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
Special offer announced in advance of July CERTPOINTVLS 7.1 release
Richardson will be premiering their new sales performance improvement Solution, High Performance SellingTM at the 2011 American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition.
Webanywhere is to host the 2011 Education & Technology Conference in Leeds this June, celebrating innovative technology within education.
Kineo will be exhibiting at the 6th International Conference on ICT for development, education and training at the Mlimani City Conference Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 25-27th May 2011.
Kineo will be demonstrating CourseBuilder, an award winning collaborative authoring tool at the ASTD conference and exhibition taking place in Orlando, Florida 22 - 25 May, 2011.
Intensive, two-hour 'Preparing for an ITIL® v3 Implementation' course to be delivered via Learning Tree AnyWareTM, a unique, live, online training delivery solution
Premier IT is delighted to announce the launch of its latest e-Learning development project, for Barts and The London NHS Trust, to deliver an interactive Junior Doctors Cerner Millennium Induction training programme to all new Junior Doctors at the Trust.
CERTPOINT’s K-Tango to debut at ASTD 2011 International Conference
Kineo and The Co-operative will be presenting a leadership case study at an upcoming Learning & Skills Group (LSG) webinar on 26th May. The webinar will focus how The Co-operative is using an online portal and resources to support their leadership development.
Core Learning Services (CLS), a consultancy providing e-learning-related products and services, is helping Manchester Metropolitan University Business School provide a unique degree course for students with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
New cloud based Luminosity server enables low cost eLearning creation for authors from just £895.
Webanywhere, Inc to host free eLearning seminar for training organizations and corporations, sponsored by nSight Works, Rittenhouse Hotel Philadelphia, June 15th 2011
The e-learning-related solutions and services consultancy, Core Learning Services (CLS), is working with the National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure (NSA) to provide a wide and growing range of e-learning materials to over 2,000 workers in this sector.
As part of its organisational development, The Co-operative identified the need to focus on driving consistent development of its top 500 leaders. But how to reach out to this diverse and dispersed group, and challenge, motivate and support them?
Tendeka is a provider of completion and reservoir monitoring products and services to the upstream oil and gas industry. Its technologies help operators better manage and monitor reservoir performance and increase overall recovery.
Tendeka operates across a network of 18 regional bases, strategically located in key energy hubs including the North Sea, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the USA.
NetDimensions has won three Brandon Hall awards for technology excellence for its innovative portable LMS, mEKP.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a cost effective, off-the-peg eLearning induction programme that could easily be customised to become bespoke. Impossible? Can’t be done! Well think again, as the Charity Learning Consortium unveils its economical induction template.
Global E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, will be giving a talk on the Occupational Health benefits that good DSE (Display Screen Equipment) E-Learning can provide and the associated cost savings that this will make.
Visitors at Upside Learning’s booth (# 649) at ASTD ICE 2011 can look forward to winning a Kindle Reader (Wi-Fi version). This is a part of the company’s special expo offer for the event, which will be held between 22nd and 25th of May in Orlando, Florida.
The British Safety Council, one of the world's leading health, safety and environmental charities, is partnering with Webanywhere to transform the way they deliver online training and development to customers.
The Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh will hosting the Third Annual Social Networking & HR Conference on Thursday 12 May 2011. The HR Network Conference 2011 in association with The Open University will explore the opportunities, challenges and threats of the Social Networking phenomenon by featuring a range of speakers, forums and demonstrations for delegates to gain a better insight into this intriguing topic.
CEO Ara Ohanian to discuss the profound changes accompanying the rise of mLearning
Project management training and development specialist, Project Agency, has developed e-learning materials to help its clients deliver projects more effectively.
YawnBuster Connect to support live presentations, webinars and virtual meetings
Aimed at businesses with up to 100 employees, EssentialSkillz have launched a new, cost effective solution for online Health and Safety training.
Upside Learning's best value Learning Management System - UpsideLMS - has won Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards for the 2nd time in a row. Taking the win a notch higher than the previous year, the multi award-winning system's tally, for 2010, stands tall and impressive with 2 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze.
Two projects involving eXact Learning Solutions, one of the world’s leading providers of learning content management systems (LCMS) and digital repository (DR) solutions, have been shortlisted for this year’s IMS Global ‘Learning Impact Awards’, which will be announced in Long Beach, California, on 16th to 19th May.
Kineo E-learning and Good Practice are launching their new mobile e-learning service for managers in the US at ASTD.
The last couple of years have seen significant change in the way that organisations large and small approach employee training and development. Webanywhere's Conor Gilligan explains why smaller training companies, which have often traded on their reputation, expertise and reliability alone, need to look beyond human mediated training and traditional instructor led methods to save classroom costs and develop new revenue streams.
Kineo E-learning and Good Practice are launching their new mobile e-learning service for managers in the US at ASTD.
Brightwave, the e-learning specialist renowned for high quality solutions that make a measurable business impact, has signed up as 2011 E-Learning Awards headline sponsors for the second year running.
