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.
There is growing evidence that the digital learning and assessment specialist eCom Scotland is solving an issue which is as old as eLearning itself: getting learners to enthuse about – and use – eLearning materials.
Leeds Beckett University team crowned as ‘Marketers of the Future’, with each team member winning a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and one-year complimentary CIM membership Judging panel included representatives from Samsung Electronics UK, Mintel, Preen and CIM This year, student teams were challenged to find creative ways to market Samsung’s new foldable mobile phone category to Gen Z
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 consultancy Walkgrove seeks to nurture the next generation of learning designers, visual artists and creatives through sponsorship of this year’s Young Creative Awards. Open to 11- to 24-year-olds, the annual competition celebrates creativity across 11 diverse categories from film, graphic design and music to dance, animation and photography. The awards are designed to help talented young people access education, training and employment opportunities and to support a flourishing cultural and business community.
Building on a market-leading reputation for harnessing data in the search for better learning solutions, Learning Pool is pleased to announce that it is embedding Sisense to add ‘Insights’ to its portfolio; the next step in Learning Analytics.
Learning Now TV, Mar 25: In recognition of International Women’s Day 2021, Jane Bozarth and Kate Graham discuss their recently launched report. Sukh Pabial discusses the effects of the Covid pandemic on L&D and Martin Couzins looks at MindTools & Emerald Works’ report into business leaders’ perceptions of L&D.
Over the last year – faced with Covid-19 and Brexit among other issues - people have become a lot clearer about what matters to them and, therefore, their priorities in work and life. Lockdown has given people time to re-evaluate their lives and reassess their priorities.
Virtual College has created an extremely valuable course to improve safeguarding responses to children and their families through the learning from Serious Case Reviews (SCRs). It also covers the management of serious child safeguarding incidents under Working Together 2018
Agylia is pleased to announce that housebuilder Avant Homes has selected the Agylia Learning Management System (LMS) to provide employees with access to on-demand digital and blended learning programmes, to improve knowledge and ongoing development.
Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Learning & Performance Institute identifies the 15 highest-scoring internal learning departments, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.
Debbie Carter, editor-in-chief of Training Journal, will leave at the end of March 2021 after 24 years at the title.
The authors of a new e-learning course from Marshall on mental health fatigue join Learning News to discuss mental health fatigue and the course’s aims.
New online learning platform launched by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and Agylia aims to reach 20,000 learners in the next three years - enabling individuals and workplaces to improve their health and wellbeing.
Learning Now TV, Mar 11: Peter Sheppard from Ericsson explains how Ericsson’s own tv channel is being used to help develop its workforce. Plus: Learning Guild’s David Kelly; Sam Davies and Danny Seals on a new service connecting trusted vendors and users; Martin Couzins on the Edelman Trust Barometer; and Robin Hoyle on how unconscious bias training is failing today's diverse workforce.
Following a period of sustained investment and growth, Learning Pool is delighted to have moved from Core Leader to Strategic Leader on the 2021 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning. It is the only provider to achieve this recognition with a lower total cost of ownership rating for clients.
Derry-based Learning Pool is delighted to have scooped a double Gold Award at the international Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.
Jobseekers and recruiters benefit from more accurate skill profiling via LPI Capability Map, allowing stronger matching of candidates to opportunities.
Wendy Edie, Managing Director of the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom, has joined the Strategic Skills Board of ScotlandIS, the body that builds, supports and enables Scotland’s digital technology ecosystem.
Following its assessment of learning systems last month, Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, today releases research into the wider market with the launch of the 2021 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning. It finds that digital learning has never been more critical because of the pandemic, but there is more to be done to improve the learning experience and increase business impact.
Kallidus, an industry leading provider of digital learning and HCM solutions, has moved from a Core Challenger to a Core Leader in this year’s Fosway 9-Grid™ model for Digital Learning.
Cathy Hoy previously worked at Soho House, Coca-Cola, Expedia, Tesco and The White Company.
Virtual College have refreshed and updated their leadership and management offering, creating a new suite of courses that is timely and relevant to today’s business climate.
Wendy Edie, Managing Director of eCom, Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialists, will be speaking as Scotland’s representative at the British Canadian Chamber of Trade and Commerce (BCCTC) virtual event that celebrates International Women’s Day.
What is mental health fatigue and how can managers help? Marshall E-Learning launches a unique video-led learning course.
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.
