Brent Council is to provide its residents with a new digital training platform to support critical digital and employability skills and help people to enter sustainable employment.
According to the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, using technology to provide accessible assessments, available ‘24/7’, goes a long way towards helping professional institutes meet their mission-critical issues.
A report from Pearson has revealed that nine out of ten women will take steps in the next 12 months to shift their careers and improve their job prospects.
Fuse and Go1 form strategic partnership that plugs intelligent search into the world’s largest corporate learning library.
Kallidus, a multi-award-winning learning, HR, and talent management platform, has been recognised by the 2021 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Cloud HR for the latest addition to their portfolio, Sapling. A highly configurable HRIS with stand-out capability in onboarding, Sapling is recognised as a Solid Performer, with reliability, innovation, and strong customer sentiment at the core.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Great Minds on Learning; Learning in the workflow; LPI Learning Performance Accelerator; Acquisitions and investments; Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards; LearningLive.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Great Minds on Learning; Learning in the workflow; LPI Learning Performance Accelerator; Acquisitions and investments; Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards; LearningLive.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released the new 2021 9-Grid™ for Cloud HR. The research shows the importance of people experience as organisations prioritise workforce-centric human capital management (HCM) strategies to drive organisational success beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.
A report from Valuates has the Learning Management System market growing to USD $3.6 billion by 2027 at 20.76% CAGR.
Learning and communications platform vendor 5app today announced a partnership with diversity and inclusion experts, All of Us and the launch of the D&I Engagement Hub.
A new Financial Analytics Programme from the ACCA and Fourthrev launches today to deliver the critical financial analytics and consulting capabilities sought after by modern finance functions and accountancy firms.
Josh Bersin will use a keynote address at the HR Technology Conference this week to explain how HR tech companies need to change their products to appeal to employees and lose the their traditional 'back-office' focus on operational processes.
Learning News in discussion with Ed Monk, CEO of the LPI, following Learning Live, which returned face-to-face in September.
Students challenged to develop a creative campaign to bring to life Boots and The Prince’s Trust’s Support for young people with the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s competition - The Pitch. Now in its eleventh year the global competition highlights the CIM’s commitment to recognise up-and-coming marketing talent. The top ten teams will be invited to a live judging final on the 18th March 2022 to present their idea to judges from across the industry.
New platform to spur adoption of customer learning, powered by advances in content authoring, embedded learning, curated insights and open architecture.
OpenSesame today announced the addition of Eleventure's microlearning courses to its OpenSesame Plus subscription, adding over fifty courses in communicating, setting goals, managing time, resocialisation after Covid-19, racial equity and more.
A first-of-its-kind cloud computing course has been launched by University of Lincoln and Microsoft to help give students the highly sought-after skills they need to launch their digital careers.
GP Strategies and its clients have won 20 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards at this years' programme.
MindGym has secured two Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards for its blended learning work with Jardine-Matheson and for its management development with Pinterest.
Hemsley Fraser partners with 5-star Amazon author and L&D expert Laura Walker to provide a new suite of coaching services.
Following the success of their first L&D report in their three-part series, digital learning provider Virtual College has now released the second report, The Importance of Investing in your Learners. Exploring a question that every business is asking – how much time and effort do we need to invest into our learning programmes – this report offers guidance and insight into why businesses must embrace this investment and how they can go about it.
Interview with John Helmer from The Learning Hack Podcast on the new series Great Minds on Learning featuring Donald Clark profiling 100 learning theorists.
Get back to face-to-face learning with Marriott hotels and their new meetings & events initiative, Connect with Confidence. Based on 5 key pillars – Commitment to Clean, Contact Lite Experience, Hybrid Meetings, Physical Distancing and Redesigned Food & Beverage – Marriott is committed to welcoming delegates back safely.
This week, unique eLearning course creator, iAM Learning, has released an eBook for L&D professionals explaining how using a blended approach can change how people learn for good. The aim of the eBook is to help change behaviours and boost learning transfer by effectively adopting blended learning.
Fuse has acquired predictive performance support business PowerGuides and set up a partnership with intelligent search provider PureInsights. It aims to get company knowledge, often locked away or lost to the past, into workers' workflows.
