E-learning modules the future – report finds

After a false dawn in dot-com’s boom and bust, e-learning* is set to thrive in the form of targeted modules which impart specific skills to accomplish job-related tasks by corporate and professional users, according to new research available, free of charge, at Echelon Learning’s learningmatters.com website.

‘Re-Learning e-learning’, a study by US management consultants Booz Allen, concludes that e-learning will realise its true value as a supplement to, and enhancement of, traditional training methods. The medium’s ‘finest hour’ will be enabling a routine skill to be learned quickly by working adults and people preparing for certification or examination.

Focused on the US sector, the report has clear parallels in the UK also, says Echelon director David Hill.
"The markets share a common history and the conclusions as to the future of e-learning are probably equally appropriate to both," he says.

A summary of the report is one of three new Checklists on everyday business issues added this month (July 2006) to www.learningmatters.com – the UK’s leading virtual resource of over 2,000 business and management solutions.

Also available is ‘Domain Mapping’ a strategic tool for developing a 'helicopter vision' of an organisation's strategic goals and their underpinning activity as well as being a powerful aid to communicating strategy across the business.

‘Six Key Lessons to prevent IT projects from going wrong’ offers an adaptation of a National Audit Office report into key lessons that can be learnt from a review of 25 major IT projects.

‘Re-Learning e-learning’ is available free of charge by entering a key word in the search box to go straight to the module. Other Checklists can be purchased individually for immediate download by credit card or on account.

Unlimited access to content can be also provided in bespoke form on a company's intranet or as hosted solution under annual licence.

* E-learning is defined in the report as any network-hosted content and applications intended to impart knowledge, as well as any content in digital form requiring responses from the learner.

Further information from david@echelonpublishing.co.uk

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Released July 2006 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR

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About Echelon Learning

Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing house that integrates electronically-delivered knowledge and learning into the development of management skills and business performance.

Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s service with the development of new content in meeting clients’ requirements. This is usually derived from analysing employee knowledge and learning needs captured during client learning programmes.

Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing then offers this new content to a wider audience by publishing the material in generic format. This is made available in the form of easy to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development information licensed exclusively from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.

Echelon e-Learning provides the electronic systems which enable content to be published, distributed and usage tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a global audience. Now
Echelon’s blended learning based on a bespoke site populated with material selected to support specific courses, builds knowledge prior to the event and refreshes application when back at the desk.

About Echelon Publishing
Echelon technologies help organisations place solutions at people’s fingertips, whether solving everyday business and work-related problems or helping gain qualifications and continued professional development.
Echelon:
• Has a content management system enabling informational or learning material to be developed or converted into XML so that it can be published and distributed in text and/or via the web.
• Has a learning management system to provide ready access via the web to highly structured information, which is easily searched and retrieved, and whose usage can be tracked and learning logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats content for professional bodies and commercial organisations to help students and employees maintain or develop requisite skills throughout their careers.
• Supports people from the outset of their careers in working with professional bodies to develop and deliver the learning content required by students in preparing for examination.
• Frees up the knowledge and learning contained within a business so that people have ready access to these resources in helping them to solve problems or develop their careers.