Learning Nexus and Medway Council partner to launch e-learning Consortium alongside successful i-Share website
Learning Nexus, a leading online learning specialist, has set up another successful e-learning Consortium in the UK, however cannot take all the credit for its success. Medway Council in Kent has always shown a dynamic approach to training solutions, launching a system called i-Share throughout the Kent area in 2009.
The i-share website brings together all the training and development opportunities available across Kent and Medway's Public Sector, combined with business networking and mentoring. The web based system currently allows registered users to search and book classroom training courses across all i-share's 270 partners, resulting in enormous efficiency gains.
Since the partnership with Learning Nexus Ltd, the system now contains a large selection of quality e-learning courses that can be completed by the members of the e-learning Consortium within the Kent area. Members of the Consortium will also have access to the Learning Nexus Course Builder & Editor, a tool that will allow them to create innovative new courses from scratch, as well as edit several courses that are available in the e-learning catalogue.
Angela Rowe, i-Share Web Manager, has been managing the i-Share initiative since the beginning and had a key role in implementing the new e-learning Consortium, accessed via the website. She hosted the official launch of the i-Share e-learning Consortium on Monday the 21st of May, which was a great success. The launch attendees represented several divisions of the Public Sector, each enthusiastic about what the Consortium could offer them.
Angela commented that:
“i-Share has been an enormous success, with huge take up across Kent and Medway, so the addition of e-learning, as well as classroom based options, was the obvious next step to offering quality training provision. Users will be given both options when they search for a course, so I really think this will push e-learning to the fore as a cost efficient alternative, accessed from anywhere and completed at a pace to suit the individual. We’re really excited that we can offer this solution to all of our partners“.
With the e-learning Consortium already providing a significantly reduced training spend, as well as the collaborative potential of the system, Learning Nexus is extremely excited to work alongside the i-Share initiative in the future.
Other Consortiums set up around the UK include Teignbridge, Durham and Tees Valley, North Yorkshire and Coventry.