Having recently designed and launched this course, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has kindly offered to make this course freely available to all NHS professionals via the Health eLearning Portal. This e-learning programme has been designed to raise awareness of pandemic flu as well as providing information on the practical steps staff can take for themselves at work as well as at home with their families and friends. Pandemic Flu elearning course - "Resistance to Infection" Benefits ...

HealthELearning.net, already used by over 100,000 health professionals working in 200 NHS Trusts, is now e-commerce enabled. Anyone can register on the portal and get direct access to a wide variety of cost-effective e-learning courses, simply by using a debit or credit card, so learners can start new courses almost immediately. NHS Trusts, private healthcare institutions and individuals signed up to HealthELearing.net can choose to buy e-learning courses for themselves or other individuals, or ...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:33 — 6.0MB) “One of the difficulties of e-learning is that it can be rather static and linear,” said Course-Source consultant Laurence Wilson at the latest in Course-Source’s series of events promoting e-learning to the health sector, held in Manchester in early July. He is right, of course - if you can illustrate something with a short video clip, you’re going to find it much easier to capture the learnersR...

Rosa describes her elearning project at Bedford Hospital, including the role elearning has played and solutions she has found to various issues. She also talks about current issues affecting the NHS and how elearning offers direct, practical solutions to these problems. ...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:55 — 9.1MB) The latest in Course-Source’s series of presentations and networking meetings promoting elearning within the health service, this event focused on rapid design, development and delivery. Held at the Royal Society of Medicine on 3rd April 2008, the aim of the day was to show health professionals how easily they could create their own e-learning courses; the range and quality to be found in ‘off-the-shelf’...

The Course-Source LMS has been recommended for small and mid-sized organisations by Brandon Hall Research, a leading independent organisation providing objective research about online learning. SMEs looking for ‘an affordable means of managing e-learning should test drive the Course-Source LMS,’ Brandon Hall commented in its LMS KnowledgeBase 2007, an annual investigation into over sixty different Learning Management Systems, comparing some 200 different features. Course-Source provi...

The London Borough of Brent has been voted ‘Best e-learning Production on a Low Budget” by judges at the annual e-learning age magazine awards. Brent chose to work with Course-Source when looking to integrate e-learning into their learning and development portfolio. Brent customised the standard Course-Source LMS (available to all local councils via Learning Pool), allowing their HR and Diversity department to track, administer and report back on learning in ways to suit them while d...

Offering the same personnel development opportunities to employees working across three continents poses a formidable challenge. Yet, with the help of Course-Source, it was a challenge foreign currency exchange company The Change Group was able to meet swiftly and successfully. The Change Group has Bureau de Change across Europe, North America and Australasia and employs people of 60 different nationalities who speak 90 languages. The company also owns a range of fashion and gift outlets in city...

Partnering with Course-Source to provide an online library of IT and Soft Skills training courses has delivered clear cost savings for Britain’s largest newspaper publishing group - Trinity Mirror. Two years ago, Trinity Mirror realised classroom based training initiatives were becoming increasingly expensive and the company realised there had to be a better way forward. E-learning was seen as being the obvious solution to the problem and Course-Source were brought on board to provide the ...