Kineo, a Totara LMS platinum partner, is pleased to announce that 25 Kineo clients have selected Totara LMS, the custom distribution of Moodle for corporate organisations since its launch earlier this year.
Project Agency, the project management training and development specialist, has added modules on benefits management and ‘business case’ to its growing range of e-learning materials devoted to project management.
LINE Communications, a key provider of learning and development solutions to the Defence sector, has appointed Roy Evans as Defence Learning Consultant. From August 2011 Roy joins the Defence team and will add new military context and currency as LINE seek to address the challenges in optimising training post the Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR).
The Leonardo da Vinci seminar ‘Enabling labour market entry and mobility to disadvantaged groups engaging across Europe in learning through innovation’ will be held on 6th September 2011 in Krakow, Poland.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) develops innovative cross-platform mobile application, TrackMoBL™ to track Learning on the Go
More than 130 charity representatives from the UK have seized the opportunity to gain advice from Evaluation ‘guru’ Jim Kirkpatrick in a webinar on 31st August. The Charity Learning Consortium is supporting the webinar, which will be led by recognised Evaluation experts Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick, co-authors of several books on the subject. Charities and not-for-profits around the globe can still register for this unique, complimentary event.
The Charity Learning Consortium is delighted to announce Sudhir Giri, Google’s Global head of learning technology, as the keynote speaker at the first Charity Learning Consortium Conference and Awards. In his keynote, in London on 15 September 2011, Sudhir will explain why you don’t necessarily need a big budget for L&D - but you do need to think creatively to encourage a dynamic learning culture.
BT’s dare2share initiative has proved to be a successful ‘How To’ video forum within the company. It is a great example of how to engage your workforce using both social learning and technology. Iain Napier, BT’s Learning Technology Consultant, will be talking about how to encourage this kind of knowledge sharing using social media, when he addresses the Charity Learning Conference on 15 September, London. As part of his presentation, he’ll also be talking about how teams can take advantage of other social media technologies to support learning.
With only a few days to go preparations are well underway for the UK’s largest eAssessment conference – eAssessment Scotland 2011 at the University of Dundee on Friday 26 August.
Kineo E-Learning has made its popular e-learning top tips available through a free iPhone App.
Also wins 'Best Assessment Tool' and 'Best Simulation Solution' Gold awards.
After the success of its Partnership Program for Authorized Resellers and Referral Partners, Upside Learning has further extended it to include channel partners. This program has been designed to help channel partners capitalize on the rapidly expanding eLearning market opportunities with the company’s award-winning and increasingly popular offerings - UpsideLMS and Upside2Go.
Seasoned executive to oversee engineering and operations of learning content management leader
The latest version of the popular Seminar Knowledge Centre LMS, due for release this autumn, features integrated social learning capabilities for trainers to build into their courses, as well as delivery to iPhone and iPad devices.
Laura Overton, MD of highly regarded benchmarking organisation Towards Maturity, will be drawing on early findings from the latest research into the effective use of learning technologies when she leads a discussion at the first Charity Learning Conference on 15 September, London. She’ll be sharing ‘hot off the press’ highlights from the latest Towards Maturity benchmark - its biggest and most comprehensive to date - to inspire charity members of the Consortium, and give them practical tips they can take back to the workplace.
Over the last three years The SQA and eCom Scotland have worked together to develop the delivery model to provide the SIA group of qualifications in a secure, robust and cost effective environment. When these awards became live on 1 January 2011 both The SQA and eCom Scotland were in pole position to deliver this high tech, online solution.
Kineo and Tesco will be doing a joint presentation to the Totara LMS European Conference on 28th September 2011 in London. Jane Williams from Tesco and Sven Laux from Kineo will be presenting a case study on the benefits of adopting an open source LMS solution in a corporate enterprise.
US and UK-based eLearning Technology specialist and Moodle Partner, Webanywhere, announces the release of its latest white paper exploring how social networking tools such as Google+ are accelerating corporate learning.
