Growth Engineering, an award-winning learning technologies company, has just announced an integration with payment processing system Stripe to offer eCommerce functionality on the Academy LMS.
The Patient Safety Awards, which recognise outstanding practice across healthcare, took place in Birmingham this month. Virtual College sponsored the Education and Training in Patient Safety Award and was invited to be on the judging panel to represent the important role technology and online training plays in the healthcare sector.
Over half of UK businesses have two or more different teams taking responsibility for learning & development (L&D), leading to confusion and lack of cohesion. That’s according to a new report launched this week by City & Guilds Kineo.
The role games can play as a teaching tool for decision making will be explored in an interactive webinar this month.
Dolphin Drilling has selected learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK and Norway.
Supermarket chain, Waitrose is rolling out an innovative elearning game about the law on selling alcohol, tobacco and other age restricted products.
Conor Gilligan, Head of Workplace Learning at Webanywhere has been appointed to the Iron Yard's advisory board. The Iron Yard has announced it will launch in London, bringing the school's unique training programs to its first international location. Front End Engineering and Rails Engineering classes will begin in London in July.
Virtual College will be demonstrating online careers guidance resources for schools at the Digital Education Show, London Olympia from 30th June to 1st July.
Upside Learning's newsletter, UL Buzz, for the month of June is out. It’s the 50th issue since its inception in 2011 with 11000+ subscribers.
Marshall E-learning has launched a new course in response to recent legislative changes related to the UK Government’s £40 million national counter-terrorism strategy called CONTEST, of which the Prevent strategy is a part.
Speexx, the leading provider of online language training, has received an Honorable Mention by the International E-Learning Award (IELA) in the Blended Learning category. The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, 10th June at the ICELW Conference in New York.
Independent research by Towards Maturity launched at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum reveals that retailers are improving revenue, productivity and behavioural change amongst employees as a result of adopting technology-enabled learning, but there is still more opportunity to be had.
Totara Learning is pleased to announce the appointment of Lars Hyland as Commercial Director, who will lead the global channel partner and business development team.
Upside Learning is one of 2015’s leading content development companies, as per the 2015 Content Development Companies Watch List by Training Industry Inc. This is the 2nd consecutive year for Upside Learning to be listed in the prestigious Watch List.
Upside Learning has been awarded 3 APEX 2015 Awards of Excellence for its Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED), Blog and an eLearning course for one of its clients.
The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) used of a range of innovative tools from Learning Pool to deliver a training programme that covered five key areas around digital information skills to a vast audience of 14,000 librarians.
gomo learning’s Mike Alcock is to appear at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum, sharing expertise to help organizations deliver learning which works seamlessly across tablets, desktops and smartphones.
How emerging technologies will change elearning in the future is the subject of a week-long social media event aimed at generating debate and awareness about the latest trends.
Totara Learning Solutions is pleased to welcome the addition of GP Strategies to their Global Partner network.
Delegates from Workers’ Educational Association together with several colleges involved in the national Learning Futures Programme visited Virtual College for a full day programme of activities to understand more about building and deploying e-learning within blended training programmes.
Atlas Knowledge has been awarded a contract by INPEX to provide training for production workers involved in the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project.
The 2015 Towards Maturity Benchmark enables L&D professionals to gather data on current learning activities to help shape future success.
Upside Learning reveals findings on the qualities that a good Instructional Designer must possess, from an open discussion with its ID team, in a blog post.
L&D teams looking to integrate games into their elearning are being offered practical tips and examples at Learning Technologies 2015 Summer Forum (June 16).
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the key to improving education and thus boosting growth across Africa – but there is still widespread reluctance among teachers, trainers and managers to abandon traditional methods in favour of new solutions.
Retailer Mothercare is modernising its approach to health and safety training by moving online with its first ever elearning course for staff.
Totara Learning is pleased to announce the appointment of Graham Norton-Standen as its new Chairman of the Board effective immediately.
A new book about the rapid expansion of an elearning company challenges the myths about growth, and reveals how businesses can overcome the obstacles that stop them growing bigger.
As attention moves from the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), political leaders will join education experts and investors at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa later this month to discuss the role technology can play in building on Africa’s progress in education, training and development.
The e-learning and Totara provider Mind Click has opened new offices in Brighton in response to its growth of more than 60% in the last two years. The organisation has put in place a new programme of expansion to further enhance the support for its growing client base in the south of England. The Brighton office will also act as a hub for LMS development and e-learning innovation.
Ilkley-based online learning provider, Virtual College, has donated £5,000 to help Hive fund a pioneering woodwork and technology project.
At the upcoming ATD 2015 International Conference & Exposition, to be held in Orlando, FL from 17th-20th May, Upside Learning will discuss all things Multi-device Learning with a focus on delivering Great Bespoke Learning at stand#109.
Virtual College’s Health and Social Care director, Judith Clarkson, will be on the judging panel for the ‘Education and Training in Patient Safety’ award at the prestigious Patient Safety Congress and Awards 2015.
