Echelon’s online offering reflects the proximity of knowledge and learning

London-based Echelon has been growing market share in online content publishing for organisations whose main remit is to promote knowledge - student qualifications, members' professional development and/or employee performance.

Organisations wishing to provide immediate and global access to appropriate information, knowledge and learning can now associate with the electronic technologies – learning and content management systems - and learning design services Echelon offer at www.echelonpublishing.co.uk

Echelon's publishing division supports the company's 20-year old OD consultancy business with learning materials by leading authors on topics such as corporate governance, board effectiveness, management development, customer service and career planning.

From www.echelonconsulting.co.uk, Echelon Consulting offers advice on solving performance related issues and supports this with online review, development and evaluation technologies for clients in housing, healthcare, charity as well as the commercial and public sectors.

Much of its own knowledge-based and learning materials can be found on www.learningmatters.com.

Launched in 2001, Echelon's online platform for learning has grown into an easy-access library. With thousands of downloadable bite-size performance solutions on offer, the site is a popular entry point for increasing numbers of individuals, teams and organisations looking for knowledge and ready made solutions to work-based problems.

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Released November 2006 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR

Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228
Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk

Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500
Email: david@echelonl.com

About Echelon Learning

Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing house that integrates electronically-delivered knowledge and learning into the development of management skills and business performance.

Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s service with the development of new content in meeting clients’ requirements. This is usually derived from analysing employee knowledge and learning needs captured during client learning programmes.

Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing then offers this new content to a wider audience by publishing the material in generic format. This is made available in the form of easy to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development information licensed exclusively from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.

Echelon e-Learning provides the electronic systems which enable content to be published, distributed and usage tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a global audience. Now
Echelon’s blended learning based on a bespoke site populated with material selected to support specific courses, builds knowledge prior to the event and refreshes application when back at the desk.

About Echelon Publishing
Echelon technologies help organisations place solutions at people’s fingertips, whether solving everyday business and work-related problems or helping gain qualifications and continued professional development.
Echelon:
• Has a content management system enabling informational or learning material to be developed or converted into XML so that it can be published and distributed in text and/or via the web.
• Has a learning management system to provide ready access via the web to highly structured information, which is easily searched and retrieved, and whose usage can be tracked and learning logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats content for professional bodies and commercial organisations to help students and employees maintain or develop requisite skills throughout their careers.
• Supports people from the outset of their careers in working with professional bodies to develop and deliver the learning content required by students in preparing for examination.
• Frees up the knowledge and learning contained within a business so that people have ready access to these resources in helping them to solve problems or develop their careers.