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As it celebrates European e-Skills Week, ALISON helps to bring the UK online with its 100,000th free learner registering for its innovative online training service

Galway, IrelandLearning News

ALISON welcomes the focus on online skills training brought by the European e-Skills Week programme as it announces it has registered its 100,000th registration in the United Kingdom - all at no expense to the public or the UK government.

ALISON Logo Free Online Skills Training for the Workplace
ALISON Logo Free Online Skills Training for the Workplace 

Since launching in 2007, ALISON has been offering a broad range of free online interactive multimedia skills training courses and tests across the UK with a special emphasis on IT literacy training. The ALISON model provides students with free high quality online learning courseware and grants free access for teachers and tutors to a Learning Management System through ALISON Manager. This service allows students to learn at their own pace and in their own environment and the soaring numbers of learners is testament to the popularity of this mode of learning.

About E-Skills Week

European e-Skills Week highlights the growing demand for skilled ICT users and professionals to drive a competitive and innovative Europe as the knowledge economy develops and evolves. The campaign seeks to inform students, young professionals and SMEs about the vast range of opportunities that ICT-related jobs present across the European Union.