Collaborative approach for corporate e-learning

03 Feb 2012

by: Margaret Snell

The founder of the Charity Learning Consortium is setting up a similar organisation aimed at the corporate sector.

Martin Baker says the Corporate eLearning Consortium is a membership organisation that offers businesses the opportunity to access a range of e-learning and other learning technologies, whilst networking and collaborating with others with similar goals. By sharing resources, ideas and best practice companies should save time and money.

The Consortium will hold regular members’ meetings in central London, with case studies, workshops and sessions led by invited specialists and guest speakers. These meetings will also provide a forum to meet, network and share best practice. As well as the regular meetings, members can network online, join special interest groups and monthly web-based training courses.

A portfolio of more than 180 e-learning courses, created by publishing partner Jenison, can be accessed via The Corporate eLearning Consortium’s Moodle platform.

Other benefits include a free rapid e-learning authoring tool and access to Towards Maturity’s Benchmark Centre.

Baker said: “Membership of The Corporate eLearning Consortium is very much a partnership based on the mantra ‘by the members, for the members’, with its future direction being shaped by our members’ needs.

“Having seen the many benefits of this collaborative approach, which keeps costs down and also enables networking and sharing of best practice and resources, I’m thrilled to be launching this exciting concept into the corporate world. It’s never been more important to ‘work smart’, and by working together L&D departments really can achieve ‘more for less’.”

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