Choice of subject outweighs university prestige in graduate earnings
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New US data shows subject choice drives earnings more than university selectivity, with gaps widening over time.
New US data shows subject choice drives earnings more than university selectivity, with gaps widening over time.
The September edition of CLO Lens magazine is now available, offering Learning and Development professionals fresh perspectives on the industry's evolution. This issue focuses on AI's strategic role, the power of simplicity, and the importance of human energy in leadership. Featuring insights from top L&D figures, including members of the CLO100 community, the magazine provides practical ideas to energise professional approaches for the autumn season.
Europe signals rising demand for PhD talent but weak salary growth leaves US industry roles more attractive for new research graduates.
Youth-focused outdoor learning initiative exceeds targets and calls for policy integration.
Roger Grogan, Founder and CEO of Jam Coding, which won the gold Learning Provider Award earlier this year, joins Learning News.
Digital learning providers must shift from compliance to strategy, say experts at a webinar discussing the implications of the European Accessibility Act which becomes legally enforceable later this week.
UK’s £187m TechFirst scheme will deliver AI and digital skills to 1m pupils and 7.5m adults, backed by industry and regional training partnerships.
Expert panel to discuss upcoming changes to the European Accessibility Act and its implications in the education industry.
Training evaluation is essential for measuring effectiveness and driving improvement – but many organisations miss the mark. By avoiding these common pitfalls, training providers and in-house teams can gain clearer insights and prove the value of their programmes.
The Snap makeover prioritizes a more intuitive and engaging learning experience for instructors, admins, and learners alike. It includes a new side navigation menu, instant messaging capabilities, and a centralized dashboard with real-time updates.
Open LMS’s latest software upgrade includes support for two additional payment gateways, making ecommerce more accessible around the world.
Seven organizations receive honors in the first-ever awards, which celebrate learning platform innovation and creativity.
Imparta launches Selling in a World of Tariffs, the first sales training programme designed to help teams navigate and succeed in the evolving trade landscape. The launch will be supported by a webinar on March 5th.
AI CERTs™ and Lumify Work Join Forces to Redefine AI Education in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
The partnership makes Cursive’s writing analytics and authorship verification tool available to Open LMS customers.
New extension offers a fresh approach to ensuring integrity in the age of remote examinations
CLO100 introduces "Strategic Business Alignment for L&D Leaders," a dynamic 3-month programme designed to align learning initiatives with business goals. With CMI Level 7 accreditation, it features live workshops, group coaching, and peer mentoring. Participants gain strategic impact, professional growth, and an affordable path to enhance their skills and credentials.
Research from Netflix and the National Youth Theatre has uncovered a significant “class chasm” within the UK’s creative sector; Nine out ten working-class do not want their children in creative jobs.
Aims to help educators save time and prioritise student learning.
Upcomimg debate in Kigali, Rwanda, promises a stimulating clash of perspectives on the future of education in the digital age.
The partnership will help educators reduce teacher workload, improve work-life balance, and support personalized learning.
Omniplex Learning’s Leena Randhawa joins Learning News to discuss a new qualification for instructional designers.
Omniplex Learning’s Leena Randhawa joins Learning News to discuss a new qualification for instructional designers.
OEB Learning Technologies Europe GmbH proudly presents OEB 2023, a pivotal event that continues its legacy as the annual nexus for leading educationalists and technologists worldwide. For over a quarter of a century, OEB has played a pivotal role in shaping opinions, fostering agency, and influencing the global educational agenda.
OEB 2023 to feature a live recording of the “Great Minds on Learning” Podcast.
Jon Lang and Gary Duffield from Lumify join Learning News to discuss IT training: the market, skills and business challenges.
Jon Lang and Gary Duffield from Lumify join Learning News to discuss IT training: the market, skills and business challenges.
A new coding school, 42 London, opens; tuition-free, project-based learning and peer collaboration.
Moodle LMS 4.2 is here. This latest release builds upon the refined user experience of Moodle LMS 4.1 with new and improved features that create efficiencies for educators, trainers and systems administrators.
Open LMS is helping the local Phoenix community and matching donations to A Stepping Stone Foundation made by its Connected 2023 conference attendees and its employees.
Written in partnership with eight leading UK universities, Marshall’s introduces a new suit of video driven management training micro-courses called the Manager’s Toolkit. Each 10 minute course is designed with the new manager in mind, to quickly upskill them on a range of different topics from budgeting, to recruitment, appraisals, staff induction and more.
Now retired from active teaching, Visvanath, along with senior academics and some fellow system admins, created EduNET.LK, a charity that helps Sri Lankan school teachers set up and use Moodle to support their teaching.
In this blog, we’ll look closer into the topic of collaborative learning and discuss how it’s supported within Moodle Workplace.
