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    • LPI announces top 20 highest-performing learning providers of 2019

      Learning and Performance Institute | UK |

      Using benchmark data from its well-established 'Performance Through Learning' programme, the LPI identifies the 20 highest-scoring accredited learning providers, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.

    • Unicorn Release Note 8.5

      The Access Group | Bournemouth, Brighton, London, UK |

      Unicorn LMS 8.5 brings improvements to many existing features, with enhanced form functionality with new fields and email options, as well as introducing better ways to report on them. Unicorn continues to update eCreator making it even easier to design content. There have been improvements to My Team Activity for tracking Team activity progress. This release also sees the introduction of the Qualification Portlet enhancing the Qualification functionality of the LMS.

    • Virtual College Finalists in EdTechXGlobal All Stars Awards 2019

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College were chosen as one of twenty finalists out of 250 applicants in the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Startup Awards for education and training companies who have shown the most revenue growth momentum over the last three years.

    • Kallidus showcases the power of a great learning experience at LTSF 2019

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Award-winning learning and talent management provider Kallidus will be showcasing its latest innovative tools and techniques for creating learning experiences that boost engagement and improve performance at Learning Technologies Summer Forum, at ExCel London on 11 July 2019.

    • Brand new AML and CTF training

      The Access Group |

      Release of Unicorn's redesigned and revamped AML and CTF course is imminent. The updated course features enhanced content surrounding the practical tools and prevention methods for these crimes, as well as Countering Terrorist Financing content and its parallels to AML preventative measures. This course is targeted for release in July 2019.

    • L&D’s misconceptions about ‘digital’ on Learning Now tv

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On June’s Learning Now tv Myles Runham presents a clearer view of ‘digital’ for L&D, Cathy Moore talks about performance-focused learning design and a review of Royal Mail’s VR-based dog safety training programme.

    • Unicorn Release Note 8.4

      The Access Group | Bournemouth, Brighton, London |

      Unicorn LMS 8.4 builds on Certification Regime support by introducing validation for Forms. Unicorn has significantly enhanced Diagnostic Assessments, which will now allow customers to use Likert scale-style questions to create learner-driven gap analysis assessments. In this release Unicorn has also made several improvements to eCreator and Administrators will notice a new-look Organisation & Users area. For its Users, Unicorn has introduced new portlets for Surveys and Qualification Plans.

    • Kallidus announces new AI recommended learning feature

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Kallidus, the award-winning learning and talent management provider, has announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) feature for Kallidus Learn. Available as beta-release, the AI recommended learning feature suggests new learning courses to employees that other similar learners in the organisation have rated highly. The algorithm learns and improves as feedback increases on courses, providing ever-improving recommendations to help employees boost their skills with relevant and engaging digital learning.

    • Unicorn Release Note 8.3

      The Access Group | Bournemouth |

      Unicorn LMS 8.3 continues to enhance the Forms and Workflows functionality with the addition of Mandatory Training categories.

    • Women In Learning Conference announced

      Women In Learning | London |

      Women In Learning Conference endeavours to join a collective of men and women together to begin to raise awareness of the challenges women are facing in the workplace, but also highlight their successes and fascinating career trajectories. It’s an event intended to inspire, motivate, empower, and most importantly, instigate a change.

    • Be a GDPR Hero

      Skillcast |

      Skillcast has released a new version of GDPR Hero. This is a serious game where people are challenged to make decisions on everyday data-processing scenarios.

    • Rise to the challenge of mobile learning

      Omniplex Learning | Harpenden, UK |

      Omniplex is co-hosting an event with Asda on mobile learning. The event will teach delegates how to create inherently responsive eLearning courses.

    • Unicorn Training Q1 Content Update

      The Access Group |

      2019 has already got off to a flying start at Unicorn with the launch of its brand new Mortgage and Home Finance suite and updates to a good many courses, not only from its Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) collection but also from its content partners.

    • Financial Times and IE Business School launch Headspring

      Headspring | London, UK |

      As a result of rapid expansion and success of a collaboration that set a new standard in the executive development sector, Financial Times and IE Business School have announced the launch of Headspring, the new identity of the joint venture formerly known as FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance. The re-brand comes four years after the original launch and is a result of a new approach towards greater client-centricity and value creation in the leadership development sector.

    • Walkgrove e-learning wins counter terrorism award

      Walkgrove | Derby |

      After a training requirement was identified to tackle issues of security and counter terrorism, Walkgrove was commissioned by the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) in conjunction with Transport for London, to develop an e-learning module aimed at HGV drivers. The resulting course went on to win the nationally recognised Counter Terrorism Education Project Award at the Counter Terror Awards, March 2019.

