This press release describes how elearning can be used in practise to achieve dramatic results in the not-for-profit sector. The Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy has helped Bradford Safeguarding Children Board deliver child protection training to more than 3,000 people.

A selection of Tweets and their associated links from the week just gone. GlobalEnglish Adds 1-on-1 Personal Coaching Sessions to Award-Winning Online…Scoop Ed School comes en masse to ULearn: The entire full time teaching staff…Download: Uptake of e-learning: Small business : Tertiary Education New Zealand…Hot topics at ULearn 09 – Scoop: Reactions to Education Minister Anne Tolley’s opening address…

The Benchmarking and Research business activity of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework has released An investigation of the enablers and barriers to industry uptake of e-learning: Small business which examines the current status of e-learning in small business, barriers to the increased use of e-learning solutions and the potential for increased uptake of e-learning by small businesses.

The emergence of elearning as a tool for business is not complete until it is fully accessible for small and medium sized businesses in New Zealand. There are over 350,000 SME’s in New Zealand, making up 99% of all business and employing about 60% of the workforce. There are a number of ways that design and delivery of elearning can be accomplished which are highly affordable for even the smallest business.

A brief list suggesting benefits of elearning 2.0 which is defined here as elearning which utilises the characteristics of web 2.0. This elearning as we know and implement it. This list is worthy of mention because of it’s friendly readability and global perspective.

A selection of Tweets and their associated links from the week just gone.

This document looks at e-learning from a business manager’s perspective, describes some of the ways it can improve your bottom line, and builds a compelling business case for the adoption and implementation of e-learning in your organisation.

What do students earn after their tertiary education? Does workplace-based industry training improve earnings? Two reports have been released today from the employment outcomes of tertiary education project. These reports form part of the initial outputs from the project, managed by the Ministry of Education, the Department of Labour and Statistics New Zealand.