We can confirm you attendance is expected at first annual ECDL/Health e-Learning Portal conference! The event will take place in London at the British Medical Association (www.bmahouse.org.uk), 12th February, 10am to 5pm. Guest speakers and topics Ken Wood from Course-Source Highlights the new features of the Health e-Learning Portal, and talks about what’s coming up, including the ability to launch courses from inside the National LMS (OLM). Rosa Lombardi, Bedford General Hospital Discus...

With central funding coming to an end, what are the options available? With the licenses that NHS Connecting for Health paid for ending in March 2009, now is a good time to start looking at how you can continue offering this globally-recognised qualification to your staff. In the next few weeks, Course Source will be adding new versions of the ECDL materials and tests (for Syllabus 4.5 and Office 2007) to the Health eLearning Portal. Anyone with a license (old or new) will be able to enroll in w...

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...

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’...

Dr Philip Candy, Director of Education, Development and Training with the NHS Connecting for Health programme, has said e-learning plays an invaluable role in people development within the NHS. Speaking at Health e Learning, an event exploring the benefits of e-learning within the Health Sector held at the BMA by e-learning providers Course-Source last week, Dr Candy said: “It’s a no-brainer that e-learning must be part of a blended training solution because there are hardly an...

E-learning experts Course-Source are to host a landmark ‘Health E-Learning’ event at the British Medical Association in London on Thursday 26th April. Health E-Learning will showcase the benefits of e-learning within the health services and demonstrate how e-learning initiatives can be maximised within the industry. Keynote speakers will include leading health professionals and senior policy makers from within both the NHS and the private sector. In particular, the event will explore ho...

Course-Source hosted a free seminar on age discrimination in advance of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 coming into force on 1st October. For the seminar, Course-Source teamed up with Sian Baker, who works with national and multi-national clients in her role as employment lawyer with solicitors Thring Townsend, and Heather Ross of Ivory Associates. Sian and Heather brought employers at the seminar up to date on the implications of the new laws and offered practical advice on how e...