    • Skillcast Seminar: SCORM Games

      Skillcast | London, UK |

      Skillcast is presenting a seminar on how to build serious games that work on SCORM-compliance learning management systems (LMS) and the exciting possibilities this opens up for engaging employees, personalising e-learning courses and generating a wealth of information on compliance and competency in organisations.

    • Imparta Features on Training Industry’s Top 20 Sales Training Company List for the Ninth Year

      Imparta | London, UK |

      Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, today released its selection for the 2019 Top Training Companies lists for the Sales Training sector of the learning and development market. Imparta is delighted to announce that it has, for the ninth year running, received this much sought after accolade.

    • Women in Learning on Learning Now tv

      Learning Now tv | London |

      The Women in Learning campaign is showcased on March’s Learning Now tv along with David James on learning at the point of work, how AI is being used to develop lawyers’ skills and Learning Now tv welcomes a new regular reporter, Euan Semple.

    • LPI announces top 15 highest-performing learning departments

      Learning and Performance Institute | UK |

      Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Learning & Performance Institute identifies this year's 15 highest-scoring internal learning departments, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.

    • Corporates back project to support charity digital skills

      Clear Lessons Foundation | UK |

      The Clear Lesson Foundation has teamed up with River Island, Aviva, Costa Coffee and Good Things Foundation to produce video resources to help charities tackle their digital skills.

    • QA is teaching the nation to code in a series of coding workshops

      QA |

      Workshops hosted at Northumbria University were opened by Chi Onwurah MP who supports initiative that seeks to address tech diversity and the skills gap in Tyne and Wear. Teach the Nation to Code is a coding workshop run by QA aimed at career changers and graduates to inspire careers in tech and software development.

    • QA celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with a reception in parliament

      QA | London, UK |

      Brexit talks were set aside – in the grand Terrace Pavilion of the House of Commons at least – on Tuesday 5th March as employers, apprentices and Parliamentarians gathered to celebrate the life-transforming power of apprenticeships for National Apprenticeships Week (NAW).

    • UK’s first female cyber security apprenticeship achiever earns highest possible grade

      QA |

      QA cyber security apprentice Stephanie Haynes of HORIBA MIRA just became the first woman in the UK to successfully complete the Cyber Security Technologist Level 4 apprenticeship programme – and she knocked her end-point assessment out of the park with a Distinction, the highest possible grade achieved by only one other learner so far.

    • Seasalt develops leaders of the future

      Learning and Performance Institute | Falmouth, UK |

      Lifestyle fashion brand, Seasalt, has received recognition from the Learning & Performance Institute (LPI), the global body for learning professionals, for its positive approach to workplace culture and leadership.

    • February’s Learning Now tv: in depth features and comment on the learning sector

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On February’s Learning Now tv Michelle Ockers challenges L&D’s to support a wider range of performance needs. Martin Couzins highlights some worrying news from the Learning Technologies’ and Fosway’s latest research. Nigel Paine catches up with young L&D professionals in the Netherlands. Plus Robin Hoyle on impact measurement, Good Practice’s annual 70:20:10 research and Learning News reports from Learning Technologies 2019.

    • Learnlight Launches Modern Learner eReport with Key Insights from AXA, Orange and BNP Paribas

      Learnlight | London, United Kingdom |

      Learnlight recently organized a Round Table in Paris focused on the topic of the Modern Learner and how corporate learning professionals are facing up to the challenges of engaging these impatient, overwhelmed and distracted learners. Following the event, Learnlight has produced an eReport with the key takeaways from the event and the insights of the panel of HR and Learning experts.

    • Skillcast releases 2019 update to its Essentials compliance e-learning library

      Skillcast | London, UK |

      Skillcast's latest release of its best-selling compliance e-learning library - Essentials 2019 - features advances in accessibility, content updates, UI/UX enhancements and test-out options that maintain its position as the comprehensive, high-quality, affordability staff compliance training solution for companies in the UK.

    • Raytheon wins multiple corporate training excellence awards in 2018

      Raytheon Professional Services |

      Dallas, Texas, (January 28, 2019) Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has been recognized as a leader in training excellence in 2018 by multiple industry analysts and publications, including NelsonHall, Brandon Hall Group, Learning Technologies Awards and Chief Learning Officer magazine.

