With mental health being such an important topic right now, L&D professionals across all industries are working on developing mental health training for their employees. To support them, we wanted to share a practical, downloadable guide that could be the perfect addition to a mental health training programme.
Falls from height are the leading cause of fatal accidents and serious injury in the UK workplace today. And you don't have to be working on a roof for this to apply to you... two thirds of all major injuries occur at low levels of two metres or less, so proper working at height training is essential to ensure the health and safety of all employees.
According to Deloitte, organisations with a strong learning culture are on average 52% more productive and 17% more profitable than their competitors. Dynamic career development has never been more important to sustain organisational performance and maximise staff retention.
Organisations wanting to maintain their competitive edge by investing in their people can now use an over-arching learning platform to gain valuable insights into their workers’ learning, skills, competencies, engagement and performance.
A new elearning market report has global market size reaching almost $500 Billion over the next five years.
How often do you have to redo your work when you create eLearning courses for your clients?
The learning impact and engagement experts, Growth Engineering, have been recognised as a 2022 Advanced Learning Technologies Top 20 Company by Training Industry.
Access is excited to announce that Access All Areas, its digital event is back this November: insightful and valuable sessions to accelerate business transformation.
During the course of the pandemic, there was a lot of talk about remote working and how organisations and businesses can adapt. But as hybrid working comes to the fore, the work environment is shifting again. Now, one of the questions that is being asked now is: in this new hybrid working environment, how can organisations keep up employee engagement?
The gamification and learner engagement experts at Growth Engineering have harnessed their 20 years of experience to create and release a comprehensive new gamification guidebook.
The 18th October is World Menopause Day, a chance to raise awareness of the menopause and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for women throughout their menopause journey.
As remote working reached an all-time high during the lockdown period of COVID-19, many organisations had to quickly adapt to the new ways of working. Although remote-working isn’t a new concept and has been adopted by many organisations across the globe, it wasn't the norm, especially remote-working on a full-time basis.
The sessions will cover cultural change through self-driven upskilling and performance goals, applying a marketing mindset to learning and the formula for content success.
THRIVE’s annual customer event treated 350 customers to a blockbuster lineup of speakers, including Steven Bartlett, Jacqueline Gold CBE, Grace Beverley and Mollie King.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently updated their first-aid guidance to include, amongst other things, a section about mental health in the workplace. It calls out to workplaces to ‘consider ways to manage mental ill health in your workplace which are appropriate for your business’.
Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has joined in the practice of publicly making comparisons. In doing so, it has both history and popular culture on its side.
THRIVE rolls out new service to help L&D teams apply a marketing approach to their learning campaigns.
With World Suicide Prevention Day on 10th September and World Mental Health Day on 10th October, there is a huge focus on mental health at the moment. Therefore, at Virtual College, we wanted to play our part and provide supportive resources for businesses that want to support their employees’ mental health.
eCom Learning Solutions, a digital learning and assessment specialist, has produced a list of six key reasons why organisations should collaborate with a specialist when it comes to producing eLearning materials.
Nimble’s special three-day virtual Nimble Community Week and Awards took place on 20-22 September.
eLearning Africa 2023 takes place in Dakar, Senegal from May 24, and today opened its call for submissions to the conference programme.
Sponge’s partnership with Newcross has been shortlisted in the category of ‘Best Technology-based Onboarding Programme’.
The 2022 Nimble Awards, which celebrate the delivery of outstanding training, learning and development through the use of Nimble, have kicked off with the announcement of this year’s finalists.
Growth Engineering, the learning impact experts, have been named a 2022 Top 40 Learning System Award Winner.
Totara has won two bronze awards at the Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards 2022.
Fast-growing SAAS technology company THRIVE has been shortlisted for Learning Technology Organisation of the Year, Best Learning Platform Implementation (with customer Bally’s) and Best Use of Social & Collaborative Learning Technologies (with customer Ted Baker), while Senior Designer Tim Shelton is in the running for Learning Developer of the Year.
Lockdowns during the latest pandemic helped educators from all over the world to see the benefits of digital learning. Even now, with the return to classic face-to-face teaching approaches, we can benefit from modern technologies. And our students can enjoy them fully as well.
The fast-growing learning technology company has moved into a new office space in Spinningfields, Manchester.
Alexandria, VA — September 1, 2022 — iSpring Solutions Inc., a world-renowned vendor of eLearning software and services, announced the release of its brand-new iSpring Suite 11. It will let content creators design even more impactful eLearning with new customization features, hand-drawn characters and locations, player speed options, and an industry-leading user interface.
The 16th eLearning Africa conference and exhibition on ICT for education, training and skills development, is to take place in Dakar, Senegal from May 24 – 26, 2023.
The UK’s largest independent hotel brand has partnered with Sponge since 2020, to assist in the deployment of a data-driven compliance learning strategy.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and digital learning provider Sponge have launched an admin and clerical people training programme (‘ACE’) to develop essential soft skills.