Kineo has announced the availability of a new 360 appraisal and training diary modules for Moodle, the leading open-source learning management system.
Saffron Interactive is delighted to see its Investors in People status renewed for the second time, which means the company has been now been accredited for the past nine years.
Webanywhere, Inc. is nearing its first anniversary of opening its U.S. headquarters in the city of Philadelphia. Having experienced a significant increase in sales over the past few months, Webanywhere Inc. is responding to demand by expanding its sales team and seeking further partnership arrangements with interested parties.
Webanywhere has announced the release of an updated UK eLearning Market Research report, issued by its partner organisation Learning Light, operator of www.e-LearningCentre.co.uk, a learning resource for e-Learning professionals. The update and the full report are available on the e-Learning Centre website.
The Towards Maturity Ambassador Programme funds the UK's largest corporate learning technology benchmark.
Learning Nexus, a leading elearning solutions provider, has released its first course in the Ethics in Business course range.
Leaders of Learning & Development within European corporates are reporting successes in the use of informal learning and social media, but feel it will only work effectively if implemented within the context of a concerted learning strategy. This view emerged from a roundtable event held recently by LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications.
A recent social media discussion started by LINE Communications has found 52% of respondees confirmed they had used the YouTube platform to learn skills which can be transferred to a professional environment.
400 organisations already taken part - study deadline extended to August 16.
Upside Learning develops an Augmented Reality Cover for Elearning! Magazine’s July/ August 2011 issue, making it the first-ever eLearning magazine to have an interactive cover using Augmented Reality technology.
New findings emerge from 'Time to make a difference - e-learning strategies to support business', an industry event co-hosted by Brightwave and Sky last month.
Harbinger is inviting fans of its authoring software to vote for Raptivity as their favorite authoring solution.
Project management training and development specialists, Project Agency, has extended its range of e-learning materials devoted to project management.
LINE Communications, one of Europe's leading providers of learning and communications, has moved to consolidate its expertise in the automotive sector with a new team focus.
Clive Shepherd will be chairing the first Charity Learning Conference in London on 15 September. An entertaining presenter and widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s foremost experts on eLearning, he’ll be guiding the conference to some interesting learning outcomes. The Conference has been designed by the Charity Learning Consortium to both celebrate L&D in the Third Sector and inspire members of the Consortium in the invaluable work that they do.
Leeds-based Day One’s Systems Training solution has been reviewed and selected to be showcased by Learning Light, operators of industry leading site (www.e-learningcentre.co.uk), as an exemplar of a modern, effective systems training solution which really impresses.
Nigel Paine, a former Head of Learning & Development at the BBC, is aiming to get members of the Charity Learning Consortium thinking creatively at a workshop he is leading at the first Charity Learning Conference on 15 September, London. Nigel, a strategic adviser on leadership and talent development and a popular keynote speaker and workshop leader, is passionate about creative and innovative L&D. He'll be encouraging members of the Charity Learning Consortium to think laterally within their 'shoestring' L&D budgets.
Docebo, a company specialized in providing integrated E-Learning solutions, has passed the milestone of 200,000 trained users on its Cloud DoceboLMS platform.
Among the more noteworthy webinars coming up in the field of learning technologies is one being held jointly by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the global vendor of learning content management solutions (eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive), eXact learning solutions.
Raptivity Version 6.5 adds media support and additional customization options
e2train is now working with Solics, to enhance market presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Kineo, leaders in e-learning and LMS solutions, is delighted to announce the opening of the latest in a growing number of global offices with the addition of Kineo South Africa.
Upside Learning received an overwhelming response for its entire range of innovative mobile learning solutions at the recently concluded mLearnCon 2011 conference, held in San Jose, USA. As a part of its special expo offer, the company also announced the winner of the Kindle Reader.
