Log on to Care Decreases Employee Training Costs by 70% with Interactive, Online Learning Platform
 
 

Log on to Care Decreases Employee Training Costs by 70% with Interactive, Online Learning Platform

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Log on to Care is a consortium created in 2004 by nine local councils in southeast England to meet mandatory training requirements for staff working in the heavily regulated social care sector. It provides innovative and cost-effective blended learning solutions.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

  • “Oracle iLearning enables us to provide affordable, high-quality, award-winning, and user-centric training solutions across all mandatory disciplines, to improve the effectiveness of our training programs. The nature of the online, on-demand platform enables us to make our training programs available to care providers continuously, for a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions.” – David Crowe, Project Manager, Log on to Care

  • Decrease costs incurred by residential care homes, hospices, and other care providers and institutions for training employees in key areas, such as dementia care, safeguarding adults, and end-of-life care
  • Accommodate varied staff schedules and allow staff to train at their own pace at a time of their choosing
  • Accommodate learning needs of shift workers, who are often unable to attend daytime classroom-based training sessions
  • Enable care providers to monitor staff qualifications to ensure continued compliance with stringent department of health (DoH) regulations governing the provision of social care

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Implemented Oracle iLearning to build an online environment for the assembly and delivery of interactive training courses
  • Commissioned Oracle Certified Partner Seertech Solutions to build and host the solution, which went live in three weeks
  • Offered online learning to care providers at a small annual user fee across 25 courses and 60 modules, saving care providers an average of 70% on training costs, compared with traditional tutor-led, classroom-based events
  • Received positive feedback from more than 95% of the initial user base of 500 staff, citing rapid access to courses, intuitive course design, quality online assessments, instant scoring, and printable certificates
  • Provided managers with an at-a-glance view of the training progress of all employees, together with monthly reports on each user, streamlining compliance with DoH requirements
  • Benefited from Seertech Solutions’ expertise in configuring Oracle iLearning to each institution’s needs, and linking to social networking sites to facilitate knowledge sharing between users
  • Tripled the number of care staff trained in 12 months, and more than doubled user numbers annually for the next two years
  • Added up to 12 new learning modules each year to comply with best practices or legislation changes, and launched courses in additional areas, such as equality and diversity
  • Won the prestigious  national skills for care accolade in the most innovative learning project category in 2006, awarded by Skills for Care, the employer-led authority on the training standards and workforce development needs of social care staff in England
  • Leveraged the in-depth care sector expertise of Seertech and the flexibility of Oracle iLearning to achieve a 30% cost savings over fees charged by other training providers in the care sector

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