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Echelon steps up the pace at learningmatters.com
Workstation-based
just-in-time learning has just got faster and easier following revisions
to design and content sign posting at online resource
www.learningmatters.com
Operated by Echelon
Learning, the site - one of the online community’s foremost business and
management virtual learning centres - hosts a growing library of 2,000
generic modules offering skills development solutions, best practice
essays, business and management book digests, development toolkits,
performance diagnosis and audit solutions.
Users range from individual
pay-as-you-go visitors to corporate customers. Material is also licensed
to a diversity of organisation including Ashridge Management College, the
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Vodafone.
Previous revisions and
upgrades to the site incorporated further modules and instituting more
interactive content enabling users to input responses to self-assessment
questions and obtain immediate feedback prior to downloading and storing
materials.
May 2008 improvements
include the implementation of colour/graphic coding to learning style
options; clearer directional content headings, and inclusion of more and
varied illustrative support content.
"Content development reached a mass requiring a revision of how we
delivered specific solutions to their corresponding needs," says Echelon
director David Hill.
"Our latest format is a
further step to improving the learning experience through clearer
direction to more visually stimulating and entertaining content
delivery."
Further information at
www.echelonpublishing.co.uk
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Released June 2008 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
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
