Content Master will be at the big TechEd show in Orlando from 3rd to 13th June. The show is the premier event of its kind aimed at technical staff and training and education professionals working in the Microsoft technology field with over 12,000 delegates expected.
Global leader in learning solutions and digital asset management receives IBM Public Sector Top Star Award.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider is pleased to announce that they will be assisting the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) with a three-year project to move from traditional paper based exams to On-Screen delivery.
Richardson has launched new sales training support tool, NanaSalesBooks. NanoSalesBooks are a series of highly-engaging, 15-minute audio podcasts that focus on essential sales topics and can be listened to on most portable audio players, online, or downloaded to a computer.
QA-IQ has today launched a new accredited programme for management development in a unique partnership with Middlesex University's Institute for Work Based Learning. This degree-level qualification combines the flexibility of building knowledge through QA-IQ's renowned 'Art of People' courses with guided learning in the workplace to embed skills and deliver hands-on experience. The programme will be completed by a work based assignment, applying the skills learnt directly to a relevant project.
Cornerstone OnDemand, the provider of on-demand, integrated learning and talent management (ITM) software and services, is exhibiting its state-of-the art products at this year’s HRD exhibition (15-18 April, London ExCel).
New Educational Podcast Series.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider, announced today that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has selected BTL to provide an enterprise wide e-assessment development and delivery system.
BTL, in partnership with AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd, has produced a highly informative white paper on the current market for e-assessment, taking into consideration the drivers for change and development, and presenting a vision of where e-assessment could be in five years’ time.
Information Transfer are award-winning experts in helping companies maximise the uptake of e-learning. For the last two years they have helped their clients win the Elearning Awards for 'Best elearning project securing widespread adoption'.
A new white paper, from leading training specialist recruitment company Blue Eskimo, says that recruitment services from large, generalist recruitment providers are not best suited to specialist industries such as learning.
QA-IQ, the UK’s leading learning company, will be launching an exciting new partnership for degree-level accreditation of its ‘Art of People’ management and personal development courses at this year’s HRD event.
BTL is delighted to announce that it will be the ‘Technology’ partner in the Workplace Literacy, Language and Numeracy Evaluation Toolkit Project (WoLLNET).
Property Consultant, Hamptons International has commissioned Information Transfer to write an e-learning course on lone working to complement their classroom training. The course explains personal safety issues and introduces the firm’s policy and procedures for staff who need to work alone.
QA-IQ is ready to lead the way for the popular ITIL Version 3 Managers Bridge course. The company’s first seven Principal Lecturers have already taken the Bridge exam, achieving a 100% pass rate.
In a move to consolidate its position as the UK market leader in managed learning, KnowledgePool has acquired Business Training Partnership (BTP).
As part of Bray Leino's commitment to creating a world class Learning and Training business, we have joined forces with BroadSkill Ltd, one of the UK's leading providers of business process and IT Training.
Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading e-learning and mobile content management solution provider, has finalised its acquisition of the Australian HarvestRoad® brand as well as its HarvestRoad Hive® digital repository, TCMS Technical Content Management Systems and related Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and worldwide installations.
Award-winning training consultancy, Information Transfer, leads the way in helping companies successfully embed e-learning. Come and pick up some hot tips at this year’s HRD exhibition, 15th – 17th April, London ExCel.
Creativedge Training and Development has developed 24 high-impact 90-minute training sessions for busy people.
Project explores the potential of emerging technologies to deliver real-time dynamic training based on a learner's moment of need.
KnowledgePool, the managed learning services company, has introduced a new 'strategic learning diagnostic' service, offering an independent and confidential assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation's learning operation and a benchmark of the results against best practice.
Coastal Training Technologies has recently released Roadway Worker Safety: In the Zone, its latest program on road construction safety.
Roadway Worker Safety: In the Zone identifies crucial roadwork hazards, from falls, excavation and trenching to electrocution, equipment mishaps and runovers. The program outlines specific safety preventive measures for each, including PPE, Traffic Control Pattern Awareness, and night-work operations. It also offers practical tips on flagging, MSDS use and general safety procedures.
The Petroleum Training Centre (PTC), the training division of the Kuwait Petroleum Company wanted to measure the alignment and value of its BTEC programme which it delivers to all new employees. As the BTEC is an academic qualification providing essential skills that are applied over a working life, it makes measurement more challenging. Therefore, PTC consulted and engaged with The ROI Academy, the UK's leading organisation in this field.
Blue Eskimo, the leading recruitment provider to the training and e-learning sector, says that, as we enter the new year, more people than ever are looking for new jobs within this sector – what’s more, there are a record number of jobs being advertised.
Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and business training, has been named a finalist in the SC Magazine US Awards program for outstanding achievement in information-technology (IT) security. The company’s Best Professional Training Program was recognized in the Professional Award category. This is the third year in a row that Global Knowledge has been recognized in the SC Magazine Awards program.
With projected growth in excess of 100% per annum over the next 3 years, The ROI Academy, the UK's leading organisation for evaluating and measuring training, appoints Mike Leeson as its Commercial Director.
Driven To Distraction is a groundbreaking new training DVD and video from Coastal that is sure to raise the awareness of the danger of distracted driving. This unique program features a narrator who is the personification of all the distractions drivers face - cell phones, mp3 players, eating and drinking, children, maps, and many more. He candidly demonstrates how distractions can sneak in on every ride with tragic results.
The eLearning Network (eLN) celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with the cutting of a cake at its Annual General Meeting.
Imagine a scenario. A researcher in Bali, working on an international project investigating changes in world weather patterns takes a video of a particularly spectacular typhoon. She quickly uses her mobile phone to upload the video to the project's digital repository.
Organisations gain significantly improved value from their training spend by using structured assessment to identify skills gaps and manage the capabilities of their staff, according to learning services provider QA-IQ.
Free technical training for under 25's: Develop Training Ltd to deliver new NVQ in Transportation.
Develop Training Ltd, one of the UK's leading providers of Technical Skills Training within the Utility, Transport and regulated business sector opens new centre in Warrington.
No sooner had the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) (www.tatainteractive.com), established a presence in the Netherlands in order to service the Northern European market than it also opened a new office in Koln, Germany.
QA-IQ, the UK’s leading learning provider, has today launched its new portfolio of Management and Personal Development courses. The ‘Art of People’ which includes over forty courses designed to transform your business.
Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has announced that the new version of its learning eXact LCMS meets the SCORM 2004 final edition specification. SCORM 2004 is the ‘de facto’ e-learning standard for interchanging learning content between compliant LMS and LCMS systems.
Managing business awareness of change is the biggest challenge faced by management teams, according to customers of QA-IQ at a recent change management workshop.
Experienced L&D professionals agreed that making sure that change is effectively communicated, and staff reactions are managed, is central to the success of significant business change – particularly where a wider change in behaviour is sought.
Best selling author John Sharp behind the standard setting WCF book from MS Press.
Learning Tree International has expanded its Project Management curriculum with a new course entitled PRINCE2 in Practice: Applying the Method to Your Projects. The course employs Learning Tree's RealityPlus learning approach in which an experienced instructor/facilitator leads the class through experiential activities, simulating real-world situations for the purpose of
gaining practical experience in applying the PRINCE2 method to their projects.
The eLearning Network (eLN), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has announced it is recruiting a new chairman.
Coastal Training Technologies announces the release of a revolutionary safety orientation training program for new and veteran employees. The Newcomers focuses on five new employees as they go through their first days on the job. Participants in this training program keep score as they witness the many mistakes and missed hazards the newcomers encounter.
In an increasingly candidate-driven marketplace, training companies need to carefully define their offerings and take an innovative approach to recruitment.
Global Knowledge has launched a series of courses to provide Cisco and Microsoft staff and channel partners with knowledge about each others' products and services as part of the Cisco and Microsoft enhanced customer collaboration program.
Information Transfer has written a course on a key financial subject for Leeds Teaching Hospitals, the NHS' largest Trust.
Service Management professionals can quickly and effectively update their ITIL® qualifications with two newly launched bridging courses from QA-IQ. Accredited by I.S.E.B. on behalf of the APM Group* , these courses are amongst the first to provide a quick route to the new ITIL v3 Diploma for holders of earlier levels of ITIL® qualifications.
Global Knowledge and Fox IT have announced a strategic partnership to provide the UK with the best-of-breed IT Service Management and Governance consultancy and learning solutions.
Following a successful and ongoing working relationship with pharmaceutical company, Organon UK, Organon Australia and Organon's Head Office in the Netherlands, Information Transfer will now be working with Organon Inc, the company's global division based in New Jersey.
A leading UK residential property agency demonstrated the flexibility and value of e-learning recently as it trained hundreds of staff from 70 UK offices on the rapidly-changing details of the new Home Information Packs.
The Priory Group has been selected as a National Training Award finalist for one of the training areas addressed in their multi-award winning corporate learning programme developed in partnership with Information Transfer.
QA-IQ, the UK's leading learning services company, has launched its new website with an effective new course search facility to quickly put customers in touch with the right training for their needs.
The use of virtual worlds for learning is attracting further attention after the explosion of Second Life™ and similar online virtual communities. However, unleashing the power of virtual collaborative worlds to instructional designers and authors demands much higher levels of openness, accessibility and reusability in the underlying technologies and tools on the one side and lower levels of required investments and skillsets to master the solutions on the other.
