Fiom wins the LearningStone Blended Learning Award

The beauty and  functionality of the blended learning of Fiom. 

The brains behind Fiom on LearningStone

But how is it that Fiom's workspace on LearningStone looks so attractive and works so well? What’s the secret? ‘I think it's my background as a webmaster that helped when I was developing all this for Fiom. With some creative work and commitment, I managed to make it look like it does,' says Irma Polo, digital development specialist at Fiom. 'LearningStone turned out to be a perfect environment for sharing experiences within a closed network. We have very good control over who has access to it. And we did want to make it look good.’

Her colleague Wendy Kersten, has since taken over some of Polo’s work. She is the one who now manages the LearningStone environment. 'If you have a concept ready, you can easily copy it. In our case, if we have an experience story ready, you can easily use that for a new story. And what I love about LearningStone: it's so accessible to use’, says the policy development and knowledge transfer specialist at Fiom.

Polo, meanwhile, is doing something else within Fiom, so she no longer works with LearningStone as much as she did. She laughs: ‘It's a shame that Wendy is so good at her job, so I don't have to do as much with LearningStone myself. I always found LearningStone a joy to work with. '

Transferring knowledge

Creating beautiful applications is something Fiom does for a reason, of course. It is important to share knowledge so that people can make an informed choice and encourage learning. Whether it's an unwanted pregnancy, kinship questions or adoption. 'We are above all a center of expertise. We want to share as much knowledge as possible with professionals and stakeholders,' Kersten says. 'We provide training to midwives, social workers, family doctors, adoptive parents, you name it. It is nice that the participants of our trainings can already absorb a lot of knowledge via LearningStone before and during the trainings. The e-learning beforehand is the perfect preparation.

'You can really mean something for these people'

Polo is especially happy to be working for an organization that helps people. 'People we help face far-reaching decisions. It's a great job if you can support them in this. You can really mean something for these people.'

By the way, a lot less important, but nice to know: what will Fiom do with the beautiful ‘LearningStone blender’ with ‘The Blended Learning AWARD’ imprint? The blender had a prominent place at Fiom in recent weeks, but Irma Polo is seriously considering using it for her cooking, in her kitchen at home.

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