Jo O'Connell, Training Manager for visual analysis software specialist i2, explains how new methods have led to improved course materials and even helped her to create a more cohesive training team.
As the UK's number one vehicle glass repair and replacement specialist, Autoglass is committed to protecting the safety of motorists by delivering the highest standards of service. -Technical training manager Steve Sinclair-Day has been explaining how the development of professional training skills has helped Autoglass to achieve this.
Research from eLearnity challenged corporates to rethink their approach and commitment to Learning Management Systems (LMS).
A thirst for a more learner-centred approach to training design and development has led the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to seek out fresh methodologies.
The Training Development Manager for one of the UK's most experienced suppliers of integrated local government solutions explains how they have improved the effectiveness and consistency of their customer training through investments in trainer skills.
NetDimensions Limited, a provider of global, enterprise-class learning management systems, today announced that it would host a new executive seminar series for 2005 focused on how corporate training programs can support a wide range of regulatory requirements.
Marie-Pierre Gouaux, Learning & Development Manager for Atos Origin, was chosen as Training Manager of the Year at the Institute of IT Training’s awards dinner earlier this month. The title is bestowed on an individual who has shown exceptional skills in managing an IT training department and has made a significant and demonstrable impact on the performance of their organisation's employees.
InterQuad Learning, a division of the InterQuad Group Limited, was recently awarded the Novell Platinum Training Partner Status in EMEA. Platinum membership, which forms part of the new Novell PartnerNet Programme, is by invitation only and is awarded to existing Novell Accredited Education Centres (NAEC) that have performed beyond expectations, delivering superior levels of Novell training.
Sarah Walker, Head of Training Services for Northgate HR explains why ongoing investment in the development of trainer skills is a key element in their business strategy.
After many years of keeping its staff's skills and learning records on a specially constructed database, the V&A family of museums is trialing a learning management system (LMS). The LMS - known as the In Tuition Customer Extranet (ICE) - has been designed by In Tuition and is being supplied on a trial basis free of charge to selected clients.
InterQuad Learning, a division of the InterQuad Group Limited, is now scheduling the two newest ZENworks 6.5 courses, N3040 and N3041, from Novell.
China's Neusoft Group, a listed software and services supplier, signs a partnership agreement with NetDimensions through which Neusoft will market and support NetDimensions' Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) learning management system to blue-chip clients throughout China.
Aviation Training International Limited (ATIL) delivers a Training Service for the Apache Attack Helicopter to the British Army as a Public Finance Initiative. The organisation trains Aircrew, Ground crew and Maintenance Technicians using a combination of Instructor led training and advanced synthetic devices such as Full Mission Simulators and Part Task Trainers. At the outset ATIL employed instructors originally trained by the UK Armed Services. However it soon became clear to Mike Crabbe, the Maintenance Training manager, that the teaching techniques the instructors required and the assessment strategy in use did not give his instructors the best skill-base for the training tools procured for this project.
Slough, 22 October 2004. InterQuad Learning announce a new alliance with Touchstone Group. To get the most out of any business system, organisations need to ensure that their people have the necessary skills in all three areas - infrastructure, productivity tools, and the particular business application involved.
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, has been awarded the Brandon Hall Award of Excellence in Learning 2004 (Silver Award) for its GSK College Training Programme on Business Improvement & Planning.
InterQuad Learning, Training company of the year 2004, as voted by the Institute of IT Training, today announced the opening of its newest training centre in the heart of Edinburgh.
Safe and Healthy Working (SHW), an occupational health and safety service for all employees and employers in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland and part of NHS Health Scotland, is using expertise from TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), to make its website more 'interactive' and so motivate more people to learn and apply the vital office-based health and safety advice it contains.
Thanks to the support of some of its most significant clients, Tata Interactive Systems organized Tata Learning Forum 2004, a meeting of minds like never before.
BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance IT trainers, and Elliott Computer Training of Bristol have been selected to provide all IT user training for around 12,000 UK employees at Airbus. BroadSkill was approached directly by the aircraft manufacturing company following positive experience from the use of BroadSkill trainers on earlier contracts.
Almost 50% of all NHS Trusts in England are now licensed to use the innovative online training course entitled 'MRSA - You can make a difference' which was only formally launched on 14th July 2004.
The LMS KnowledgeBase, an in-depth review of 50 learning management systems just released by leading e-learning industry research and consulting firm brandon-hall.com, sums up NetDimensions Enterprise Knowledge Platform with one word: 'bulletproof'.
InterQuad Learning are pleased to be scheduling high level security courses, run in association with Next Generation Security Software limited (NGS), leaders in IT Security consulting.
BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance IT trainers, today announced that it was fast becoming a significant force in the highly specialised world of accessibility training. In particular, Broadskill is providing trainers to Eliesha Training, a major provider of personal and management development training, to develop skills in special IT support packages amongst those with a visual or other physical impairment at the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Strategic Health Authority has become the first SHA to enter a license agreement for the new online training course, ‘MRSA – you can make a difference’, formally launched by The Training Foundation two weeks ago.
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS)'s recent winning of contracts to develop custom-built e-learning programmes for companies based in mainland Europe - including peripherals producer Hewlett-Packard and food products producer Nestle, along with UNICEF, in Geneva - has prompted the global designer and developer of e-learning materials to expand its operations by opening an office in Zurich, Switzerland, to serve central Europe.
InterQuad Learning is delighted to announce that it has been appointed, along with five other suppliers, as a preferred supplier for IT training services to the Inland Revenue, the UK's second largest Government department and Her Majesty's Customs & Excise. The framework contract, which commences on 1st July, enables IT training to be delivered to users across both Departments. The framework is also open to other Government Departments.
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise today announced that The Training Foundation has been awarded a Framework Agreement contract to provide e-Learning services. These services will also be made available to all other government departments.
A virtual classroom (VC) system is a learning environment where a course leader and participants in different locations interact with one another, much as they would in a physical classroom, but remotely via web technology. The unique demands of this environment place a great deal of stress on course leaders and structured skills development is usually needed before they feel truly comfortable in this role. With this in mind The Training Foundation has developed a specialist certificated course entitled The Virtual Trainer, delivered entirely on-line under the auspices of the Certified e-Learning Professional (CeLP) programme.
CompTIA presented three Awards of Excellence in IT training at the CompTIA Strategies conference in New Orleans, June 10. CompTIA Strategies is part of a unique process in North America that engages leaders in IT training including commercial training providers, corporate training managers, high school and post-secondary IT instructors and representatives from government and not-for-profit organizations.
e2train the Cirencester based e-learning company have recently started working with Mencap the UK's leading learning disability organisation. e2train are producing an effective and easy to use Youth Participation Toolkit aimed at young adults with learning difficulties. The Toolkit is designed to help them find clubs and activities in their community, as often they can feel overwhelmed by this task. It is the first time e-learning has been used in this way, in this particular market.
NetDimensions (www.netdimensions.com) has released version 3.2.2 of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) learning management system. Substantial new enhancements and features have been added to meet the requirements of global enterprises. EKP 3.2.2 tracks and manages all popular training types including online and instructor-led courses and supports the prevailing SCORM 1.2 and AICC specifications.
BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance IT trainers, and Alopeto, a learning solutions provider based in Glasgow, today reported on the successful completion of a European roll-out of desktop training for Nestlé Purina. The challenging project involved training around 3,500 staff in their local language at mainly rural locations spread right across Europe.
The Office of the e-Envoy has awarded the contract to establish and operate the e-GIF Accreditation Authority Programme to the National Computing Centre (NCC) and the Institute of IT Training (IITT). Ensuring adherence to the Government's standards for IT interoperability, the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF), has become more realistic with the establishment of the e-GIF Accreditation Authority.
