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In the last few years, eLearning has really taken off, giving people the freedom and flexibility to learn when and where they want and at their own pace.
Recognising the importance this learning opportunity is to many, we have included some links to websites hosting eLearning opportunities that may be of interest to you and your organisation.
Getting the Best from External Evaluation
This e-course is primarily designed for voluntary organisations and funders working or based in Scotland who are considering employing an external evaluation consultant.
The course is designed to help you consider your options and to gain greater understanding of the process required to commission and work with an external consultant, including considering challenges and benefits.
Further information and registration is available on the Evaluation Support Scotland website.
Getting it Right for Every Child
Getting it Right for Every Child is the foundation for work with all children and young people, including adult services where parents are involved. It builds on universal health and education services, and is embedded in the developing early years and youth frameworks. Developments in the universal services of health and education, such as Better Health Better Care and Curriculum for Excellence, are identifying what needs to be done in those particular areas to improve outcomes for children.
GIRFEC is a national approach to supporting and working with all children and young people in Scotland.
- Getting it Right places children's and young people's needs first, ensures that they are listened to and understand decisions which affect them and that they get more coordinated help where this is required for their well-being, health and development.
- It requires that all services for children and young people - Health, Education, Police, Social Work, Housing and voluntary organisations - adapt and streamline their systems and practices to improve how they work together to support children and young people.
- The approach helps those facing the greatest social or health inequalities. It also encourages earlier intervention by professionals to avoid crisis situations at a later date so that children and young people get the help they need when they need it.
This site provides training, guidance and information for professionals working with GIRIF.
>> Getting It Right In Fife - Getting it Right for Every Child
Disclosure Scotland - PVG Scheme eLearning Materials Published
The modules of the new PVG Scheme eLearning package, to help stakeholders have a better understanding of the Scheme, are available on Disclosure Scotland's Website. These eLearning materials are again structured under the same 9 chapter headings as the Guidance Document and Overview Presentation for consistency and ease of use. The eLearning package is designed to lead people through to the parts of the PVG Scheme that they feel are most relevant to them, enabling them to take as much, or as little, information as they need for their own situation. There will be relevant information within each chapter, followed by a set of questions to test the user's understanding of the content of that section.
>> PVG Scheme eLearning Materials
Scottish Human Rights Commission - Welcome to Care about Rights
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has developed training and awareness raising resources relating to the care and support of older people.
This project aims to empower people to understand their human rights, and increase the ability and accountability of those who have the duties to respect, protect and fulfil rights.
In Scotland the population is ageing - there will be choices about how resources are spent by different public authorities, and in the services offered by public, private and voluntary groups. The Commission would like to see a commitment to human rights becoming central in everyday practice and policy in the care and support of older people.
Who is Care about Rights for?
The training materials are a useful resource for older people, carers, care workers, managers, Care Commission Officers, policy makers and commissioners of care.
Care about Rights explains the benefits of applying human rights principles to everyday situations. The training is designed to increase awareness and knowledge of human rights issues, and give practical advice about how to apply human rights principles in the delivery of care.
The interactive resources help to increase understanding and awareness about:
- What human rights are and how they are applicable in care settings
- The relationship between human rights and other legislation and standards
- How human rights can help to balance risks and rights in decision making
- How human rights can support the delivery of person centred care
- How human rights can help resolve conflict and improve communication with people using services, their families and others.
Learndirect Business is offering a Free eCourse titled:
How to Win Public Sector Contracts
This ecourse 'Winning the Contract' is designed to help businesses improve their knowledge of public sector procurement and was developed on behalf of BERR and Business Link. It provides an introduction to the public sector and the different types of contract, offering practical advice to help you identify new business opportunities.
Who is the course for?
This course is for people with responsibility for developing their business, such as business owners, managers and business development managers. It is aimed at growing businesses in all sectors.
Winning the Contract will be useful to businesses who want to access public sector contracts, but are confused by the processes involved.
No prior knowledge or experience is needed and there are no formal entry requirements. Learndirect Business is offering Winning the Contract free of charge. To get access to this course, you just need to register. Details on how to register/access the course:
>> How to Win Public Sector Contracts
Fife Domestic and Sexual Abuse Partnership
NEW E-Learning Opportunity
Gender Based Violence E-learning Module
Fife Domestic and Sexual Abuse Partnership has developed an e-learning module to raise awareness and understanding of gender based violence. This is an issue that is widespread in our society and you will encounter people who have experienced abuse in both your professional and personal life.
Last year in Fife there were:
- 4000 reports of domestic abuse to the police
- Women's Aid supported 954 women, many with children, and
- Sexual abuse agencies supported 604 survivors
This module discusses domestic abuse, sexual violence, childhood sexual abuse, harmful traditional practices, stalking and harassment and commercial sexual exploitation.
These issues cut across all boundaries of age, class, religion, ethnicity, ability and sexuality. The physical and psychological consequences of abuse can be profound, long term and damaging. This e-learning course will raise your awareness of abuse and look at how you within your professional role you can offer support, including signposting to specialist agencies.
