Phasing out inbuilt voiceover for enhanced eLearning (Access HSC Learning)

We're excited to announce a strategic shift in our eLearning content production. In line with industry best practice and our commitment to accessibility, we're phasing out inbuilt voiceover from Access Learning for Care courses scheduled for maintenance from October 2024 onwards.

This decision is driven by our dedication to elevate the learning experience and ensure inclusivity for all learners. By embracing text-based content, we aim to enhance accessibility (in line with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA. requirements), language flexibility, cognitive empowerment, personalised learning, cost-effectiveness, and universal compatibility.

We believe that this change enriches the overall learning experience for a diverse range of learners. For those who require a voiceover, alternative options such as browser-based solutions, search read in your browser extension store, or screen readers like JAWS, NVDA, iOS VoiceOver, and Android TalkBack are available to provide voiceover functionality.

Released in September

Fire awareness

Our Subject Matter Expert reviewed the course and suggested some minor updates.

Consequentially, we updated the lessons: Using an extinguisher, Your duties, and Ways in which fires can start. We clarified the daily duties to assess the work environment. To enhance skill retention, we simplified the instructions and updated the animation on operating a fire blanket.

The course update will help you:

Perform fire safety duties and assess the work environment to ensure fire safety.
Remember how to use a blanket to extinguish a fire.

Epilepsy awareness: the basics

We're delighted to announce the release of our new course, Epilepsy awareness: the basics, in collaboration with Epilepsy Action.

The course is designed for every worker or individual who would like to understand the basics of epilepsy: whom it affects, how seizures might impact someone’s daily life and how to support them. It features video-based lived-in experiences shared directly by individuals with epilepsy.

The new course will help you:

Recognise what happens during an epileptic seizure.
Increase awareness of how epilepsy can affect a person’s daily life.
Identify ways to support an individual with epilepsy and help keep them safe
recognise a medical emergency and respond to it appropriately.

Epilepsy awareness: core skills

We are pleased to announce the release of our new course, Epilepsy awareness: core skills.

This course has been written in partnership with Epilepsy Action, who have provided up-to-date facts, guidance and real-life examples.

The training aims to support care staff who may occasionally work with an individual with epilepsy. If your service can accept an individual with epilepsy, your staff should already have access to this module.

The content is designed to be accessible, multimedia-driven, Subject Matter Expert and learner-centred.

The new course will help you:

Recognise roles and responsibilities when caring for someone with epilepsy.
Explain who epilepsy affects.
Outline how to support someone during and after different types of seizures.
List some guidelines and considerations for administering epilepsy medication.
Use seizure records and epilepsy care plans to better support a person with epilepsy.

Still to come this month

Course maintenance

Our subject matter experts have reviewed the following courses, and have determined they remain compliant. We've removed the case study from Infection Prevention Control as it wasn't adding value to the course. We want learners to receive pertinent succinct information on the requisite topics.

The updates will be automatically applied and visible by the end of the month:

Infection Prevention and Control
Infection Prevention and Control in Community Care

Managing epilepsy

Following our two new Epilepsy awareness titles, we are excited to be working again with Epilepsy Action, on a third, more in depth course, which will be available from the end of October.

The course will be suitable for care and support staff across all levels.

If you work with individuals with epilepsy, you have a responsibility to help them stay safe. This includes completing risk assessments, following their epilepsy care plan, helping them with medication administration and recording seizures correctly. And primarily, you will need to understand how their epilepsy affects several aspects of their lives.

The new course will help you:

Increase awareness of the basic principles of epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Report and record information about a person’s epilepsy accurately.
List some key considerations for administering epilepsy medicine.
Identify the main health and safety risks for a person with epilepsy, including epilepsy-related death.
Explain how risk management can be used to provide safe, person-centred care.