Omniplex Learning has announced that they will be hosting an exclusive training course at the National Space Centre in Leicester.
GuyKat’s Tampa-based US team will launch content authoring tool FLOWSPARKS, to the US market in October at DevLearn, Las Vegas’s leading learning technologies event. This follows a successful launch in the UK earlier this year.
Growth Engineering, the learning impact experts, have won four gold awards at the 2022 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards. These awards were won in partnership with L’Oréal Travel Retail.
The digital learning provider won two gold awards in the ‘Best Advance in Compliance Training’ category and one gold award in the ‘Best Advance in Custom Content’.
The partnership is the deepest learning solution integration to date for Blinkist, and will enable THRIVE to strengthen their commitment to modern, consumer-grade learning.
Announcement reflects Sponge's ambition to drive DE&I by expanding its youth network.
More and more schools, colleges, and universities are adopting eLearning practices and including them in their curriculum and staff training programs. This article explains how online learning can be leveraged in education and covers actual stories of educational institutions that use eLearning technologies. Continue reading to see the results they achieved.
Sponge's final report following Learning Technologies 2022 investigates L&D's insights for finance and professional services organisations.
Ann Summers employees will be able to take advantage of the new platform and mobile app, providing a complete modern learning and communications strategy.
The event will feature a Women in Leadership panel, with 25 free tickets and a chance to meet the speakers on offer for aspiring young female leaders.
Kineo introduces the key data points to collect for learning analytics, focused on mining insights from learner activity to make effective decisions.
Growth Engineering is now a Certified B Corporation. To achieve this, the research-backed learning tech experts had to meet B Lab’s high standards for social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
Digital academies – an initiative from the leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions – are helping organisations stay ahead of their competition by developing their most valuable asset: their workforce.
The contract caterers are finalists in the HR Impact category for the results they’ve achieved using THRIVE Learning & Skills Platform.
E-learning company, thirst learning, and marketing and design agency OnyxPDA, both launched during the pandemic, and now the pair of start-ups are working together to bring a new era of learning to the workplace.
University of Swansea has become the first Welsh university to create a bi-lingual anti racism e-learning course for staff.
The gamification experts at Growth Engineering spoke to seven industry luminaries to explore the current gamification landscape and what the future holds for the industry. This research has been collected together into a brand new report.
In the fourth of five post-Learning Technologies insights reports, Sponge explores the three key insights for L&D practitioners working in the tech sector to consider.
It’s now possible to use the power of Filtered’s Content Intelligence to build Learning Pathways fast and publish them into Degreed.
The Charity Learning Consortium is sponsoring a disabled pensioner’s thrilling wing walk to raise money for dementia research
LEO has launched a refreshed version of its popular off-the-shelf Anti-Money Laundering (AML) course to help organizations manage their risk.
Over 1,000,000 midwives from around the world now have access to an eLearning platform developed for The International College of Midwives (ICM) by Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions.
The THRIVE CEO has been shortlisted in the Midlands, with the regional finals taking place on 21 November 2022 before the winners go through to the national stage.
Digital learning provider, Sponge, has received a prestigious Top 20 award for the best Online Learning Library from Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders.
Upskilling and reskilling employees is a top priority for businesses the world over, so it’s no surprise the team at eLearning Industry have been on the hunt for the top providers.
From understanding how adults learn, to unlocking training techniques that capitalise on neuroscience, Sponge’s new handbook explores Learning Science best practice for L&D leaders, managers, and design practitioners.
Continuing the series of post-Learning Technologies insights reports, Sponge explores three key learning and development trends from the manufacturing and automotive sector.
Tesseract Learning’s learning content and learning technology solutions are continuously being recognized for their effectiveness, innovation, and creativity by multiple award organizations.
To help anyone who is responsible for eLearning projects, Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist with a worldwide client portfolio - eCom Learning Solutions – has produced an eBook.
Following on from last week's Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Insights Report, Sponge has turned its attention to the retail sector to look at three key insights that can help support the sector's L&D teams in 2022 and beyond.
Emergency Response Driver Training (ERDT), which delivers regulated qualifications and accreditations to emergency services from across the UK and worldwide, is using eCom Learning Solutions’ expertise to provide eLearning materials, via the eNetLearn learning management system (LMS).
Wondering what data you should be collecting? How it will inform design decisions? How it can help prove learning impact? Kineo proposes these 7 approaches to learning analytics in its new guide.
Sacha Harvey joins from Rum Kitchen, a THRIVE customer, to help maintain and evolve the company's culture and employee experience as it scales.
The first of five industry specific reports exploring emerging trends in workplace learning, the report boasts three key insights for L&D practitioners within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.