OfCourseMe is exhibiting at the Learning Live exhibition this week: two exciting days to discuss the evolution of learning strategies, culture change, the future of skills, and how the LnD role is going to change forever.
LEARNING LIVE 2021 will bring together hundreds of Heads of Learning from global companies to share insights and discover solutions to today's most pressing challenges in workplace learning.
Go1, one of the world’s largest corporate education content hub for on-demand training and resources, recently announced a $200M Series D round that has the company valued at more than USD $1B.
Eleonora Colombo has joined Fosway Group as Research Operations Manager. In this newly created role, Ele will be responsible for managing all the supporting operational processes behind Fosway’ corporate and vendor research.
In a move that expands its global reach, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has signed partnership deals with re-sellers in Canada, Iceland and South Africa.
Learning in the workflow is rising up the list of priorities for L&D. Now at number two in the LPI's latest survey. Are we any nearer to getting on top of this challenge? Do we understand the methods needed? Will AI and intelligent search help to make learning in workflow a reality for more workers?
GP Strategies brings its award-winning business impact measurement process to the Measurement Academy; a 10 week learning journey which proves and improves the impact of learning programmes.
The LPI has launched a new tool for learning leaders that helps them to build a performance-oriented learning culture and evaluate and compare their performance and strategic approach against others.
The Learning and Performance Accelerator (LPA) evaluates and benchmarks learning organisations against a balanced and holistic framework, driving clarity and confidence for learning leaders with data-driven insight and industry best practice.
Speexx is making the language learning journey more personal with new updates around personalization in the product and making customization a top priority.
One in seven (71%) 16-24 year olds (Gen Z) believe they have missed out on training opportunities due to Covid19; Over a third (36%) of students say they feel less confident in their ability since the pandemic; 35% of students have undertaken additional training amid post-pandemic job market concerns.
Products from the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, are now being used in 190 countries around the world. So, the search is on to add, as eCom customers, those few countries where eCom’s eNetSuite of products are not in use.
Xprtise and The 5 Moments of Need launch a UK Designer Program to address a paramount concern of learning leaders: how to embed learning into the flow of work?
Platinum Equity has acquired the educational content and digital platforms business, McGraw Hill.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Learning Performance Benchmark; hybrid working; Learner Survey 2021 shows fewer worker trained; acquisitions and investment.
Hira Ali talks to LNTV about her new book 'Her Allies' which helps men with the strategies they need to become powerful advocates for gender equality. Plus a review of the 2021 Learning Performance Benchmark on the maturity of the L&D sector and the Royal Voluntary Service talks about skilling up 750,000 new volunteers to help the NHS.
Global elearning innovator OpenSesame has received $50 Million strategic growth investment from JMI Equity and existing investors; Investment to accelerate OpenSesame’s innovation and global expansion.
Kallidus' annual Learner Survey 2021 reveals the impacts of COVID-19 on workplace learning, and top tips for employers to engage and develop their workforces in a world of hybrid working.
There's been a significant rise in the number of workers who didn't receive any training in the last year, up from one in six to one in four, according to the 2021 Learner Survey from Kallidus.
These days – thanks, in part at least, to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic - people in all sectors of the economy are learning to cope with such concepts as remote work, home office, teleworking, hybrid and flexible work arrangements.
Agylia has released a series of mental health and wellbeing microlearning modules, together with a specialist support App, for organisations looking to support their employees - as many adapt to a new hybrid working environment.
Digital learning solutions provider, Omniplex, launches its Articulate Storyline Smart Learning Pack to support our NHS Heroes with learning support during these unprecedented times.
Learning Pool, the Derry-based elearning solutions provider, is thrilled to announce it has extended its partnership with Netherlands-based partner resellers, Next Learning Valley.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR Industry Analyst, today announces the appointment of Martin Couzins as its Head of Content. The appointment supports the continued growth of the firm and further enhancing the impact and value of Fosway’s research with corporate clients and the wider HR, talent and learning market.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
Learning and communications platform vendor 5app, this week made further moves to strengthen its team for growth by hiring additional product design and business development expertise. Product and UX design expert Jim Banks is now 5app’s Head of Design, and learning industry sales specialist Bekah Ashworth has joined as Business Development Manager.
