Within the NHS there is now considerable interest in how new learning technologies can be of benefit to the service. A national survey was recently conducted which resulted in the development of the national report 'Modernising healthcare training: e-learning in healthcare services'. This report reviews current and emerging e-learning initiatives within the healthcare sector, sets out a road map for best practice, and describes a collaborative approach with clear leadership and governance arrangements to underpin the development of e-learning in the healthcare service.

 

 

The need to realise the benefits of e-Learning is increasingly compelling. We have seen some truly radical e-learning initiatives that are making full use of new learning technologies to transform the healthcare curriculum and its assessment, some of which are attracting international acclaim. Such initiatives are drawing on leading-edge, service wide knowledge and expertise. Delivering not only fit for purpose, high quality learning solutions to scale, they are also driving up standards by providing greater consistency and reliability in terms of learning quality and experience. Moving forwards there is a need to secure the best value from the significant investment the health and care services make in training and education.

 

 

Have you looked at e-learning before and rejected it? Or are you looking over your current e-learning offering, your budgets and business requirements, and wondering if there’s a different and more cost effective way it can be done? In either case you’re not alone. For many organisations, e-learning has hit a stumbling point despite the significant advantages that it can offer. Like traditional learning, off the shelf titles can be too generic and miss the mark. Bespoke e-learning can cost too much, take too long to develop and when it’s completed the goalposts have moved and it no longer meets individuals’ and organisational needs.

 

Rapid e-learning is a response to many of these challenges. Rapid e-learning often involves an authoring tool where individuals within organisations can create their own e-learning packages from either internal or external content sources.

 

We’ve chosen to partner with THESIS Professional because we’ve found it one of the easiest and quickest tools to use for rapid e-learning content authoring. It enables you to prepare any web-presentable content for an e-learning platform, including tracking assessments and sequencing learning objects into customised courses. It includes functionality to turn Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents into pages of e-learning content, whilst maintaining formatting. This means that anyone who can use Word, Excel or PowerPoint, could use Thesis to create rapid e-learning.