Aims of Project
The aim of this project is to create an interactive multi-media product, including a workplace training Evaluation Tool, to raise employer awareness, for the first time, of what constitutes cost-effective and fit-for-purpose workplace learning for organisations, regardless of size, sector or location.
The multi-media product will primarily be disseminated through agreed plans with the 20-25 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) and Sector Skills Bodies (SSBs) that are involved in the delivery of this project, all of which have an established network of Scottish employers. Plans for dissemination will also be agreed with the Key Stakeholders on the Project Board. The interactive multi-media product will also be launched at a major Skills Conference which will take place at the end of the project term.
This project will significantly raise the awareness of employers investing in workplace learning as to which approaches are both cost-effective and fit-for-purpose.
Activities
- The project will, through employers in all sectors, research and establish:
- the current levels of employer engagement in workplace learning
- the most effective approaches to workplace learning
- the most ineffective approaches to workplace learning
- barriers to employers engaging in Training and Development in the workplace
- the requirements of a workplace learning evaluation tool (mainly through a pilot process)
- employer information-line requirements (i.e. the support employers require when undertaking workplace learning)
- All research and development will be capable of updating, thus ensuring sustainability.
- The project will, in partnership with employers in all sectors, develop and produce:
- a series of evidence-based research reports
- an interactive multi-media product containing both generic and sector-specific information (for every major Scottish industry) including a generic documentary and research output
- a documentary on effective/ineffective workplace learning
- a final workplace learning evaluation tool to evaluate the effectiveness of workplace learning employers and employees undertake
- a sectoral ‘map’ linking all major sectors of Scottish industry with the relevant sector body
- The project will set up and run (during project term):
- an information-line for employers
- a major skills conference for 250 employers covering every sector of Scottish industry
- The project will run and maintain (beyond the project term):
- the information line
- a further major skills conference for 250 employers covering every sector of Scottish industry
- the research and development activities (update all research reports)
- records of dissemination across all sectors of Scottish industry
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