Demand for Webanywhere's Totara and Moodle LMS solutions directly linked to to cost savings, increased commercial agility and related productivity leaps
Kineo is pleased to showcase Articulate Storyline on 26th September at the British Medical Association in London. The event is in support of our Articulate partnership and is free to attend, though early registration is advised as spaces are limited.
Ara Ohanian and Claire Schooley to discuss mobile learning, social collaboration in upcoming webinar.
UK Government appoints Liam Maxwell to advise on government technologies and shift to open source solutions.
Learning Evaluation 'guru' Jim Kirkpatrick, and his wife Wendy are holding a free webinar for all charities worldwide, at 3pm on 31 August 2011. The Charity Learning Consortium is proud to be promoting this event to its members - and to all charities in the UK and abroad. Martin Baker, founder and MD of the Consortium, met Jim last year and the two have been discussing ways to make the Kirkpatricks' modern theories of Evaluation accessible to the Third Sector.
With Africa being widely tipped as the next major economic growth area in emerging markets*, there are clear opportunities for both education and workplace learning. However, the skills shortages, lack of infrastructure and apparent disconnect between the needs of the workplace and educational provision present significant challenges for the region. These observations were made when LINE, one of Europe's leading providers of learning and communications solutions attended the recent elearning Africa International Conference in Tanzania.
Project management training and development specialist, Project Agency, has expanded its e-learning offerings by publishing ‘Project Planning’.
Upside Learning has emerged with winning entries in the Annual Apex Awards for Publication Excellence Competition for 2011. This year, the company has notched two Awards; one in Electronic Media & Video category (sub category – Web Videos) and another in Brochures, Manuals & Reports (sub category – Books and eBooks) category.
Moodle is now the most popular LMS in the world, with over 40 million users. The platform is Open Source, so there are no license fees - freeing you up to invest more in e-learning content delivery and professional services.
eXact learning solutions, a leading provider of learning content management, digital repository and mobile learning solutions and Link2ICT, a division of Service Birmingham, an innovative strategic partnership between Birmingham City Council and the Capita Group, won a prestigious Learning Impact Leadership Award at this year’s IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) Learning Impact Award (LIA) ceremony, in Long Beach, California, in May.
eXact learning solutions presented the new Android version of its ‘eXact Mobile’ solution – which is also available for the Blackberry, iPad and iPhone device series - at the mLearnCon 2011 conference in San Jose, California, 21st and 22nd June.
Kineo, a leading e-learning and LMS provider, has helped Cable&Wireless deliver engaging and effective learning solutions for over 4 years. Their most recent collaboration has attracted wider media attention, with Computing.co.uk reporting on the £1.5 million savings that Cable&Wireless has achieved.
Learning Tree International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRE) today announced the introduction of its training schedule in three new locations in Belgium and Germany: Brussels, Cologne and Heidelberg.
The Charity Learning Consortium is delighted to announce its first Charity Learning Conference & Awards, to be held on 15 September, London. The Conference is intended to be a showcase of excellence in learning and development in the charity and not-for-profit sector, with input from corporate organisations to inspire Consortium members. The Awards will be celebrating the stepping stones to success that member charities are taking on their eLearning journeys. More details of this exciting new event and its high level contributors will be revealed over the coming weeks and months.
Docebo SRL presents its Multimedia simulator for learning winning 170,000 U$ of FIMSER tender and confirming itself as a forefront innovative company.
The Bribery Act 2010 updates old, and much-criticised, laws on bribery and also fulfils European Treaty obligations. The Act creates offences which may be committed by individuals as well as an offence by a commercial organisation of failing to prevent bribery.
The penalties for organisations are high, with a criminal conviction leading to unlimited fines and possible exclusion from government contracts across the European Union. For individuals, the maximum sentence is 10 years imprisonment.
