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    • Upside Learning To Participate In Learning Technologies 2013; Focus On ‘eLearning on iPads’

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Announcing its participation at Learning Technologies 2013, Upside Learning has revealed its theme for the event – ‘eLearning on iPads’. The company will be showcasing its wide range of solutions and services, talking about mEnablement and conducting free mLearning consultancy sessions at stand # 55. A learning session based on the theme is scheduled on 29th Jan.

    • Pioneering Education Initiative to Boost Skills for Energy Sector

      Atlas |

      A pioneering education initiative, Your Future In Energy, that aims to give school pupils clear paths into careers in the energy industry, launches this week in Aberdeen with a pilot at the city’s Northfield Academy. The pilot was launched at international learning and skills provider Atlas, one of several companies backing Your Future in Energy. During their visit, S3 pupils were shown how to use the award-winning Atlas Knowledge Centre which will allow them to build their own personalised library of authoritative technical information for use throughout their education, supporting their future career choices and transition to the workplace.

    • Kineo and City & Guilds to Share New Approaches for Workplace and Vocational Learning at LT13

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      Learners and employers are under increasing pressure. They want access to learning when they need it, and expect a supported, engaging and relevant learning experience. Isolated courses won’t cut it anymore. At the Learning Technologies 2013 in London on January 29th, Kineo and City & Guilds will share their innovations in addressing this challenge.

    • Kineo Shares Responsive Design at Learning Technologies

      Kineo | Brighton |

      We live in a multi-device world. The growth of internet enabled devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptops means that increasingly we have to deliver learning solutions that work on all devices. E-learning needs to be ready to run on every surface, as a single version. At Learning Technologies in London later this month, Kineo will share their insights into responsive design and show how a single version can run on multiple devices.

    • Speexx nominated as finalist for eureleA Award – European Award for Technology Supported Learning

      Speexx | Munich, Germany |

      Munich – Thursday, 10th January 2013 – Speexx, the award-winning leader in online corporate language training, has been selected as a finalist for the 2013 eureleA Award, for the best ‘Technology Supported Learning’ tool. Today’s announcement reinforces Speexx as an award-winning language learning platform to deliver the perfect combination of online collaboration tools, engaging courseware and live expert coaches.

    • Kineo Team Grows as Virginia Barder Joins as UK E-learning Director

      Kineo | Brighton |

      Kineo, the leading e-learning services company, is delighted to announce further growth of its UK team with Virginia Barder joining as Kineo’s UK E-learning Director. Virginia is a well-known and highly experienced figure in the UK e-learning industry and will enable Kineo’s continued growth and success.

    • CommsLearning Partners With Upside Learning To Offer Upside2Go In The UK

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      CommsLearning, specialists in bespoke digital learning solutions, has recently partnered with Upside Learning, a leading learning technology solutions company. As part of the partnership, CommsLearning will be selling Upside Learning’s revolutionary mobile learning platform, Upside2Go, in the UK.

    • Kineo & RNLI Celebrate Charity Learning Award Success

      Kineo |

      Kineo clients the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) have won the Charity Learning Award 2012 for Best Overall Online Programme for their well thought out, flexible, easy to use “Learning Zone”, which brings resources directly to staff, crew and volunteers no matter where they are based. The solution uses the Totara LMS platform and a blended approach to learning.

    • UpsideLMS Gets Equipped With New Features

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      UpsideLMS, Upside Learning’s Learning Management System, is now equipped with new features that include time zone support, unified curriculum structure for blended training (including self-paced, ILT, Virtual classroom, and others), improved security, comprehensive calendar, to list a few.

    • goFLUENT expands its operations in Britain

      goFLUENT | Geneva, Switzerland |

      Increasing demand for its products globally has prompted goFLUENT, a leading provider of Business English training which works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the world, to begin a recruiting drive for British-based native English speakers. They will augment goFLUENT’s existing team of 400 or so trainers, who are based in the USA, Canada and the Philippines.

    • Business skills boost as Learning Nexus teams up with Unicorn

      Learning Nexus | United Kingdom |

      A new integrated partnership between top financial industry eLearning specialists, Unicorn Training, and Learning Nexus, the UK’s leading eLearning content provider, will enable financial sector organisations to access even greater depth and range of critical online business skills training.

    • COSHH E-Learning (Care of Substances Hazardous to Health) - New course released by EssentialSkillz

      EssentialSkillz | Milton Keynes |

      EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced version of its popular COSHH e-learning course. EssentialSkillz is a leading provider of online safety training and risk assessment software and has added the newly updated course to their comprehensive range of e-learning solutions. According to EssentialSkillz the COSHH e-learning course uses rich graphics and interactions to engage employees and ensure the important information contained in the course is retained.