Richard Barkey, founder of Imparta, joins Learning News to discuss the challenges of selling online and skills that sales professionals can benefit from working on.
Learning Now TV, Feb 25: Matt Donovan from GP Strategies talks to LNTV about how L&D must enable new ways of providing value. Ben Betts from Learning Pool discusses market changes and his focus on personal growth of employees.
Celebrating the highest achievements in workplace learning and development.
New research from the Chartered Institute of Marketing has uncovered a significant age divide in the marketing professionals taking part in upskilling in the UK.
Professional marketers to benefit from expert training from the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image New courses, directed by leading tutors from the BFI, will allow marketers access to the very latest in video and production techniques Marketers will also improve their management of agencies and internal creative teams
L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2021 report published; Donald H Taylor outlines key shifts in sentiment; re-skilling and up-skilling emerge as top L&D priority; collaborative and social learning increasingly recognised by L&D.
Learning Now TV, Feb 11: Andrew Barnes, CEO of GO1, joins Learning Now TV to talk about his company and digital learning in 2021; plus Positive Psychologist and Coach, Lucy Whitehall, on helping people to thrive.
The digital learning and assessment specialist eCom Scotland has been awarded ‘Established Employer’ status within Carer Positive - a Scottish Government funded initiative, developed with the support of partners in Scotland’s private, public and voluntary sectors.
5app, the agile learning and communications platform vendor has been recognised as a Potential Performer by Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst in the 2021 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is not alone in discovering that its ‘Friends of eCom’ initiative is proving beneficial, especially in these unusual and challenging business times.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is not alone in discovering that its ‘Friends of eCom’ initiative is proving beneficial, especially in these unusual and challenging business times.
Marshall E-Learning has developed an ‘Insiders and Outsiders’ e-learning course that adopts a radical approach to bias and stereotyping. The new course moves beyond traditional unconscious bias concepts, taking learners into the more nuanced world of micro-inequities and insider/outsider dynamics that feature in many organisations but are rarely analysed or acknowledged.
Wendy Edie, the Managing Director of the digital learning and assessment specialist eCom Scotland, is joining some of Scotland’s top business leaders to discuss how to be successful at doing business with customers in the United States of America.
Kallidus, an industry leading provider of digital learning and talent management solutions, has been rated as a Strong Performer in Fosway’s 9-Grid™ model for Learning Systems for its award-winning Kallidus Learn platform.
February 2021. The 5 Moments of Need Academy and Xprtise launch new Essentials workshop for workflow learning in The 5 Moments of Need, as the shift towards designing learning in the workflow gathers momentum.
With online learning now the only game in town as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the full impact on the learning technology market is assessed for the first time in the new 2021 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems. Released today by Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, the research highlights the significant consequences of the shift to remote working and learning.
A recently published e-Book from the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, outlines the five key steps to digital transformation success.
Learning Now TV, Jan 28: The latest Fosway 9-Grid for Learning Systems is due out this week and LNTV talks to Fosway’s senior analyst Fiona Leteney.
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.
An extended interview with Ed Monk, CEO of the LPI; What happened to learning in 2020 and where will learning go in 2021?
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, will be speaking on ‘digital delivery’ at the British Council’s International Education Virtual Festival.
As part of its strategic move to supply over-arching learning and development solutions to its clients around the world, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom, is developing its consultancy offering.
Virtual College is delighted to be part of ’An Hour to Skill’ campaign alongside other educational institutions including Amazon Web Services, FutureLearn, Cisco, Lloyds Bank, LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft, The Open University and many more.
Global elearning solutions provider, Omniplex, has secured investment from mid-market private equity investor LDC, as it targets further expansion to support the digital transformation of L&D within organisations across the UK.
Kallidus, one of the UK’s fastest-growing software companies providing talent management software and Digital Learning, today announces that it has acquired Sapling, a leading People Operations Platform. The acquisition transforms Kallidus, which is backed by Apse Capital, a European private equity firm that specialises in investing in tech-enabled B2B companies, into a full-suite Human Capital Management (HCM) software and Digital Learning provider, offering businesses solutions across the entire employee lifecycle.
Representatives from the universities of Exeter, Liverpool John Moores, Staffordshire, St Andrews, Cranfield, Dundee, St Andrews, Stirling, and Canterbury Christ Church joined Ann Allcock, Marshall’s new Head of Diversity, and guest Maggie Semple, OBE on a Zoom call to discuss diversity in higher education.
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