Global elearning innovator OpenSesame has received $50 Million strategic growth investment from JMI Equity and existing investors; Investment to accelerate OpenSesame’s innovation and global expansion.
Valamis, the global leader in digital learning technologies and workforce development, has announced the acquisition of The Working Manager (TWM), a leader in organisational performance and career mobility technology.
Kallidus' annual Learner Survey 2021 reveals the impacts of COVID-19 on workplace learning, and top tips for employers to engage and develop their workforces in a world of hybrid working.
There's been a significant rise in the number of workers who didn't receive any training in the last year, up from one in six to one in four, according to the 2021 Learner Survey from Kallidus.
These days – thanks, in part at least, to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic - people in all sectors of the economy are learning to cope with such concepts as remote work, home office, teleworking, hybrid and flexible work arrangements.
Capita have signed a strategic partnership and become a shareholder of learning technology innovators, Filtered, enabling their clients to bring more targeted skills and capability acquisition to employees.
Learning tech provider announces acquisition and strategic partnership as it creates new category with hyper-accessible knowledge in the flow.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is collaborating with the University of Glasgow in a six-month project, funded by Innovate UK.
The opportunity is there, the question now is whether L&D leaders are ready to spearhead a once-in-a-generation organizational transformation? In our 18th Annual L&D Benchmarking report, explore how top performing L&D leaders navigate through uncertainty, balance efficiency and innovation, to have real impact on their organizations.
The annual Learning Performance Benchmark report shows how well organisations are doing building a high-impact, performance-oriented learning culture. Learning News asks the report's authors how the learning sector is progressing.
The Trinidad & Tobago Insurance Institute (TTII) has selected Agylia as its learning and continuing professional development (CPD) platform, to administer and manage CPD for insurance intermediaries in Trinidad and Tobago.
Sponge, the leading digital learning provider, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and DVSA’s official publishing partner, The Stationery Office (TSO) have launched a new and improved theory training solution for learner drivers, riders, and instructors.
QA has completed the acquisition of Circus Street, a provider of digital skills including ecommerce, data analytics and digital marketing skills.
The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is offering help to the UK’s 12,000 or so retail pharmacies – in particular, to help meet pharmacists’ need for education and training on digital technologies.
Microlearning is training delivered in bitesize chunks, ideal for learning on the go or for specific short pieces of content. Kineo know it well and were thrilled to be recognised in eLearning Industry's 2021 list.
Fuse, the learning and knowledge platform for enterprise that ignites people and business performance, today announces the expansion of its senior leadership team with two significant new hires - a move that will help prepare the learning tech scaleup for its next phase of growth.
New Badgr Integration incorporates easily configurable, transferable badges into Open eLMS.
For the first time, LEO Learning has been included in Training Industry’s Top Online Learning Library Companies Watch List.
Agylia has partnered with the Professional Golfers Association (The PGA) to deliver its new learning and continuing professional development (CPD) solution, enhancing the support it provides its members and further cementing their members’ place as experts in the golf industry.
Kineo have been named on eLearning Industry's list of the best Content Providers for Competency-Based Training, taking the number two spot.
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Learning and communications platform vendor 5app, this week made further moves to strengthen its team for growth by hiring additional product design and business development expertise. Product and UX design expert Jim Banks is now 5app’s Head of Design, and learning industry sales specialist Bekah Ashworth has joined as Business Development Manager.
Kallidus, an industry leading provider of HCM software and digital learning, today announced that founder Rob Caul will be stepping down as CEO. Having led the impressive growth of Kallidus over two decades, Rob will continue to support the business and its international expansion as a Non-Executive Director. Stephen Read will take over the role of CEO from August, joining the company from Darwin (formerly Thomsons Online Benefits), the leading global provider of employee benefits technology.
Oracle today announced a new solution to help organizations better understand, manage, and grow the skills of their workforce: Oracle Dynamic Skills.
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.
Sponge is proud to present its second session at this summer’s Learning Technologies Digital Experience, featuring Pam Hamilton, author of 'Supercharged Teams'. She will be joined by Skill Pill's CEO Gerry Griffin and Dan Curtis from Travelodge in a session on 'A better normal: Successfully adjusting to hybrid working', on Tuesday, June 29th.
The Corporate training market in Europe is poised to grow by $14 Billion at a CAGR of over 8% from 2021 to 2025.
Interview with Simon Falconer, Virtual College, on the first of three reports into how learners’ preferences are changing.
The experienced data science leader takes charge of the Filtered smart LXP as a host of new features are rolled out in version 1.1.
Interview with Lynsey Whitmarsh from Hemsley Fraser and Duncan Barrett from 5App following their report into re-skilling and it finding that over half of businesses in the UK are under severe pressure due to widening skills gaps.