New elearning contracts for Webanywhere; market growth for learning technologies and digital creative services; new elearning roles in Chicago.
Award-winning elearning company, Sponge UK, will be sharing practical ideas on how to introduce game thinking into elearning at the CIPD Learning & Development Show 2015.
A polling station is the unlikely setting for a new online game aimed at bringing the experience of voting to life for first-time voters.
Compliance elearning has a bad reputation but an interactive webinar this month will reveal ways to help learners understand the benefits and even learn to love it.
Award-winning learning technologies company Growth Engineering to exhibit and unveil new Game-Based Authoring Tool at the 2015 ATD International Conference and Exposition in Florida on 17-20 May.
The latest version – 6.6 – of Docebo’s Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise learning management system (LMS) offers a range of refinements and enhancements to its features and apps, improving the LMS’s modularity.
International experts will call for African leaders to “leapfrog the shackles of convention” at a major education conference next month, in order to ensure that African economic growth is sustained by adequately trained young people. The programme for this year’s eLearning Africa, which is being co-organised by the African Union and co-hosted by the Government of Ethiopia, reflects the extraordinary breadth and pace of change underway in African education – and the challenge for new technology-based solutions to meet Africa’s growing demand for high quality education and training.
Acteon will be exhibiting at the CIPD Learning and Development Show, giving practical advice on how to improve engagement and create learning that makes a positive impact.
The latest eBook released by Upside Learning, titled '99 Tips for Great Bespoke Learning', shares tips on how to #DoGreat eLearning, mLearning and Responsive/Multi-device Learning.
Leading learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge and its strategic partner Amplo Development Services have launched a new initiative that will bring internationally certified construction, commercial and oil & gas training to the burgeoning South African and Namibian energy industries.
Having learnt the value of a learning content management system (LCMS) through using it in its own projects, Tribal - the global provider of products and services to the international education, training and learning markets – is now distributing that LCMS to its clients.
A research training project investigating the role of creativity in human thinking and innovation is working with award-winning elearning company, Sponge UK.
The recently announced 2015 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List, by Training Industry Inc., recognises Upside Learning as one of the leading providers of outsourced learning services across the globe.
Extends Industry’s Only Cloud Market for Integrating Pre-Configured Talent Management Solutions with Saba Cloud.
International learning technology leader, Atlas Knowledge has secured the contract to deliver safety training for workers engaged on the high profile Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) project.
Upside Learning’s latest infographic, Learning in a Multi-device World, explains the increasing demand for multi-device learning and some insights on getting started with it.
Saba’s Secure Cloud Platform Core to Mr. Barr’s Repeated Selection.
Techniques for evoking emotion in elearning to boost learner engagement will be offered at an interactive webinar this month.
Customers including Dell, Equity Residential, Guitar Center, RR Donnelley, Toshiba and US Army win Excellence Awards
Talent Management Solution Augments Recruiting and Succession and Will Add Intelligent Benchmarking to Help Companies Avert the Leadership Ledge.
To celebrate its 11th Anniversary, Upside Learning has released a timeline highlighting the key milestones in its 11 year journey.
The role of games within elearning and their effectiveness in workplace training are among the topics to be explored in a week long social media event.
Upside Learning’s latest eBook, titled Multi-device Testing 101, unravels the complex world of multi-device eLearning testing.
Looming Leadership Gap: One-Third of Global Companies Struggle to Find Senior Leaders and Only 12 Percent of Employees Aspire to the Corner Office.
Global operator Maersk Oil has become the first to adopt an exclusively electronic competence system with the ability to effectively track employees’ knowledge and minimise risk in the oil and gas sector.
Saba and Vector Capital announced today that affiliates of Vector Capital have successfully completed the acquisition of Saba
Second subsequent leadership ranking for cloud-based solution.
The digital learning content management business solution provider, eXact learning solutions, and its learning content management system (LCMS) have been named on the official list of Tin Can adopters.
An award-winning compliance campaign for Tesco created by elearning company, Sponge UK, will be highlighted at an international compliance conference and exhibition this month.
International learning technologies market leader Atlas Knowledge has secured a major seven year contract to deliver second generation safety critical training to the UK offshore workforce.
Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning, will discuss the Smart Ways to do Multi-Device Learning at the Learning and Skills Group webinar on 26th March.
OEB 2015, Europe’s leading conference on digital education, will discuss the potential for a new age of global learning and creativity in which “everything is possible.” Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of conference organisers ICWE GmbH, has confirmed that the focus of this year’s conference, which will be held in Berlin on 2-4 December, will be on modernity and how people, organisations and societies can use technology-assisted education to secure the rewards of “a new era of fundamental change.”
Virtual College donates five percent of its turnover from Safeguarding children online courses. A recent example of this is a donation of £1,500 to Streetlife, a youth work charity.
Jam Pan, a new learning marketplace launched in late 2014, has announced that over 200 digital creative production agencies have signed up to bid for learning and workplace performance projects.
