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eCom helps in achieving the UK and Scottish Governments’ Energy Strategy aims

Helping people re-focus their energy-related industry skills – along with up-skilling and re-skilling for the energy industry - are key ways in which the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions is contributing to achieve the aims of the UK’s and the Scottish Government’s Energy Strategies.   A member of both Offshore Energies UK [...]

Scotland’s digital technologies body focuses on eLearning

Scotland’s trade body for the digital technologies industry, ScotlandIS, has published a White Paper on ‘The Future of eLearning’.   Commissioned from, and written by, Wendy Edie, Managing Director of Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment developer, eCom Scotland, the White Paper advocates deploying technology-delivered learning to bring sustainability and help drive government and corporate [...]

By | March 1st, 2022|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Geoscientists’ competency assessment comes to Australia

Australia is the latest continent to get a taste of a new online self-assessment tool to benchmark the skills within the international operations geoscience community and identify individuals’ skills gaps. The tool enables operations geoscientists, in the oil and gas sector, to objectively assess the level of their current skills - which they need to [...]

eCom Scotland research shines light on Key Trends

After publishing what it believed would be eight ‘Key Learning and Development (L&D) Trends’ in 2022, the provider of online training and assessment, eCom Scotland, has carried out further market research among its clients to gauge the accuracy of its predictions.   Wendy Edie, eCom’s Managing Director, explained, “Towards the end of last year we [...]

By | January 25th, 2022|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

eCom Scotland helps future-proof organisations’ learning strategies

The internationally-known provider of online training and assessment, eCom Scotland, is helping organisations future-proof their learning and assessment strategies. It has been encouraged to take this step by the growing focus on combatting climate change and the workplace becoming carbon neutral – fostered by the COP26 climate change conference held in Glasgow towards the end [...]

By | January 11th, 2022|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Key Learning & Development trends for 2022 detected by eCom Scotland

Eight key trends will dominate the learning and development (L&D) sector in 2022. These trends have been identified from market research undertaken by eCom Scotland, a leading provider of online training and assessment and which, over the last 25 years, has been building an enviable worldwide reputation for its solutions’ quality and reliability.   Putting [...]

Online assessments add value for oil and gas industry stakeholders

Within the oil and gas drilling industry – a key part of a sector that produced revenues of some $3.3 trillion in 2019 and comprises some 3.8% of the global economy - the use of online assessment (eAssessment) is demonstrably improving the assessment process, as well as streamlining the operations of organisations and, thus, providing [...]

eCom Scotland takes the lead in creating a carbon neutral business world

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has become an active, enthusiastic supporter of Pawprint, the employee engagement app which aims to improve the environment by engaging and encouraging workers to be more ‘eco-thoughtful’.   “We’re convinced that the Pawprint app’s combination of behavioural science with a fun, engaging approach encourages carbon-reducing habits that [...]

Accessible eLearning helps people with sight loss find work

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has helped the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to significantly improve the career prospects of the 11,000 people with sight loss in the UK who are currently actively seeking work.   It has done this by working with the RNIB to produce three self-directed, online-delivered [...]

Digital learning solution helps progress British Council programme

Using eLearning materials developed by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, the British Council is providing appealing, engaging and contextually appropriate learning experiences helping 13-to-19-year-old girls improve their digital skills and English language proficiency.   These girls - all of whom are either currently out-of-school or living in socio-economically marginalised communities - are [...]