This year, at Learning Technologies, Rise Up will provide learning leaders with an easy-to-use and easy-to-integrate solution, with evolutive innovation and exceptional customer support.
Here's the latest news announcement from Fosway Group. CEO David Wilson is available for comment. Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released its new 2022 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition. Faced with ongoing and accelerating recruitment challenges, organisations are looking to innovate and scale up their talent acquisition strategies. This new research highlights the trends and vendors transforming the market.
LNTV, Apr 28: Henry Stewart joins LNTV to talk about how his business, Happy, recovered from damages caused by pandemic; Tom Bryant discusses how the workplace, HR and L&D has changed forever; David Perring discusses the digital learning market; Robin Hoyle looks at how L&D teams develop 'learning journeys' and Bob Mosher starts his 6-part series, Elevating Performance.
Every purchased CodeGym subscription helps two future Ukrainian programmers.
Can learning and development help businesses change the narrative on the great resignation? That’s the question Omniplex Learning will be taking on at this year’s Learning Technologies event.
Government approval has been granted for a new Trailblazer apprenticeship standard which is set to benefit employers in the eLearning sector.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has today released a report that finds respect amongst chartered professionals in its industries has improved in the last decade, but remains low compared to other professions.
BBC Dragon, Founder of Social Chain, and host of one of Europe’s biggest podcasts, ‘The Diary of a CEO’
Market research by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has highlighted that those in the market for eLearning and eAssessment materials are heavily influenced in their purchasing decisions by the level of customer support that producers offer.
Digital learning solutions provider Omniplex Learning has been named as a Core Challenger on the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning. It is the first time that Omniplex Learning has featured on the grid, which highlights the leading digital learning providers in the European market.
Fosway Group has published its latest analysis of the Digital Learning market. The 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning provides a view of the leading Digital Learning providers in the European market as well as Digital Learning market and solution trends. Fosway Group CEO, David Wilson, and Director of Research, David Perring, are available for comment.
Faster onboarding and improved user experience. That’s what the thousands of estate agents that use Zoopla can expect with their switch to a new learning management system.
Learning leaders are struggling to complete their most important objectives. In particular establishing a learning culture and moving learning into workflows are proving difficult for L&D teams. We'll take a look at the 2022 Learning Performance Benchmark.
A bite-sized news round up: Business struggles to engender a learning culture; UK leads the way on hybrid working; Learning systems market report; Learning leadership - Lisa Johnson, NHSBT; Marketing learning; Learning for Ukraine campaign launches; Headlines from across Learning News.
LNTV, Mar 31: Ina Weinbauer-Heidel talks to Nigel about her work on learning transfer; Gent Ahmetaj from MindTools for Business talks about changes to their Learning Performance Benchmark; How the RSPCA coped with the Covid pandemic and its urgent need to change their development practices; A new 6-part series on learning and performance with Bob Mosher gets underway; Robin Hoyle asks are we clear on what skills are and how they are developed?; Plus a news round up from Learning News.
Harry Cloke from Growth Engineering discusses his company's recent Learning Impact Gold Award at the Learning Awards.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced that a team from the University of Strathclyde has won its national student marketing competition, The Pitch. The competition, this year sponsored by Boots, challenged student teams to raise awareness of its partnership with The Prince’s Trust in a creative way.
The Charity Learning Consortium has worked with Andrew Jacobs to create a new benchmark for its members. The benchmark will help members identify their aspirations, provide a starting point to track progression and help prove the worth of learning.
In a move timed to coincide with its 25th anniversary year, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is changing its name and refreshing its website to reflect its growing reach, in terms of both products and clients.
UK workers and their bosses are reaping the benefits of flexible working, according to new research released by Microsoft.
A funding initiative in support of Ukraine has been set up by a group of leading voices in the learning and development sector; one hour webinar for L&D professionals; proceeds going to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Data, analytics and AI will play a significant role in L&D's ability to get grips with the hugely raised focus on developing skills according to Ben Betts from Learning Pool and Paul Scholey from Sisense. The two join Learning News to explain.
Helping people re-focus their energy-related industry skills – along with up-skilling and re-skilling for the energy industry - are key ways in which the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions is contributing to achieve the aims of the UK’s and the Scottish Government’s Energy Strategies.
