ESN and Epic team up for EU e-learning
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The EU has actively promoted e-learning for nearly a decade, but the European Commission itself has so far made very little use of e-learning.
The EU has actively promoted e-learning for nearly a decade, but the European Commission itself has so far made very little use of e-learning.
Harbinger Group, a global software company headquartered in Pune, added another feather in its cap when Vikas Joshi, its Chairman and Managing Director, was recognized as a Thought Leader in Learning Technology in a global Who’s Who published by US-based TrainingIndustry.com.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity, the award winning rapid interactivity builder continues to expand its global operations by growing its reseller network in Asia Pacific. After Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Philippines, Harbinger has recently signed up with In-Learn Station, a leading eLearning consultancy in Malaysia
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 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.
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 are delighted to announce they are working with the Learning and Skills Council on a project, to develop e-learning and resource materials for use by Train to Gain Skills Brokers.
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.
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.
Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced the publication of the Raptivity Learning Interaction Guide. The guide helps eLearning designers in making effective use of learning interactions provided by Raptivity. It helps search for the right interaction, prepare for its use and optimally customize it for its intended use.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity, the award winning rapid interactivity builder continues to expand its global operations by growing its reseller network in Europe. Harbinger recently signed up with CT2 Srl, a recognized eLearning leader in Italy, and Braincraft, a Norwegian eLearning specialist. Both these companies have now added Raptivity to their partner program.
Harbinger Knowledge Products today released its brand new Simulation TurboPack. This TurboPack offers higher cognitive level simulations. These include goal-driven guided scenarios, explorative branching simulations, immersive learning situations and more
The global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), and BT, one of the UK's largest providers of learning services to government - with contracts with the MOD (Defence), NCSL and the Police Training Agency, Centrex - are collaborating to produce a five module programme to enable those working within 'children's services' to understand such concepts as the basics of child protection, how to identify a child at risk and how to develop the skills needed to help each child.
In a breakthrough addition to its Raptivity product line, Harbinger Knowledge Products today released its brand new Video TurboPack. With this unique tool, trainers can easily build video-based two-way learning interactions.
-- Easy-to-customize games leverage entertaining interaction metaphors -- Harbinger Knowledge Products announced the release of Games TurboPack, the most recent addition to its award-winning Raptivity product line. The Games TurboPack allows course creators to combine learning with excitement. It includes several show based games, mini games and fun learning games. Learning content can now appear in Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Sudoku Puzzles, Million Dollar Quiz, and so on.
Kineo, a UK based eLearning consultancy and research firm providing services in the areas of rapid eLearning, technology and knowledge management recently reviewed Raptivity. While carrying out the extensive review of Raptivity, the Kineo team created various interactions and actually loaded them on Moodle LMS. The compatibility with Moodle is now demonstrated on a live LMS hosted by Kineo
Epic, the UK's leading e-learning company, will shift the focus of the resources it offers through its well-regarded Thought Leadership Programme in response to greater maturity in the use of e-learning. According to a recent analysis of the market commissoned by Epic, e-learning now represents 3-4% of of private sector training provision in the UK, a statistic which confirms, in Epic's view, that e-learning is past the stage of 'Innovators' on the adoption bell curve and into 'Early Adopters'.
The eLearning Guild announced today the winners of the new eLearning Guild Members Choice Awards for Immersive Learning Simulations(ILS)in which Raptivity won the Platinum Award under Simulation Tools category. Raptivity also won the Gold Award under Games Tools category
Information Transfer has won a prestigious industry award for their work with Priory Group, which was named "E-learning Project of the Year" by the Institute of IT Training at a ceremony in London on February 1.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity, the world's first and only rapid interactivity builder, has become a systems partner with GeoLearning Inc., a leading provider of Managed Learning Services and hosted performance and learning platforms.
Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced the release of version 4.0 of Raptivity. This release enables the tracking of learning interactions, heralding a breakthrough in the eLearning interactivity technology.
e2train, the UK's leading provider of learning and performance technology announces the launch of Simulate, an easy to use software simulation and e-learning authoring tool which will create SCORM compliant content, without the need for external plug-ins. The new desktop based program adds a third option to the Kallidus 'create' range of e-learning technology solutions, joining Kallidus LCMS and Author.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning producer, is sponsoring 'Wizards of Biz', a business simulation competition at Intaglio 2006-07, the international business school meeting of the Indian Institute of Management (IIMC), Kolkata. The competition, which begins on 7th January, will use TIS's software-based simulation TOPSIM Business Development, which is part of TIS's range of TOPSIM sophisticated business simulations.
Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release 6.5 of Elicitus, its award-winning rapid authoring tool for e-learning. This new release offers several new benefits such as improved productivity, enhanced interactivity and additional flexibility for course developers and learners.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity, the world's first and only rapid interactivity builder, has announced yet another first: the launch of Raptivity Community,which is again, the world's first online community for eLearning interactivity practitioners.
Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), has been awarded a contract with a five year potential from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to provide training support services to SSA's Office of Training.
The two companies have announced today that they will join forces to provide the best eLearning solutions in the training industry.