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.
Eurekos is one of a few, select LMS vendors that have signed the Customer Excellence Pledge developed by The Craig Weiss Group, showing their commitment to providing exemplary customer service, with checkpoints to validate their ongoing, elite-level support.
The gas industry’s professional engineering institution, the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM), held its inaugural safety conference on 9th June. Supported by the Gas Industry Safety Group (GISG), the conference was held online.
The pandemic changed the corporate world landscape in extraordinary ways. While remote working was de rigueur at the onset, it slowly gave way to a hybrid format of working.
Tanya MacDonald, of the virtual reality development team at the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has taken part in the recent Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Global Summit Online.
Sponge Group is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Adam Poulter.
Pluralsight has agreed to acquire A Cloud Guru; targets growing cloud skills gap.
Statistics can sometimes overwhelm us – even mislead us, especially if we look at them without proper context. When framed in perspective, and used in the right way, we can all learn a lot about a given challenge or problem. One such challenge is around employee expectations, and how best to engage and motivate the workforce through learning and development, as part of a broader employee experience initiative.
LEO Learning has released its latest thought leadership ebook, exploring best practices around blended learning design.
Written by Marc Zao-Sanders, Filtered CEO, the lightpaper fills the gap in practical knowledge about building skills in 2021.
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With this week being an important anniversary for the movement, now is a good time to revisit, reflect and learn.
THRIVE now integrates with Questionmark Inside to support assessment functionality for clients including Vitality Insurance and Lotus Cars.
An extended interview with David Wilson following the publication of Fosway’s 2021 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition and market report.
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.
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.
The new version of Totara’s Talent Experience Platform further unites the three products with centralized notifications, major additions to Totara Perform and advanced personalization options
The next gen learning experience platform provider, THRIVE, is proud to welcome Al Thompson, Head of Production, Lucy Cartlidge, Content and Partner Relationship Director and Laura Naylor, Head of Support to their senior management team to support ever growing customer demand.
Learning technology company eLearning Brothers today released Lectora Desktop 21, which has been reimagined and redesigned to conquer modern business challenges. Innovations include powerful new modular development functionality to accelerate elearning development and a redesigned UI.
A new elearning platform from Login VSI incorporating a live hands-on lab experience launched today.
Open LMS is offering support to organizations and their staff through its mental health course series to help employees stay healthy and raise awareness on this important topic in recognition of Mental Health Month.
The value of using virtual reality in learning how to decommission energy installations – notably in the oil and gas industry – efficiently, effectively and above all, safely, is being further emphasised in a presentation on 20th May to delegates at Decom Week 2021.
Docebo (Nasdaq:DCBO; TSX:DCBO), a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-powered learning suite, today announced the launch of Docebo Community: An Interactive Experience to Keep Customers Engaged and Informed.
Revenue growth of 61% and Annual Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) growth of 60% driven by strong new logo performance and customer expansions.
The partnership between K16 Solutions and Open LMS allows institutions to more easily migrate courses and student data between LMS platforms using Scaffold, K16’s content migration and development platform, providing a more cost-effective and seamless LMS migration solution.
An open-access online learning platform that empowers young people to learn in new ways launches today; aims to address sustainability, equitable access to education and the need for curricular reform, through innovative projects rooted in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Learning Light, the UK-based eLearning and learning technologies specialist, providing advice and consultancy to organisations looking to improve their business performance, has published an in-depth review of eNetLearn, the learning management system developed by digital learning and assessment specialists, eCom Scotland.
Open LMS offers clients a comprehensive corporate learning solution comprising a powerful online learning platform and a vast catalog of digital content from Go1.
Visual overhaul introduces rebrand, with enhanced content, customer stories, and visual examples highlighting how to get the most out of Gomo's features.
Open LMS is now a Platinum Alliance Totara Partner, expanding their LMS product offerings to provide clients with another solution to meet a wide variety of workplace learning and people management needs.
Interview with Piers Lea from LTG and Phill Miller from Open LMS, one of the Moodle-related learntech companies acquired by LTG in 2020.
Training Industry survey shows organisations’ satisfaction with their learning management systems has risen for the first time: interview with Gordon Johnson from Totara.
Open LMS launches the latest edition of E-Learn Magazine, the thought leadership initiative that offers the latest insights, research, and best practices from educators and industry experts globally.
Speexx sustained market performance and track record of customer advocacy recognized by Fosway Group, Europe's #1 HR industry analyst.
Open eLMS Classroom is the latest addition to the Open eLMS Suite of products, built to offer an engaging way to incorporate digital resources into blended and remote delivery.