Today the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced the shortlist for its student marketing competition, The Pitch. The competition, this year sponsored by Boots, challenges young marketers to respond to a real-life marketing challenge to become 'Marketers of the Future' - as well as winning a £1,500 cash prize and a one-year complimentary CIM membership to further their training.
Strategic integration combines modern learning and talent marketplace tech to support personalised learning and skills development.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst in partnership with Learning Technologies, Europe’s leading learning workplace event, has opened the annual Digital Learning Realities research survey. Now in its seventh year, the research aims to highlight the digital learning strategies that are helping organisations successfully support new working environments and organisational transformation.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has become a member of an organisation intended to increase supply chain competitiveness and productivity to the renewable energy sector in Scotland.
On Demand the e-learning platform from Marshall E-Learning will be donating 100% of sales to the Red Cross in Ukraine through March. The portal has all the essential courses any training manager might require with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
Lisa Johnson from NHS Blood and Transplant was named Gold Learning Leader of the Year at the Learning Awards 2022 and joins Learning News to discuss her work at the NHS.
Learning platform 5app and Freeform Dynamics, an IT industry analyst firm, in collaboration with CIO WaterCooler, a networking community for IT leaders and technologists, release a new report titled 'The Post-Pandemic CIO: Views on leadership, communication and engagement'.
The ways in which we learn have changed over the decades, and this isn’t just being reflected in educational establishments but businesses too. The latest approach is being called ‘learning in the flow of work’. But what is it, and what does it mean for L&D teams?
A bite-sized news round up: L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2022; Learning Awards 2022; Priorities in workplace learning with Andy Moss Managing Director at City & Guilds Corporate Learning; Headlines from across Learning News.
Ashley Sinclair from MAAS Marketing, winner of the Start-up gold award at the Learning Awards 2022, explains why marketing is a critical skill in learning and development.
Risk management experts beTravelwise are promoting stress-free business travel by distributing travel safety awareness training in partnership with learning consultancy and course designers Walkgrove. More than one in four business travellers have a negative experience, but most employees remain unaware of their company’s travel guidance or policies. The digital learning materials help employers meet their duty of care responsibilities by promoting risk awareness and planning measures to prevent common travel mishaps and improve workplace security in a variety of settings.
The Great Resignation – the name given to the large percentage of workers voluntarily leaving, or planning to leave, their jobs – is something that has been getting more and more media coverage as months go by. Initially recognised in the US last year, it seems to be spreading globally, and according to research, has definitely hit the UK.
Interview with Federico Presicci, winner of the Rising Star gold award at the Learning Awards 2022.
The University of Exeter is launching an exciting new mental health initiative. And, there are potentially benefits for other universities too. The digital platform will be available to every university in the UK from March 2022.
Scotland’s leading provider of digitally delivered learning and assessment materials, eCom Scotland, has become a member of Offshore Energies UK, the leading representative body for the UK offshore oil and gas industry.
LNTV, Feb 24: Neuroscientist Amy Brann discusses learning habits and effective learning; Gemma Towersey discusses learning design; Martin Couzins has a new report into climate change and sustainability and asks how it may affect the workplace; Robin Hoyle looks at why Tik Tok dissolved its L&D department; plus a news round up from Learning News.
'Potential Leader' position demonstrates growing recognition of Thought Industries approach and leadership within emerging customer learning management category.
Celebrating the highest achievements in workplace learning and development.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released the new 2022 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems. The research shows that the pandemic continues to shape the online learning market as organisations grapple with supporting a remote and hybrid workforce.
Capita’s Education and Learning business, part of the Capita Public Service division, has delivered six months of strong progress since launching in August 2021. The creation of the new Education and Learning business saw the merger of the successful Capita Learning business with Capita’s wide range of education contracts.
Over 1,000 new courses including customer success and service, human resources, diversity and inclusion, sales and marketing, and professional development, have been added to Articulate's creator platform for workplace learning.
The L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2022 results are out. They show how Covid-19 continues to affect learning and development world-wide.
A new report suggests business leaders are leaning on the learning function to help deliver business transformation. Learning News asks the report's co-author, Matt Donovan from GP Strategies, how the learning function is changing.
Growing demand for marketing training has prompted a partnership between the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Australian Marketing Institute. The new partnership aims to meet growing demands for marketing training for marketers in the UK and Australia, providing access to over 90+ virtual courses and will enable CIM and AMI members to take advantage of a preferential rate and allows best practice, training and resources to be shared to drive innovation within the sector.
