client news
(June 2007)
Echelon and St Martin's
College help boost entrepreneurial skills in North West England
Small and medium sized enterprises in the North West of England are being
given access to free learning materials to help develop business-related
competencies, thanks to the EU-funded 'Into Enterprise Project', which
comprises learning materials from St Martin's College and Echelon.
Learning materials publisher Echelon Learning Ltd is collaborating with
St Martin's College, Centre for Creativity and Innovation to provide
online learning materials to the staff of small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) in the North West of England under the 'Into
Enterprise Project' (IEP).
The IEP, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the
North West Development Agency (NWDA) and administered by St Martin's
College, aims to define the competencies needed in order to operate an
SME successfully and then provide learning materials that support these
competencies. These learning materials encompass self-learning solutions,
best practice essays, and action lists.
The learning materials are made available via a website that forms part
of an 'enterprise portal', provided by St Martin's College and accessed
via www.intoenterprise.com.
Users register for the service and then have free access to all of the
learning materials that it contains. These learning materials comprise
learning programmes from the College and distance- and e-learning
material developed by Echelon.
"St Martin's College engaged us to help in this project after viewing our
'Learning Matters' website," said David Hill, Echelon's managing
director. "They liked the format of the site and felt that the wide range
of business and management content met the needs of their SME clients
perfectly."
Echelon's website, www.learningmatters.com , which contains a virtual
library of some 2,000+ downloadable, bite-size performance solutions,
digest articles and toolkits, as well as an informative blog on
e-learning related topics, is in the process of being enhanced to allow
users to learn in 'real time'. Some 500 of the Learning Matters modules
are being updated to allow users to learn online, instead of downloading
the learning materials for study offline.
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Released June 2007 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR
Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228
Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill
Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500
Email: david@echelonl.com
Editor Note:
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. Its consulting division has
won four national training awards for customer service initiatives.
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. 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.
Works with a number of blue chip organisations and professional bodies,
including:
COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONAL
BUPA Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Coventry Building Society Chartered Institute of Public Finance
Accountants
Lincoln Financial Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
Moat House Hotels Construction Industry Training Board
Modernisation Agency (NHS) Institute of Chartered Secretaries &
Administrators
Channel Tunnel Rail Link Institute of Chartered Accountants in E & W
NHS Logistics Institute of Civil Engineers
Vodafone Royal Town Planning Institute