Elite-level athletes and coaches in the UK, along with their respective national governing bodies (NGBs), can now access a digital learning and compliance tracking solution focusing on anti-doping measures and procedures.
For the seventh year in a row Kineo are named on Training Industry's Top 20 list for Custom Content Development Providers
Kineo recognise how important it is for L&D teams to be able to track and measure the value of their learning initiatives.
The videogame development company scooped silver in ‘Best Use of Digital Technologies’ at the 2022 UK Employee Experience Awards.
Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has welcomed the decision to name Dunfermline as one of eight new cities, so designated to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
After noticing a gap in the territory for THRIVE’s Learning & Skills Platform, Xtractor (part of the Semcon group) will be their exclusive partner in Sweden.
Tesseract Learning has been recognized as a world leader in Custom Content Development for the third consecutive year by Training Industry. This achievement is the testimony of its capability and commitment to deliver top-class eLearning content, its expertise, and the strength of its team.
Training Industry's 2022 ranking marks the sixth year in a row that LEO has been recognized, and its 12th overall recognition from the prestigious industry publication.
Virtual College has launched a brand-new podcast episode. Featuring host Simon Falconer, Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual College, and guest Ashley Sinclair, Managing Director of MAAS Marketing, the episode explores a problem many L&D professionals find challenging: engaging learners in learning and development programmes. The podcast identifies ways that marketing principles can be adopted to create better engaged learners.
Such diverse organisations as those from the manufacturing and legal sectors, along with charities and even an industry regulator, have all been impressed at the high level of customer service from Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions.
Marshalls and the University of Plymouth have collaborated on a range of sustainability courses, including Marshalls brand new Climate Change e-learning course, which makes the University of Plymouth the first higher education institution to include it into their catalogue.
The British fashion and homeware retailer upgrades its learning platform, creating one central place for internal communications, training resources, upskilling and knowledge sharing.
Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, is helping energy companies and contractors transform their businesses to move – cost-effectively - towards being net zero carbon producers.
The eLearning Network (eLN) has announced a rebrand to better serve its community and the Learning and Development industry.
Totara is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of its Talent Experience Platform (TXP), Totara 16.
The learning technology organisation will focus on their recent Skills Platform launch with live demos and seminar sessions.
Debuts Rise all-in-one training system for agile teams to Learning Technologies UK audience; Releases thousands of new templates for industry-leading Articulate 360.
The new platform equips L&D teams to create an agile skills strategy based on real-time learner data - at no extra cost.
Staff of GuyKat this week travelled to Ghent, Belgium, to complete enablement training on FLOWSPARKS. The trip marked the ‘go-live’ of the partnership between the two companies.
Announcement of new executive suite follows Sponge’s recent repositioning as a digital learning ‘core leader’ in 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™.
In this Q&A interview, Mark Story, Head of Learning Innovation at Newcross Healthcare, discusses how behavioural change can be achieved through immersive technology, authentic storytelling, and real-life characters.
Toby Harris, CMO at Filtered, will speak alongside Isael Paz, Global Business Solutions at Degreed, at the Learning Technologies event in London on 4 May.
"We're providing all the tools needed to power an agile L&D function. And we're not charging our customers a penny more for it."
There are more options when it comes to packaging and sharing eLearning content than you may realize. Just as learning delivery platforms have evolved, content distribution options have as well. Read about four ways to share your courses with your clients and the pros and cons of each.
Tesseract Learning’s CEO, Suresh Kumar DN, and Chief Learning Evangelist, Krishna Kumar Palappetty, will be presenting at Learning Technologies 2022 on how to design compliance programs with better learnability and remediation – a learning journey game changer.
Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has developed bespoke eLearning materials to help make offshore wind turbine maintenance technicians’ jobs safer – especially when they are working in rough seas.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group are partnering with the learning impact experts at Growth Engineering to deliver exceptional learning experiences to hotel colleagues worldwide.
African countries should “seize the moment” and take advantage of a historic opportunity for “massive, long-term, sustainable economic growth,” according to Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation, Paula Ingabire. And Rwandan Education Minister, Dr Valentine Uwamariya, warned that “failing to focus now on education, training and technology would be unforgivable.”
Tesseract Learning is super excited to present and exhibit at the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference in London on the 4th and 5th of May.
Sumo Digital took home the Digital category prize after using THRIVE to reinvent its learning culture and connect, engage and upskill its people around the world.
Elevation from ‘Core Challenger’ to ‘Core Leader’ follows successful integration of four acquired brands into one Sponge Group.
Introducing our new partnership with FLOWSPARKS, a cloud-based eLearning software suite.
Faster onboarding and improved user experience. That’s what the thousands of estate agents that use Zoopla can expect with their switch to a new learning management system.
The Charity Learning Consortium has worked with Andrew Jacobs to create a new benchmark for its members. The benchmark will help members identify their aspirations, provide a starting point to track progression and help prove the worth of learning.
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