Global Knowledge, Europe's leading provider of learning services for IT and management professionals, is giving its IT training course delegates the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and receive additional information on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
The Performance Solution have limited places available on the Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching and if you book before 10 August, you'll only pay our 2006 price!
Happy Computers were this week revealed as the UK runner up in the Best Workplaces awards. Celebrating mistakes, fully trusting your staff and giving them the freedom to work the way they want are key to this success. Happy believes any company can work this way and is setting up a new division, Happy People, to train companies to become great workplaces.
Managed learning services company KnowledgePool has been named as one of the top 20 companies in the training outsourcing industry, by the web-based knowledge community TrainingOutsourcing.com.
Multi-million Euro investment enables high quality skills development to be conducted at any location across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.
Coastal Training Technologies announces the release of a new training program on the safe use of lasers in the workplace. Laser Safety: The Blink Of An Eye is based on the current American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard Z136.1, updated in 2007 and is available on DVD and video and is accompanied by 10 employee handbooks.
E-consultancy responds to the industry's clear need for guidance surrounding accessibility and introduces an intensive, full day's workshop that will provide you with a practical, hands on approach to accessibility compliance and inclusive design.
Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), announced that on 1st June 2007 it acquired, through its fully owned subsidiary, General Physics (UK) Ltd (GPUK), the business of Smallpeice Enterprises Ltd (SEL), a provider of business improvement technical and management training services. The annualised revenue exceeded $5 million in their latest fiscal year.
In today's world of uncertainty it is important that employees working in public buildings are prepared to protect themselves and the public in the face of a threat. Coastal's new release Public Building Security: It's Everyone's Concern will help prepare your workers for the unexpected.
KnowledgePool, the UK's leading provider of vendor-independent managed learning services, has relocated to larger premises in Bracknell, Berkshire.
QA-IQ, the UK's leading learning services company, has launched a global partnership programme that provides its customers with access to high-quality technical, professional skills, and management and personal development training across a wide range of international locations.
Coastal Skills Training announces the release of its new Maintenance Troubleshooting five-part training series. These programs use video and interactive exercises to demonstrate and teach the most common troubleshooting scenarios that occur within a plant.
Safety on the Waterfront: Every Choice Counts is an eight-part safety training series from Coastal Training Technologies specifically targeted to those who work at ports and marine terminals. The topics covered include personal protective equipment, overall readiness to work, preventing drug & alcohol abuse, working around railcars and other vehicles, safe driving, signaling, and hazardous materials. The series is available on DVD and video, and each program comes complete with 10 employee handbooks.
Joe DiDonato, President of ESource Corp., will speak at Toys-R-Us in Wayne, NJ on May 24, 2007.
Internet research group E-consultancy has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University Business School to launch the first ever MSc in Digital Marketing Communications. The Masters will provide industry professionals and graduates with the chance to gain a formal, internationally-recognised qualification, and goes some way towards addressing the concerns within the internet sector about a skills shortage.
Be amongst the first to gain an IT Service Management Foundation qualification based upon the new version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), with brand-new courses from QA-IQ. Running from the first week of June, the Foundation course will prepare delegates for the first available exams based on the new syllabus.
Global Knowledge is introducing SOLVE, a learning project management methodology, to raise the bar in the international training outsourcing market and to position its recently-introduced Total Learning Approach service as the number-one choice for managed training contracts.
First in the industry to bring together both management and front-line skills, Develop Training is delighted to announce its new partnership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the development of a Foundation Degree in Utilities Management.
QA-IQ, the UK's leading training provider, will be demonstrating the innovative methods behind their leading management and personal development courses at this year's HRD show in April. Learning and development experts will be at the QA-IQ stand taking attendees through their own Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) to identify their motivational system and how this impacts their relationships. This technique is a key part of QA-IQ’s portfolio of courses, including the already popular ‘Understanding People and Conflict’ course. We expect these sessions to get booked up each morning and would encourage delegates to book early.
ESource expands its services; goal is to enhance client's LMS investment.
Renowned Nessus co-author joins 7Safe Information Security to further bolster its leading team of training specialists.
Linda D'Angelo joins ESource Corp as Executive Vice President.
Global Knowledge announces the launch of 'Total Learning Approach' and the formation of a new Learning Services division to provide organisations with greater value from investments in learning; a new modular approach to outsourced training.
"Arc Flash Safety Awareness" is a Coastal safety training program that provides essential safety awareness to prevent arc flash accidents and explosions that cause more than 2,000 injuries per year. "Arc Flash Safety Awareness" covers lockout/tagout, electrical shock and flash hazard awareness, personal protective equipment and safe work practices.
