YP Training, a division of Virtual College, uses online learning to deliver apprenticeships to companies and is encouraging them to take advantage of a £1,500 Government funded apprenticeship grant.
Upside Learning and Naizak Global Engineering Systems, a subsidiary of Al Abdulkarim holding, have announced the signing of a MoU to jointly offer eLearning solutions in Saudi Arabia. These solutions will include learning technologies, custom eLearning and mobile learning solutions to satiate the current and future knowledge demand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Upside Learning has released the recording of its recent webinar, titled ‘Learner Driven Learning Management System in a Global Environment’. This webinar conducted in association with Brandon Hall Group was held on 22nd March 2012 at 1 PM EDT.
Upside Learning has joined the renowned Ambassador Programme by Towards Maturity, a programme designed for provider companies of learning products and services focused on excellence and growth.
With over 67,000 registered sites, Moodle is the most popular Learning Management System globally. Moodle HQ is now fully focused on the Moodle 2.x series and ends support for Moodle 1.9 security fixes in June 2012. To ease the concerns of organisations that are not quite ready to upgrade to Moodle 2, Totara Learning Solutions is sponsoring support for serious security issues with Moodle 1.9 until December 2013.
Mobile learning in corporates has moved from a ‘should we?’ discussion to ‘how should we?’ There’s a lot to ask - what is the technical approach? Native apps or Web apps? Which devices should I target? This month, Kineo, leaders in e-learning services, help answer these questions and more with a comprehensive new free guide on making mobile learning happen.
As part of its expansion, Virtual College is delighted to announce the appointment of seven new members of staff to meet the ever increasing demand for its e-learning products.
Webanywhere, the provider of web technology solutions for workplace learning and collaboration, today announces it has become an Authorized Google Enterprise Partner. This enables Webanywhere to customize, integrate and support Google Apps for Enterprise for customers of all sizes.
Upside Learning continues to strengthen its global network of partners as it signs up Doctrina as a reseller for its products in the UK. Doctrina will resell Upside Learning’s award-winning, best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS, and its revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning – Upside2Go, to its customers in the UK.
Martin Baker is toasting the success of the eLearning Global Giveback awards – a competition celebrating eLearning developed by expert volunteers for charities working in international development. Martin, a member of the judging panel, and a well known advocate for collaboration in L&D, says the scheme is a great example of what can be achieved by working together.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK with over 700,000 learners has worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to develop a cross platform smartphone app aimed at providing useful information for victims of Domestic Abuse.
Cubic Consulting, specialists in change management, enterprise learning for business system implementations and eLearning solutions, has been appointed as an authorised Totara solutions partner for the Australian market.
Atec Training and Certification Services has become the first company in North America to gain approval to deliver a groundbreaking new global training initiative for the oil and gas industry in this region.
The Safeguarding Children e-Academy recently organised a successful awareness raising event in Newcastle, aimed at highlighting the dangers to children arising from families that are hostile to or uncooperative with the various government agencies, tasked with supporting them.
The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA, the leading centre of European learning and development for the public sector), the College of Europe (the world’s first university institute of postgraduate studies and training in European affairs) and eXact learning solutions (a leading European online and mobile learning solutions provider) have been awarded a four year contract to provide the European Commission, Parliament, its Bodies and Agencies with state-of-the-art online blended learning materials and programs on EU decision making, law and policies.
Kineo Pacific will be attending the Australian Instructional Design Conference (AIDC) 2012, which aims at spreading the message about designing instructionally sound and engaging learning. Organised by the LearnX Foundation, the event takes place on Wednesday 21st March at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
In response to its customers’ requests, the Trades e-Academy, a division of Virtual College, has introduced an online training solution that provides competency for Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) This enables companies to comply with the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
EssentialSkillz, the successful E-learning provider, is making an Olympic Business Policy E-Learning course available to UK businesses so that their business operations can run as smoothly as possible during the Olympics and lessen the impact of disturbances caused by the event.
Upside Learning will be conducting its 1st webinar for 2012 titled ‘Learner Driven Learning Management System, in a Global Environment’ in association with Brandon Hall Group.
