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    • e2train releases whitepaper on the impact of four generations within the workplace

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, e2train, has released its latest whitepaper - ‘The Changing Dynamics of the Workplace – The Impact of Each of the Different Generations’. The whitepaper is part of a series of whitepapers authored by Rob Caul, CEO of e2train and 81Boxes, and follows the previously published paper - ‘Seven Steps to Grow from Within’.

    • The benefits of benchmarking your eLearning journey

      The Corporate eLearning Consortium | London, UK |

      Laura Overton, Towards Maturity MD, says benchmarking is an invaluable tool that will help shape future workshops held by The Corporate eLearning Consortium, to ensure they meet members’ needs. Laura will also explain how benchmarking can be used as a powerful means of improving performance, when she presents at the inaugural meeting of the Consortium on 28 March, London.

    • eCom Scotland, Supplier at the People Development Summit Brussels 2012

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      The People Summit has an established position as a quality event for UK learning and development professionals. It brings together quality L&D business solution providers with potential purchasers, L&D professionals who hold significant budgets in major blue-chip organisations.

    • Virtual College launches online PAT testing course

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, England |

      In response to its customers’ requests, the Trades e-Academy, a division of Virtual College, has introduced an online training solution that provides competency for Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) This enables companies to comply with the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.

    • New DVD with Meeting Openers on Safety with Captain "Sully" Sullenberger

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has extended its safety training offerings with Lessons from Miracle On The Hudson, a new 20-minute DVD featuring motivational stories from Captain “Sully” Sullenberger. Designed for use as meeting openers, the stories bring to life the safety principles that Captain Sullenberger believe helped him safely land US Airways Flight 1549 in New York City’s Hudson River and save the lives of its passengers and crew in 2009.

    • The Training Associates Appoints New Corporate Training Manager

      TTA | Boston, MA (USA) |

      The Training Associates, the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, announced the appointment of Douglas Parent as their new Corporate Training Manager. Douglas will be responsible for all internal training activities including training on The Training Associates’ propriety software system, TrainerTracker™.

    • eCom Scotland Exhibiting at the CIPD Scottish HR Conference

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      The CIPD Scottish HR Conference is the largest annual Human Resources event in Scotland, attracting some 400 HR Professionals. Taking place on the 8 and 9 March at Dunblane Hydro, the conference features an impressive range of keynote speakers from leading organisations.

    • The new world of mobile learning: CERTPOINT webinar

      Infor | Paris, France |

      CERTPOINT Systems is to host a Michel Diaz webinar, the latest in a series of complimentary webinars with leading learning thought leaders in key markets worldwide, on 6 March at 14h30-15h30 CET.

    • Virtual College gets its teeth into helping dentists meet stringent Government standards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, England |

      The Care Quality Commission, the body responsible for checking that Hospitals, Care Homes and Care Services meet stringent Government standards, has recently started to regulate private and NHS dental services and Virtual College has responded to this move by developing an online training course to assist dentists in meeting these legislative standards.

    • eCom Scotland Exhibiting at eHealth Scotland

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      On Wednesday 29 February at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh the eHealth Scotland conference provides a timely opportunity to hear about what is happening with the delivery of Scotland’s new strategy for eHealth.

    • The Learning Awards winners take time to reflect

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      Instructional Designer of the Year, Laura Hooper describes it as the highlight of her career, whilst Afiniti reflects on picking up its award for Training Company of the Year.

    • Virtual College creates “precious memories” for disadvantaged children

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, England |

      A donation from the Safeguarding Children e-Academy of over £2,000 has paid for seven disadvantaged children to attend a residential centre in the Sussex countryside. The e-Academy, a division of online training provider Virtual College, donates 5% of its turnover to children’s charities and has donated over £150,000 to date.

    • BTL Presents at Assessment Tomorrow Seminar in Bahrain and GESS 2012 in Dubai

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of Assessment solutions, will be attending and speaking at two key Assessment & Learning industry events in the Middle East. BTL will be at the Assessment Tomorrow Seminar in Bahrain on the 27th February 2012, and the GESS conference in Dubai on the 29th of February 2012.

    • Harbinger Systems ranked in The 2012 Global Outsourcing100® Service Providers list

      Harbinger Group | Redmond, WA |

      Harbinger Systems, a leading provider of software engineering services to some of the world’s renowned product companies, today announced that it has been recognized in the top 100 global outsourcing service providers listing by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®).

    • 75% of L&D professionals could reduce external spending bydeveloping their own skills

      Charity Learning Consortium | London, UK |

      Tom Kuhlmann – the well known eLearning guru, inspirational instructional designer and high profile learning technologies blogger – will be sharing his knowledge and skills at a one day, interactive, rapid eLearning workshop on 22 May, London. The event is designed to help boost skills to build cost effective in-house eLearning, and help L&D professionals in their quest to achieve ‘more for less’.

