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Innovative L&D in the face of coronavirus
Charity L&D professionals are facing tough challenges trying to support their staff through coronavirus. Alongside unexpected, urgent new demands there are some silver linings too, with great examples of fast, innovative thinking. Here’s how members of the Consortium are solving some of the challenges of supporting staff through a pandemic.
Are your passwords secure?
A password is a key to logging into websites and accounts. If you consider quite how many websites you have signed into over the last 10 years the average person can quickly have 130 active accounts.
Shape the future with Learning at Work Week
Julia Wright, the organiser of Learning at Work Week, shares her top tips for creating a great campaign.
Girlguiding: Peer education 101
A peer education programme at Girlguiding, developed with young volunteers, is a fantastic example of just what can be achieved by involving stakeholders in the design and delivery of a unique blended programme.
Rapid online induction
Gill Chester shares some hints and tips for creating a new style induction, superfast.
Creating an article abstract
Tim Drewitt has created a handy PDF guide with tips on how to create an abstract for an article that you’d like learners to read.
Delivering successful online training
Jo Cook gives advice on navigating the challenges of moving to live online learning, with tips on how to engage a ‘virtual’ audience.
Hot off the press! Our Charity Learning Times newspaper
Have a read of the first edition of The Charity Learning Times!
Using articles as learning activities
This guide explains how to turn an article you’re reading into a learning activity. It highlights why articles can be a useful learning method and how to help the learner to get the most from it.
What is live online learning?
We do love our lingo in L&D, don’t we! Jo Cook unravels exactly what live online learning is all about, and why understanding its capabilities (and limitations) can help deliver fantastic online sessions.
The benefits of eLearning
In these extraordinary times, you may have to sell the benefits of eLearning, and fast. Gill Chester has some tips for making the case for taking your training online.
A video message from the team at CLC!
We are so glad that we can work from home and continue to provide the same service to our charity members. Thank you to everyone who is on the frontline and helping those who need it most during this difficult time. We made a little video to let you know that we’re still here and it’s business as usual!
CL Consortium Ltd
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