Kallidus, an industry leading provider of HCM software and digital learning, today announced that founder Rob Caul will be stepping down as CEO. Having led the impressive growth of Kallidus over two decades, Rob will continue to support the business and its international expansion as a Non-Executive Director. Stephen Read will take over the role of CEO from August, joining the company from Darwin (formerly Thomsons Online Benefits), the leading global provider of employee benefits technology.
Hybrid working is about to impact almost every organisation, but how well prepared is business? How will managers and teams adapt to new, more agile ways of working?
Oracle today announced a new solution to help organizations better understand, manage, and grow the skills of their workforce: Oracle Dynamic Skills.
Agylia to showcase how advances in learning technologies are moving learning and CPD beyond the traditional LMS environment and into the flow of work, as part of people’s everyday life.
Interview with Cedric Borzee about CrossKnowledge's new diagnostic tool that assesses an organisation's digital learning maturity.
Global Forecasts from 2021 to 2026: Rise of Virtual Reality for Game-Based Learning - new report from ResearchAndMarkets.com.
Learning Now TV, Jun 24: Matt Donovan from GP Strategies discusses the rise of the hybrid workforce and the complexities of managing it successfully.
The Corporate training market in Europe is poised to grow by $14 Billion at a CAGR of over 8% from 2021 to 2025.
University and corporate Diversity & Inclusion practitioners came together yesterday for the first time in almost a year to discuss challenges and opportunities that they have faced over the course of the Pandemic.
Learning Pool, a strategic leader in the U.K. & U.S. learning technology markets, has today agreed to a new investment from Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”), a global investment firm with over $7.6 billion of capital under management, to support the company’s continued growth. Under the terms of the agreement, Marlin will also acquire the shareholding of Carlyle Cardinal Ireland.
Marshall E-Learning are delighted to announce that we have developed a ‘one-stop’ mentoring portal designed to give mentors and mentees a solid foundation for embarking on a mentoring programme. Developed in partnership with Professor Bob Garvey, one of Europe’s leading academic practitioners of coaching and mentoring, this new course will guide you through a range of expert content on various mentoring topics.
A new partnership between Avast and Enterprise Nation aims to deliver key cybersecurity resources and training for more than half a million UK small businesses.
In the light of growing demand for its products and services – taking its current turnover beyond pre-pandemic levels - the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is continuing growing its investment in skilled digital skills professionals.
A lot has changed in the world of learning and development in the last year, namely the big move to digital learning, which many businesses had to undertake to ensure that their training could be carried out in remote settings. But another significant change is how learners want to learn. They have been introduced to a new way of working, and have been given more freedom and flexibility with their time, both which seem to have had a significant effect on how they want to learn.
As the world starts to return to some sense of normal and offices slowly start to fill up as Covid restrictions are lifted, local councils have been taking a closer look at their eLearning needs to see how they can best support their workforce returning back from furlough and back into offices.
Following the news, in March, that Scotland is to become the first devolved nation in the world to directly incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law, a webinar has explored the legal and service delivery implications for the implementation of this Convention into Scottish law.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
Government funding for ICT skills for post-16 learners is set to change. From August, funding will switch to a new set of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications.
Learning Pool, the leading e-learning solutions provider, celebrates both national and regional success as the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ are announced.
Marshall E-Learning, the specialist consultancy for diversity and equality learning, has partnered with the Irish Universities Association Equality Network to launch the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Higher Education eLearning Programme to all 8 Universities in Ireland.
Learning Pool, the leading e-learning solutions provider, is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Kevin Adams as VP of Sales, North America to help drive the company's ambitions in the US and Canada.
An extended interview with David Wilson following the publication of Fosway’s 2021 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition and market report.
Learning Now TV, May 27: Ulrik Juul Christensen joins LNTV this week discussing Area9 Lyceum’s aim to 'build the world’s most advanced technology to provide four-dimensional learning for the 21st century'.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland has become one of the first companies in the world to sign up to the Customer Excellence Pledge.
