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    • Harbinger Unveils TeemingPod - A Platform for Embedded Social Interactions is the Sequel to FlockPod

      Harbinger Group |

      Harbinger Knowledge Products today unveiled TeemingPod, a platform for embedded social interactions. For Web developers, TeemingPod provides a platform that helps build social interactions right inside their web applications or web sites. For users, TeemingPod provides a small place on any Web page to get together and to interact on-the-spot, while staying on the page.

    • Nothing but the best for CM Group

      Civica |

      In the midst of a much publicised skills shortage in the IT industry, CM Group has recruited two graduate technologists, in addition to promoting individuals from within the organisation and attracting some high calibre experienced IT specialists.

    • Coastal HealthTrain Launches 11 New eLearning Courses

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Coastal HealthTrain is proud to announce the release of 11 new healthcare e-learning courses covering ambulatory care, home healthcare, long-term care, and general healthcare issues. Like Coastal’s other e-learning titles, these programs deliver customized, consistent and trackable training anytime and anywhere.

    • Raptivity among Software Satisfaction Awards 2008 Finalists

      Harbinger Group |

      UK-based Sift Media has shortlisted Raptivity software by Harbinger Group for Software Satisfaction Awards 2008. The awards are established to reward high standards from software application providers serving UK businesses.

    • Harbinger Knowledge Products among E-Learning Awards 2008 Finalists

      Harbinger Group |

      Harbinger Knowledge Products has been shortlisted for eLearning Awards 2008, judged by the e-Learning Network in association with e-Learning Age, UK. The shortlisting is under 'Best Learning Game, Simulation or Virtual Environment' category.

    • Becta funded projects supported by Raptivity and Elicitus

      Harbinger Group |

      Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced that it is helping schools produce and share content by making its products available to Becta funded projects in England. The products include Raptivity, the award-winning rapid interactivity builder and Elicitus, the leading authoring tool.

    • Giunti Labs' HarvestRoad Hive eases content migration issues

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy, & London, UK |

      A software system - HarvestRoad Hive, from leading learning and mobile content management technology provider, Giunti Labs - is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to save both time and manpower as they make information more readily available to users.

    • Xyleme Unveils Xyleme LCMS 3.2

      Xyleme | Boulder, CO |

      Fully integrated, highly scalable and truly collaborative LCMS for Reusability 2.0

    • Elearnity provides guide to managing Rapid e-learning

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced its latest research on the different approaches and considerations to managing Rapid e-learning.

    • Pearson VUE extends partnership with TDA

      Pearson VUE | London |

      Pearson VUE is helping to raise England's teaching standards through its delivery of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) skills tests for the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). This new three-year partnership will see the specialist provider of Computer Based Testing (CBT) solutions, delivering electronic tests to over 35,000 trainee teachers each year, helping the Government ensure greater measurability and performance in the profession.

    • e2train reveals outstanding customer satisfaction scores at meeting of Kallidus User Group

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      e2train, the UK's leading supplier of learning and performance technologies, announces the outstanding results of its annual customer survey. Unveiled at the recent meeting of the Kallidus User Group, the survey reveals high levels of satisfaction amongst its customers, in particular for its support and implementation services.

    • UK's leading e-learning company Epic acquired by Andrew Brode

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      Epic, the UK's market leading e-learning company, has been acquired by a private investor with extensive corporate and organisational learning and development interests. On 12 June 2008 Huveaux plc sold Brighton based Epic to Andrew Brode.

    • imc | Sevenoaks, UK |

      Lecturnity's simplified 'one click' publishing process makes the recording and publishing of electronic content even easier. The simplified LECTURNITY 3.0 publishing process now consists of both document creation in the selected target format and the optional transfer (upload) to remote servers, all in one click.

    • Giunti Labs reveals leading edge military support technology at ITEC

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy |

      The tasks of those responsible for providing learning and operations support information for the world's armed forces are being made easier, thanks to advances being made in content management technologies, standards and methodologies.

    • The Natural History Museum invests in e-learning with Epic

      Epic | UK |

      The Natural History Museum has recently commissioned Epic to produce bespoke e-learning for their 'Health and Safety' and 'Fire Safety' training to be rolled out to new starters within their first few weeks of employment. This is an exciting initiative, which will no doubt pave the way for others in the Museums and Galleries sector.

    • Elearnity lifts the lid on Rapid e-learning

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced a comprehensive programme of research and white papers into Rapid e-learning, one of the most significant e-learning trends of recent years.

    • Pearson VUE bring UKCAT closer to home

      Pearson VUE | London, UK |

      Pearson VUE has recently developed and opened "Occasional Sites" where students in more remote areas of Scotland can sit their UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT).

    • Q-Validus, in conjunction with BPP Learning Media and BTL launch Spreadsheet Safe™

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      The Spreadsheet Safe™ training and certification programme was created in response to the growing requirements of organizations to reduce the risks posed by unsafe end-user developed spreadsheets. Spreadsheet Safe™ has been developed with the involvement of some of the world's leading experts in the area of spreadsheet design and control.

