Summary
Based at e-skills UK, the author's remit is to increase awareness of what employers want from e-learning with the relatively new Sector Skills Council (SSC), 25 organizations who have been tasked with representing employers' skills needs and influencing government provision. The SSCs are in place to understand what employers actually need from learning and to stand in the gap on their behalf in working with government agencies of learning provision. To date, much of the government's e-learning work has been focused on the school and formal education system -- reform in these areas is key. E-learning has the opportunity to radically change government learning provision -- encouraging flexible credit based learning programs that are more closely aligned to business needs. The SSCs will be key agents of change in this process and it is important that they are equipped for this role and connected with employer needs.
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Altering Learning Provision
Over 2005, in this column I have been interested in exploring how we can improve the alignment of learning and e-learning to business needs. I have always been a believer that successful (e) learning implementation is as much about business focus, communication, and change management as it is about effective pedagogy and technology excellence.
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