London, 28 April 2011, LINE Communications, a key provider of learning and development solutions to the defence sector, will once again be exhibiting at the ITEC Defence Exhibition and Conference in Cologne on the 10-12th of May.
Newly elected ELIG Executive Committee has been extended to include new members and roles.
Totara LMS, the custom distribution of Moodle for corporate enterprises, was launched at the 7th annual Forum on the Training and Development of Chinese Enterprises conference in Shanghai last week. There was great interest in the potential of the new Chinese version of Totara LMS, particularly with regard to the lack of per user licence fees in a country with some very large enterprises.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) features in the list of Top 20 Global Companies 2011 providing training business process outsourcing services.
ASTD International Conference and Expo 2011 to be held from May 22nd to 25th at Orlando, Florida, will see Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing, LMS, Custom eLearning Development and Mobile Learning Solutions, showcase its entire range of award-winning solutions and services at booth number 649.
Cammy Bean, Kineo’s US VP of Learning Design, will be speaking Friday, April 29 at the American Society of Trainers and Developers (ASTD) New England Area’s Regional 2011 Conference: Learning 2.0 – Don’t get left behind.
London, 21 April 2011. LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications solutions has confirmed it’s sponsorship of TrainingZone Live which takes place on the 16th of May in London. Now in its second year TrainingZone Live is a unique event which aims to banish traditional PowerPoint presentations and instead offer delegates the chance to take part in small expert-led interactive workshops.
Totara LMS, the open source LMS for the corporate sector based on Moodle has announced a development roadmap.
Major L&D figures set out future in new Brightwave video series
As cuts-ridden Britain emerges from recession it is missing out on a potential source of significant cost savings and efficiency gains, say heads of UK learning companies, because of outdated attitudes to training among top management.
Kineo will be exhibiting at the upcoming ASTD ICE conference in Orlando. Held each spring, ASTD is the premier event for workplace learning and development professionals and will be attended by 8,000 professionals from more than 70 countries. These professionals manage all aspects of learning in their organizations. Kineo will be represented by UK Director Stephen Walsh, US CEO, Steve Lowenthal, VP of Learning Design Cammy Bean and Director of Moodle and Totara Solutions Jonathan Newman.
Upside Learning won more than the visitors’ appreciation at the recently concluded CIPD HRD 2011, held at Olympia, London. The company’s stand (# 500) won the runner-up award in the best stand category from amongst 155 stands.
Brandon Hall Research to give presentation on replacing an organization's current LMS.
digital publishing, a leading provider of online language
training courseware, announces the opening of a new office in London, which will offer the full range of dp’s Corporate Language Training services throughout the UK. digital publishing's expansion into the UK market is a natural step in the company's continuing international growth. The London office is the second new branch this year: In January, the Munich/Germany based company opened an office in Shanghai/China. dp London will be run by Mehdi Tounsi, who joins the company with many years of experience in the e-learning industry, working with companies based in America, Africa, Australia and the UK.
e2train has announced a new and free series of webinars revealing industry secrets from leading consultants and learning and development professionals. The webinar schedule is ideal for those who want competitive edge technologies to accelerate learning, highlight talent and create imaginative content. The webinars will demonstrate new product features and give you the chance to quiz e2train experts on a wide range of learning and development issues arising from the use of Kallidus LMS, 81Boxes and Content Plus.
The Charity Learning Consortium is making all of its eLearning absolutely free to all charities and not-for-profits for Adult Learners’ Week in May, as part of its pledge to Race Online 2012.
The Royal College of Surgeons, Quincentenary Hall, Edinburgh will be the focus of Holyrood magazine’s Human Resources Conference 2011 on Wednesday 20 April.
A research project launched today will consider how innovative learning approaches are impacting leadership development. The research, conducted by the independent benchmarking practice, Towards Maturity, aims to uncover what learning approaches are making a difference in developing great leaders and managers.
Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing and a leading name in custom eLearning development, learning management system and mobile learning solutions, has completed 7 years of providing learning solutions to organizations the world over. Its foray into its 8th year has been marked by its focus on strengthening its solutions portfolio and expanding its global reach.
BADMINTON England – the sport’s governing body in England – is taking its first steps in e-learning, with the help of Core Learning Services (CLS) managed by Paul Higgins.
Kineo announced today that Monika Walankiewicz has been appointed as the lead Art Director in Kineo’s Chicago office. Monika will lead the visual design solutions for Kineo’s US e-learning clients.
An e-learning course designed to help business and the public sector meet the requirements of the Equality Act has been launched today.
Clive Shepherd outlines four areas that L&D can look to harness the power of social networks, in a recent article for the Charity Learning Consortium’s eNewsletter and blog. Clive, chair of the eLearning Network, warns that even if organisations don’t embrace social media tools, their staff – and competitors - will.
AppSense Professional Services has developed and is releasing a global three-tier certification programme for its customers and partners.
Two leading players in the learning community have extended their co-operation in an alliance which will bring benefits to both users and providers of innovative learning. Bizmedia Ltd – publisher of e.learning age and organiser of the E-Learning Awards – has entered into a new partnership with Towards Maturity, the internationally recognised benchmarking practice.
