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    • Delegates delighted with the eLearning Network

      The Learning Network | London & Chesterfield, UK |

      Delegates at the recent one-day conference on instructional design, organised by the eLearning Network (eLN), the UK's foremost professional association of users and developers of all forms of e-learning, have pronounced it one of the most useful meetings in the eLN calendar.

    • Tata Interactive Systems and PHM collaborate on implementing a series of pan-European e-learning projects

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      The global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), and the motor industry specialist channel development and training company PHM have signed a deal to collaborate on designing and developing a part of one of the most ambitious and complex e-learning programmes in the industry. This ambitious project has been commissioned by the Marketing Communications Team of Ford of Europe.

    • Tata Interactive Systems develops ground-breaking airline cabin crew course for Ventana Aviation

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      Ventana Aviation, a UK based airline consulting company, has launched a ground-breaking cabin crew e-learning course. Developed in conjunction with the global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the course uses market leading e-learning thinking combined with the technical capabilities of the TIS instructional design team to develop a learning product that is both fun and enables students learn and remember more over a shorter period of time.

    • e2train adds PENS standard to Kallidus LMS

      Kallidus | Cirencester |

      e2train has added the Package Exchange Notification Services (PENS) standard to the new version of its successful Kallidus Learning Management System. This specification enables rapid deployment of e-learning content between authoring tools, content management systems and learning management systems.

    • Insurance industry help from Tata Interactive Systems

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      The global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has launched an electronic performance support system (EPSS) intended to help motor insurance claims handlers to process customer claims up to three times faster - and more accurately - than before.

    • Tata Interactive Systems uses story-based learning to replace classroom-delivered courses

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

      New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) has ditched traditional classroom-based learning for a story-based approach to teaching fire safety to its 20,000 or so staff. The new Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLs TM), delivered via e-learning, have been developed by the global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) - and have generated strongly positive reactions from managers and thousands of learners at NYP.

    • eLearning Network in discussions with Learning Light

      The Learning Network | London, UK |

      The eLearning Network (eLN) - the UK's foremost professional association of users and developers of all forms of e-learning - has opened discussions with Sheffield-based non-profit organisation, Learning Light (LL), regarding the possibility of merging with LL's Membership Services division.

    • Compensation simulation from Tata Interactive Systems

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Having developed a simulation to help one of the 'Fortune 500' companies plan its staff's remuneration packages, the global e-learning developer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), is putting the 'engine' behind that simulation to work by producing similar simulations for its other customers.

    • Child Protection initiative from Tata Interactive Systems

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning developer, has come up with a training initiative to a common problem faced by all organisations that work with children: how to provide effective training to the staff, carers and volunteers involved in child protection.

    • Tata Interactive learning portal wins award

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      A learning portal developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has bagged the 'Best Organisational Project' Award at the UAE IT Challenge 2006.

    • Information Transfer releases Seminar Surveyor

      Acteon Communication and Learning |

      Cambridge-based communication consultancy Information Transfer have released the latest product in their range of e-learning software - Seminar Surveyor.

    • Learning Light researches e-learning

      Learning Light | Sheffield, UK |

      Learning Light, a non-profit organisation that helps to build relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners, has embarked on a major research programme to map trends in coporate e-learning.

    • New RSS feed from Elearnity Knowledge Centre

      Fosway |

      Elearnity, Europe’s leading independent Learning Analyst, today announced the availability of a new RSS feed for its popular Elearnity Knowledge Centre, delivering the latest in corporate learning and e-learning news and analysis direct to your desktop.

    • Elearnity viewpoint on Saba/Centra acquisition

      Fosway |

      Saba's announcement of its intention to buy Centra is another significant step in the consolidation taking place in the learning technology market place. Here are some initial thoughts from Elearnity - positive and negative - on the implications of this move for Saba and Centra customers, and for the broader market.

    • SumTotal Systems completes acquisition of Pathlore

      SumTotal Systems | Mountain View, California and Columbus, Ohio, USA |

      SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of privately-held Pathlore Software Corporation, also a leading enterprise software company in the learning and business performance management market, for approximately $48 million.