Global Knowledge has launched an innovative technology platform called the ‘Community Learning Portal’ to deliver blended learning programs to large corporate customers. This platform, adapted from UpsideLMS, stimulates and transforms learning programs into ‘learning environments’ through active facilitation, multimedia content and online collaboration.
Kineo’s VP of Learning Design, Cammy Bean, will be a featured speaker as part of this year’s ASTD Learn Now National Conferences.
New Brightwave debate videos explore how shift towards a resource approach to learning requires a change of mind set.
eAbyas, India based eLearning and IT services company has become a Totara LMS Partner.
The Care Quality Commission, the body responsible for checking that Hospitals, Care Homes and Care Services meet stringent Government standards, has recently started to regulate private and NHS dental services and Virtual College has responded to this move by developing an online training course to assist dentists in meeting these legislative standards.
Kineo announces record revenues for its UK and US operations in 2011. Sales have increased by over 30% in these core markets and the establishment of operations in new markets such as China will lead to greater future growth opportunities.
LINE Communications, a leading European provider of Learning and Communications solutions will running a workshop on Mobile Learning at the iVentiv Learning Technologies Executive Knowledge Exchange which is due to take place in Basel, Switzerland on the 26th and 27th of March.
Kineo Pacific is delighted to announce that there are now 1,000 schools using MyPortfolio, the e-portfolio and social learning platform available free of charge to all New Zealand schools.
LINE Communications, a leading European provider of learning and communications solutions has been shortlisted in two categories in the International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) awards for programmes developed for Jaguar Land Rover and BP Plc.
Yeager Airport, one of the most passenger friendly airports in the US, has selected Upside Learning’s stunning, multi award-winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, to manage classroom training for its internal and external learner base.
Scott Jones became one of only 90 people out of more than one million to be awarded the City and Guilds medal for excellence after earning distinctions in all of his course modules.
Virtual College is proud to unveil its new navigational bar designed to aid the usability of its online courses and enhance the learning experience for its many registered online learners.
Kineo has announced a further addition to its E-Learning Essentials range with the launch of a new Information Security module.
goFLUENT, a leading provider of business English via distance learning, has demonstrated its credentials as an innovative player in the mobile learning sector by launching its Business English Training iPhone App. This App, which has been approved by Apple and is now available on Apple’s App Store, is the mobile version of its e-learning portal for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.
In a joint partner venture, two leading e-learning suppliers, Video Arts and Learning Nexus, have teamed up to advocate each other’s products into their existing offerings.
Tom Kuhlmann – the well known eLearning guru, inspirational instructional designer and high profile learning technologies blogger – will be sharing his knowledge and skills at a one day, interactive, rapid eLearning workshop on 22 May, London. The event is designed to help boost skills to build cost effective in-house eLearning, and help L&D professionals in their quest to achieve ‘more for less’.
Virtual College has introduced a brand new online course aimed at helping tackle the obesity epidemic among young children. ‘Right from the Start with HENRY’ has been developed to provide parents and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.
National training provider, Virtual College, held its annual Lean Healthcare Academy Conference and Awards event this week in Leeds. 180 healthcare professionals from across the UK attended the event where 27 finalists presented their lean process improvements during the day, followed by a 'BAFTA' style awards event in the evening.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has approved a number of EssentialSkillz E-Learning courses. The exceptionally popular and much sought-after accreditation scheme offers organisations the opportunity to demonstrate that its courses adhere to an accepted standard of excellence in health and safety training.
Several housing associations recently attended the launch event of a partnership between e-learning experts Housing e-Academy and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). The partnership will see CIH members given access to Housing e-Academy training in order to work towards their Continuing Professional Development record.
International Minimum Industry Safety Training (IMIST) Online –developed by Atlas ensures consistent, cost-effective training for any company, anywhere.
Milestone AV Technologies, a leading global provider of innovative mounting and display solutions for various audiovisual technologies, has selected Upside Learning’s multi award-winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, to deliver training programs to its internal and external stakeholders across the globe.
