Edinburgh praises CECil
23 Mar 2011
by: Margaret Snell
The City of Edinburgh Council says that CECil, its interactive learning project, has transformed the way the council approaches and delivers learning, and having achieved savings of over £1m, shows that it is possible to do more with less.
Now in its fourth year, the project provides 24 hour on-line access to a wide range of courses for the council’s 18,000 employees.
The CECil modules which can be accessed from any internet location including the workplace, dedicated learning resource centres, at home or through the organisation’s library network, have reduced training time and enabled council experts to carry out frontline work. Use of e-learning rather than classroom-based teaching has resulted in cost-per-user savings of 740% and enabled training at a volume that would be impossible given the logistics of face-to-face training.
Paul McGhee, leadership and development manager for the City of Edinburgh Council said: “It has enabled high volume training delivery at lower cost and greater speed, facilitated a quicker response to educating policy and procedural change, and improved the quality and diversity of training and development options available.
“It has also freed up valuable time enabling the corporate learning team to move to a more consultancy led, bespoke service, adding increased value across the organisation.”
Charles Gould, managing director of Brightwave, developers of the CECil platform, said: 'In these economically straitened times it is encouraging to see the transformational impact that well-devised e-learning programmes can achieve.”
CECil won a silver award at the recent COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) Excellence Awards in the 'Securing a workforce for the future' category.
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