Aurion Learning celebrates as health service learning portal wins eGovernment Award for Education

April 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Dr. Maureen Murphy, Managing Director of Aurion Learning today offered her congratulations to HSELand.ie for being awarded a National eGovernment Award for excellence. HSELanD.ie took the top prize in the ‘Education’ category but was also shortlisted in the ‘Open Source’ category.

HSELanD.ie is the Irish Health Service Executive’s (HSE) online learning and development portal. It’s available to 95,000 employees (including managers and trainers) and includes:


1.over 50 e-learning programmes;
2.collaborative learning hubs that use web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, social networking, online communities and forums) to facilitate social learning and knowledge sharing;
3.online libraries, reports, publications, e-videos and links to websites; and
4.eportfolio, competency assessment tools, and personal development planning tools.

The Education e-Government Award is awarded to the organisation which has succeeded in harnessing ICT to deliver better services, information and efficiencies to its target audience (both internal and external). Key factors include innovation, enhanced customer service, an increase in efficiencies, access to local information or resource savings, simplicity or ease of use and problem solving.

Remarking on HSELanD.ie at the eGovernment awards ceremony, judges said that the project was truly impressive in its scope and relevance, especially in an environment where health care staff needed accurate information and knowledge that was always available.

Speaking about the awards, Dr. Maureen Murphy, Managing Director of Aurion Learning said:  “We are truly delighted that HSELanD.ie has been recognised by this prestigious award.  The Irish e-Government Awards is the most important public sector technology competition in Ireland, celebrating the excellence in Irish eGovernment services and standards. We really believe that HSELanD.ie has made innovative use of open source technology and has paved the way for social and collaborative learning amongst HSE employees.”

Pat Kenny, E-Learning Manager for the HSE said: “The goal of HSELanD.ie is to provide a managed online learning service that is strategically linked to the core activities of the HSE and contributes to the learning organisation by providing quality-assured, needs-based interactive learning to all health service staff. The HSELanD.ie project team would like to thank all their online learners for their continued commitment, and are looking forward to many exciting developments in the coming years.”

In another exciting success, HSELanD.ie was awarded ‘runner up’ in the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) National Training Awards in the ‘Innovative Use of Technology’ category.

Pictured above (L-R): Pat Kenny, National E Learning Manager; Audrey Kelly, HSELanD Administration & Learning Support; and Tony Liston, General Manager, Corporate Human Resources



Additional Information for Editors
HSELanD.ie is an online learning portal developed and run by the Health Service Executive.  It is available to all healthcare professionals in the Republic of Ireland, both within HSE, Voluntary Hospital Sector, and associated NGO's working in health or allied disciplines. HSELanD.ie provides courses and learning resources for healthcare workers in both the hospital and community health settings. HSELanD.ie was designed and built by Aurion Learning in partnership with the Health Services Executive.

Aurion Learning is an award winning online learning solutions provider. It helps organisations deliver intelligent learning and development solutions including e-learning, learning portals, learning management systems (LMS) and continuing professional development (CPD) management tools. It also provides strategy and capability building services to help organisations develop focussed online learning strategies and to develop their own online learning in-house.

For more information about Aurion Learning, please contact: Noleen Turner, Press Office, Aurion Learning Tel: 028 9064 3211  Email: noleen.turner@aurionlearning.com

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