Chances are your learners have mobile devices. Their potential as a channel for learning is great. A new channel brings new challenge to the learning professional – how do you bring mobile learning into the organization? What works in practice? How do you separate the hype from the reality? Kineo shares the answers to these and more in a new guide to mobile learning released this week.
LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, becomes Headline Sponsor for the 2012 E-Learning Awards.
Think Associates, UK based performance and learning systems consultancy and implementation specialists, has become a Totara LMS Partner.
Assima PLC today announces the acquisition of Kaplan Learning Technologies from Kaplan, Inc. The deal formally completed on February 9th 2012 and covers all assets and intellectual property associated with the STT Trainer and Atlantic-Link product lines but excludes the PerformIT product line. Kaplan Learning Technologies had business operations in Atlanta, GA, USA; Reading & Nottingham, UK and Cape Town, South Africa; these will join the Assima organisation.
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has renewed its relationship with eXact learning solutions, the global vendor of online and mobile LCMS and digital repository solutions. EMSA has selected eXact learning solutions to deliver a new four year work plan to increase technological innovation in its distance learning program.
Docebo, an international company specialized in providing integrated E-Learning solutions for corporates, announces that Principia II, part of Principia SGR (one of the biggest players in the venture capital market), signed for a 2,4 € million (3,1 U$ million) capital increase.
EssentialSkillz, global provider of online safety training and risk assessment software, has announced that its complete library of online safety courses are fully compatible with iPads as it enters the exciting new era of M-learning. All of its class-leading E-learning (and now M-learning) solutions include rich animations, crisp clean graphics and engaging content. No Flash was used in the development of the learning content so all courses are fully compatible with iPad's.
Upside Learning has announced the release of its revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning, Upside2Go, for the Android platform. With this release, Upside2Go is now available on the 3rd major mobile operating system, with the other two being BlackBerry OS and iOS.
LINE Communications was voted the top organisation with which visitors to the recent Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition had the most ‘profitable conversations’, says the exit poll conducted at the event.
The recently concluded ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 and Learning Technologies 2012 expos, where Upside Learning was an exhibitor, have clearly indicated that mobile learning is in the air. It was at these expos that Upside Learning had showcased its wide range of custom mobile learning offerings, including Upside2Go, its revolutionary platform for mobile learning.
An obsession with proving knowledge acquisition prevents effective use of the Cloud in workplace learning - show results of Learning Technologies 2012 debate.
Kineo announced today that Zack Harvey has been appointed as a Business Development Manager for Kineo Pacific in Melbourne, Australia. Zack's appointment marks Kineo Pacific's expansion into Melbourne to better support its expanding list of Australian clients.
Kineo US announced today that Karen Balcomb has been appointed as Senior Solution Consultant. Karen will be based in New York and will lead Kineo’s East Coast sales.
Kineo’s e-learning website was recently acclaimed as the top UK learning and technology website and one of the top ten globally the only custom e-learning services company globally in the top 10. Rather than rest on this achievement, Kineo has launched a fresh new version of the website with a range of improvements, new case studies and demos.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released two new crane training programs to educate employees about crane safety and help organizations comply with OSHA crane standards. The programs are Overhead & Gantry Cranes and Cranes In Construction.
Totara Learning Solutions, a leader in innovative learning software, won a coveted Brandon Hall bronze award for excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology category. Totara’s win was announced by Brandon Hall on 26 January.
UpsideLMS, Upside Learning’s stunning, best value Learning Management System, has won the coveted Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards for the 3rd time in a row. This year it has won a Silver award for Best Advance in Social Learning Technology, making it the 9th award for UpsideLMS.
The 13th Learning Technologies conference and exhibition took place in London last week, and judging by the exit poll, Kineo has yet again make a great impression on attendees, appearing in the top 5 in 5 of the 7 questions, and topping the poll in must-see companies.
Saffron Interactive, one of Europe’s leading e-learning, mobile and blended learning companies were once again lead sponsors of the Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference and took the opportunity to bring together their ideas on serious gaming and mobile learning on a specially created app based on the Bribery Act. The short sample was designed to assess learner's understanding of the Bribery Act in relation to everyday choices.
