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 ...

The ECDL learning materials licenses that were paid for by NHS Connecting for Health will expire at midnight on 20th March. But don’t panic, enrolments can be extended even after they have expired! Here are your options: 1. If you have already purchased new licenses (i.e. to run beyond 21st March), then these can be used to extend the expired licenses on a per-user basis. 2. If you have NOT purchased any licenses and have learners that want to continue accessing the materials you can: Pu...

ECDL 4.5 and Office 2007 versions of the ECDL learning materials are now available. Any user with an existing ECDL licence can use these materials by simple selecting them from the catalogue. Access 2007 is not yet available but this will be on line as soon as we recieve it. NOTE: All existing ECDL licences paid for by Connecting for Health expire on the 20th March. Learners part way through their ECDL learning will not be able to access the materials after this date unless your trust has pu...

Both have been updated and are now available in two versions: Shockwave with optional sound HTML only NOTE: The Shockwave version requires higher bandwidth for running audio. So far, 1,269 NHS staff form 60 organisations have completed over 2,500 hours of Health and ELITE using the Health eLearning Portal. Remember, if you are still waiting for the National LMS to provide tracking for Health and ELITE, then you may like to consider accessing them for FREE at www.healthelearning.net. Here, yo...

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 ...

Take a look through the Video Arts portfolio and you’ll find out why we have decided to partner with them: a variety of options to provide you with training that not only supports change in your organisation, but entertains and stays with you for longer. Video Arts was established in 1972 by a small group of television professionals, including John Cleese, who pioneered the use of humour in training. For over 30 years they have been producing training videos and DVDs featuring famous comed...

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...

E-learning service provider Course-Source has won a coveted 2006 National Training Award in recognition of the exceptional achievements made training medics in an alternative method of blood transfusion. Working in partnership with Virtual Pedagogue Ltd, Course-Source provided online training to medics working in hospitals in Derby, Leicester, Sheffield and Nottingham. Teaching the basic skills needed to use Intra-Operative Cell Salvage (ICS), a method of blood transfusion that uses patient...

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...

The National Blood Transfusion Committee and the Appropriate Use of Blood Group have given the green light for a new e-learning course training hospital staff in an alternative to donor blood transfusions to be rolled out nationally, across the NHS. This means a life-saving blood transfusion technique called Intra-Operative Cell Salvage (ICS), will become more widely available and save the NHS potentially millions of pounds. ICS is a welcome substitute for donor blood transfusion, because i...