Aon Ltd receives Industry Award for e-learning initiative

Aon Limited Corporate Division has been awarded the prestigious British Insurance Award for Training 2002 for its e-learning platform ‘RoPE’ – Record of Professional Excellence - which was developed jointly with Aon’s learning partners the Unicorn Training Partnership and Professional Development Online (PDOL).

The ‘RoPE’ system is underpinned by PDOL’s ‘Studyserve’ learning management system and is currently being used to deliver and track Unicorn-developed technical insurance e-learning and competence assessments to 1,200 staff throughout the Corporate Division.

Future plans for RoPE include the delivery of induction, IT and regulatory training, together with skills audits, competency management and online continuous professional development (CPD).

Roger Harrison, Associate Director of Aon Corporate, said: “I am absolutely delighted that Aon Corporate Division won this important award against high quality opposition. It is a result of two great partnerships - internally within Aon Corporate at all levels and externally between Aon and partners Unicorn and PDOL.The approach of both Unicorn and PDOL is refreshingly professional with an innovative touch: they understand what they are doing and this has resulted in the successful outcome of RoPE. “

"RoPE provides a framework that meets real business needs of managing complex technical and non technical learning and development matters in an ever changing environment - both in terms of our market and also regulation. “Successful training is likely to be a blend of delivery methods with employees taking responsibility for their own development - RoPE helps us manage this.”

Peter Phillips, CEO of Unicorn, commented: “We are delighted that Aon have won this award as what they have sought to deliver to their learners and their method of doing so is truly innovative. They have taken a lead in their industry and it is right that this has been recognised.”

August 21st, 2002