ACTION FOR CHILDREN– E-LEARNING

JOURNEYThursday 23 October, 2014, Edinburgh

Andy Napier Learning and Development Consultant - AFC

Introduction

• Workforce is made up of approximately 6,000 staff and 2,000 volunteers who work directly with over 300,000 children, young people, parents and carers.

• We run more that 650 services across the four nations of the UK working across national boundaries to provide a range of innovative services for children in care, disabled children and young people.

• We support and speak out for the UK’s most vulnerable and neglected children and young people.

Drivers

• Creation of a central L&D function and a learning strategy

• Cost

• Consistency of learning experience

• Capacity to release staff to attend training

• Record keeping

Content

• Equality and Inclusion

• eFinance Modules – training precursor to access being granted

• Behaviour Support and Safeguarding Foundation courses

• Health and Safety suite development

• Pre-employment Induction

Hosting

• No LMS – though investment planned

From• Aurion Learning hosting Equality and

Inclusion

• Course Source (Learn Direct)

• Moodle

To• Aurion hosting Equality and Inclusion

• Moodle

Moodle – The Learning Site

http://thelearningsite.actionforchildren.org.uk/login/index.php

Behaviour Support

Diversity and Inclusion

Pre Employment Induction

Fire Safety Awareness

Working with Aurion Learning

• Strategic partner

• Understand Action for Children and our target audience

• Innovative design brief – IS constraints

• ‘Flexible’ and accommodating

Lessons Learnt

• Innovation within an organisation takes time.

• Create and share the vision. Accept it may challenge internal stakeholders.

• Keep stakeholders informed.

• Be ready to respond to the unexpected.

What does the future look like?

• Review our learning strategy.

• Expand access to the Moodle to other audiences, e.g. foster carers and adopters.

• Identify other ways in which we can deliver learning via the Moodle platform.

Thanks & Questions