Elearning doesn’t have to be boring! The winners of the Charity Learning Awards 2014 are proof that using technology as part of an imaginative, blended approach to L&D can save time and money - and inspire learners. Martin Baker, CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium, says it’s time to celebrate the positive benefits that learning technologies can bring.
Learning technologies firm LEO, formed from the merger of Epic and LINE, will appear at DevLearn 2014 in Las Vegas, NV from October 29th-31st.
gomo learning is thrilled to announce the release of gomo 2.2 at Devlearn 2014, which takes place from October 29-31st in Las Vegas.
The Everyone’s Business campaign has launched a new website and vibrant brand identity aimed at senior decision-makers in government and the NHS. The campaign is dedicated to ensuring that all women in the UK have access to specialist perinatal mental health care during pregnancy and postnatally.
Leading elearning company, Sponge UK has become a Towards Maturity Ambassador and will be supporting the organisation’s annual Benchmark Study aimed at helping businesses change and grow through learning innovation.
CM Group continues to underline its leadership in innovative learning solutions with its Luminosity Reach next generation Learning Management System (LMS) being recognised as one of the Top UK LMSs.
Show Sponsor to Demonstrate Employee Engagement Solutions; Customer to Showcase the ‘Dimension Data Job Framework’ Project.
Three months after publishing a major report on some the world’s leading e-learning markets - A Review of the e-learning markets of the UK, EU and China 2014 - Learning Light is making sections of the report available to suit the information needs of a range of potential customers.
Upside Learning returns to Australia this October to participate in the annual Learning@Work conference as a seminar sponsor. The highlight would be its learning session explaining the why & how of converting eLearning to HTML. Delegates can also look forward to seeing the latest learning solutions on display at stand # 2 and networking with the Upside Learning team.
Saba recognized as CLO Learning in Practice Silver Award Winner for Saba Cloud.
People with type two diabetes have twice the risk of developing dementia. Depression is twice as common in people with diabetes and up to 20% of those with a severe mental illness also have diabetes. To help tackle these issues, Virtual College has released its most recent patient safety training course, ‘The Safe Management of Diabetes, Dementia, Depression and Severe Mental Illness’.
Compensation@Work is Capstone in Saba’s Two Year Evolution; Highlights ‘New Saba’ at Industry’s Largest HR Technology Show.
Learning Light is offering its expertise to private sector training organisations which are having to develop strategies to meet the response from the UK Government’s department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to recommendations from The Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG).
Global learning technology and skills provider, Atlas Knowledge has pioneered a highly effective solution to manage competency and minimise risk in the Oil and Gas industry.
Tesco and leading elearning company, Sponge UK, will be revealing, at a major European conference, how their innovative approach to online compliance training achieved an unprecedented success rate.
Talent Management Innovator Taps Big Data to Pinpoint at Risk Employees and Show Cost of Retaining vs. Replacing Your Most Valuable People
Docebo, makers of the Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), e-learning platform, will be showcasing its best-in-class e-learning solutions at this year’s HR Summit and Expo 2014. This event is scheduled to take place at the Sheikh Maktoum Hall in the Dubai International Exhibition and Convention Centre from October 20 to 22.
Saffron Interactive has been named as ‘one to watch’ on this year’s Learning Portal Companies Watch List. Training Industry has recognised Saffron and its open source LMS, Saffron Grow, as an industry trailblazer amongst a growing list of clients that value innovation and user-impact.
This month Saffron Interactive, leading innovator in the digital learning sector, has been re-accredited by the Learning and Performance Institute (formerly the Institute of IT Training) for the sixth year running. The rigorous accreditation process requires that vendors demonstrate consistently excellent performance and give evidence of strategic transformation and innovation.
Industry leading learning technology and skills provider, Atlas has continued to bolster its award winning online training portfolio by entering a lucrative partnership with CiNet-RedVector, a world renowned online technical solutions provider. This partnership will enable Atlas to expand its extensive range of services to the Oil and Gas industry.
Global IT, logistics, services and consulting professionals whose organizations and/or clients need to adopt an Extended Enterprise solution for delivering and managing learning are being invited to discover how to achieve the best results.
Sponge UK will explain the process of how affordable elearning games are created, from initial ideas through to the delivery of the final product, in a webinar hosted by Learning and Skills Group next month.
In line with the growing need for multi-device learning and the unique challenges encountered in its testing, Upside Learning has launched a full-fledged lab for multi-device testing.