    • Totara Learning Welcomes City & Guilds as Shareholder

      Totara | Wellington, New Zealand |

      City and Guilds are pleased to announce that they have acquired Kineo, a leading global learning and technology business. As an outcome of the acquisition, City & Guilds will also become part owners of Totara Learning Solutions, the open source learning technologies company that has developed Totara LMS, the custom version of Moodle for businesses.

    • Towards Maturity’s 2012 Benchmark Study Released – The Ambassador Speaks

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      The leading benchmark research company, Towards Maturity, has unveiled the findings of its major annual learning technology Benchmark Study for 2012. Upside Learning, one of Towards Maturity’s ambassadors, speaks about the implications of the findings of this study on its product offerings and the learning domain, and its association with the research body.

    • City & Guilds and Kineo to Share Innovations in Workplace Learning

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      City & Guilds and Kineo have recently partnered on a major new initiative for learning in the workplace and beyond. The solution brings together City & Guilds' strength and quality in qualification and learner support with Kineo's innovation in learning technology. The programme will be explained in a Learning and Skills Group Webinar entitled ‘From Isolated Courses to Integrated Learning' on Dec 6th.

    • LINE and British Airways win Silver at the 2012 E-Learning Awards

      LINE Communications | London |

      LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications solutions has been awarded a Silver award for Excellence in the Production of Learning Content – Private Sector at the 2012 E-Learning Awards. The award was given for a programme titled Outstanding Leaders, which was designed and delivered for British Airways together with LINE’s partners ORConsulting.

    • Making Learning Alive: Brightwave to speak at Business Educa, 29 Nov

      Brightwave Group |

      Charles Gould, Managing Director at e-learning expert Brightwave, will deliver a presentation on 'Making Learning Alive' at this year's Business Educa event in Berlin, forming part of the annual Online Educa conference which is now in its 18th year.

    • Kineo E-learning Wins Series of Global Awards

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      Kineo is pleased to announce it has received a full set of gold, silver and bronze awards for e-learning projects on both sides of the Atlantic, whilst Totara LMS has also won awards on both sides of the Pacific.

    • Kallidus wins two 2012 E-Learning Awards

      Kallidus | Cirencester, U.K. |

      Kallidus scoops e-learning industry award for outstanding achievement – corporate and e-learning designer of the year - Mark Bennett, Kallidus

    • ELIGs Top 10 - European organisations share results stories of learning using technology

      LINE Communications | London |

      ELIG, the European Learning Industry Group, has initiated a project to enable the workplace learning industry to share its success stories of learning using technology. The aim of the project is to help change the way Europe learns by highlighting the powerful evidence hidden within individual stories and bringing them together as a collection of micro-stories to be shared to inspire others. Stories are from organisations that have measured the impact of their blended learning projects.

    • Upside Learning Adopts Tin Can API In Its Proprietary Courseware Framework

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Upside Learning has entered the league of early adopters of Tin Can API by integrating this latest learning standard into its proprietary courseware framework. This integration enables it to create Tin Can-compliant custom learning courses for desktops and mobile devices (including tablets), tailor-made to the client’s requirements.

    • Kineo and E.learning Age to Launch Major Report at E-learning Awards

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      Kineo, the leading e-learning company, and e.learning Age, will launch a major new report on Learning Technology this week at the E-learning Awards in London. The report is based on interviews with over 30 businesses on their use of learning technology, and outlines ten key trends.

    • Upside Learning Records YOY Growth Of 97% In FY 2012

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      For Upside Learning, the first half of FY 2012 ended with a stunning YOY growth of 97%. Revenues for this leading provider of learning technology solutions company are primarily driven by UpsideLMS, its multi award–winning Learning Management System, and Custom Learning Solutions, which include tailor-made solutions for desktops and mobile devices.

    • Kineo Demonstrates the Latest in Learning Technologies at DevLearn12

      Kineo | Chicago, IL |

      Award-winning eLearning solutions company Kineo will be attending the E-Learning Guild’s annual DevLearn conference, taking place at the Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, from October 31 – November 2. In addition to showcasing Kineo’s latest work, the Kineo US Team are also presenting a number of sessions at DevLearn|12; exploring how multi-device learning, design-centred methodologies, and open-source solutions can help businesses achieve real, measurable results.

    • PaExSkIn (PXSN) Joins Upside Learning’s Channel Partnership Program for UpsideLMS

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      PaExSkIn (PXSN), a leading provider of Custom e-Learning and Technical Solutions, has recently joined Upside Learning’s Channel Partnership program for UpsideLMS. Through this program, PXSN will be authorized to sell Upside Learning’s best value Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, to organizations in the UK, along with its own range of learning solutions.

    • Upside Learning’s Webinar To Help Indian Corporates In Leveraging LMS For Blended Learning

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Responding to the growing use of LMS by Indian corporates to manage the L&D activities for employees or external users, Upside Learning will be sharing insights on leveraging LMS to manage blended learning. The company will be conducting a webinar titled ‘Leveraging LMS for Managing Blended Learning: The Indian Perspective’.