Upside Learning to share its time tested knowledge and solutions on Multi-device learning at the 'Learning Solutions Conference & Expo 2015'.
Technology now exists which can ‘ingest’ learning content in any format, allow all the authors to edit it, re-purpose and format it for different delivery methods and then deliver that learning.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), the nation's driving force behind pure performance in sport, has just launched a new multi-device anti-doping elearning course and learning management system for the Australian sporting community, created by leading industry experts in learning technologies and solutions, Kineo Pacific.
This year, Marshall ACM has been nominated for two awards in the ‘Best Diversity Resource’ and ‘Entrepreneur of Excellence’ categories of the 2015 National Diversity Awards.
Award winning e-learning company Learning Pool, has released its new fully responsive Financial Services training, providing for highly engaging and cost-effective learning in areas such as Anti-Corruption, Compliance and Financial Crime.
David Wood, founder of Jam Pan Learning marketplace is to join the judging panel for the upcoming Educate North Awards, established in association with the Telegraph.
Totara Learning Solutions is announced as a headline sponsor for the 2015 E-Learning Awards, the internationally recognised showcase for some of the most recognisable, memorable, and life-changing e-learning worldwide.
A new marketplace of app developers, games designers and video producers is set to rescue elearning from itself and to give a boost to how L&D sources creative skills.
Upside Learning, in collaboration with Al-Khaleej Training and Education, invites L&D professionals to the ATD MENA 2015 Conference & Exposition, Saudi Arabia, where it will showcase its innovative eLearning products and services.
The supported enterprise release of Totara LMS Version 2.7 was released 02 March 2015, as usual the result of a lot of collaboration with customers and partners to offer better value and flexibility for corporate LMS users.
As part of the G-Cloud 6 framework, UK public sector organisations can now source bespoke eLearning and digital learning content creation services from CM Group on the Digital Marketplace.
Docebo, makers of the Cloud SaaS-based e-learning solutions platform, is revealing the Top Ten features of an Extended Enterprise (EE).
City & Guilds Kineo has released its new fully responsive multi-device elearning modules, supported by the hosted Learning Management System (LMS), MyEssentialsPlus.
Creativedge Training to show how its bite-size training adds value to workplace training.
Virtual College is a registered Digital Marketplace provider via the latest release of the G-Cloud, making it easier for the public sector to purchase its online learning solutions.
UK public sector organisations can now procure CM Group’s Luminosity Learning Solutions from the Digital Marketplace as part of the G-Cloud 6 framework.
Ways to unlock creativity, use it to solve problems and refresh elearning are being offered at a live webinar in March hosted by elearning provider, Sponge UK.
Leading learning and intelligent talent management solutions companies to offer virtual classroom technology and online learning facilitation for Saba customers in the UK.
LEO and the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) are delighted to announce the launch of their app, ‘EMAC Essentials’, on the Apple and Android app stores.
City & Guilds Kineo has been named a Strategic Leader in the Bespoke Elearning market for a third consecutive year, as part of an independent, annual study undertaken by Elearnity.
On 16 February 2015 the Spicy Learning Blog was placed at number one by eLearning Feeds, whose team of experts rank and score hundreds of elearning blogs. The blog was rated on criteria including its publication frequency, levels of social sharing and the impact articles make on the wider elearning community.
Docebo has raised $3M in growth equity from Klass Capital to accelerate the growth of its SaaS enterprise E-Learning platform. This is Docebo’s second venture backed financing round, originally funded by a leading Italian Venture Capital firm Principia SGR.
Saba Cloud Recognised at LEARNTEC 2015
On 5 February, Saffron Interactive, the award-winning digital learning company, collected silver in the sought-after category during a ceremony at The Dorchester in London. Judges were impressed by the experiential elearning and unique knowledge platform developed in close partnership with Against Violence & Abuse (AVA). The project aims to educate practitioners working with children and young people about how to identify, challenge and respond to violence against women and girls.
West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce is offering members e-learning courses after announcing a partnership with Virtual College, one of the UK’s leading providers of online training.
Businesses looking to train staff on the importance and means of preventing underage sales will be delighted with a brand new online course launched by the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) with Virtual College.
A blended learning programme created by Barclays, a City & Guilds Kineo client, was recognised at this year’s Learning Awards, scooping a Bronze Award.
Saba recognized as Cloud Award Winner for HR Solution
Glasgow City College (in partnership with elearning and Equality and Diversity specialists, Marshall ACM) has launched its first ever mobile learning app with fantastic results.
Global eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz has produced an infographic on HSE accident statistics to simplify the process of getting the information across for trainers and organisations.
Organisations and learning professionals can go behind the scenes of a project to create a management skills elearning game using interactive video.
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) in collaboration with Upside Learning, develops their first e-learning project, a flash-based coursework for their Collaborative Marketing Program.
The latest edition of Elearnity’s 9-Grid Report for Authoring Tools, published at the end of January, rates eXact learning solutions’ learning content management system (LCMS) as a ‘Potential Leader’.
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