A NEW WAY TO LEARN
The IBFI’s new e-learning platform will offer fitters greater flexibility when it comes to choosing education providers and breaking their learning into bite-sized chunks.
E
-learning has been growing for years. It’s a
Whilst the online content could be delivered in
great way to fit courses around your busy
person — and that’s an option some education
lifestyle and take things at your own pace.
providers may explore in the future — the in-person
But it has its limitations, especially for subjects that
content just isn’t well-suited to the online learning
are a little more practical. It can be hard to learn a
environment.
new skill online, when you can only see things from
The skill of bike fitting is much better learnt by
one direction, and you often can’t ask questions
seeing and feeling it in person. But that doesn’t
and interact with the instructor.
mean we can’t learn a lot of the knowledge-based
The pandemic really pushed e-learning into the
material online. That’s where the IBFI’s new e-
spotlight, as travel was almost impossible and
learning platform comes in.
group classes inside just weren’t safe. Thankfully,
masks, PPE and vaccines are all playing an
IBFI e-learning platform
important role in getting things slowly back to
Our new website will be split into five sections, one
normal. But e-learning is here to stay, and bike
for each of the four course levels, and one for
fitting needs to adapt.
additional CPD courses that sit outside the
That’s why the new common syllabus allows for
common syllabus. Unlike a standard e-learning
half of each module to be delivered online. As part
platform, ours is programmed to know which
of the new system, the IBFI will be providing
courses meet which criteria — meaning you only
recognised education providers with an e-learning
need to attend one course from level 1 to unlock
platform to list their courses on the web.
the courses available at level 2. And with
