Summer is a busy period for e-learning; your learners may be off on holiday but it is a great time to perform techinal overhauls and consider how your e-learning implementation is going.

Give yourself an appraisal and see how it is going. Is it being used? Do staff know how to use the system and provide useful resources to users? Do learners see it is a useful resource in their education or another technically complicatedat o hurdle? Do you have a learning environment you spend thousands on but it lies empty?

For clients in the education sector NetCarrel are busy collating data and writing reports on how their VLEs have performed, calculating the uptake and the overall impact they have had on learning. We are also preparing for the onslaught of new students, new staff, new government directives and new curriculums. It’s a busy time of year, especially as more and more users will rely on their VLE as their bridge of learning over the summer.

In the corporate sector we’ve recently launched a Moodle installation for delivering training to the diverse multi-language workforce of a global catering and hospitality giant. It’s a challenging project to produce a system that is at once intuitive but also able to get users through to complex learning materials and make it sink in. We’re currently gaining feedback from the pilot group and hoping to roll the system out to several thousand users in the coming months, we’ll have more details on this exciting project soon.

Also very soon we’ll have an update from our MD Haydn Jones who will be producing a guest blog post for Ian Usher’s great blog Changing the Game?. Ian is the Buckinghamshire County Council e-Learning Coordinator and an Adobe Education Leader. Haydn will document the work NetCarrel has completed for one of our long term clients, Great Marlow School - it will document the process of creating and maintaining a Moodle installation as a robust VLE but also as a regularly updated and attractive public school website.

If you think NetCarrel could help your organisation, big or small, in revamping its e-learning programme this summer just get in touch.