    • Virtual College helps tackle the child obesity epidemic

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, England |

      Virtual College has introduced a brand new online course aimed at helping tackle the obesity epidemic among young children. ‘Right from the Start with HENRY’ has been developed to provide parents and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.

    • COLF Celebrates its first Birthday

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      The Certified Online Learning Facilitator (COLF) course continues to grow in popularity a year after its initial launch.

    • EssentialSkillz courses now compatible with iPads

      EssentialSkillz | Milton Keynes, England and Galway, Ireland |

      EssentialSkillz, global provider of online safety training and risk assessment software, has announced that its complete library of online safety courses are fully compatible with iPads as it enters the exciting new era of M-learning. All of its class-leading E-learning (and now M-learning) solutions include rich animations, crisp clean graphics and engaging content. No Flash was used in the development of the learning content so all courses are fully compatible with iPad's.

    • Collaboration is key to doing ‘more for less’ in L&D

      The Corporate eLearning Consortium | United Kingdom |

      Learning practitioners will discover how collaborative working can help them do ‘more for less’ at the inaugural meeting of The Corporate eLearning Consortium on 28 March, London. Martin Baker, founder of the new Consortium, will explain how working together to share knowledge, resources and best practice can empower L&D in the corporate sector.

    • Announcing the 2012 Learning Awards winners

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      The Learning Awards gathers together the best and brightest individuals and organisations from L&D to celebrate outstanding achievements.

    • Upside2Go Makes A Dazzling Debut At The 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence In Technology Awards; Wins A Bronze

      Upside Learning | Pune, India |

      Less than a year after its launch, Upside2Go, Upside Learning’s revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning, has won the coveted Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award. A Bronze for Best Advance in Mobile Learning Technology, truly reflects Upside2Go’s current value proposition and its potential in providing a reliable and innovative mobile learning solution.

    • DuPont Sustainable Solutions Launches New Crane Safety Programs

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released two new crane training programs to educate employees about crane safety and help organizations comply with OSHA crane standards. The programs are Overhead & Gantry Cranes and Cranes In Construction.

    • Lumesse voted as one of the top HR Vendors of the Year 2011 by Singapore’s HR magazine

      Lumesse | London |

      Lumesse, Europe's largest independent talent management software vendor, was ranked one of the top 5 LMS vendors at Human Resources Magazine’s Singapore HR Vendors of the Year 2011 Awards. Human Resources magazine, the leading specialist human resources publication for Singapore’s HR community, annually surveys HR professionals in Singapore to understand their preferences and to see which solutions providers stand out. 1331 individuals responded to the award nominations survey.

    • LINE to exhibit at LEARNTEC, Germany

      LINE Communications | Cologne |

      LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, will be exhibiting at LEARNTEC in Karlsruhe, Germany on the 31st January to the 2nd February.

    • UK Businesses “Put the Customer Last” say Consumers

      The Ken Blanchard Companies | London |

      In a nationwide review of surveys undertaken by retail organisations, statisticians, consumer organisations and ombudsmen, The Ken Blanchard Companies has found a mass of evidence suggesting that in the UK, the customer comes anything but first.

    • European survey reveals organizations will be delivering more training through blended solutions to upskill staff

      Speexx | Munich, Germany |

      …8 out of 10 businesses looking to support language skills to improve communications and business efficiency... dp today released findings from a new European survey* entitled “Languages and business audit”. The data revealed that 71 percent of organizations believe that they will be delivering more blended learning content within the next two years. Furthermore, eight out of ten organizations (79 percent) regarded language learning to be a main focus in their workforce development plans.

    • Seminar: Think like a charity to ensure L&D success

      The Corporate eLearning Consortium |

      Martin Baker will be talking about the valuable lessons that corporates can learn from charities, when he introduces a case study presentation about eLearning in The National Autistic Society, at Learning Technologies on 25 January, London. Martin has been so impressed by the collaborative approach of The Charity Learning Consortium, which he founded and heads, that he’s launching an eLearning consortium for corporate organisations at the show.

    • Debate: Could Facebook be the saviour of L&D?

      Charity Learning Consortium |

      Martin Baker will be leading a debate about the potential to access eLearning via Facebook – the most popular social media platform of our time – at the Learning & Skills exhibition in London on 26 January. Hare brained idea or a brilliant way to deliver cost effective learning? You decide! Come and share your views with Martin, CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium and MD of newly formed The Corporate eLearning Consortium - bringing a cost effective, collaborative approach to eLearning to the corporate sector.