E-Learning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced version of its popular DSE risk assessment and training software, ErgoWize. The course will be available from January 30 2011. EssentialSkillz describes its online DSE Workstation risk assessment and training system as the most effective, cost-efficient and advanced DSE compliance software currently available.
LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, announces record growth for 2011. In a difficult and unpredictable global market, LINE has achieved a 50% increase in turnover compared with 2010. Sales for the Group were more than 100% higher than sales for 2010.
Bravais, Xyleme's latest technological breakthrough, connects users with the learning content they need, when they need it, anywhere, on any device.
iSpring Solutions, a vendor of professional e-Learning authoring software, announces the new Free QuizMaker, a freeware for creating quizzes and surveys.
Upside2Go will be extensively represented at this year’s ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 expo to be held from 25th to 27th January at Las Vegas, and Learning Technologies 2012 expo to be held on 25th and 26th January at London. This will be Upside2Go’s second consecutive appearance at the ASTD TK event and its debut appearance at Learning Technologies.
www.upsidelearning.com, Upside Learning’s official website has made it to number 26 in the 100 highest ranking websites in learning technology chart.
www.upsidelearning.com, Upside Learning’s official website has made it to number 26 in the 100 highest ranking websites in learning technology chart.
Martin Baker will be leading a debate about the potential to access eLearning via Facebook – the most popular social media platform of our time – at the Learning & Skills exhibition in London on 26 January. Hare brained idea or a brilliant way to deliver cost effective learning? You decide! Come and share your views with Martin, CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium and MD of newly formed The Corporate eLearning Consortium - bringing a cost effective, collaborative approach to eLearning to the corporate sector.
Kineo announced today that Andy Wooler has been appointed as a senior Learning Technology Consultant to lead Kineo’s Totara LMS consultancy projects. Andy’s appointment adds to Kineo’s growing Totara LMS team, whose LMS clients include Vodafone Ireland, Logica, Tesco, NHS Trusts and Pearson.
Close on the heels of its announcement of end of special pricing for its Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, Upside Learning has now released a new version (v5.0) of this multi award-winning system. UpsideLMS v5.0 comes with a stunning new GUI, user-friendly navigation schemes, eye pleasing color palettes, attractive themes and more.
...World’s leading experts to provide “access all areas” advice on how to assess, implement and integrate effective mobile training programmes...
The Corporate eLearning Consortium, launching at Learning Technologies on 25 January, is designed to help corporates work smart, saving time and money while networking with others - sharing resources, knowledge and best practice on the road to eLearning success. Martin Baker is launching the new Consortium following the amazing success of his collaborative approach to eLearning in the charity sector.
Kineo have issued a Learning Technologies edition of their popular e-learning top tips iPhone app. The new edition includes tips on how to get the best out of the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition.
At the iLearning Forum Paris – France’s leading learning technologies event - Christophe Ferrandou, CEO of goFLUENT, one of Europe’s leading providers of business English via distance learning, is outlining the key issues involved in determining the return on investment (ROI) in blended learning.
Mobile Learning Solutions, including Upside2Go, will be seen taking the centre-stage at Upside Learning’s stall at ASTD TechKnowledge and Learning Technologies 2012.
Mobile learning – you know you need to look at it seriously. But all the hype out there can get in the way of a practical discussion. At Learning Technologies 2012 in London, Kineo will help you make a practical start to your mobile learning journey with a mobile learning workshop and a free guide on making mobile happen.
January will see Upside Learning, one of the leading names in Custom eLearning Development, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions, showcase its award-winning solutions and services at two of the most prestigious events in the eLearning industry – ASTD TK 2012 and Learning Technologies 2012.
The global vendor of online and mobile learning content management and digital repository solutions, eXact learning solutions, has upgraded its eXact LCMS, adding single source XML technical documentation to blended learning.
eCom Scotland, a provider of online learning and assessment, is predicting a significant rise in the use of e-learning amongst corporate L&D departments during 2012.