Omniplex Learning, the leading provider of eLearning solutions, unveils new brand, providing L&D access to all the tools and resources to deliver successful learning.
The pandemic has flipped the script on what skills are ‘valuable’ in the workforce – and forced individuals to rethink how to invest in their ‘skills equity’. In this article, CEO of Learning Pool, Ben Betts, reveals why skills are now the ‘new currency’ and how data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning can unlock exciting new opportunities to scale upskilling in order to adapt to rapid change.
Vimeo integration enables users to include Vimeo videos in their kahoot sessions, creating more dynamic and visually compelling learning experiences.
The Charity Learning Consortium has created a growing range of little books, filled with top tips, hints, exercises, case studies and action points to support good practice in learning and development.
What might 2022 hold for the learning sector? Learning News puts this question to Andy Moss, Managing Director of City & Guilds Corporate Learning which includes the Kineo digital learning business.
Education technology funds and edtech entrepreneurs have invested $8M in FourthRev; New university partnership established with King’s College London.
Learning Performance Benchmark 2022 early findings; VR in L&D - new report published; Compliance learning - comprehensive briefing by Kineo; Increase in UK acquisitions activity at the start of 2022.
Research by Udacity and Ipsos shows that digital transformation is stalling due to lack of job-ready digital talent and that there is a significant disconnect between the views of L&D professionals and employees over how successful they think L&D’s programmes are.
With increased pressure on businesses to be flexible, resilient, increase efficiency and to meet sustainability goals there is an unprecedented need for new skills in the workforce. In order to thrive during periods of change WMG has launched the Skills Centre, offering an ever changing and growing range of courses to meet current and future industry and business needs. The Centre is launching with seven new courses in innovative technologies ranging from energy systems, intelligent vehicles, digital and manufacturing.
After publishing what it believed would be eight ‘Key Learning and Development (L&D) Trends’ in 2022, the provider of online training and assessment, eCom Scotland, has carried out further market research among its clients to gauge the accuracy of its predictions.
Learning Now TV, Jan 27: Most people are getting learning measurement wrong according to Kevin Yates who joins Nigel Paine on LNTV this week; Michelle Parry-Slater talks to the World Vision charity on making content inclusive; plus we hear from our regular commentators Robin Hoyle and Martin Couzins and the Learning News bulletin.
The UK learning sector has seen an increase in acquisitions and investment activity: Looop, Virtual College and Walkgrove are amongst those acquired since the start of 2022 and Learning Pool has acquired True Office, an adaptive learning tech provider.
A new report out this week has the game-based learning market growing at 22% over the next four years to reach almost $30 billion.
Acteon has been announced as the winner of the Outstanding Innovator category in Co-op’s Supplier Recognition awards.
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped bring frontline workers closer together but has exposed deep divides with leaders, according to research from Microsoft.
eLearning Brothers has announced the acquisition of a video-based practice and coaching platform, Rehearsal.
EDI has become a top priority for all organisations and especially charities. A new white paper published by the Charity Learning Consortium explains how to create an effective learning programme in equity, diversity and inclusion to help drive cultural change.
360Learning, which recently announced a $200M investment for growth and acquisitions, has announced it has acquired the UK LMS vendor Looop; the business aims to build an era of collaborative learning focused on L&D automation and leadership.
1 in 10 UK workers, over 3 million people, want to start their own business in 2022 according to research by Intuit Quickbooks.
Why is it more important than ever to focus on the business impact of learning interventions? And how can communication campaigns help deliver that impact? Learning News aims to find out in a spotlight interview with Acteon Communication and Learning.
Learning Pool, the UK-based leader in learning technology, today announced the acquisition of True Office Learning, the award-winning adaptive compliance technology firm based in New York City.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of organisations are discovering that digital learning solutions offer learning that is flexible and targeted to their audiences. Through the acquisition of the UK company Walkgrove, Semcon is expanding its leading offering in digital learning with a local presence in a new geographic market.
We are delighted to announce that Virtual College has reached an agreement with Netex, a Spanish technology company specialising in e-learning solutions and listed on the Spanish BME stock market, for them to acquire all the shares in Virtual College.
New research shows that the marketing industry has bucked wider digital skills trends by stagnating or declining over the last 12 months. General Marketing is the only discipline to see any significant improvement, increasing by 7 per cent. Target Internet and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) are calling on the industry to prioritise the development of digital skills at all job levels.