    • QA supports informal learning with LearningGuide

      QA | London, UK |

      QA, Training Company of the Year 2005, has recently added to its portfolio an innovative new workplace learning support tool, designed to help organisations with the adoption of applications and working procedures.

    • Driven Systems selects SumTotal to expand learning solutions offering

      SumTotal Systems |

      SumTotal TM Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that new partner, Driven Systems, a leading provider of consulting services and solutions based in Brighton, England, has selected the SumTotal Enterprise Suite as the backbone of a comprehensive e-learning offering for its growing roster of commercial and public-sector clients in the United Kingdom.

    • The Training Foundation launches e-Learning initiative to crash content development costs

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      Following a £2m Research and Development programme spanning four years, The Training Foundation has today launched a unique e-Learning product suite. Targeted at the issues that have restricted the take-up of e-Learning and inhibited its potential, this initiative makes blended learning an affordable and realistic option for every organisation.

    • SumTotal Systems Positioned in Leader Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for E-learning Suites

      SumTotal Systems |

      SumTotal™ Systems (NASDAQ: SUMTE), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that it has been placed in the Leader Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for e-Learning Suites** based on an evaluation of its completeness of vision and ability to execute. The report was published by Gartner, Inc (NYSE:IT), a premier research and advisory firm.

    • Tata Interactive Systems helps Qantas Airlines to meet compliance requirements

      MPS Interactive Systems | Sydney, Australia |

      Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, has completed a compliance-based e-learning project for flight attendants working for the Australia-based airline Qantas. The program - based around an interactive game where learners collect 'frequent learner points' which can be redeemed for prizes - is not only proving highly popular with the learners but is also helping Qantas to meet its compliance obligations under both national and international law.

    • Brighton & Hove tracks e-GovernmentIDeA content on local LMS

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Brighton & Hove City Council has exported the e-Government IDeA training material into SCORM compliant packages to enable it to launch, manage and track the content with its new Kallidus Learning Management System.

    • Tata Interactive Systems raises key e-learning issues

      MPS Interactive Systems | Edison, New Jersey |

      Tata Interactive Systems gears up to host the Tata Learning Forum 2005 - at the Executive Leadership Center at the Boston University School of Management - with key speakers tackling the major learning issues of the day.

    • Shortlist announced for the inaugural e-Learning Awards

      The Learning Network | Cheshunt, Herts |

      Twenty six of the UK's top producers and users of e-learning have been named on the shortlist for this year's inaugural e-Learning Awards, which will be presented at a gala dinner at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, on Thursday 13th October.

    • Top level talks for telecomms' e-learning specialists

      MPS Interactive Systems | London |

      Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning pioneer, and telecom giants ntl played host to their colleagues in the telecom industry at a forum to discuss 'making e-learning relevant to business'. The forum was held - by invitation of TIS - at ntl's headquarters in Hampshire last week (7th June).

    • SumTotal Systems unveils new ToolBook update

      SumTotal Systems |

      SumTotal Systems today announced the availability of ToolBook Service Pack 2, the newest version of its award winning simulation and content authoring solution. Responding to customer demand and evolving industry trends, SumTotal has added significant new capabilities to the product, including Java-free deployment, support for SCORM 2004 content, browser support for Firefox and Mozilla, tighter integration with the SumTotal platform and enhanced online tutorials.

    • New white paper provides advice for organisations seeking to implement an LMS

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      e2train has released a new white paper entitled ‘A 12 point plan for a successful LMS implementation’. Drawn from factual data from existing users, it forms an effective ‘how to’ guide for anybody who is about to implement a Learning Management System (LMS). It explores the dozen key processes and pitfalls inherent in the implementation process.

    • Corporates rethink generic e-learning

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      Elearnity, Europe 's leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced research concluding that large corporate adopters are changing their approach and contractual commitments for generic e-learning to better focus the value proposition. Corporates are focusing on driving recurrent usage around a narrow set of generic titles linked to major business initiatives, and are increasingly adopting non-traditional forms of e-learning such as on-line reference materials for on-demand learning support to an often sceptical audience.

