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Bupa launches elearning portal
30 April 2008
Private healthcare provider Bupa has launched Performance Zone, a
next-generation personalised learning environment for 3,200 staff in its
UK Membership Services division. The portal was developed by Futuremedia
Learning and builds on the success of the company's existing Futuremedia-designed
elearning portal, PLATO.
The launch took place at Bupa offices in Manchester and Staines in
the UK, with Futuremedia Learning staff on-site offering support and
overviews of the portal's features to Bupa employees.
Performance Zone is the first client implementation of Futuremedia
Learning's new learning portal product, which uses innovative Web 2.0
'widget' technology to provide a highly personalised learning
experience.
Performance Zone is divided into five zones: My Zone, Perform,
Inform, Transform and Extras. Each zone is made up of widgets, which
allow learners to view their learning in bite-sized pieces and to
customise their user interface in a similar way to Google's iGoogle.
Each zone provides the employees with different aspects of learning
from career planning and progression to improving skills in their
current roles, and provides a direct link to the learning library and
Learning Management System, also provided by Futuremedia.
"The launch of Performance Zone went extremely well with more than
treble the usual number of learners logging on in just one day! We are
very proud of the site," said Clare Shell, e-HR Consultant of Bupa.
Andrea Miles, Managing Director of Futuremedia Learning said, "Futuremedia
has a history of innovation in learning and we are proud to be unveiling
this pioneering use of widget technology to enable a highly personalised
learning environment. It has been great to work in partnership with such
a forward-looking client who has responded to our ideas enthusiastically
and has been prepared to stretch the envelope. The success of this
launch is a tribute to their belief and passion for learning."
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