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Training Today: Continuing Professional Development - Screen learning

In the search for high-quality and reasonably priced training for early years practitioners, Nicole Weinstein looks at the innovative solutions on offer from three online training companies

Online could be the future of training. Globally, the e-learning market was worth $166.5bn in 2015, and is predicted to rise to $255bn this year, according to the World Economic Forum. In 2012, four years after the start of the financial crash, cost was the main barrier to accessing CPD, according to 72 per cent of respondents to Professor Cathy Nutbrown’s call for evidence in her report, Foundations for Quality. As local authorities look set to continue not to provide CPD to the pre-crash levels the sector enjoyed, nurseries are being forced to find creative ways to access it. The creation of a one-stop shop bringing together effective online CPD is a Government solution to this – appearing as an action point in the Early Years Workforce Strategy.

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