Where organisations encourage the use of e learning at home, do they pay individuals for access - phone lines, modems, broadband or phone calls? I am particularly interested in NHS and other public sectore employers.
sue manton
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AN NHS EXAMPLE
Hello Sue,
You don’t say whether you are working in the NHS or not and there is no member record for you, so this reply may or may not be what you are looking for, however…
…I have been running an eLearning initiative in the NHS as part of a national pilot project for the last 3 years, and during that time none of the organisations, to my knowledge, have arranged to pay their staff to learn from home.
You should contact your local NHSU Learning Co-ordinator (contact me if you need some links) to discuss further with them how they are approaching this thorny issue which has wider implications than just establishing this precedent for eLearners. It will become a major issue I feel as they launch their range of services, many of which will be part of an eLearning platform from January 2004.
Another place of interest is in the NHS in Cornwall, who are undertaking virtual eLearning across a very wide health community, the majority of which is done by the staff themselves at home rather than at a Centre.
In accordance with the Data Protection Act I am not at liberty to post a contact name on this site without their permission however if you mail me I can arrange to put you in touch with the lead on this work.
In addition to this, I have developed a template policy for healthcare organisations, that covers not only home learning (eLearning and traditional) but also the wider implications of Training, Education and Lifelong Learning. If you do not have such references to this in your existing training policy then mail me direct and I will be happy to send you an e-copy.
Hope this helps
Pay for eLearning at home
While my experience applies to private sector in North America, I am aware of 2 schemes to compensate for study at home. Under one arrangement, hourly paid employees receive pay adjustments to their hourly rate for each section of learning completed. Under the other the company assessed the time required to complete each unit of learning and paid a one-time amount for completion. Neither paid for equipment, connect time or associated fees.
Hope this helps
Attention Sue Manton
Dear Sue,
In response to your enquiry I would love to give you some very relevant though confidential info. Unfortunately you are not listed in the members directory!! Can you please contact me. Thanks.
Training Reimbursement
Sue,
Difficult to contact you as others have found – can you contact me. I have 2 policy guidelines for the reimbursement of training fees. These are corporate but can be adapted/adopted for the public sector. If you think they can be of help, email me.
Paying staff to access e learning at home
Tony in your answer below you mentioned that you have 2 corporate policy on this issue. I would be interested if you could email them to me as I’m working on this at present.
best regards
Tony Treacy , 21-Nov-03
Training Reimbursement
Sue,
Difficult to contact you as others have found – can you contact me. I have 2 policy guidelines for the reimbursement of training fees. These are corporate but can be adapted/adopted for the public sector. If you think they can be of help, email me.
Tony Treacy