Best selling US author speaks at Uncovered 2006 -- Uncovered 2006, Kallidus User Conference; Kallidus User Conference. Dr. Marc Rosenberg author of the best selling titles 'e-Learning' and 'Beyond e-Learning', encouraged training professionals to look beyond their current e-learning and blended learning solutions.
Through Universal Knowledge Solutions - UKS, its Middle East partner, Giunti Labs has managed to establish a very strong and promising market within the Middle East and position learn eXact as a leading LCMS platform.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity, the world's first and only rapid interactivity builder has expanded its global operations by growing its reseller network in Europe. Recently, Harbinger has signed up with Daten + Dokumentation GmbH, a leading service provider for eLearning in Germany adding Raptivity to their partner program.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning producer, is one of only eight organisations in the world to be awarded one of this year’s Performance Centred Design (PCD) Awards.
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.
Football forms the metaphor for an e-learning programme on manpower planning, produced by the global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), for Royal Mail.
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.
New Release adds convenience of 175+ interactions in single flash output and flexibility of custom learning theories.
Raptivity has been shortlisted for eLearning Awards 2006, judged by the e-Learning Network in association with e-Learning Age, 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.
Information Transfer and Priory Group have been shortlisted for a prestigious eLearning Award for their work on an extensive blended corporate learning programme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A learning portal developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has bagged the 'Best Organisational Project' Award at the UAE IT Challenge 2006.
Cambridge-based communication consultancy Information Transfer have released the latest product in their range of e-learning software - Seminar Surveyor.
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.
Following a lengthy research process, high profile estate agency Knight Frank has selected Information Transfer's Knowledge Centre e-learning management system as its online training platform.
Simulation Explorer, an educational CD-ROM developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) for Granada Learning, recently won the British Educational Technology and Training (BETT) Award 2006 for Primary Science.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the leading global e-learning producer, has helped airline operator Qantas to win one of the '2005 Melbourne Airport Environment Awards', which were awarded recently.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global pioneer in e-learning, has acquired two companies - Tertia Edusoft AG in Switzerland and Tertia Edusoft GmbH in Germany - from the Tertia Group, a leading provider of Human Resources Management solutions in Germany.
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.
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, 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.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning producer, has launched www.simbls.com, a portal providing an online library of all TIS's simulation based learning objects (SimBLs).
Companies can now purchase bundled offering with self-installing LMS, rapid e-learning toolkit, and support for $2,890.
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.
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.
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.
Assessment for learning rather than the assessment of learning is the revolutionary approach to online testing devised by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the leading global e-learning producer, for 'Hodder Science', a science course used in over 1,000 schools in the UK which has been put forward for one of the prestigious BETT Awards, which are due to be announced in January 2006.
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 (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 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 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.
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.
e2train has added a new module to its product range which provides performance review and development, appraisal, competency and 360° assessment functionality to its Kallidus Learning Management System.
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 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.
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.
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 (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.
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, 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.
UK Learning Management System and authoring tool vendor e2train has appointed UpgradablesPlus of Toronto, Canada & Pompano Beach, Florida USA to distribute its products to the US and Canadian marketplaces. e2train Kallidus LMS is the UK’s most popular learning management system, used extensively throughout the financial, retail, IT and government areas
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.
e2train’s latest version of Kallidus LMS (V7.2) offers a host of new features to enhance its position as the UK’s favourite LMS.
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.
Attendees of Europe's largest learning conference to experience unprecedented flexibility, interoperability and measurability of revolutionary learning and business performance platform.
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.
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 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 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.
A-Plant, one of the world's leading hirers of non-operated plant and construction equipment, is to introduce the concept of e-learning using e2train's Kallidus Authoring Tool. The new courses will compliment other forms of training across its 225 branches throughout Britain.
Greek and Russian localized versions of NetDimensions' Enterprise Knowledge Platform are now being distributed by two of NetDimensions' newest European partners: Compact S.A. in Athens, Greece and CSSeTrain in St. Petersburg, Russia.
NetDimensions and Fuji Xerox Learning Institute join forces to meet the growing demand for corporate learning in Japan.
The Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH) has today announced the findings of their independent assessment of a new online course, ‘MRSA – you can make a difference’, formally launched by The Training Foundation earlier this month.
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.
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.
e2train the Cirencester based e-learning company, celebrate another successful business year in the e-learning arena. Business relationships have been developed with leading UK organisations especially within the finance & insurance, police, legal, retail and public sectors.
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.
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.
e2train, a leading UK provider of learning systems and solutions have expanded their content portfolio by forging a strategic partnership with Fullard Learning.
e2train the Cirencester based e-learning company have recently been awarded the prestigious SCORM Adopter status for both their Kallidus® Learning Management System (LMS) and Authoring System.
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.
The Institute of IT Training has announced the launch of an entirely new Accreditation Programme for Open Learning Centres.
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.
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.
Leading provider of learning systems and solutions, e2train, has today announced a partnership with Questionmark that will enable it to offer advanced assessment solutions through Questionmark Perception™ Software.
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.
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.
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