    • Giunti Labs hosts an international training event in Sestri Levante

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy, & London, UK |

      More than 100 teachers and trainers involved in ’eLearning for teachers and trainers in the MEDA region’, an important European initiative on e-learning for North African and Middle East countries, have taken part in an international training event hosted by Giunti Labs.

    • UKS and Giunti Labs showcase mobile learning at the IMCL2008 Conference

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy |

      UKS, the Middle East’s leading learning solutions enabler, in cooperation with its technology partner, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology provider, will be showcasing mobile learning content management solutions at the third International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, (IMCL2008), hosted by Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman, Jordan, from 16th to 18th April.

    • Pearson VUE sign contract with Royal Colleges of Physicians

      Pearson VUE | London, UK |

      Pearson VUE sign a new contract with the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK to deliver their new specialty Knowledge Based Assessments exclusively through the international Pearson VUE network.

    • IMC UK exhibitor at HRD in London

      imc | Sevenoaks, UK |

      IMC is exhibiting in the "Technology for Learning" sector on stand 1040 at "ExCel" exhibition and conference centre.

    • BTL converts 13 National Qualification ESOL units into interactive assessments

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd is pleased to announce that it has completed an 18 month project to convert 13 National Qualification English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) units into e-Enabled and interactive formats for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). The 13 ESOL units will be created as a SCORM package and also made available as CD ROMs.

    • Learning Light proves that professional communities' collaboration brings benefits

      Learning Light | Sheffield, Yorkshire |

      Nine companies in the digital industries sector are now meeting their business goals as well as growing their reputation for providing high quality products and services as a result of joining a professional community network organised by Learning Light, a non-profit organisation which focuses on integrating systems and aligning learning and people development programmes to meet strategic business goals.

    • Cornerstone OnDemand introduces a new standard in learning and talent management

      Cornerstone OnDemand | Paris, France & London, UK |

      Cornerstone OnDemand, the provider of on-demand, integrated learning and talent management (ITM) software and services, has announced the availability of its Winter 2008 release - MyTeam - which provides one centralised, highly graphical view of all the talent activity in an organisation to engage and empower the workforce.

    • Empower learning!

      imc | Seveoaks, UK |

      IMC presents numerous innovations at CeBIT 2008 aimed at increasing efficiency in companies and universities: Simpler processes for learning management with CLIX® and Flash video presentations with LECTURNITY®

    • API Certifies Coastal Skills Training's eLearning Curricula

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      The American Petroleum Institute (API), in accordance with its Training Provider Certification Program (TPCP), recently certified eight of Coastal's industrial skills eLearning curricula. The certification extends to 241 courses / training hours.

    • Bronze IITT Award for Tata Interactive Systems

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK and Mumbai, India |

      The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), won a bronze award in the eLearning Project of the Year category at the Institute of IT Training (IITT) Awards, announced at the Dorchester, Park Lane, London, in February. The IITT Awards recognise outstanding examples of high standards, best practice, innovation and excellence within the IT training sector.

    • Richardson Receives Product of the Year Award Presented by Customer Interaction Solutions® Magazine

      Richardson | Philadelphia, PA |

      Richardson, a leading sales training company, today announced that their Richardson QuickSkills™: Consultative Telephone Selling online sales training program has received The 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine (www.cismag.com), the leading publication covering CRM, call centers, and teleservices since 1982.

    • Raptivity among Top Three in Best of 2007 Elearning! Awards

      Harbinger Group |

      Raptivity, the award-winning e-learning software, was selected to be among the top three finalists for Best of Elearning! Awards. These awards, constituted by Elearning! Magazine, are based on the nominations and votes of readers and professionals from hundreds of organizations worldwide.

    • IMC (UK) Learning Ltd wins prestigious World of Learning Award

      imc | Sevenoaks, UK |

      IMC (UK) Learning Ltd was voted “Training Provider of the Year 2007” at the World of Learning awards ceremony. The World of Learning Awards comprises a number of categories in which individual submissions are voted on by a panel of industry experts. The prestigious “Training Provider of the Year” Award however, gives the training community itself a chance to elect the company it believes most deserving of the accolade and the recognition.

    • Epic announces new MD

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      We are delighted to confirm the news that Jonathan Satchell has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Epic with effect from 26 November.

    • UKS showcases 'Arabised' version of Giunti Labs' learn eXact Suite at Online Educa Berlin 2007

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy |

      UKS, the Middle East's leading learning solutions enabler, in cooperation with its technology partner, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology provider, will be showcasing its 'Arabised' version of Giunti Labs' learn eXact Suite at this year's Online Educa Berlin 2007 conference and exhibition.

    • Epic and UNIAID win Gold, Silver and Bronze!

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      Epic and UNIAID have been awarded a trio of prestigious prizes for their All About U e-learning programme, winning a regional National Training Award, a special mention from e-learning age and the runner-up prize from The World of Learning (WOLCE)

    • Epic and partners receive accolade at the national e-learning awards 2007

      Epic | UK |

      UNIAID was awarded the judges ‘Special Mention’ prize in the category for ‘The best e-learning programme securing widespread adoption'. This is for UNIAID’s online tools which help students prepare for and cope with the financial side of higher education; ‘All About U’, ‘Student Survivor’ and the ‘UNIAID Student Calculator’.

