Learning Pool is an online learning provider focused on the public sector, offering over 300 e-learning modules and community resources to support training for employees and councillors. The platform promotes flexibility with its bite-sized content, allowing individuals to learn anytime, with a strong emphasis on collaboration among public sector organizations to share best practices. With the increasing number of carers in Scotland, particularly young carers, Learning Pool's e-learning approach is designed to meet their unique training needs and facilitate their professional development.

1. Who is Learning Pool?

2. An online learning provider
• Exclusively for the public sector
• For employees, councillors, governors
• Content, tools and platform
• Everything low cost
• Everything to deliver a real return

3. A community
• 6,000 people in 300+ organisations
• 80% of UK councils are members

4. Where are we?

5. • Learning Pool’s services are used by public
sector organisations throughout the UK and
Scotland
• We are currently working alongside the
Improvement Service in Scotland to help
deliver agile working training to Local Gov

6. What do we do?

7. We provide content
• 300+ e-learning modules
• Video and image library
• We build interactive content for customers

8. We’ve got a community at heart
• Develops and shares content
• Contributes advice & good practice
• Active forums

9. Carers and Community Collaboration?
• Would prevent trainers reinventing the wheel
• Could unite carers isolated as a result of their
caring responsibilities, perhaps exasperated
further by their geographical location

10. • In less than one month, Wrexham County
Council had their response for an e-learning
module on the topic of Young Carers
answered by Cambridgeshire County Council
through Learning Pool’s Community

11. Tools to help you do the job
• Authoring tool so you can create your own
content
• Template driven
• Aimed at non-technical users
• Free online support
• Face to face training when you need it
• SCORM output guaranteed

12. What is E-learning

13. • e-learning is simply learning delivered through
the use of technology.
• Effective e-learning will use a range of media
(words, pictures, audio, animation and video)
to provide an engaging and interactive
learning experience.

14. Benefits of E-
learning

15. Learners Benefit From
• Anytime, anyplace learning
• Using bite-sized learning to fit in with busy
schedules
• Taking greater ownership of their
development
• More retentive learning experience
• Training which can be re-visited as needed

16. Organisations Benefit From
• Creating efficiency savings
• Increased capacity
• Can respond to changes in legislation through
the use of authoring software

17. E-learning and carers

18. More carers to train
• There are 660,000 carers in Scotland - 1 in 8 of
the population
• By 2037 the number of carers in Scotland will
have increased to around 1 million
• e-learning helps build capacity and our DLE is
scalable

19. Young carers are online carers
• 16,701 of carers in Scotland are young carers
• Young people and therefore young carers are
growing up in the digital age
• They expect to be able to access online
information traditionally found in books or the
classroom
• They are used to consuming information in an
interactive way

20. Time for training
• 115,674 carers care for 50 or more hours per
week meaning they will have little time to
attend face to face training but still need this
support
• e-learning can be completed around their
caring commitments

21. Carers as agile workers
• Agile working is an umbrella term used to
refer to mobile, flexible and home working, all
transferrable to the work format of carers
• Carers can complete their training from their
home/care place at a time convenient to them
• Removes the stress of attending face to face
training

22. Care for carers
• More than 80% of carers say that their caring
role has damaged their health
• e-learning and community collaboration could
be used to ensure carers are more fully
informed about their caring role
• e-learning module on ‘care for carers-how to
look after your health when you’re a carer?’

23. e-learning in action

24. Format of great e-learning
• Grabs the learner’s attention
• Explains the topic and puts it in context for the
learner
• Incorporates scenarios and role-plays
• Gets the learner to think and tests knowledge
• Bite-sized chunks of information which is
easily digested

25. Next Steps
• Request guest access to Learning Pool’s
e-learning catalogue by emailing
breda@learningpool.com
• Join our online community;
www.learningpool.com/register
• Find out more about Learning Pool by
visiting www.learningpool.com

26. Thanks!