ESource Corp. has won the award at the ASTD E-Learning Excellence Awards ceremony on December 11, 2006 in Atlanta, GA. This award is presented only once each year and to only one organization which has provided the most significant contribution to the Chapter and to the learning and performance profession.
Coastal Training Technologies Corp. provides a new look at a perennial workplace safety issue with Fall Protection: The Right Connection. This high-impact training program features dramatic falls and rescues that drive home the importance of proper fall protection and training. Unique to this Coastal fall protection program is the coverage of rescue from height. Fall Protection: The Right Connection is available on DVD and video and comes with 10 employee safety handbooks.
Social networking is the next step in informal learning, according to leading learning solutions provider QA-IQ, and is the focus for its popular Learning & Development Forum this February.
With workers setting themselves increasingly tough new objectives for 2007, success is more likely if changes start small, according to learning consultancy QA-IQ.
Organisations that store, process or transmit credit card payments must demonstrate compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) by June 2007, helping them to avoid hefty fines.
Qualification training for the important Information Security standard ISO 27001 will be available from 7Safe's new training centre from January 29th, 2007.
Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NM:LTRE), a leading worldwide provider of education and training to managers and IT professionals in business and government organizations, today announced the introduction of its RealityPlus™ curriculum of management courses, based on the principles of performance-based learning. With these courses, characterized as management education for the real world, Learning Tree introduces a revolutionary approach designed to significantly improve the effectiveness of employees of public and private sector organizations worldwide.
Information Transfer and Priory Group have won a prestigious E-learning award 2006 for their work on a corporate e-learning programme. The award gave recognition to "the best e-learning project securing widespread adoption."
ESource Corp., a leader in Learning and Performance Improvement Services, has announced that Robert Stolz has been selected to be the new Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances.
ESource Corp., a leader in Learning and Performance Improvement Services, has announced that Shawn Liaguno will join ESource Corp. as Executive Vice President.
7Safe has released a new Law Society approved course specifically designed for solicitors.
ESource Corp. announced today that the company has moved its central headquarters from Lawrenceville, GA to Cedar Knolls, NJ. The Company will still have a presence in Georgia, however, its global reach will stem from its main operations in New Jersey. With a pool of over 15,000 consultants, ESource Corp. specializes in providing clients with solutions to meet Learning and Performance Improvement needs.
During SMILE 2006 - The First Symposium on Medical Interactive eLearning, held in Sestri Levante, Italy, on September 13-15, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading eLearning and Mobile Learning Technology provider, announces its membership in MedBiquitous.
QA InterQuad has again demonstrated its expertise in providing training for the developer community, being voted Best Training Company for the fourth year in succession by the readers of Visual Systems Journal (VSJ).
More courses, more often, from the UK's leading training company: QA InterQuad has today opened new purpose-built offices in central Birmingham, including nine state-of-the-art training rooms that will offer a wider range of courses for local businesses and individuals. The new Birmingham training centre is testament to QA InterQuad's continued investment in improving our service and enhancing the experience enjoyed by our customers.
High-quality training providers worldwide have a unique opportunity to provide university-accredited IT Security courses by becoming 7Safe Accredited Training Partners (ATP).
Utility companies are under increasing pressure to ensure their workforce are competent. The new Main Laying resource gives candidates real hands-on experience, adding value to their learning.
QA InterQuad has been awarded a Microsoft Partner award for exceptional delivery of Microsoft Dynamics training programmes. Announced at the recent Microsoft worldwide partner conference in Boston, the UK award of excellence recognises the outstanding design and delivery of a bespoke technical training programme, carried out in 2005.
At a specially convened meeting on 12th July, The Committee of the eLearning Network unanimously resolved not to accept the current proposal from Learning Light to transfer the membership of the eLN into Learning Light Membership Services.
Customers gain essential business skills to complement technical expertise: In response to significant market demand for business skills training, QA InterQuad has launched a new portfolio of management and personal development courses.
TrainingOutsourcing.com, the first Internet knowledge community focused specifically on the training outsourcing industry - with the aim of bringing training suppliers and corporate executives together - has included the global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), in its list of the Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry.
BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance trainers and a major IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been certified ISO9001 compliant following a detailed review of is processes and systems.
KnowledgePool has continued its transition from an IT training provider to a specialist learning services company with the launch of a new website which outlines the services it provides to a growing client base of government and blue chip organisations.
LifeCraft, management, health and well-being consultancy, has announced the launch of their new innovative management programme "Sail into Management", aboard a 95 foot Turkish Gulet.
The Performance Solution in conjunction with Christina Baccini is preparing to launch a new coach supervision network in order to fill the gap in the coaching community for suitably qualified coach supervisors.
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