Garrie Owens, executive manager of the Kent and Medway learndirect hub, has secured external accreditation - from the Institute of IT Training (IITT) - for some 20 of his learndirect centres, following a pilot project, begun in August last year, which was jointly funded by Learning Skills Council (LSC) and University for Industry (UfI).
BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance IT trainers, has been awarded a major outsourcing contract by Atos Origin to handle all training administration for the company in the UK. Using software from Enterprise Study and in-house resources experienced in managing large training projects, BroadSkill will work with Atos Origin to automate processes and manage around 5,000 course bookings per year.
Gareth Harris who works for the Chelsea Building Society recently became the first person in the UK to scoop a European Diploma in the field of e-Learning.
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS)'s Geetha Krishnan and S Sriram have been selected as judges for this year's prestigious Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.
Dave Snowden, director of IBM's Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity, gives the keynote presentation at this year's Institute of IT Training (IITT)'s National Trainers' Conference, which takes place on Tuesday 18th May at the Royal Court Hotel, Coventry.
Over 900 employees of Leeds & Holbeck Building Society throughout the UK can now benefit from the introduction of the new Intranet based e-learning facility. The facility is available throughout its 58 branch network and Head Office departments
QA, the UK’s largest independent provider of IT training and consulting, has been awarded a three-year contract by Alliance & Leicester, one of the UK’s major financial services groups, for the delivery and administration of technology and end-user desktop training to Alliance & Leicester employees throughout the UK.
TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), which has completed some 600 custom-built e-learning projects since becoming established in the UK some six years ago, has strengthened its claims to be one of the world's largest teams for the design and development of custom-built e-learning solutions by enlarging its workforce to over 600 in recent weeks.
Centra Software has announced that The Training Foundation has selected their virtual classroom application to enhance the Certified eLearning Professional Programme(CeLP).
BUPA UK Membership, the global health and care organisation, and BrightWave, the e-learning design specialists, are to develop a blended induction programme for all new staff members joining contact centres across the UK.
How important is it for you to wash your hands before handling food? A simple question perhaps, but in fact a major challenge for University College London Hospital (UCLH), when tackling the issue of food hygiene.
When Colgate Palmolive (CP), an organisation with operations in 60 countries around the globe, wanted to roll out a new corporate strategy - called GtMS (Go to Market Strategy) - it turned to e-learning and e-learning developer Tata Interactive Systems (TIS).
Over the course of the last three years a quiet revolution in the development and certification of training delivery skills has been taking place within the National Health Service. Gary Turnbull of Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust recently completed the three-day TAP Delivery Skills Refresher (DSR) programme operated by The Training Foundation, thereby becoming the 500th NHS trainer to be awarded a certificate within the Trainer Assessment Programme (TAP) since the turn of the millennium.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has launched the use of Career Paths, an innovative tool from QA, the UK’s leading provider of training and consulting, to effectively plan and manage training and enhance career development.
British Airways (BA) has named Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) as one of only three 'preferred suppliers' of custom built e-learning materials for the company's 50,000 or so staff. BA made this announcement after carrying out an extensive and rigorous selection process over several months.
9 May 2003: Intuition, the UK's primary supplier of freelance IT trainers, has teamed up with Enterprise Study, providers of the ESP training business administration platform, to offer a radical new service. The new internet-based capability will provide clients with the ability to locate the right trainer with the right skills in the right location from Intuition's substantial database of freelance trainers. Training managers will be provided with a huge resource that is as easy (and sometimes easier) to use in scheduling events as their own internal instructors.
e2train the Cirencester based e-learning company continue to receive a stamp of approval for their Learning Management and Authoring Systems Kallidus® allowing three entirely different business environments to create, deploy and manage e-learning.
Procter & Gamble have used BrightWave, the UK's fastest growing bespoke e-Learning developer, to produce an online training programme in just 11 days.
BT is working with e-Learning developers BrightWave, to provide training for staff on their Network Fault Management (NFM) system.
IT training and skills certification key toward ensuring greater network security.
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