Leading elearning company, Sponge UK, has been shortlisted in two categories at the prestigious Elearning Age Awards 2014.
Upside Learning has been shortlisted for ‘E-learning development company of the year’ and ‘Best e-learning project - international private sector’ in the 2014 E-Learning Awards.
Learning Technologies company Growth Engineering, in association with clients including Brakes Group, Bensons for Beds and Azlan Tech Data, has beaten hundreds of others to win a Silver and two Bronze Brandon Hall Excellence awards.
The latest version - 6.4 - of Docebo’s Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution contains a series of enhancements to its features and apps intended to cement its position in the top ten of the world’s learning management systems (LMSs).
Saffron Interactive, leading innovators in the learning technologies sector, working alongside AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) in a Comic Relief funded project, has created a Digital Prevention Platform and elearning course to help practitioners take the correct steps to safeguard children who disclose instances of abuse and implement a whole school approach to prevent violence against women and girls.
Upside Learning is a Gold sponsor at this year's Performance Support Symposium and will present an informative learning session on 'Responsive Design - Driving PS Engagement'.
Award-winning Acteon is exhibiting at the World of Learning & Conference Exhibition 2014, and presenting a seminar on using blended learning 'beyond the module'.
Saba secures three new patents for leading-edge functionality for talent management solutions
With increased demand for charity services and L&D budgets under pressure, it’s never been more important for charities to make the most of learning and development. A seminar on 1 October with the Charity Learning Consortium will show how collaborating to embed eLearning can help third sector organisations save time and money, reaching more learners and boosting overall productivity.
After being listed in TrainingIndustry.com’s 2014 Content Development Companies Watch List, Upside Learning has been featured as a 2014 Learning Portals Watch List Company for its Learning Management System, UpsideLMS.
Totara LMS Platinum Partners have once again been shortlisted for the prestigious eLearning Age awards, in what is the most extensive and hard-fought shortlist ever.
Medicine doses are often omitted or delayed in hospital, in some circumstances this can cause serious harm or death for critical medicines or conditions. To help mitigate these risks, online training provider, Virtual College has worked closely with NHS England’s Safe Medication Practice Team to develop their latest patient safety online course.
CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative eLearning and mobile learning solutions, underlined its expertise in innovative learning solutions with its Luminosity Reach next generation Learning Management System (LMS) achieving a place in the world’s ‘Top Mobile LMSs’.
Within days of having been named on the shortlist of this year’s E-Learning Age Awards in the UK – in the ‘best learning management system (LMS) implementation’ category – Docebo has also been named on the 2014 Learning Portal Companies Watch List.
E-learning Awards judges announced on Monday 8 September that Acteon, a six-time Gold E-learning Award winner, has been selected as a finalist in three categories for its work with UK broadcaster Channel 4.
Upside Learning has released an eBook titled 'Responsive eLearning Design & Development' to help eLearning professionals understand the ins and outs of responsive eLearning.
Join Brightwave's CEO, Charles Gould, and the Pearl Group's MD/Founder, David Pearl, at the 2014 World of Learning Conference and Exhibition as they explore the true value of informal learning.
LEO has entered 2014’s busy learning awards season with a bronze Brandon Hall Group Excellence award, as well as being nominated for a further five E-Learning Age awards.
Learning technology firm Webanywhere has relocated its head office to central Leeds, creating a number of new jobs and continuing the company’s ambitious plans for expansion.
Wednesday, 10th September 2014 – Speexx, the leading global provider of online language training, today announced that it will hold its fourth Speexx Exchange conference in Berlin, Germany on 3rd December 2014, on the eve of Online Educa.
CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative eLearning and mobile learning solutions, today announced the release of enhanced gamification features as part of Luminosity Reach, CM Group’s next generation Learning Management System.
Autodesk, the world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services, has been named along with Docebo, makers of the Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) E-Learning Platform, on the shortlist for one of the 2014 UK E-Learning Age Awards.
Saffron Interactive, creators of innovative learning content and platforms, will be exhibiting at Learning Live 2014 in London this week, returning to the event as a premium sponsor and launching its vision for the future of knowledge management.
Aurion Learning, a full service online learning and development company, announced that it has been named as a finalist for two E-Learning Age Awards this year in the categories of Learning Development Company of the Year and Best E-Learning Project Public Sector.