Xyleme and OnPoint Digital Kick-off New Collaboration by Showcasing Innovative Learning Solutions at mLearnCon 2011
Register for last available places: 'Time to make a difference - e-learning strategies to support business' event
Leading learning technology provider to continue promoting mobile performance support platform at mLearnCon
Following an extensive evaluation process conducted by an international board of education experts, digital publishing, global provider of online language training services, has again been awarded with the renowned Worlddidac Quality Charter (WQC). To be certified, a company has to meet the highest demands regarding product quality, after-sales support and corporate governance. “A certified company also stands for educational excellence, innovation and long-term stability,” states Kateryna Schütz, Project Manager at the Switzerland-based Worlddidac Association. digital publishing has been re-certified with the coveted seal, which is awarded for a three-year period.
The Open University has launched two new undergraduate Computing and IT degrees to help the UK overcome a recruitment crisis which sees employers struggling to fill an estimated 110,000 new IT jobs created this year [3]. Developed alongside e-skills UK and representatives from industry, the degrees incorporate work-based learning and offer credit for prior work experience to ensure they are fully compatible with current industry needs.
New white paper details the hidden costs which are overlooked in LMS selection and the questions that any vendor should be prepared to answer.
Webanywhere, Inc. to provide free workshop at their headquarters at the prestigious Rittenhouse Hotel in downtown Philadelphia.
goFLUENT, a leading provider of distance English training, has been named as one of the top online providers of English language learning materials. The accolade comes as a result of a comparative study, by the French ‘Pour Se Former’ website, of ten online English language materials providers.
Information Transfer has joined the Ambassador Programme of Towards Maturity, a leading European benchmark practice which promotes independent research in order to encourage effective practices in e-learning.
Tamzin Doggart, Organisational Development Advisor at The Guinness Partnership - the national social housing organisation started by the great-great grandson of the founder of the Guinness brewery - will be talking about the benefits of eLearning, when she presents a case study at the Third Sector Social Media Convention on 13 June. She’ll be introduced by Martin Baker, founder and MD of the Charity Learning Consortium - the largest group of charities in the UK which collaborate to make eLearning affordable.
Upside Learning will be participating in mLearnCon 2011, a mobile learning conference and expo, to be held from June 21st to 23rd in San Jose, CA. On display would be the company’s entire range of innovative mobile learning solutions. A Master Class session will be delivered by the company representatives on June 21st.
Mediapharm, a UK leading pharmacy education company, has selected Webanywhere to deliver an open source Totara LMS technology transformation for CPDEasy.com, its web-based managed learning service for pharmacy training, development and product knowledge.
goFLUENT, a leading provider of distance Business English training, has signed an agreement with the New York Times News Syndicate (NYTNS) to have the rights to use NYTNS videos and Harvard Business Review articles as resources on its e-learning platform.
Upside Learning announced today its new comprehensive partnership program intended to accelerate partner growth and profitability for its multi award-winning, best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS and its revolutionary platform for mobile learning – Upside2Go.
Totara Learning Solutions will be holding a European Conference for Totara LMS customers and potential customers on 28th September 2011 in London.
The 2011 Towards Maturity Benchmark Study was launched today, once again with outstanding support from the wider Learning & Development industry. Organisations from the private, public and not for profit sectors looking to improve performance through learning innovation are invited to take part during June and July at www.towardsmaturity.org/2011benchmark. Participation is free of charge.
Adds Tracking of Raptivity Interactions and Sports Major UI Enhancements.
LINE Communications has used Twitter to facilitate a social media debate at a British Airways internal event celebrating Campaign for Learning’s Learning at Work Day
Webanywhere Limited, formed in 2003 and a leading supplier to the Education sector, has partnered with Learning Light to bring a new managed service eLearning offer to the corporate market.
TrainingZone Live was a big hit with members of the Charity Learning Consortium (CLC), with charities benefitting from exclusive offers and discounts. Members of the CLC, including founder and MD Martin Baker, found Jim Kirkpatrick’s workshop in particular an inspiration, and learning from the day has already been shared within charity L&D departments. Read on for reactions to the event from members of the CLC.
At the eMadrid Workshop on e-learning, being held at Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid, on 1st and 2nd June, Fabrizio Cardinali will be discussing the latest trends in mobile learning.
