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Corporate eLearning Consortium supporting Learning at Work Day

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The Corporate eLearning Consortium is offering organisations access to its entire suite of eLearning, to support Learning at Work Day on 17 May and encourage the development of essential skills within British business.

The Corporate eLearning Consortium is supporting National Learning at Work Day on 17 May, part of Adult Learners' Week, by making its entire eLearning suite of more than 180 courses complimentary for the week.

The wide range of courses on offer includes desktop IT skills, management development and soft skills such as communication, so it's a great opportunity for companies to offer eLearning to their entire organisations.

According to research by Towards Maturity, the learning technologies benchmarking organisation, half of the top performing companies in its study say their learners believe relevant eLearning helps further their careers*.

Towards Maturity also says that top performing organisations use learning technologies to help deliver improvements in their agility - their ability to change their products and processes - which delivers a direct benefit to their business bottom line.

The offer of complimentary eLearning for the week beginning 14 May gives organisations the opportunity to experience the benefits of eLearning for themselves.

Martin Baker, MD of The Corporate eLearning Consortium commented: "It's been a tough time for British business, and learning and development budgets have never been tighter. So I'm proud to be supporting Learning at Work Day by throwing open our entire eLearning suite to organisations for a week.

"Using eLearning as part of a sensible blended approach to L&D not only saves organisations time and money," he added "Research shows that by enhancing the essential skills of their staff businesses can boost their overall agility and therefore profitability as well."

Organisations interested in free access to the Consortium's eLearning suite for Adult Learners' Week can register online or email their request to Melanie Wenban, Customer Care Co-ordinator [email protected] by 9 May latest. The Consortium will set up a pass, which will enable all staff within nominated organisations to self register and log on.

*Towards Maturity's 2011-2012 benchmark report Boosting Business Agility reveals how learning technologies is supporting careers: of the top performing companies taking part in its research, 56% report that they support career progression, whilst 49% say their learners consider eLearning to be good for their careers.

About Towards Maturity

Towards Maturity is a benchmarking research company that provides independent expert advice and support to help organisations use learning technologies to accelerate business performance. It leverages the data of its in-depth Benchmark Study, the largest learning technology benchmark in Europe. Since 2003 over 1800 organisations have contributed to the leading Towards Maturity benchmark.

To learn more about Towards Maturity's unique benchmarking tools and models visit http://mybenchmark.towardsmaturity.org/