    • SumTotal Systems Ships SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1

      SumTotal Systems |

      SumTotal™ Systems (SUMTE), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced the availability of the SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1, the first update of the platform since its launch in December 2004. The new version incorporates multiple new and enhanced functionalities, including enhanced reporting management, new standards support for SCORM 2004, broader offline access and expanded localization capabilities.

    • Holland America Line chooses SumTotal Systems for shipboard training and first-ever online learning initiative

      SumTotal Systems | Mountain View, CA, USA |

      Premium cruise leader Holland America Line has chosen the SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0 to power a new online learning and compliance initiative reaching 14,000 employees across its extended enterprise, including its Holland America Line, Windstar Cruises, Westmark Hotels and Gray Line divisions. The initiative will include a unique shipboard training program for personnel at sea around the world, featuring learning data synchronization via satellite.

    • NetDimensions Shakes Up LMS Market with Self-Installing, Full Featured LMS for $995

      PeopleFluent | Hong Kong |

      NetDimensions, a provider of global, enterprise-class learning management systems, today announced the availability of its newest LMS version to the U.S. market for $995, with no annual renewal charges. With the introduction of Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) Bronze, NetDimensions offers companies deploying online training programs a full featured, multilingual LMS at a cost far below the average market cost.

    • 60% of NHS Trusts in England using MRSA online training course to combat doubling of MRSA-related deaths in four years

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      The Training Foundation today announced that 312 NHS Trusts in England have now licensed access to its online training portal www.mrsa.no.com to provide staff with the motivational “MRSA – you can make a difference” training programme. Only this week, more than 30 NHS Trusts have joined the initiative. This announcement coincides with today’s report from the Office for National Statistics revealing that MRSA-related deaths continued to increase in 2003 in England and Wales and have now officially doubled in four years.

    • E-learning's Marathon Man

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Pankaj Jathar, of leading e-learning provider, TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), is in strict training to take part in his first London Marathon - being held on 17th April.

    • New authoring software for further education and adult community learning sectors

      The Training Foundation | Learning Technologies Exhibition, London UK |

      Tutors in the adult education sector can now get first-hand experience of creating e-learning materials as well as adapting pre-existing courses – thanks to a new service from The Training Foundation. Developed with Ufi Limited, the organisation behind e-learning providers learndirect, the free Acce-Lerator™ online authoring tool gives tutors a quick and simple way to create tailor-made courses for their learners.

    • SumTotal Systems launches the SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0

      SumTotal Systems | Mountain View, CA |

      Achieving its most important milestone of 2004, SumTotal Systems (NASDAQ: SUMT), the industry's largest provider of learning and business performance technologies, services and processes, today announced the availability of the much-anticipated SumTotal™ Enterprise Suite 7.0. The revolutionary new platform is the first major product release for the company following its formation by the merger of Click2learn and Docent in March 2004.

    • Four ELN members win a trip to Dubai

      The Learning Network |

      Four fortunate people will be able to attend the 'Middle East e-Learning Technologies' (MELT) conference in the top Arabian holiday resort Jumeirah, Dubai, next April for free - saving $800 each on their conference fee - thanks to the eLearning Network (ELN), the UK's foremost professional association for users and developers of all forms of e-learning.

    • NetDimensions Releases Enterprise Knowledge Platform Version 4.0

      PeopleFluent |

      NetDimensions releases version 4.0 of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform™ (EKP), a full-featured learning management system (LMS) with a highly customizable, robust architecture. Version 4.0 offers customers many new benefits, including new features, improvements and enhancements as well as accelerated performance.

    • Three more of the UK's leading building societies choose e2train's Kallidus solutions to help meet new FSA guidelines

      Kallidus |

      Following on from e2train's recent success in being chosen to supply their Kallidus LMS and Authoring solution to the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society, a further three top UK building societies: The Newcastle, Portman and Yorkshire have chosen the Kallidus Learning Management System to help deploy and track their e-Learning and other training activities. In addition, the Newcastle and Portman Building Societies have chosen e2train's Kallidus Authoring System to allow them to produce e-learning content in-house.

