TrainingIndustry.com’s annual global survey reveals TIS’ supremacy in the Training Outsourcing industry.
The Training Associates, the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, announced that it has made the Boston Business Journal “Pacesetters” list, a list of the region's fastest-growing privately held companies.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has today signed a five year assessment partnership agreement with BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of assessment solutions.
BP's Nick Shackleton-Jones explores how e-learning has evolved over the past 10 years and anticipates a screen-less future in Brightwave's interview series.
Raptivity now offers world’s largest library of eLearning interactions for the iPad as well as other cutting-edge mobile computing products.
Lumesse has been named ‘Best Talent Management Software Solutions Provider in Greater China 2011-2012’ in the ‘Best HR Service Provider Awards in Greater China’ (The Awards) organised by the leading publication in the region, Human Capital Management magazine. This is the second time the award has been given, and the second time Lumesse has won it.
LINE Communications, a leading European provider of Learning and Communications solutions has received two awards in the International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) awards for projects developed for Jaguar Land Rover and BP.
Brightwave has partnered with Towards Maturity to launch a benchmark designed to dig deeper into how learning technologies can support customer strategies.
Learning Nexus has introduced a new way of conducting product training for its two main e-learning products, namely the Learning Management System and Rapid Authoring Tool.
CERTPOINT in collaboration with Charles Jennings exploring the evolving role of HR at the Executive Knowledge Exchange, Basle, Tuesday 27 March.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions, a leader in innovative learning solutions, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Bronze Award for Excellence in the Content Authoring and/or Content Management Technology category.
eNetAssess is a world-class system for delivery of eAssessments. The Chartered Banker Institute, working in partnership with technology provider eCom, will use the system for web delivery of both essay and multiple choice exams, with further enhancements including simplification of the marking system for the examiner and the verifier.
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) agree partnership with award winning insurance broker Howden to provide insurance cover for LPI Members
On-demand SAAS company recognized as global leader in Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solutions, Postsecondary Enterprise Solutions, and Collaboration/Social Networking Solutions
Global provider of online business communications skills training steps up Latin American presence in São Paulo
Leaders from the World’s Largest Publishing Organisations Meet to Discuss the Impact of Technology and Change on the Global Information Publishing Industry.
Martin Baker is toasting the success of the eLearning Global Giveback awards – a competition celebrating eLearning developed by expert volunteers for charities working in international development. Martin, a member of the judging panel, and a well known advocate for collaboration in L&D, says the scheme is a great example of what can be achieved by working together.
… ArcelorMittal to improve business efficiency by supporting multi-lingual communication skills across its 262,000 global workforce...
Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that it was ranked #1 among the top providers of talent management software in HRO Today’s 2012 Baker’s Dozen Ratings. The rankings were based on independent customer surveys carried out in the first quarter of 2012.
The Training Associates (TTA), the largest provider of training and development consultants and solutions to Fortune 1000 companies directly or through its partners, announced record growth in 2011 with a 175% increase in sales over the previous year and sales growth of 103% over the last 4 years. TTA projects 2012 sales of over $60 million with continued profits above industry averages.
LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communication solutions has announced its sponsorship of the Swiss e-learning Conference which will take place in Zurich on the 17th and 18th of April.
Learning Nexus, a leading online learning specialist in the UK, has launched a new video newsletter that will be sent to all customers and subscribers on a monthly basis.
Webanywhere Ltd, a leading provider of open source e-learning and collaboration solutions, has today announced that it has become a Platinum Partner of Totara LMS, the leading open source LMS for corporate learning.
Learning Nexus is the first UK e-learning provider to offer a comprehensive list of online languages suitable for any workplace.
Xyleme, Inc., the leader in standards-based learning solutions, won the prestigious Brandon Hall Gold award for best advance in mobile learning technology for their Pastiche product.
Japan’s business professionals are set to benefit from a stronger career pathway, thanks to the longstanding partnership of Pearson VUE, the global leader in computer-based testing and SAP, the world’s largest business software provider.
Richardson, a leading global sales training and performance improvement company has been named to Training Industry, Inc 2012 Top Sales Training Companies list for the fourth consecutive year.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Portable Fire Extinguishers: Protecting People And Property, a new fire safety training program to help employees identify and use the most common types of portable fire extinguishers.
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’.
For Information Transfer 2011 was an exciting year, with the highest ever demand for their outstanding blended learning solutions. To meet this demand, the company has brought in three exceptional team members whose skills and experience further enrich the portfolio of solutions available to its clients.
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.
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.
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.
Maria van Vlodrop, CERTPOINT Systems European GM, speaks at E-learning Expo,11h30 -13h00 CET,14 March 2012, Paris.
EssentialSkillz, the successful E-learning provider, is making an Olympic Business Policy E-Learning course available to UK businesses so that their business operations can run as smoothly as possible during the Olympics and lessen the impact of disturbances caused by the event.
LINE Communications will be showcasing two of its recent award-winning projects developed for the AO Foundation and the British Army as part of a series of webinars hosted by Clive Shepherd and the Elearning Awards.
e2train, a leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has been selected to deliver its talent management system, 81Boxes, to facilities management company OCS.
Global corporate training provider, digital publishing achieves prestigious Seal of e-Excellence for most innovative products, services and marketing promotion
Totara Learning Solutions was amongst the winners announced at the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition announced 1st March at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco.