Now they are a year on from the start of the pandemic and starting to come through the other side, Virtual College, a leading digital training provider based in Yorkshire, looks back and reflects on what they have learnt from this year, what trends they have seen and what other businesses can learn from these insights.
Organisations focus on internal development over recruitment as skills gaps create pressure. New research from global learning and development (L&D) experts, Hemsley Fraser, and learning and communications platform vendor, 5app, reveals that tackling skills gaps will be the next major challenge for L&D and HR practitioners.
Workplace learning and training has been turned upside down since the global pandemic. HR and learning and development professionals needed to pivot quickly to respond to the new demands of the workplace.
Agylia has partnered with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the world’s leading marketing body, to deliver a new continuing professional development (CPD) management solution that enables members to record, track and submit CPD activities, all supported by modern, easy-to-use technology.
Learning Now TV, May 13: Beth Hall from giant Australian retailer Cotton On Group talks about her experiences of workforce development.
The eLearning Network launches new webinar series for members, showcasing the winners of 2020’s Learning Technologies Awards.
New online learning platform launched by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and Agylia aims to provide accessible public health education.
In a move that goes against the view of ancient folk wisdom, eCom Scotland, the digital learning and assessment specialist, is taking its own professional advice by using its eNetEnterprise system. In particular, eCom is beginning to use the OnBoard part of its eNetEnterprise workforce development system for managing learning, development and competency across all levels in an organisation.
Chartered Institute of Marketing granted end-point level 7 assessor status; Cranfield School of Management has launched the first master’s-level Marketing and Leadership programme compatible with the senior leader standard and CIM qualifications; Follows research that highlights that the UK senior marketing community needs to upskill, as digital skills have fallen amongst heads of department.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
At Marshalls we create innovative, inspirational and impactful eLearning. But we also know that an effective and holistic approach to equality, diversity and inclusion doesn’t always start with our online modules, and that it never stops with them. That’s why we are now offering our clients an integrated wrap-round service through a suite of products which will maximise and embed the benefits delivered through our online courses.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released its new 2021 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition. Following a year of untold disruption, with polarised realities of recruitment putting some organisations into ‘Explode’ mode and many others into ‘Implode’, the research provides a timely temperature check post-COVID-19.
As the return to work is in-sight, we headed to Google to analyse what employees and business owners alike are wanting to know about returning to the office.
New editorial head, Jon Kennard, discusses Debbie Carter’s 20 years as editor at leading L&D title, TJ.
Workers in the UK are happier working from home but also feel more pressure to be always available to bosses, according to research from Microsoft Surface and YouGov.
Agylia announces that Breast Cancer Now has selected the Agylia Learning Management System (LMS) to provide volunteers with access to digital and blended learning programmes, supporting mandatory training and ongoing personal development.
Learning Now TV, Apr 29: Tips for organisations introducing D&I policies to the workplace; Debbie Carter discusses twenty years as editor at Training Journal; Becky Norman outlines the new Culture Pioneers Awards.
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has selected the Agylia Learning Management System (LMS) to provide the advanced therapies and vaccine manufacturing industry with access to the latest training resources – enabling the upskilling of talent to meet the predicted skills demand in this space.
Training Industry announces its selections for the 2021 Top Training Companies™ lists for the sales training and enablement sector of the learning and development (L&D) market. Imparta was selected in the prestigious list for the 11th year in a row.
Learning Now TV, Apr 15: Cathy Miller talks about her work at NHS Blood & Transplant that helped secure her a Gold Award for 'Learning Leader of the Year' at this year’s Learning Awards. Emma Weber talks about a self-teaching chatbot tool that helps learners reflect on learning and Page Chen from Remote Learner talks about expanding from the education sector into the corporate sector.
Digital badges will become the certificates for the digital age. Badges will aid career development and recruitment, creating a competitive advantage. Marketers engaging in CPD and qualifications will now be easily identifiable for employers. Research shows 60% of marketers planning to move jobs this year. Chartered, Fellows and senior marketers will be able to differentiate themselves
Agylia announces that Breast Cancer Now has selected the Agylia Learning Management System (LMS) to provide employees with access to on-demand digital and blended learning programmes, to improve skills, performance and ongoing development.
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