    • Epic's blended BTEC in Positive Behavioural Support

      Epic | UK |

      Epic, the leading e-learning company, and Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust have been working together to create a blended solution for their course in Positive Behavioural Support (PBS). The course is for support workers who provide care for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. The course is accredited by BTEC at Advanced Certificate level.

    • Tata Interactive Systems' EPSS drives performance improvements and business results

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK and Mumbai, India |

      Electronic performance support systems (EPSS), designed by certified usability experts using the principles of human factor engineering, which leads to superior usage performance and application on the job, and developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) have already delivered several millions of dollars in savings for TIS clients.

    • Finance game reassures university students and wins National Training Award

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      ‘Student Survivor’, an online game that provides key information about student finances, has been accessed by more than two million people since its launch in April 2005.

      Now it has earned the companies behind it a Regional National Training Award.

      The game, which explains bursaries, loans, grants and repayment thresholds, is aimed at encouraging more students from low-income backgrounds, who might otherwise be put off by fees and loans, to sign up for higher education.

    • Epic to deliver blended learning for County Durham PCT

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      Epic are delighted to announce they have been awarded the contract by County Durham Primary Care Trust (PCT)to provide a package of workshops and e-learning opportunities to raise awareness of mental health issues in the workplace.

    • Dresser-Rand® Equipment-Specific eLearning Now Available from Coastal

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Dresser-Rand and Coastal Skills Training announce that three new training curricula — Reciprocating Products (19 courses), Steam Products (3 courses), and Turbo Products (2 courses) — are available in Coastal’s award-winning ClarityNet HD® eLearning format.

    • Finance game ends student grant fears

      Epic | Brighton |

      'Student Survivor', an online game that provides key information about student finances, has been accessed by more than two million people since its launch in April 2005. Now it has earned the companies behind it a place in the finals of the National Training Awards 2007. The game, which explains bursaries, loans, grants and repayment thresholds, is aimed at encouraging more students from low-income backgrounds, put off by fees and loans, to sign up for higher education.

    • Learning Pool and Epic provide e-learning for 12,500 councillors

      Epic | Brighton, UK |

      Today's Councillors are busy people. They probably have full time jobs and families to juggle, alongside their council duties. It's therefore no surprise that they find it difficult to attend traditional classroom based training sessions. So when do they get to hear about the latest policy initiatives or develop their existing leadership skills?

    • Raptivity: world's most popular interactivity builder now more flexible and powerful

      Harbinger Group | Pune, India |

      - New Release 4.5 adds convenience of deployment, spell checker and learning interaction guide for 200+ interactions - Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced a significant major release 4.5 of Raptivity. The significant highlights of this release are the ease and flexibility of deployment in a multi-user corporate environment and more convenient integration with other tools. This release also comes with a Spell checker add-on.

    • Tata Interactive Systems launches its own LCMS

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK, and Mumbai, India |

      The global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has launched Learning Planet™, an enterprise learning content management system (LCMS). Learning Planet™ is based on TIS's business insights, gained from some 30 custom-built learning management system (LMS) implementations at clients including McGraw-Hill and the Bank of Montreal.

    • Giunti Labs expands into Germany

      eXact learning solutions | Milton Keynes, UK, and Sestri Levante, Italy |

      Having recently entered the North American, South American and Spanish markets, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has expanded its international presence even further by establishing an office in Frankfurt, Germany and specifically targeting the German speaking markets for LCMSs.

    • Epic partners with Adobe to drive the future of e-learning

      Epic | Brighton |

      Epic is pleased to announce a new partnership with Adobe Systems Europe Ltd. The partnership represents a coming together of two of the dominant players in European e-learning, with a shared vision for the future of technology-enabled learning and communications.

    • Youth services to benefit from a ground-breaking partnership

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      A ground-breaking partnership between Partnership for Young London, BT and the youth services of four London boroughs - Croydon, Richmond, Tower Hamlets and Westminster – has resulted in more flexible, accessible, efficient and cost-effective ways of delivering workforce development materials.

    • Epic launches new tool for accessible rapid e-learning

      Epic | Brighton |

      Epic, the leading e-learning and communications company, has announced the launch of a new rapid e-learning tool for release at the end of May 2007. Rapid Create is intended to enable everyone with basic Microsoft Word skills and some basic knowledge in instructional design to make effective, accessible, online courses.

    • E-learning leader joins Elearnity as Principal Analyst

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK. |

      Elearnity, Europe's leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced the appointment of Adrian Jones as Principal Analyst for E-learning, with responsibility for leading Elearnity's research and advisory services on E-learning, blended learning, learning design and content. Prior to joining Elearnity, Adrian was one of the leading corporate advocates for e-learning in the UK. Under Adrian's leadership over the last six years, B&Q became one of the earliest adopters of enterprise e-learning, e-assessment and learning management systems and a leading corporate reference for e-learning.

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