    • Reduced investment risk from e-learning

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), which has one of the world's largest teams for the design and development of custom-built e-learning solutions and has completed some 600 custom-built e-learning projects since becoming established in the UK some six years ago, has examples of its latest programmes available on its stand at the CIPD's annual learning, training and development event - HRD 2004 - being held at Olympia, in London, from 20th to 22nd April 2004.

    • Reduced investment risk from e-learning

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), which has one of the world's largest teams for the design and development of custom-built e-learning solutions and has completed some 600 custom-built e-learning projects since becoming established in the UK some six years ago, has examples of its latest programmes available on its stand at the Learning Technologies event, being held at Olympia, in London, on 28th and 29th January 2004.

    • EIfEL endorses CeLP®

      The Training Foundation |

      The European Institute for e-Learning (EIfEL) has announced its endorsement of the Certified e-Learning Professional ( CeLP® ) programme, paving the way for wider adoption of the initiative across Europe.

    • Over 90% completion rate for Institute's blended learning project

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      Although there are few statistics on e-learning usage, those numbers that do exist have previously tended to be dismal. According to a Corporate University Xchange study of 4,148 online learners, e-learning dropout rates typically stand at about 70 percent compared with an average of 15 percent for classroom training.

    • eLearning Network in conference link-up

      The Learning Network |

      The eLearning Network (ELN), the UK's foremost professional association for users and developers of all forms of e-learning and E-Learning Age, the e-learning industry's leading magazine, are joining forces to present a one day conference on Wednesday 30th April at the Novotel in Hammersmith, London.

    • Online learning given the thumbs up by Intuition classroom trainers

      Bray Leino Learning |

      Classroom course trainers registered with Intuition, the UK's largest supplier of freelance IT trainers, are reporting success in using online learning to keep their skills relevant and up to date. Last November, the company announced a strategic partnership with it-training.com to provide free courses to Intuition trainers, and the value of the arrangement is now becoming apparent.

    • TATA Interactive Systems at Learning Technologies

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Having completed over 500 projects involving custom-built e-learning solutions since becoming established in the UK some five years ago, TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) is now extending its operations - especially creating end user e-learning applications for IT product implementation training, such as SAP.

    • TATA Interactive Systems' sales team expansion

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      In response to growing demand for its services in the UK, TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), which has one of the world's largest teams for the design and development of custom-built e-learning solutions, has expanded its salesforce with the addition of two account directors.

    • e2train launches version 7.0 of Kallidus™ learning management system

      Kallidus |

      Building on the success of its AICC certified Kallidus®6 learning management system, e2train has today announced the release of Kallidus® v7.0, an affordable system which enables organisations to deploy, manage and report on learning via an Intranet or the Internet.

    • Ufi/learndirect extends tried and tested EpiCentre relationship

      Epic |

      For the third consecutive year Ufi Limited, the organisation behind the learndirect e-learning network, has awarded EpiCentre, Europe's leading testing facility for e-learning and localisation, a major contract for the Quality Assurance testing of their learning products and associated software.

    • Epic to produce more 'virtually fantabulous'

      Epic |

      Epic Group plc, the UK's leading e-learning company, has won a major contract in Round Three of the National Learning Network (NLN) Materials Development programme. Epic will develop 35 hours of e-learning materials in Social Studies, Physics and English Language for A-level and AS level on behalf of the NLN's target audience of close to six million learners in post-16 education across the UK.

    • eLearnity highlights corporate best practice in Leadership & Management Development

      Fosway |

      eLearnity, Europe's leading independent e-learning market analyst and consultancy today announced a new report investigating best practice in Leadership and Management Development in corporate Europe. Based on background research and interviews with a range of large corporations, business schools and management training providers, the report analyses the current market and the gap between what organisations want to do and what is really happening.

    • BrightWave crosses the border

      Brightwave Group |

      As Scotland's e-Learning market grows, BrightWave, the e-Learning specialist has opened a new office in Edinburgh to meet a growing demand for bespoke e-Learning in Scotland.

