What is the University

The Elements University is the internal learning facility for employees, subcontractors and potentially partners.

Ensuring that employees understand the context that they are operating in and that everybody has a baseline of knowledge, so that we are operating consistently, is a fundamental objective for the business.

Objective

There are two primary objectives:

• Ensure that every new employee has the education and training required to be aligned with the company objectives and have the skills necessary to be able to perform their role in a consistent manner.
• Provide an environment where employees can refresh their skills and acquire new knowledge and skills as required to be able to fulfill their current or new role.

Employee Onboarding

The primary objective is to ensure that all new employees have the skills and knowledge required to be effective.

On joining they will have to complete the mandatory courses in order to ‘graduate’ from the university.  Graduation is a requirement for completing their probation and for their employment to be confirmed.

Completing the mandatory courses is the most important activity during their initial period of employment.  This means that scheduled time for course activities is more important than other activities such as client meetings.

Continuing Development

Over time the university will provide additional learning and development courses.  This is the secondary objective and will be put in place once the primary object (employee onboarding) has been established and entrenched.

Approach

The University is built around a number of course.  These range from relatively short through to courses that will take 10+ hours to complete.

Whilst there will be some online learning in the courses, each course will have an instrucutor who is responsible for supporting the student through modules.  The modules may be instructor led learning, online material or practicals.   Where the module has an instructor led module the student needs to schedule time with the instructor.  The module will explain who the instructor is and how much time to schedule into the diary.

Assessment

Each module will have an assessment which the student has to complete and pass prior to moving on to the next module.  The assessment will be either a quiz, which is designed to test that student has understood the core learning objectives of the module or there will be a pratical exercise that will be assessed by the instructor.

Where a quiz is used they are not diesigned to be difficult but should ensure that the student has digested the cntents of the course.  The quiz will consist of a number of multiple choice questions and to pass you have to get every answer correct.  You will be told when you get a question wrong and you will have to go back and retry the whole quiz.

Every module, after the assessment ends with a short session with the instrucutor to provide an opportunity for reflection on what has been covered and what has been learnt.