Learning Light develops an e-learning content evaluation tool
In association with The Virtual College, Learning Light, a company
which provides advice and help to organisations using e-learning and
learning technologies to improve their business performance, has
developed an e-learning content evaluation tool (ELCET).
David Patterson, a director of Learning Light, explained: "ELCET
provides an objective assessment of any piece of e-learning.
"Basically, ELCET provides a quality mark for e-learning content.
It's something that the corporate learning technologies sector has
needed for many years.
"The tool itself contains 18 metrics - or criteria - that can be
applied to any piece of e-learning. Depending on the complexity of
any piece of e-learning, it can be subjected to seven, 12 or 18 of
these metrics - and this produces an objective evaluation of ‘low',
‘middle' and ‘top' end e-learning materials.
"Meeting the ELCET criteria provides an ‘accreditation' for any
piece of online-delivered learning material," he concluded.
Only ELCET accredited e-learning materials are allowed in the
‘courses' section of the recently re-launched website,
The
E-Learning Centre. The E-learning Centre is an information resource
about e-learning and learning technologies for business education,
not-for-profit or the public sector.
In addition to the information and the many resources that are
freely available on the site are a vast array of
e-learning
materials, gathered under the heading of ‘courses'. These learning
materials are produced by acknowledged leaders in
technology-delivered corporate learning, including the Virtual
College, EJ4, eltalking and the language learning specialists,
Altissia.
"Since all the e-learning materials in the Centre's ‘courses'
section meet the ELCET quality criteria, anyone who's looking for
e-learning materials for themselves or their organisation can be
confident of the quality of those available via the E-learning
Centre website," Patterson said.
"ELCET also makes easier our job - of assessing potential learning
materials for the E-learning Centre website.
"Now that, in corporate learning circles, the Centre's growing
portfolio of e-learning materials is becoming known, so we're being
approached by producers to include their generic e-learning
materials. So we need an evaluation tool, such as ELCET to
streamline the selection process and provide the quality criteria
which determines the outcome of each producer's request."
At present, the learning materials available through the E-learning
Centre cover topics including business improvement; business
productivity; communication; customer service; equality and
diversity; food hygiene; health and safety; health and social care;
HR conversations information and data protection; leadership and
management; learning and development; maths/ grammar for business;
recycling and waste management; selling skills, and languages. This
list of topics is expected to grow as more producers submit their
products to the scrutiny of ELCET.
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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)114 223 2442
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405