Open LMS Connected 2023 is for online training, education and learning professionals to hear best practices, network with industry professionals, and connect with Open LMS leadership.
The City & Guilds Foundation and Breakthrough, the UK’s first apprenticeship provider to recruit directly from prisons, have entered a new partnership to support prison leavers into employment.
Tierney brings more than a decade of customer service leadership experience to the eLearning platform.
The Learning Hack team is proud to announce new seasons of two of its highly popular and successful podcasts, as well as other enhancements for listeners.
CLO100 has announced the launch of its exclusive CLO100 development programme for Chief Learning Officers, Heads of Learning and aspiring Senior Learning Leaders; Provides the vital skills and knowledge required to create a high-performing organisation.
Former CLO for Lynda.com, Dr. Andreatta’s focus is on creating brain-based solutions for organizations and individuals to rise to their potential.
Open LMS Connected 2023 will be a three-day event held at Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs Resort from February 28 to March 2, 2023.
New partnership will provide secure, AI-powered proctoring for online assessments integrated within learning management systems
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.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions worldwide were tasked with urgently transferring face-to-face learning delivery to emergency remote instruction. This required a herculean effort from many teachers, trainers, administrators, faculty and managers, and it is important that this achievement is acknowledged and celebrated. However, while emergency moves to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic allowed the continuation of learning worldwide, they could not take full advantage of the possibilities of the online format and carefully crafted courses that follow best practices in leveraging technology to create quality learning experiences.
Technology consultancy, Thoughtworks, has joined the Data Analytics Career Accelerator, a new programme developed by The London School of Economics and Political Science and online education company FourthRev.
Opens LMS wins 13 awards at the 2021 LearnX® Live Awards, 10 of which are in the Gold category.
New partnership, in memory of long-serving employee, will help support those impacted by upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.
A new cohort of student nurses from the University of Surrey have been trained on how they can be better allies. Marshalls and the university have come together to collaborate on a new module called Allyship
A network of Irish universities have come together and signed on for an Irish version of Marshalls Lets Talk about Race course, which is tailored to the cultural context of Ireland.
Workscan is a new type of placement platform utilising the power of automation and AI to match students with trusted, respected and suitable employers.
Using eLearning materials developed by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, the British Council is providing appealing, engaging and contextually appropriate learning experiences helping 13-to-19-year-old girls improve their digital skills and English language proficiency.
Open LMS has been recognized as a top learning management system for its work in helping millions of users adapt to remote and online learning as a result of the pandemic.
New virtual event brings together industry professionals worldwide to discuss and explore the future of eLearning in 2022.
Graduates consider more education and credentials; optimism exists while re-evaluating career trajectories; men more confident about career prospects than women.
Inspera has received growth capital investment to the meet surge in demand for e-assessments.
Two leaders in the edtech market, Blackboard and Anthology, are to merge to create a global provider of education software and solutions.
FourthRev and The London School of Economics and Political Science launch first ‘Career Accelerator’ in data analytics.
Half-year results from Open LMS show 20% new sales growth rate, the fastest in the company’s history, and a total of nearly 1,700 SaaS LMS customers globally.
Open LMS and AWS expand their growing relationship with the launch of Open LMS’s flagship open-source learning management systems on AWS’s secure AWS GovCloud (US).
LMSPulse, one of the premier news sources for the eLearning community and the creator of initiatives like the eLearning Podcast and the eLearning Success Summit, is joining Open LMS to create a powerhouse eLearning community resource.
Learner engagement and video are the big themes of Open LMS’ latest edition of E-Learn Magazine, the thought leadership initiative that offers insights, from-the-field success stories, and best practices from educators and industry experts globally.
Kortext, the UK’s market leading, university focussed, digital teaching and learning platform, announces that it has finalised additional investment funding from dmg ventures and Paul Zwillenberg, CEO of DMGT will join the Kortext Board.
Open LMS is offering support to organizations and their staff through its mental health course series to help employees stay healthy and raise awareness on this important topic in recognition of Mental Health Month.
The partnership between K16 Solutions and Open LMS allows institutions to more easily migrate courses and student data between LMS platforms using Scaffold, K16’s content migration and development platform, providing a more cost-effective and seamless LMS migration solution.
An open-access online learning platform that empowers young people to learn in new ways launches today; aims to address sustainability, equitable access to education and the need for curricular reform, through innovative projects rooted in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Open LMS offers clients a comprehensive corporate learning solution comprising a powerful online learning platform and a vast catalog of digital content from Go1.
Open LMS is now a Platinum Alliance Totara Partner, expanding their LMS product offerings to provide clients with another solution to meet a wide variety of workplace learning and people management needs.
Interview with Christine Davies from London Borough of Sutton.