Eight key trends will dominate the learning and development (L&D) sector in 2022. These trends have been identified from market research undertaken by eCom Scotland, a leading provider of online training and assessment and which, over the last 25 years, has been building an enviable worldwide reputation for its solutions’ quality and reliability.
It can’t be denied, technology is currently changing the way in which L&D teams operate throughout all industries and sectors and is providing the L&D professional with many new creative options. To help navigate these, Virtual College, a digital learning provider with over 27 years’ experience, has released a report titled "The Future of Learning & Development". This report explores and discusses the new ways in which technology can be used to enhance digital training programmes.
Virtual College has completed a series of reports into the views of 2,000 of its learner community on how workplace learning is evolving. Learning News spoke to the series authors.
Listing on the London Stock Exchange marks a new chapter for Skillcast. The co-founders reflect on their 20-year journey and the road ahead.
Interview with Nahdia Khan from Mind Tools for Business on the early findings from the Learning Performance Benchmark 2022.
Video storytelling platform enables learning leaders to bring their expertise and knowledge to LPiLEARN, inspiring L&D teams with real-world experience.
Online platform helps L&D professionals rapidly build competence in essential skills to future-proof their roles.
Legal & General and Hive Learning win the Gold Award for 'Best use of social and collaborative learning technologies' at the 2021 Learning Technologies Awards,
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Learning Technologies Awards 2021 - meet the winners; Fosway's HR Realities research; ED&I strategies for L&D.
Kineo's Andy Costello and Rory Lawson join Learning News to share their insights into compliance training following an in-depth study into this essential area of L&D.
New research highlights disconnect between what leaders know and want L&D to look like, and the continuing reality of course-led learning.
On Learning Now TV, Nov 25: Paul Matthews on 'Workflow Learning'; Nigel Paine discusses his best-selling book on learning culture; Martin Couzins looks at the latest workplace research; Robin Hoyle explains how to overcome resistance to change initiatives and Rob Clarke reports from the Learning Technologies Awards.
Learning News at the Learning Technologies Awards 2021: Winners’ reactions and comments.
Are you just what the eLN needs? Nominations are now open to join the eLN Board; closing date 26 November.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has become an active, enthusiastic supporter of Pawprint, the employee engagement app which aims to improve the environment by engaging and encouraging workers to be more ‘eco-thoughtful’.
Kallidus has a new CEO in Stephen Read, who joins with a background in cloud HR and talent management software.
St. James’s Place has become what might be the first financial services provider to roll out virtual reality technology for training and role-playing across the business.
Interview with Ann Allcock, head of Diversity at Marshall, on leading equality, diversity and inclusion..
5App in partnership with All Of Us recently launched a new diversity and inclusion engagement hub; interview with creators Duncan Barrett and Andrew Phillips.
Fuse - the learning tech platform that supports access to knowledge in the flow of work - announces further senior leadership appointments.
Research reveals positive attitudes towards EdTech and digital transformation across UK higher education.
Imparta demonstrate ongoing success in overcoming challenges associated with migrating to a wholly virtual learning environment, and continue to deliver world-class sales and service training, as well as incredible business results, in unpredictable times.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released the new 2021 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. The research shows HR teams are embracing new ways to energise and optimise workers in response to the seismic changes in working life that organisations and employees have experienced over the last two years.
Learning Now TV, Nov 3: Andrew Jacobs joins the show to explain hybrid learning and how to get it right for learners. Dani Johnson discusses the importance of practice and Jan Rijken from CrossKnowledge discusses learning maturity and how the learning industry is developing. Plus regular contributors Robin Hoyle on face-to-face and remote learning misconceptions and the latest news round up with Rob Clarke.
Edtech firm ODILO contributes to the first consultation meeting for the 2023 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Learning Technologies Awards 2021 preview; Cloud HR market report; Career prospects gender gap and a boost for further education and training; Increase in workplace coaching.
Recent reports have highlighted a gap between how men and women feel about their careers as a result of the pandemic amidst a boost for post-graduate education and professional certification.
Fuse announces strategic integration with SAP SuccessFactors.
Coaching and mentoring are making a strong return to learning and development as go to strategies for building skills. Learning News asks the coaching specialist, Laura Walker, for her views on how modern coaching is evolving.
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