Learn how you can develop a multi-tenant open source Totara LMS for your partners, migrate from a proprietary system fast, and reduce costs significantly.
Analysis notes powerful content authoring tools and high customer satisfaction among CERTPOINT’s Strengths
Following the government’s publication of guidance last week, the Bribery Act 2010 will come into effect on 1st July this year. With three months for organisations to prepare, Saffron Interactive has released a free preview of its anti-bribery and corruption e-learning course.
The Charity Learning Consortium (CLC), which enables eLearning in the Third Sector, is proud to announce that it is now the official charity partner to Kineo, the leading eLearning and LMS provider. The two organisations have been working together to move the CLC’s eLearning suite onto a Moodle LMS platform, enabling even greater collaboration between charity members.
Learning Nexus, in line with guidance and advice from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, has created a range of Personal Safety courses that are engaging, interactive and advice driven, designed to help employers keep 'at risk' employees safe and aware of potentially distressing situations.
Imagine a future where students not only have a holographic tutor but their engagement with the learning could also be measured via biometric technology... well, imagine no more - it's arrived here in Brighton.
Learning Nexus, a leading e-learning solutions provider, have been delivering IOSH courses to several organisations for a number of years, within their Health and Safety range. In December 2010, they began delivering these e-learning courses to BaxterStorey, Britain’s leading independent food service provider for business and industry.
Upside Learning announced today its special expo offer for CIPD HRD 2011 to be held on 6th and 7th of April in Olympia London. This offer includes 2 iPads to be given away to two lucky visitors.
Do you struggle to effectively evaluate your e-learning? Are you still trying to figure out how to use mobile devices for effective learning? Is social learning still something of an enigma to you?
Due to the significant and increasing global demand for business solutions based on web 2.0 and open source technologies, Webanywhere has now established a corporate team in Philadelphia, United States.
The Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) is delighted to be sponsoring the Third Sector Social Media convention, an exciting new event in London, on 13-14 June. The CLC, the largest group of UK based charities which collaborate to make eLearning affordable, is currently supporting its members in exploring the benefits of embracing social media for L&D, so it’s the perfect event for the Consortium to support.
Brandon Hall Research to Present Five CERTPOINT-Sponsored Webinars
If you’re not already looking at virtual classrooms as part of your learning strategy, you’re missing an opportunity. The cost savings are compelling, and the immediacy and ease of use makes them a must-have for any organization with a distributed workforce. But which tools are worth a closer look? In a free guide published this week, Kineo explores the market and guides you to the right ones to explore.
On March 20, six of the Saffron Interactive team ran the Reading Half Marathon, raising an incredible £1,000 for the NSPCC, the chosen charity of former CEO Hanif Sazen.
LearnChamp, eLearning specialists based in Austria and Germany, has become a Totara LMS Partner.
Upside Learning announced today that it will be launching Upside2Go, its latest offering in mobile learning, in the UK. To be unveiled officially at the CIPD HRD 2011 conference, this new, revolutionary platform for mobile learning is designed to cater to the unique training, learning, and performance support requirements of the mobile workforce.
TWM adds award winning production company Video Arts' Digital Library to its already extensive multimedia content offering.
How are the latest mobile devices making corporate training more accessible then ever? Webanywhere's Conor Gilligan explains why on demand access is becoming key to corporate training and development programmes
The Charity Learning Consortium, which enables cost-effective eLearning in the Third Sector, is holding its next seminar on 11 May in London, when the RSPCA will be talking about eLearning within the well known animal welfare charity.
The National Recruitment Office for General Practice Training (NRO), the body which co-ordinates the nationally agreed and quality assured process for recruitment to GP Specialty Training Programmes, has successfully launched its first ever computer-based testing solution in partnership with Pearson VUE.
The London Fire Brigade’s “Training Support Team” were recognised by the Mayor of London during a ceremony on February 25th for the introduction of e-learning across the Brigade using Seminar Author and the Seminar Knowledge Centre.
Kineo E-learning has been experiencing strong growth in the US and has announced it is moving to new offices in Chicago.
E-learning project achieves £1m+ savings and wins 'Securing workforce for the future' award.
Learning Nexus, a leading e-learning solutions provider in the UK, have released an Asbestos Awareness course into their Health and Safety range to make sure non-licensed contractors and workers know how to prepare for potential asbestos exposure.
Sheffield, 17th March 2011. LINE Communications, one of Europe's leading providers of learning and communications, has recently hosted its first annual internal video and photography competition (LINETube) with an awards ceremony to celebrate the creativity and talent of the employees within the company.
Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing, LMS solutions, custom eLearning development and mobile learning solutions, announced today that it will exhibit at CIPD HRD 2011. To be held on 6th and 7th of April 2011, this exhibition will take place in Olympia, London.
The National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh will be the focus of the eLearning Alliance's Annual Conference 2011 on Wednesday 23 March.
E-learning provider EssentialSkillz has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director to lead the rapidly growing company through its next stage of development.
Reveals transformation of workplace performance and learning
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