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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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’...

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...