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Platforms for Success

A guide for managers implementing a learning platform strategy.

This publication is written for staff who are responsible for planning and implementing an online learning platform across their organisation. It draws on the experiences of the pioneering learning providers and on debates and discussions held online and face-to-face in 2006.

The Government strategy for e-learning in England – Harnessing Technology – calls for all learners to have access to an ‘online learning space’. However, the way that this is delivered is not prescribed, and there is certainly no ‘onesize-fits-all’ solution. This publication will support providers in developing their own vision of how a platform should be deployed to meet their learners’ needs in a way which is sustainable within the constraints of the resources available.

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded six pilot learning platform projects in 2003–4. This was followed by the publication of ‘Choosing and Using a Learning Platform in Adult and Community Learning’ (Bob Powell and Geoff Minshull, 2004, NIACE and JISC). That document remains a useful reference for managers, and this present publication aims to complement it by building on the lessons learned from more recent LSC funded learning platform developments.

The CD-ROM
A CD-ROM accompanies this publication and contains:
a presentation by Martin Dougiamas, Moodle’s lead developer, recorded at the Platforms for Success (November 2006) conference;
case studies; and activity templates.

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