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eCom Scotland speaks out on climate issues ahead of COP26

Wendy Edie, Managing Director of the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, believes that producing an agile workforce committed to quality-assessed lifelong learning is the best way for businesses to thrive as climate change forces the adoption of net zero-aligned technologies and business practices.   Speaking ahead of COP26 - the conference on global [...]

New Eco-friendly Electric Vehicles Join Waste King’s Expanding Fleet

Waste King, the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, has started regenerating its vehicle fleet by investing in its first electrically powered trucks. In addition, it has added two ‘junk removal’ vehicles to its fleet, which is growing following continued increasing demand for its services.   Glenn Currie, Waste King’s Managing Director, explained, [...]

eCom Scotland’s Answer to Professional Institutes’ Mission-Critical Issues

According to the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, using technology to provide accessible assessments, available ‘24/7’, goes a long way towards helping professional institutes meet their mission-critical issues.   In a blog post, eCom explains that those involved in the professional institutes’ sector face such mission-critical issues as how do we: Ensure people [...]

Online Assessment Tool Highlighted at GeoConvention 2021

Following several major incidents, the energy industry is keen to use only those operations practitioners who, when responsible for delivering work used in safety-critical aspects of planning and executing wells, can demonstrate their competency. The legal – and environmental - consequences of failing to prove this are serious; yet demonstrating competency can be challenging for [...]

By | September 15th, 2021|Categories: Business, Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Housing Technology On Demand

Housing Technology, a UK-based technology information service for the housing sector, has launched Housing Technology On Demand, a streaming platform for the sector. For over a decade, Housing Technology has been delivering information and knowledge through various channels, including their annual conference, magazine, reports and events. This new venture provides housing professionals in the sector [...]

eCom Scotland engages in Partnership deals

In a move that expands its global reach, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has signed partnership deals with re-sellers in Canada, Iceland and South Africa.   “Of course, there’s a great deal more of the world than just these geographies - so, we’d welcome hearing from other organisations in other countries that [...]

Online Learning Helps Those Supporting Children with Healthcare Needs

Two eLearning modules, produced by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, are helping those whose job is to support children with exceptional healthcare needs.   The Children with Exceptional Healthcare Needs (CEN) Network - part of the National Network Management Service, a division within NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) - needed to develop [...]

By | August 16th, 2021|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies, Medical/ Pharmacies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

eCom Scotland searches for an elusive milestone

Products from the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, are now being used in 190 countries around the world. So, the search is on to add, as eCom customers, those few countries where eCom’s eNetSuite of products are not in use.   However, there seems to be some disagreement about exactly how many countries [...]

By | August 10th, 2021|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Specialist Online Learning Developed for NHS Phototherapy Professionals

When NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and Photonet, the National Managed Clinical Network for Phototherapy in Scotland, wanted to re-design an interactive resource to develop the range of knowledge, skills and behaviours which promote safe and effective work with patients in Phototherapy settings, they turned to the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland.   [...]

By | August 3rd, 2021|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies, Medical/ Pharmacies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Insights from eCom Scotland into making flexible working work

These days – thanks, in part at least, to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic - people in all sectors of the economy are learning to cope with such concepts as remote work, home office, teleworking, hybrid and flexible work arrangements. Consequently, organisations now need to develop strategies and systems to support this workforce, including [...]