The Safety Passport from EssentialSkillz provides online training and tracking to ensure that all contractors, or any visitors to your business, fully understand the safety requirements therein. It enables companies to take advantage of a safety solution especially designed to meet the specific requirements of contracted workers, mitigating against accidents in the workplace and potentially costly compensation claims.
Brightwave will showcase a number of smart and effective approaches to workplace learning at Learning Technologies Conference 2012 (Olympia 2, January 25th and 26th).
Compass and Kineo will be leading a free seminar at Learning Technologies demonstrating how they turned around perceptions of e-learning. The seminar will take place at the Learning Technologies Exhibition at 11am on 26th January at Olympia, London.
A brand-new teaser trailer from Docebo E-Learning company announces that on 1st February 2012 “something big” will be revealed.
LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, has been shortlisted for eureleA 2012 award, the European awards for technology supported learning.
dp (digital publishing), the global provider of the award-winning corporate language training Speexx, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the Learning Technologies, 25-26 January 2012, held at Olympia 2, London (stand number 149). To coincide with the event, dp will release a new European whitepaper entitled, ‘Online communication skills training for a diverse global workforce’ which will offer a valuable insight on why ‘diversity and inclusion’ is important for securing business success.
International learning and skills specialist Atlas has expanded the global footprint of facilities capable of delivering a groundbreaking new global training initiative for the oil and gas industry with the approval of the first centre in Iraq.
Members of The Charity Learning Consortium are busy filming for a huge collaborative video learning project. All members have been offered a free flip camera to create short pieces of video learning to share with other members of the community. Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of the Consortium, said members had enthusiastically embraced the exciting video challenge.
Kineo and Tesco are leading a free seminar at Learning Technologies on Totara LMS. The seminar will provide an update on Totara and demonstrate through a case study how the LMS has been deployed at Tesco.
Kineo announced today that Darren Gray has been appointed as a Solutions Consultant with the UK team. Darren’s appointment is part of Kineo’s strategy of strengthening of its senior consultancy team. Darren was previously Head of Learning Technology Strategy at Hemsley Fraser.
Blue Eskimo, the learning industry’s recruitment specialist, has released the 2011 results of its annual work and salary survey.
L&D commentators and specialists review the last 12 months and make their predictions for the year ahead. Find out what the L&D highlight was for Martin Baker, Laura Overton, Clive Shepherd, Nigel Paine and others, and what they see on the learning horizon for 2012.
Upside Learning, one of the leading names in Custom eLearning, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions, today announced the addition of Empresa Web to its steadily growing network of channel partners.
Upside Learning, one of the leading names in Custom eLearning, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions, today announced the addition of Empresa Web to its steadily growing network of channel partners.
goFLUENT was delighted to walk away with the Brandon Hall Bronze Award for the Best Use of Blended Learning category only a few days after being shortlisted, in two categories, for the Learning Awards 2012 in London.
Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium, has become an Ambassador to LINGOs – the likeminded US-based consortium which provides affordable eLearning and resources to humanitarian relief organisations working around the world. The two organisations plan to support one another, and fly the flag for global, award-winning eLearning in the charity sector.
e2train, a leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has been selected to deliver its Kallidus Learning Management System (LMS) and bespoke learning content to operational effectiveness consultancy, OEE (http://www.oee-training.com). Through the new arrangement, OEE clients will purchase content on OEE’s web site and then be seamlessly transferred to the Kallidus LMS platform on which the online training modules are run.
Atlas has capped an exciting period of international growth over the last 12 months, winning over £3.6million of new e-learning contracts, focussed on safety, skills and competency training in the oil and gas sector, with a resultant 80% increase in new jobs within the UK.
Property professionals across the UK can now pursue industry-specific certification more widely than ever before, thanks to an agreement between Pearson VUE and the National Federation of Property Professionals (NFoPP) Awarding Body, the provider of qualifications for the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).
BP has joined a growing number of organisations, including BT and Tata Steel, which are using LiveTime Learning to train their graduates.
More for less is the L&D mantra of our times, but is it really possible asks Clive Shepherd, in the latest Charity Learning Consortium eNewsletter - and if so, how do L&D professionals go about achieving it?
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