    • Kineo Announces E-Learning Insights Event

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      The event will present the detailed findings from the latest E-Learning Age 2012 research report and the top twelve trends. It will also include case studies of responsive e-learning for multiple devices, game based approaches to learning, award winning compliance learning approaches and creating seamless, personalised learner journeys.

    • LINE to speak on mobile at Wolce

      LINE Communications | London |

      LINE Communications one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, will be speaking at the World of Learning Conference and Exhibition (WOLCE), which is taking place in Birmingham on the 2nd and 3rd of October.

    • LINE and British Airways win Brandon Hall silver award for Outstanding Leaders programme

      LINE Communications | London |

      LINE has scooped a Silver award for Best Leadership Development Programme at the 2012 Brandon Hall Excellence in Talent Management awards. The programme, titled Outstanding Leaders was designed and delivered by LINE, together with programme partner ORConsulting. The blended learning programme forms part of British Airways’ Behaviours for Success programme and comprises a two-day workshop, video scenarios, online and offline activities, printed materials, social networking, blogs and support tools.

    • Upside Learning To Focus On Unified Learning Management At WOL 2012

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Upside Learning will be participating in the World of Learning (WOL) Conference and Exhibition 2012, to be held on October 2 and 3 at Birmingham, UK. The company’s theme for this expo will be Unified Learning Management, which is supported by its best value Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, and its revolutionary mLearning platform, Upside2Go.

    • LINE to showcase LINEstream at HRM Expo

      LINE Communications | London |

      LINE Communications one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, will be exhibiting at the HRM Expo in Cologne, Germany on the 25th to 27th of September.

    • Amit Garg, Co-Founder & Director At Upside Learning, To Facilitate The Corporate mLearning Week In MobiMOOC 2012

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning, will be facilitating the Corporate mLearning week in MobiMOOC 2012, an open platform for courses related to mobile learning. He will be the course coordinator for this week, starting from 23rd September, exchanging knowledge and ideas on incorporating mobile learning in the corporate world.

    • L&D professionals speak out on what is needed from a mobile enterprise platform

      LINE Communications | London |

      In a webinar hosted by the Learning and Skills Group last week, LINE, along with their client, Jaguar Land Rover, presented a case study to over 140 learning and development professionals titled, Mobile Learning: developing an enterprise wide global programme. The webinar sparked a record amount of discussion in the chat area, demonstrating that mobile is still a hot topic for our industry.

    • Upside Learning Appoints Director Of Client Solutions For The UK & Europe

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Upside Learning announced today the appointment of Alan Samuel as Director Client Solution for the UK & Europe. Former head of UK operations at Tata Interactive Systems, Alan will bolster Upside Learning’s efforts in extending its presence across the globe and to work more closely with its clients in the UK and Europe.

    • eXact learning solutions concludes R&D project on rapid competency development via serious games

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy |

      The research and development (R&D) department of eXact learning solutions, a leading online and mobile learning content management solutions provider, is working on a state-of-the-art technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment based on serious games that supports individuals’ rapid competence development within the domain of project management.

    • Totara Learning Solutions appoints Apsiton as a Totara LMS Partner in North America

      Totara | Wellington, New Zealand |

      Development of a strong partner network in North America is a high priority for Totara Learning Solutions. The addition of Apsiton as a Totara LMS Partner is another step toward that objective. Apsiton is a highly experienced LMS implementation and services provider with experience in working with multiple LMS providers. They have a solution services team based in the United States and a technical team based in India.

    • Kineo and Clients Shortlisted for 7 E-learning Awards

      Kineo | United Kingdom |

      Global e-learning leaders Kineo are delighted have been shortlisted with our clients in 7 categories in the 2012 E-learning Awards, the UK’s leading e-learning industry awards.

    • Learning Nexus supports Forth Valley College with its 'Focus on Learning Summer Conference'

      Learning Nexus | United Kingdom |

      On the 16-17th of August, Forth Valley College in Scotland held their ‘Focus on Learning Summer Conference’ at the Falkirk campus, during a busy period a week before student inductions. Ken George and Debbie Fairman of Learning Nexus were invited to support the conference, and demonstrate what schemes, resources and assistance are available to them, their students and external contacts regarding learning.

    • Virtual College Honours 750,000th Learner

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, England |

      Virtual College is celebrating reaching a staggering 750,000 unique online learners, an increase of quarter of a million on this time last year. One of the UK’s leading online training providers, Virtual College continues to buck the economic trend and now boasts a team of over 80 at its offices in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

    • UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Recognized for Educational Excellence

      MASIE Productions | Saratoga Springs, NY |

      The Learning CONSORTIUM announced today that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will receive the Learning Spotlight Award for excellence in education and training at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 conference, to be held October 21-24, in Orlando, Florida.

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