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, 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™.
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.
Reed Learning is running a free webinar this Thursday 8th March addressing some of the challenges faced by the L&D profession in 2012.
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.
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.
Learning Nexus, a leading online learning provider in the UK, can now offer a completely customisable online Health and Safety training package.
NetDimensions and UnYLeYa are collaborating to deliver innovative learning solutions, including NetDimensions’ mEKP portable LMS, in Africa, Brazil and Portugal.
Scott Jones became one of only 90 people out of more than one million to be awarded the City and Guilds medal for excellence after earning distinctions in all of his course modules.
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.
Learning Nexus, a leader in e-learning creation, has made several new updates to its authoring tool, focussing on its end user’s core e-learning needs.
eCom has been commissioned to design, build and test an eLearning solution for William Grant & Sons to enable all staff to be trained on Bribery and Corruption awareness.
CERTPOINT Systems Inc in collaboration with Charles Jennings and Donald H Taylor is examining how to get learning structure right for the extended enterprise in a webinar taking place on 28 February.
Virtual College is proud to unveil its new navigational bar designed to aid the usability of its online courses and enhance the learning experience for its many registered online learners.
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.
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.
e2train, a leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has announced that the second in its series of thought-provoking webinars on talent management and leadership development is to focus on the issue of leadership succession and how technologies can support succession planning.
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, 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®).
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 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.
www.webanywhere.us, the developer of web based business e-learning solutions based on the Moodle and Totara LMS platforms, today announced that Lee Stayton, an expert in technology-enabled learning, has joined its expanding staff as Head of e-Learning Consultancy.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has approved a number of EssentialSkillz E-Learning courses. The exceptionally popular and much sought-after accreditation scheme offers organisations the opportunity to demonstrate that its courses adhere to an accepted standard of excellence in health and safety training.
Company Ranks # 1 Worldwide for Quality of Service
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to announce that accessible e-Assessment content, created using the Surpass® Assessment Platform, has been awarded ‘Accredited Plus’ by the UK’s leading pan-disability charity, AbilityNet.
The Certified Online Learning Facilitator (COLF) course continues to grow in popularity a year after its initial launch.
Yorkshire-based Webanywhere has completed the development and implementation of a Totara based learning management system with integrated e-store for Canadian first aid training course provider, Get Ready Online.
Clarity Consultants is honored to join a group of select organisations that have been accredited with the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI).
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.
Reed Learning offers five free Virtual Classroom programmes with every scheduled training course.
A new survey from GoodPractice highlights key industry changes during past 12 months.
COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) has won the award for 'Best example of shared services in practice' at the UK Public Sector Digital Awards through the creation of its Lumesse-powered www.myjobscotland.gov.uk career site. COSLA estimates that the savings from the site, which receives around 2.5 million visits from jobseekers each year, saves over £12 million in advertising costs alone annually. Today all 32 Councils and all 8 Fire and Rescue Services in Scotland use the site for their vacancies.
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.
The Learning Awards gathers together the best and brightest individuals and organisations from L&D to celebrate outstanding achievements.
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 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, 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.
NetDimensions has won the Gold Award in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology category with NetDimensions EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Platform) for Extended Enterprise Management.
PRINCE2® Professional, a new qualification from the APMG, which launched on the 30 January 2012, will independently certify an individual’s ability to understand and effectively apply the PRINCE2 methodology.
L&D Professionals in the UK have until Monday, February 13 to take part in the Learning Survey 2012.
Pearson VUE, the computer-based testing business of Pearson, has announced the appointment of Matthew Poyiadgi as Managing Director for Europe.
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.
Totara LMS New Partnership with Metropolitan Community College
E-Learning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced version of its popular DSE risk assessment and training software, ErgoWize. The course will be available from January 30 2011. EssentialSkillz describes its online DSE Workstation risk assessment and training system as the most effective, cost-efficient and advanced DSE compliance software currently available.
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.
…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.
The 1.2.12 date will represent a Revolution for Docebo’s E-Learning business model: here comes the third and last teaser trailer.
QA, the global training company that transforms performance through learning, today announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Green Project Management Ltd to deliver a range of fully accredited and globally recognised sustainable project management courses.
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.
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.
Elearnity, Europe’s leading learning analyst, is publishing its first series of Vendor Perspectives. These new reports provide the only in-depth, independent analysis of learning technology vendors with a UK/European focus.
NetDimensions will showcase the new NetDimensions Talent Suite at Learning Technologies 2012 in Olympia 2, London. NetDimensions’ new offering available as secure SaaS and on-premise.
Car manufacturer's European training operations to be lead from 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.
Training software house, accessplanit, has moved into 2012 with a clear focus on expansion, following a strong end to a successful year in 2011.
… CERTPOINT Systems™ CEO Ara Ohanian reveals the key characteristics of a new workforce generation at Learning Technologies, 2012 Europe's largest workplace learning conference …
After eight successful years in the education sector and 3,000 clients globally, Webanywhere is celebrating its first year of trading in the corporate sector at Learning Technologies 2012.
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.
Here comes the second teaser trailer from Docebo - to enlight the company’s next “big thing” - focused on Mobile experience.
Clarity Consultants will be exhibiting at American Society for Training & Development’s (ASTD) TechKnowledge on January 25-27, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nev.
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.
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