Towards Maturity's Ambassador Programme grows to 15 strong
Introducing Pastiche™ by Xyleme: an end-to-end solution that delivers content to the iPad and redefines blended learning
Howard Steed has joined the technical team at Information Transfer, responsible for the specification, implementation and ongoing support of the software solutions that enable their clients to establish widespread and successful adoption of e-learning within their organisations.
The global glassmaking giant O-I has been working with goFLUENT, a leading provider of distance English training, to improve the English communication skills of its worldwide workforce with a unique blended learning approach.
Kineo is delighted to announce that the legendary Dr Lonnie Smith will be performing at the next Kineo Jazz event at The Basement in Brighton on 18th June 2011.
LONDON, 31st May 2011. Piers Lea, CEO of LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, has joined other industry leaders in highlighting a benchmark study that shows Britain is missing out on a potential source of cost savings and efficiency gains due to outdated attitudes to training among top management.
Upside Learning recently launched its corporate newsletter for learning professionals and other stakeholders seeking to learn more about the latest happenings in the company and the learning industry on a whole. This monthly newsletter is called 'Upside Learning Buzz'.
Are your senior managers distinctly lukewarm about embracing social media? In the latest Charity Learning Consortium blog, Lawrence Clarke examines some possible reasons behind their lack of enthusiasm and explains why understanding your organisation’s values, and aligning social media policy to them, is so critical.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 26, 2011 – DuPont Sustainable Solutions, a leader in innovative learning, has received two Brandon Hall bronze awards for technology excellence in the following categories: Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Global Training and Best Advance in Technology for Rich-Media Authoring.
The Customer Service Professional qualification, Scottish local government's only online qualification certificated by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), has achieved yet another significant milestone. The Qualification's third and final level, a Professional Development Award (PDA) for Customer Service within a Public Sector Organisation has been successfully validated by SQA, opening up the door to new candidate registrations.
The Open University has just received accreditation from The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for its engineering degrees. This is in addition to their recent re-accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Professional membership of engineering institutions requires formal assessment and recognition of the level of experience and qualifications achieved.
Researchers at The Open University have created a free 'app' to help parents teach their children to read.
Our Story has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading. Parents can easily create their own personal picture books, stories and games and in doing so support vocabulary development and reading skills.
Xyleme provides the market's first look at Pastiche™, showing organizations how to take training to the next level with blended learning on a single tablet
Exact learning solutions, a leading provider of learning content management, digital repository and mobile learning solutions and e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH), an established leader in developing and providing educational content for the overall UK National Health Service (NHS), have won a prestigious IMS Platinum Award at the Learning Impact 2011 ceremony, in Long Beach, California, on May 18.
London, 25th May 2011. LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, today announces the launch of its redesigned website at www.line.co.uk, reflecting a refocusing of operating capability prompted by the growth and development of its business.
iSpring Presenter e-Learning authoring software awarded Gold Medal for Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology 2010 in category 'Best Advance in Technology for Rapid Authoring'.
Webanywhere Inc., the Philadelphia based provider of open source eLearning technologies, has partnered with Totara to offer Totara LMS solutions to organisations across North America. Corporate L&D departments and training providers can now benefit from the ability of Totara LMS - the custom distribution of Moodle for corporates - to reduce the total cost of ownership for internal training and CPD provision.
Exclusive Brightwave interview - '[Learning technologies] to date has been more about automating what we used to do'
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the recognized global leader in interactivity solutions has been selected in the 2011 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List published by Training Industry, Inc.
Kineo, leaders in e-learning and LMS solutions announced today that they will continue to grow with the opening of a London Office on June 1st, and invites applicants interested in joining Kineo’s award winning team in London to apply.
TWM's online training website helps instruct employees from over 12,000 post offices nationwide on a new IT system ensuring a smooth and controlled switchover.
For regional driving school SWERVE, rapid reuse and customization result in dramatic cost savings and increased customer satisfaction
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