    • Luminosity Reach LMS from CM Group now includes optional eCommerce

      Civica | Bristol, UK |

      CM Group's easy to use Cloud based Learning Management System is called Luminosity Reach. CM Group have announced the addition of an optional eCommerce module which enables companies using the LMS to distribute their eLearning to customers and to charge them for access to their courses.

    • accessplanit unveils growth plans for 2012

      Accessplanit | Lancaster, UK |

      Training software house, accessplanit, has moved into 2012 with a clear focus on expansion, following a strong end to a successful year in 2011.  

    • Towards Maturity helps L & D think differently at Learning Technologies 2012

      Towards Maturity | London |

      Free advice, reports, resources and sessions with conference speakers on stand 45 at the 2012 Learning Technologies Exhibition on 25th and 26th January Olympia, London. Towards Maturity, the not-for-profit benchmark practice, wants learning and development professionals to think differently about training, drawing on the best advice available in the industry.Laura Overton, Managing Director will be encouraging the main conference delegates to play an active role in helping their businesses become more agile in 2012. However this will mean challenging preconceived ideas and even past experiences of using learning and technology.

    • e2train releases new whitepaper: ‘Seven Steps to Grow from Within’

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, e2train, has released a new whitepaper – “Seven Steps to Grow from Within”. The whitepaper provides senior managers, HR and L&D professionals with top tips to identify and grow their own talent and increase their capability to ensure long-term business success.

    • LINE offers free consultancy sessions at Learning Technologies

      LINE Communications | London |

      Once again LINE Communications will be exhibiting at Learning Technologies in Olympia, London where they will be offering free consultancy sessions, giving visitors the chance to talk through learning and development issues they have with LINE consultants, who will also be giving away their latest white papers on Mobile Learning and Communications, Learning Maturity and Building the Foundations of a Learning Architecture.

    • EssentialSkillz unveils new Safety Passport solution for contracted workers

      EssentialSkillz | Milton Keynes |

      The Safety Passport from EssentialSkillz provides online training and tracking to ensure that all contractors, or any visitors to your business, fully understand the safety requirements therein. It enables companies to take advantage of a safety solution especially designed to meet the specific requirements of contracted workers, mitigating against accidents in the workplace and potentially costly compensation claims.

    • How Many of Your People Have Quit and Stayed?

      The Ken Blanchard Companies |

      The cost of workers who ‘quit and stay’, employees who are unmotivated, uninspired, and who pretty much give up on their jobs, but who still hang around to receive their pay cheques runs into billions.

    • Cameras roll on massive collaborative video learning project

      Charity Learning Consortium | UK |

      Members of The Charity Learning Consortium are busy filming for a huge collaborative video learning project. All members have been offered a free flip camera to create short pieces of video learning to share with other members of the community. Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of the Consortium, said members had enthusiastically embraced the exciting video challenge.

    • New Year, New Learning - Webanywhere considers the case for a social based model

      Webanywhere |

      More employees are now on the hunt for ever-quicker methods to acquire workplace learning. Arguably this trend could be considered risky in a business context, given that real time communications can't always be moderated. But in a broader sense, what does social based learning mean for business L&D – and how has it already changed things?

    • Harbinger Systems honored in the 2011 Mobile Star Awards

      Harbinger Group | Redmond, WA |

      Harbinger Systems, a leading provider of software engineering services to some of the world's best product companies, today announced that ‘TripSketch’ a mobile application developed by Harbinger Systems has been declared a winner in the 10th Annual Mobile Star Awards™ program hosted by MobileVillage.com.

    • New year, new challenges: L&D specialists review 2011 and look ahead to 2012

      Charity Learning Consortium | UK |

      L&D commentators and specialists review the last 12 months and make their predictions for the year ahead. Find out what the L&D highlight was for Martin Baker, Laura Overton, Clive Shepherd, Nigel Paine and others, and what they see on the learning horizon for 2012.

    • Martin Baker becomes a global charity learning Ambassador

      Charity Learning Consortium | London |

      Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium, has become an Ambassador to LINGOs – the likeminded US-based consortium which provides affordable eLearning and resources to humanitarian relief organisations working around the world. The two organisations plan to support one another, and fly the flag for global, award-winning eLearning in the charity sector.

    • LPI Launches the Learning Survey 2012

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry, UK |

      The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has today (Monday) launched the Learning Survey 2012 – a comprehensive review of the workplace learning sector.

    • Martin Baker welcomes greater emphasis on Charity L&D

      Charity Learning Consortium | UK |

      Recommendations that staff and volunteers in the charity sector should receive 40 hours of development time a year have been largely welcomed by Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium. Martin says he welcomes any move to give L&D in the charity sector the recognition that it deserves.

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