    • Aon Ltd receives Industry Award for e-learning initiative

      The Access Group |

      Aon Limited Corporate Division has been awarded the prestigious British Insurance Award for Training 2002 for its e-learning platform 'RoPE' - Record of Professional Excellence - which was developed jointly with Aon's learning partners the Unicorn Training Partnership and Professional Development Online (PDOL). The award provides recognition of Aon's commitment to organisational professional development and best practice in e-learning.

    • T-Mobile adds to its e-Learning Portfolio

      Brightwave Group |

      T-Mobile is to build on the success of previous e-Learning programmes developed by BrightWave Ltd. Two new courses are now in production.

    • BrightWave's performance shines amid e-Learning casualties

      Brightwave Group |

      Amid increasing frustration that on line training providers do not understand customers' real needs, the e-Learning industry has been showing signs of the shake out that many commentators had predicted.

    • IT training top 50 providers published

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      IT Training magazine's IT Skills Research Programme has just published its table of the Top 50 IT training providers.

    • Pfizer Research Rides the Wave.

      Brightwave Group |

      Pfizer's Research University (ePRU) at Sandwich in Kent has commissioned fast-growing BrightWave, the Hove-based e-Learning specialists, to develop an e-learning module for Pfizer's re-designed education programme on the development of medicines.

    • ScottishPower chooses BrightWave

      Brightwave Group |

      ScottishPower are to use BrightWave's WavePool methodology to develop bespoke e-Learning content across the organisation.

    • TATA Interactive Systems emphasises the value of quality

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) is putting the accent on quality on its stand at this year's e-learning London exhibition, being held in Wembley, on 28th and 29th May. TIS, which is among the world's largest designers and developers of custom-built e-learning solutions with clients in the UK's commercial and education sectors, attributes much of its success to working to internationally agreed quality standards.

    • T-Mobile catches the e-Learning Wave

      Brightwave Group |

      T-Mobile (UK) is now introducing 200 project managers to resource planning software, SAP, using a BrightWave online training programme.

    • Making Waves at the MoD

      Brightwave Group |

      Ministry of Defence latest beneficiary of BrightWave's collaborative development tool: WavePool

    • Paul Chapman – one in a thousand!

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      At e-Learning Manchester 2002, the Institute of IT Training announced that Certified e-Learning Professional booking number 1,000 was actually made by Paul Chapman of Vega Group Plc, who is currently working towards the CeLP e-Learning Consultant Certificate and the Diploma in e-Learning.

    • One thousandth enrolment on the CeLP Programme

      The Training Foundation |

      The Training Foundation has revealed that to date, over one thousand bookings have been received from individuals now working towards a Certificate or Diploma within the new Certified e-Learning Professional Programme (CeLP).

    • eLearning Network and Forum in merger talks

      The Learning Network |

      The eLearning Network (ELN) and The Forum for Technology in Training - the leading professional bodies for users and developers of technology based learning, including e-learning - have agreed to being talks with a view to merging.

    • Sparks at TATA Interactive Systems

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Peter Sparks has joined TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) as business development director with special responsibilities for developing TIS's business throughout mainland Europe.

    • Clients win prizes

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      E-learning solutions developer TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) has helped three of its clients to scoop major awards recently.

    • Courseware migration service

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Organisations' reluctance to invest more heavily in e-learning materials can now be overcome, thanks to a remarkable courseware migration service, offered by TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) at this year's Online Learning 2002 Europe Conference and Exhibition (OLLE), being held at the ExCel in London’s Docklands, on 5th and 6th March.

    • Epic-designed kiosks help city's househunters

      Epic |

      The Government's drive to make public services available electronically takes a step forward in the City of Brighton & Hove today with the launch of a series of networked touch-screen kiosks designed by Epic Group plc, Europe's leading e-learning company.

    • WBT Systems Identified As LMS Leader in Gartner Report

      WBT Systems |

      WBT Systems today announced that it has been identified as a leader in the LMS (Learning Management System) market in the Gartner 2002 LMS Magic Quadrant report - the only European vendor to receive such a distinction.

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