    • Kallidus Content launches new website showcasing award-winning projects ahead of Learning Technologies 2019

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Award-winning digital content provider Kallidus Content has unveiled a new website to showcase its clients’ digital learning success stories. Kallidus has won 39 prestigious industry awards in recent years and the website shows how many of their customers are using innovative bespoke elearning and games to transform their learning and drive major programmes of organisational change.

    • Enhance global e-learning with multimedia localisation

      Capita | Manchester, UK |

      Sally Haywood and Kamil Juljanski from Capita Translation and Interpreting will be holding a seminar on e-learning and multimedia localisation at Learning Technologies, Europe’s leading L&D exhibition and conference, covering 10 steps on how to take e-learning content global through audio-visual and multimedia localisation.

    • Omniplex Group unveils new look

      Omniplex Learning | Harpenden, UK |

      Omniplex kick starts 2019 with a fresh new look, including a redesigned website and blog. The new website improves user experience, ensuring eLearning professionals can easily find the best product on the market and develop their eLearning expertise.

    • Career structure in learning and development

      CIPD | London |

      Andy Lancaster discusses CIPD's efforts to bring greater structure into L&D careers, through CIPD’s new profession map and qualifications, and two new L&D apprenticeships.

    • Young L&D professionals: Learning Now tv panel

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On January’s Learning Now tv a panel of young L&D professionals discusses how they like to learn. Matthew Holman and Paul Morgan discuss mental health awareness in the workplace. LNTV’s workplace diversity and inclusion series continues with ‘digital accessibility’. Plus regular contributors, Robin Hoyle and Ajay Pangarkar.

    • QA on a mission to boost tech diversity by signing Tech Talent Charter

      QA | London, UK |

      QA has signed the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) as part of its ongoing commitment to break down career barriers, bridge the UK’s skills gap, promote a diverse workforce and support women in tech. Founded by employers across the recruitment, tech and social enterprise fields, the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) brings together industries and organisations to drive diversity and address gender imbalance in technology roles. The government supported the TTC in its UK Digital Strategy policy paper published in March 2017.

    • What’s really happening in digital learning in 2019?

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      The hype surrounding the future of digital learning keeps coming; Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality...but what should L&D professionals be prioritising in their organisations today to ensure future success? New research opened today aims to understand the truth about digital learning, including the critical drivers and trends to watch, who’s really using what technologies today and making sense of the market and managing suppliers.

    • The L&D Global Sentiment Survey

      Donald H Taylor |

      Taking the pulse of of the L&D community worldwide, the 2019 L&D Global Sentiment Survey has opened for submissions.

    • InSync Training Announces New 2019 Programs and Services Catalog

      InSync Training | New Hampshire, USA |

      InSync Training has released its 2019 catalog of programs and services, listing all of the upcoming certificates and workshops for the upcoming year, as well as the many services available. Topics include facilitation, instructional design, production, microlearning, gamification, and more.

    • Six predictions for learning and development in 2019

      Headspring | London, UK |

      The annual look by Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance at what’s going to be hot in learning and development (L&D) in the year ahead focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the continuing impact of all things digital.

    • Consultancy Service for Potential Buyers of Learning Management Systems

      eLearning Industry | San Francisco, CA, USA |

      The network-based media and publishing company, eLearning Industry, has launched a service offering online advice and guidance for anyone who has been given responsibility for sourcing and buying a learning management system (LMS).

    • Engage in Learning event highlights Unconscious Bias

      Engage in Learning | Gloucester, UK |

      Everyone exhibits unconscious bias from time to time – and, unchecked in a work context, this leads to a less diverse workforce, with possible adverse effects on organisational performance.

    • InSync Training Releases Self-Paced Learning Campaign: Exploring Gamification & Game-Based Learning

      InSync Training | New Hampshire, USA |

      InSync Training's new self-paced learning campaign, Exploring Gamification & Game-Based Learning, is now available. Each campaign includes a carefully curated and designed combination of resources, like whitepapers, eLearning modules, videos, podcasts, and job aids. Enrollment includes 12 months of campaign access and many resources for learners to download and use on the job.

    • Reinventing recruitment: The talent acquisition imperative launched by Fosway Group

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has announced its analysis of the talent acquisition technology market. Starting with its current assessment of the recruitment industry in a freely available Viewpoint paper, Fosway has also confirmed in advance the publication of a new 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition in 2019.

    • Engage in Learning launches Suspicious Packages e-learning course

      Engage in Learning | Gloucester, UK |

      The recent spate of suspicious packages sent to prominent politicians, businesspeople and celebrities in the USA, along with similar incidents elsewhere including the UK, has prompted the e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning, to release a new e-learning course about dealing with Suspicious Packages.