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Construction College implements e-learning facility

Epic is working in collaboration with the National Construction College (NCC) on a new online learning facility for employees, designed to help them with their professional development.

The new service will provide online learning across a range of topics including customer service, training and facilitation, leadership and management, health and safety, and Microsoft Office.

NCC will be using Epic's Arena learning portal to provide users with access to the e-learning courses. Epic has trained a

number of NCC staff to be Arena administrators to help them to register new users, upload new courses and capture information for management reports.

The programme will be available to all location-based and remote user staff throughout the National Construction College and its parent organisation ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council for construction.

NCC standards manager, Jan Coates, said: "The aim of the new e-learning facility is to upskill our staff in the most efficient and cost effective way possible. Our employees are located all over the country so, by adopting this just-in-time approach to training, people no longer have to waste time travelling to a central destination to receive training in one of the chosen subjects.

"It's also going to be a really useful tool when introducing new starters to the college, in terms of health and safety and effective induction training. The new service also offers us the ability to develop our own programmes and learning, which means we can make training specific to the construction industry."

Prior to the launch, the college held an open day at its site in Bircham Newton to help people familiarise themselves with the facility and to trial a number of the training packages available.

During the first eight months, in which the service will be run as a pilot, 500 courses will be available, each ranging from 45 minutes to eight hours.

Once the eight month pilot is complete, the college hopes to expand these online services to its industry customers so classroom-based learning can be combined with e-learning.

As the direct training division of ConstructionSkills, the National Construction College offers both young apprentices and adult students a range of construction training courses.

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