will
also boost the demand for learning materials delivered online and,
in turn, boost demand for learning management systems (LMSs) to
track and record the learning tacking place.
'In particular, ROTO members need to ensure that, when choosing an
LMS, they make a wise choice,' Patterson continued.
'We would be happy to advise any ROTO member - or other training
organisation - on how to successfully comply with the SFA and the
FELTAG recommendations. We've also compiled a list of what we
consider to be the most appropriate LMSs
in the UK for training providers.
'Learning Light is not just an e-learning market analyst but is also
an approved centre delivering Level 2 NVQs as well as Level 3 and 4
qualifications into the workplace. In addition we manage a large
range of e-learning materials for our own activities and to
distribute to other training providers.
'We have e-learning courses on a wide range of topics including
business improvement, business skills, selling skills, office skills
finance, engineering and manufacturing, health and social care. We
can help any organisation meet the ten per cent e-learning quota and
enhance learner satisfaction as well,' he stated.
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About Learning Light Ltd
Sheffield-based Learning Light, founded, in 2005, provides advice
and help to organisations using e-learning and learning technologies
to improve their business performance. It's one of the few
organisations in Europe that publishes regular research on the
e-learning market - notably publishing in-depth reports on the UK
and European e-learning markets, encompassing market size, growth
projections and technology trends.
Learning Light's research has been used widely by Governments to
inform economic policy; by universities and education
establishments; by journalists; by investors evaluating new
opportunities and by other research organisations.
Learning Light provides support for clients at all stages of an
e-learning project and also offers ready-developed e-learning
courses in a variety of topics, as well as a range of courses for
the engineering, manufacturing, waste management and recycling
sectors. It is a WAMITAB Approved Centre to deliver qualifications.
Further information from:
David Patterson/ Gill Broadhead, Learning Light, +44 (0)114 307
2357/2368
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
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