Open LMS launches the latest edition of E-Learn Magazine, the thought leadership initiative that offers the latest insights, research, and best practices from educators and industry experts globally.
Being awarded Amazon Web Services Education Competency status signifies Open LMS's proven ability to provide specialized learning and education solutions for teachers, learners, and administrators.
After a successful close to the first quarter, Open LMS continues momentum in the LMS market with new strategic direction, increased investments in people and product, and more value-adds to support customer success for Open LMS clients as well as the larger eLearning community.
100,000 graduates to get the opportunity to join a senior leadership programme to improve personal branding and progress their careers in a partnership between business and universities; Programme organiser James Saward-Anderson joins Learning News to discuss the challenge to equip graduates, and society more broadly, with social media skills.
South African edtech startup, MasterStart, is taking its management education solutions global under the leadership of newly appointed UK-based Chief Executive Officer Ben Pike. This comes as online learning takes off globally due to lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Open LMS announces plans to further its commitment to open source by releasing all of its Moodle™ modules and enhancements in order to go fully open source by the end of 2021.
Linda Steedman, Chairman of the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has broadly welcomed the publication of the Government’s Skills for Jobs White Paper.
The Pitch – Students challenged to market Samsung’s new foldable technology category to Gen Z, an audience that is quickly becoming one of the world’s most powerful consumer segments. Now in its 10th year, the competition highlights the Chartered Institute of Marketing commitment to identifying and supporting up-and-coming marketing talent.
Deal continues period of optimal growth for Open LMS in eLearning market for education and corporate sectors
E-Learn Magazine is a free thought leadership initiative and digital content platform that contains perspectives, discussions, expert analysis, research, and best practices from practitioners in the education and training community.
Learning News has contributed to a special report in The Times this week about elearning scams.
NetSupport has launched a classroom management and teaching platform to help educators blend school and home learning experiences enabling teachers and learners to move between in-class and remote schooling.
Forward Learning, an educational services company based in Puerto Rico, is working with eThink Education to launch a new professional development platform to train educators across Puerto Rico in digital teaching and learning.
Online edition MLW 2020: Registration and call for proposals & innovations are open.
Leading online education provider Marshall E-Learning’s new course gets universities safely back to business post-lockdown.
TechTrep worked with eThink Education, Certified Premium Moodle Partner and 2019 Moodle North America Partner of the Year, to build a customized, multitenant Moodle Workplace platform to house their comprehensive catalogue of STEM courses.
eThink Education, Certified Premium Moodle Partner, will host a live webinar exploring ways to amplify remote instruction at educational institutions on 16 June 2020.
LiNCHigher is delighted to announce that they have teamed up with Lincolnshire-based creative digital agency First Media, to launch ‘LiNCHigher Learning’.
eThink Education will explore how Moodle Workplace and Totara Learn are being used to support learning in the workplace during a live webinar on 14 April 2020 at 2:00pm BST.
eThink Education, 2019 Moodle North America Partner of the Year and Certified Moodle Partner in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa, has been named an inaugural Certified Premium Partner by Moodle.
Fuse Universal funds its charity Fuse School. It has an ambitious mission: to bring free education to children all over the world. Fuse Universal is offering it as a resource to all.
eThink Education, one of the inaugural Certified Premium Moodle Partners, has earned Eullcian Ethos Connected Partner Status.
Ahead of their appearance at Learning Tech 2020, the creative eLearning design specialists explain how they produce high-impact eLearning content for organisations such as the FA.
First Media have earned a national reputation for the highly engaging courses they produce for some of the biggest organisations in the sporting world over the last two decades.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) announced that a new marketing apprenticeship, at Level 3 and a marketing adaptation of the current Senior Leaders Level 7 Apprenticeship, have been approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships.
One of the UK’s leading eLearning design specialists are celebrating 20 years in business.
Programme will reward qualification providers and help them to enhance learning propositions, differentiate courses and stand out.
eThink Education, 2019 Moodle North America Partner of the Year and 2018 Totara Global Partner of the Year, announces that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Competency status.
Moodle HQ, creators of the world’s most used LMS, will be attending OEB Global in Berlin in November 27-29.
eThink Education, Moodle North American Partner of the Year, and Moodle HQ will be taking part in the OEB Global conference in Berlin, Germany on 27-29 November.
eThink Education, a Certified Moodle Partner and the 2018 Global Totara Partner of the Year, has partnered with OpenSesame, an off-the-shelf content provider offering the world’s most comprehensive online catalog of curated employee training courses, to explore the top eLearning trends to be aware of in 2020 during a live webinar on 21 November.
eThink Education, a Certified Moodle Partner and the 2018 Global Totara Partner of the Year, has partnered with GO1, a leading training content provider, to bring comprehensive workplace learning solutions to the global marketplace.
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