Instruxion, a company specializing in providing content for internal and external communication, as well as e-marketing, has signed a partnership agreement with Docebo to make Docebo’s e-learning platform available to organizations throughout Belgium and Luxembourg.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, today announced that it has been shortlisted for five prestigious E-Learning Awards this year. The E-Learning Awards recognise and reward excellence in e-learning and are the leading, independently judged scheme in the industry.
Upside Learning’s innovative HTML-based Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED) has been recognised as an early adopter of the Tin Can API under ‘Authoring Tools’ category.
On September 3rd, City & Guilds Kineo will bring global clients together in Leicester to host their first Workforce Development Conference, showcasing real-life examples of the impact apprenticeships, qualifications and accreditation can have on a business.
The Home Office has launched a free online training package dealing with female genital mutilation (FGM), developed with Virtual College. It will give teachers, police, doctors, social workers and Border Force staff the training they need to help them identify and assist girls who are at risk of FGM.
Aurion Learning, a leading provider of digital learning solutions, will be speaking and exhibiting at the World of Learning Conference and Exhibition.
When New Market Partners (NMP), a USA-based program services company focusing on the financial services sector, realized that increases in demand for its training programs meant that it had to deliver those programs online, it chose the Docebo E-Learning Platform to help it do so.
Upside Learning will be conducting a webinar on Towards Maturity’s In-Focus report – Mobile Learning In The Workplace on 6th August.
Insulin, the drug used by millions of people with diabetes, has become the world-wide standard for essential and effective life-saving treatment. But, when administered incorrectly, insulin can cause significant harm and, in some cases, unnecessary fatalities. Virtual College have updated this important course to reflect new guidelines.
At an event which attracted the UK’s top suppliers of online-delivered learning content, held at the end of July in the Australian High Commission in The Strand, London, Graeme Coomber, CEO of EdTrIn explained his organisation’s aim of managing a lifetime of learning for large numbers of the world’s population – beginning with those living in the Asia-Pacific, Indian sub-Continent and MENA regions.
Social Collaboration Fused with the Predictive Power of The Intelligent Mentor (TIM) Recognizes Role Models, Curates Curriculums and Fosters Career Growth
Docebo’s learning management system (LMS) has now been named as the third best LMS in the world for business-to-business (B2B) use. This news comes only weeks after being placed in sixth position overall in a mid-year independent review of 600 LMSs by the internationally-known corporate online learning industry analyst, Craig Weiss and published by E-Learning 24/7.
CACHE (the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education), is sponsoring the ‘Working in the Childcare Sector’ Career VOOC®. This is one of a suite of 10 Career VOOCs (Vocational Open Online Courses) being developed by Virtual College.
CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative eLearning and mobile learning solutions, today announced that internet television service NOW TV has selected CM Group’s Luminosity range of learning solutions. The learning solutions will provide mobile ready delivery and gamification for NOW TV’s third party sales channel.
75,000 people with diabetes die each year in England, accounting for approximately one in seven of all deaths. In recognition of this, Virtual College and NHS England have created a new online training course for healthcare professionals who provide ‘end of life care’ for people with diabetes.
Saffron Interactive, leading innovators in the learning technology sector, are preparing to unveil their new vision for the future of the enterprise knowledge-base at the 2014 Learning Live show in Bishopsgate from 10-11th September.
Instructional designers, trainers, e-learning developers, learning management system (LMS) administrators, employee and management development professionals, along with organizational development (OD) specialists, are being invited to discover best practices to ensure the maximum return on investment (ROI) in learning and development (L&D).
CIPD has joined the Charity Learning Consortium: collaborating with charitable organisations to make learning technologies more affordable and effective.
Docebo’s SaaS-based e-learning platform has risen to sixth in Craig Weiss’ E-Learning 24/7 LMS world rankings.
In a move designed to attract potential high quality e-learning suppliers from the UK EdTrIn the global online education provider, joined by Learning Light's David Patterson, is holding an event at the Australian High Commission in London on 25th July.
Ease of use tops 50 reasons why the International Parking Institute is organising it's learning around Docebo's SaaS elearning platform.
Global eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz, has just released a new CIEH Assured Level 2 Food Safety eLearning course aimed at food handlers who work in the catering, manufacturing or retail sectors.
The UK’s online learning technologies market is still the largest in Europe – but only just – according to a major report into the state of the e-learning industry in the UK, Europe and China.
One in three employees leave within the first year. The cost of losing talent to UK business is around £42 million a year. Are we doing enough in our onboarding and new hire induction to address this?
CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative eLearning solutions, has announced that Luminosity Studio, CM Group’s eLearning authoring solution, now supports Tin Can (Experience API).
Upside Learning’s recently released whitepaper on blended learning, titled 'Blended Learning - The way ahead for 'an always learning' organisation', aims to help organisations understand and implement Blended Learning successfully through a Learning Management System (LMS).
Upside Learning has won its 8th APEX award with the recently announced 2014 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence. The award, won under the Education & Training Electronic Media category, was for its ‘Information and Data Protection game’.
Drag-and-Drop Capabilities Integrate Third-Party Talent Sourcing, Employee Screening and Learning Content and Services
Upside Learning has been recognized as one of the best content development companies by TrainingIndustry.com in its recently released 2014 Content Development Companies Watch List.
Survey reveals that nearly one quarter of organisations in the UK, cite infrastructure and processes as major barriers to improving employee engagement.
Speexx is celebrated as an innovative blended learning provider by the International E-Learning Awards Association
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a ‘Better Training Better Care’ pilot sponsored by Health Education England have joined forces with Virtual College to develop an online training course; An Introduction to Telemedicine.
Totara LMS has received the U.S. Army’s Certificate of Networthiness, enabling the learning management system software to be used with Army systems. Totara, a custom distribution learning management software designed to deliver the benefits and cost savings of open source software to government and corporate clients, will work with ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, on implementation for federal clients.
E-learning provider, Virtual College, has released a new compliance course which aims to educate and protect businesses from the devastation of payment security breaches.
Saba To Provide Global Intelligent Talent Management Solution For Virgin Atlantic
Leading online learning provider, Virtual College, has been working closely with hospitality training experts to develop online hospitality learning resources which are compatible with a range of different mobile devices.
Saffron Interactive to denounce the ‘dinosaur LMS’ and demonstrate what transforms a learning platform into a change-maker at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum.
Towards Maturity's In-Focus report 'Mobile Learning at Work', supported by Upside Learning, will be released on 17th June 2014, at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum event in London.
Course-Source is launching a revolutionary way for companies that have an LMS (or VLE) to purchase and deliver off-the-shelf e-learning courses at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in London on June 17th.
Working closely with NHS England’s Patient Safety Domain, Virtual College is positioned to release seven additional online patient safety training courses, before the end of the year.
Autodesk, the world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services, is using the Docebo E-Learning Platform to enable its Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI) program to reach a global, multi-cultural and multi-lingual audience.
Virtual College is proud to announce it has been judged to be in the European EdTech 20, a listing of the top 20 e-learning companies in Europe. This is a strong endorsement of the company’s innovation and strategy to build more meaningful e-learning for companies and learners.
Robin Martin, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe, Saba Software, to Address Coming Effects of Technology on the Workplace
Planning@Work Solution Helps Companies Align Organizational Plans with Business Strategies
eLearning provider Learning Nexus will be conducting an interactive workshop entitled ‘eLearning: Business as Usual’ at the 3rd Annual AIM Awards conference that takes place on 17 June at Loughborough University.
Established in 2003, Webanywhere provides businesses and the education sector with learning management systems, e-portfolios and other e-learning tools, alongside curricular content. Now in its 10th year of trading, Webanywhere is moving to a new head office in the centre of Leeds. The new location will allow Webanywhere to provide on site training in e-learning technology to its many corporate clients in the region.
Upside Learning announced today that it will be a featured exhibitor and presenter at The eLearning Guild's mLearnCon event, the leading industry event for technology-supported learning and performance support professionals.
Industry leading eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz, have released a new Safeguarding course available through their LMS or as a SCORM compliant course.
City & Guilds Kineo are to showcase some of their latest client work at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum, taking place at Olympia, London on 17th June. They will also be delivering a seminar that showcases effective onboarding techniques, and releasing a new guide to Onboarding at the show.
Lifetime Awarding is sponsoring ‘Working in the Active Leisure sector’, one of a suite of 10 Career VOOC®s (Vocational Open Online Courses) being developed by Virtual College to help keep careers guidance up to date and relevant for a new generation of digital natives.
Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) today announced that the company’s unified, cloud-based talent management software solution has been selected by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) are jointly hosting their first Lean Sharing Forum which will be themed around 'Developing Improvement Capability'.
Sponge UK managing director, Louise Pasterfield, is to host a session on the use of games in learning at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum.
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