The benefits of completing this e-learning module are you will:
- Have an awareness of gender based violence; know that it can happen to anyone and it is prevalent in our society
- Know the indicators and impacts of gender based violence
- Be more confident in your ability to support someone experiencing abuse
- Have an increased empathy with those experiencing abuse and recognise that disclosing is difficult
- know of local support agencies
Who should do this e-learning?
- Voluntary and Statutory Sector staff working in frontline services
- Managers responsible for providing public services
- Anyone with an interest in reducing gender based violence
- Individual learning or with a group of your colleagues
What does the e-learning consist of?
- Module 1: An Introduction to Gender Based Violence
- Module 2: Forms of Abuse
- Module 3: Abuse - Excuses, Vulnerability and Indicators
- Module 4: Children and Young People
- Module 5: Dealing with Gender Based Violence
Objectives of the course
- Explain what we mean by gender based violence
- Describe the impact of gender based violence on individuals
- Describe the indicators of abuse
- Recognise the difficulties when disclosing abuse
- Explain how abuse affects children and young people
- Describe how you should go about supporting those experiencing abuse
- Describe the support that agencies can provide
Access to the module
- Fife Council
Sign in on FISH and go to IVY Learning; My Learning Courses
Certificate of completion available - All other organisations
>> www.socialwork.fife.gov.uk - Learning Resources; multi - agency
Online Learning with Digital Fife
Digital Fife is part of Fife Council's Community Learning and Development and is committed to raising awareness and skill levels to help people and communities make the most of digital technology.
Digital Fife has a wide range of online learning modules for community groups. There are also modules for individuals on computing and getting the most out of the internet. Click "Online learning" to try a module out, register and get some free learning with a certificate at the end.
There are modules on:
- Courses for community groups
- Setting up a group
- Marketing
- Consultation
- Community video 1 | Community video 2
- Storytelling 1 | Storytelling 2 | Demonstration
- Working with volunteers
- Applying for grants
- Fundraising
- Running events
- Management committee skills
- Courses in basic computing
- Digital photography
- Protecting your PC
- CDs and DVDs
- Choosing an ISP
- E-mail | Hotmail | Googlemail | DigitalFife mail
- Browsing the web
- PC setup
- Courses in using the internet
- Searching for information
- Downloading software
- Net safety
- Writing for websites
- Accessing government
- Health
- Job hunting
- Banking
- Shopping 1 | Shopping 2
Online Training and Support form Microsoft and Adobe
Nowadays it is rare to find a printed manual included with software. Instead, most software companies provide online support, documentation and training via their websites. Adobe and Microsoft both have highly developed "community" sites for their products, including video tutorials, workable exercises, templates, clip art and more.
Microsoft Office Training
Microsoft provide a large amount of training/support on its website for Office versions 2003, 2007 and 2010. All of the applications within the Office Suites are covered. It is a mix of video, audio and text presentations. There is a lot of useful information available - but you may have to browse through the lists to find what would be most helpful to you.
>> Training for Microsoft Office
Video training for Office 2010
There are many videos for Office 2010 - if you have an earlier version of Office you can use the search option to check for videos but there are fewer available for the older versions.
>> Video Training for Office 2010
Adobe Training
The Adobe Community website has many options for training and support, including links to external (paid) sites where you can access training.
There is also the Adobe TV section where you can watch free training videos for all of the Adobe products: InDesign; Dreamweaver; Photoshop; Acrobat 9 Pro; Photoshop Elements; Illustrator etc.
>> Adobe TV
IT Courses from Lynda.com
Lynda.com offers a large range of online courses on a variety of IT related topics including: MS Office; Desktop Publishing; Photoshop and photo editing; Web design; Dreamweaver; Graphics Design; Video editing etc.
The courses are not free - you can sign up for a months full access to ALL of their training courses for approx £16 or take out a year's subscription for £160. Multi-user accounts can also be purchased. Every course has a number of chapters/videos that you can view for free and you can pick up valuable information from the free videos themselves, eg. the free videos for Office 2007 cover how to use the Ribbon Bar and navigation systems.
What they say...
Whether you’re into digital photography, web design and development, motion graphics, or just need to brush up on Excel, you can learn all the software skills you need to gain a competitive edge.
- Master software from Adobe, Apple, Microsoft & more.
- Access to 957 online training courses.
- Learn from authors who are experts in their field.
- Watch any video, any time—play, pause & rewind.
The courses can also be purchased on CD/DVD.
Tip: it is worth doing a google search for "lynda.com free pass" as there are often free 24 hour passes to be had!
VTC Computer Software Training
Another major supplier of online IT training, VTC has more than 90,000 video tutorials on Office Applications, Web Design, Project Management, Networking and Security, Databases and much more.
Training is not free but the first three chapters of each course is free to view and will give you an indication of the depth/usefulness/quality of the training materials - in many cases you may find much of the information that you need is covered by the free chapters!
The VTC Online University gives unlimited access to over 98,729 tutorial videos (more than 909 courses) in the library. You are billed according to your renewal selection - monthly £18.50, three months £55.53, six month £111, or yearly £154. For monthly subscription you will be billed every 30 days until you cancel. The terms of service state that you must cancel a monthly subscription at least two business days before your renewal date. These two days give enough time to ensure that you will not be charged again.
The figures mentioned above are for individuals but it is possible to purchase multi-user accounts. The courses can also be purchased on CD/DVD