Futuremedia Provides Safety Critical Training for Virgin Atlantic Airways

Futuremedia plc, a leading learning and communications company, today announced that its subsidiary, ebc, has completed a custom e-learning project on behalf of Virgin Atlantic Airways for the purpose of training new cabin crew recruits.

The course has been nominated for both the UK’s e-Learning Age Awards in the category "Most Tangible Project ROI" and for the World of Learning Awards in the category Bespoke Solution of the Year.

Following an extensive submission process, ebc was selected to provide an online learning course covering Safety and Equipment Procedures (SEP) to Virgin Atlantic’s new cabin crew. Although Virgin initially planned to launch the course gradually, feedback during testing was so positive that it was launched in full upon completion.

The course represents a groundbreaking use of e-learning in Virgin Atlantic’s safety critical environment and includes a specially constructed tracking database to allow

monitoring of an individual learner’s progress.

Overall, the project has brought significant reduction in training time and costs dramatically improving the comprehension of historically difficult subjects among new

recruits and allowing instructors to focus on practical training.

The Futuremedia group is a learning and communications company providing online education, e-marketing and communications services to public and private sector organizations.

Since its foundation in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest carrier serving the world’s major cities. Now based at both London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports, it operates long haul services to twenty seven destinations world-wide as far apart as Las Vegas and Shanghai.