Being awarded Amazon Web Services Education Competency status signifies Open LMS's proven ability to provide specialized learning and education solutions for teachers, learners, and administrators.
After a successful close to the first quarter, Open LMS continues momentum in the LMS market with new strategic direction, increased investments in people and product, and more value-adds to support customer success for Open LMS clients as well as the larger eLearning community.
eCreators by Open LMS launches weekly eLearning courses for any organization to download and integrate into their LMS.
The next gen learning experience platform provider, THRIVE, appoints David Verhaag as US Head of Implementation & Customer Success to support demand from enterprise prospects in the United States. David joins THRIVE with 15+ years of experience having previously been Chief Customer Officer at Degreed and led fast-growing success teams at HireVue and SuccessFactors.
The Totara Community has won the CEdMA 2021 Innovation Award for its creative, comprehensive approach to customer training.
Over the last few weeks and as part of our blog series on Virtual Classrooms, we’ve taken a look at the story of the Virtual Classroom. Our previous two blogs reviewed its rise to prominence in response to the pandemic, with the immediate need to shift face-to-face learning to a virtual environment and the latest advances in some of the tech and tools you can use to maximise the Virtual Classroom experience. In this final part of the series, we’re widening the lens to share how you can take your virtual training further, by taking a digital-first approach to your wider learning programme design.
On 30th March at 15:00, Filtered and Fosway, Europe’s #1 industry analyst, will discuss how to make sense of the overwhelming amount of learning content and provide skills that match business needs.
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.
The LMS still dominates even with the advent of many new technologies, cementing its position as the foundation of the learning technology stack
Interview with Fosway's David Perring on the 2021 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning market report.
Speexx releases new information on the top digital learning trends for 2021; data from accredited L&D thought-leaders aggregated this with its own research.
LTG has been recognised in Financial Times’ ‘FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies’ annual special report. The report identifies the highest-growth companies across Europe.
Interview with Rory Lawson and Andy Costello from Kineo on the use of virtual classrooms in workplace learning.
Eurekos, a leading global provider of Learning Management Technology, has accelerated its position on the prestigious Fosway 9-Grid™, an independent assessment of Learning Management Systems.
With a number of US clients already using THRIVE LXP including CommScope, DECIEM and Scott Credit Union, THRIVE announces they are set to open an East Coast office headed up by their new VP of Sales, James Lindberg.
Excellent score dubbed 'extraordinary' by the team at BVC
LEO Learning has released its latest thought leadership ebook, detailing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the L&D industry and what we can expect from the future.
Digital learning and assessment specialists, eCom, have launched a virtual reality (VR) authoring tool specifically designed for use in learning and assessment. Called eNetReality™, the tool has been successfully tested in the fields of education, construction and medicine – and is continuing to be trialled by a pilot group of organisations in the academic, charity and public sectors.
AstraZeneca's Global Capability Lead shares how they are transforming their learning approach in upcoming Emerald Works webinar.
The Sponge Group is delighted to announce the acquisition of Idox Compliance, one of Europe’s leading providers of compliance elearning solutions.
The report provides insights into the perspectives of executive managers on contemporary issues in L&D.
In the current – Covid-19 pandemic influenced – operating conditions, many traditional approaches to learning and development (L&D), including classroom-delivered courses, have been suspended. Providing alternatives, including curated and self-directed online learning, are taking on a new importance for the sector’s (L&D) professionals.
In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, we saw a significant increase in the use of Virtual Classrooms or Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT), which we’ve been exploring in our three-part blog series, 'The story of the Virtual Classroom'. In our second instalment of the series, we take a look at the Virtual Classroom technology and tools that have bolstered their capabilities in light of the pandemic, and how they can be used to enhance the Virtual Classroom experience.
Digital learning trends unveiled by L&D industry leader Donald Taylor in Speexx webinar
In the 2021 Fosway 9-Grid™, Sponge has been identified as a digital learning provider on an accelerating trajectory upwards within the Core Challenger Zone, as compared to last year.
For the fifth consecutive year, Learning Technologies Group, and its market-leading group of learning and talent businesses, has been named a Strategic Leader for its global learning solutions, capabilities and innovation.
The organisers of Europe’s largest conference on learning and technology, OEB Global, are asking for “exciting, imaginative and unusual ideas” about one of the most important skills of the modern age: resilience.
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.
In this three-part series, we’re focusing on the Virtual Classroom (VC) and Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) to explore the impact of the pandemic, what Virtual Classrooms can offer for the future of learning and how new developments in the technology landscape can help to amplify this long-standing learning format. In this, part 1, we take a look at the latest research and explore the lessons that can be learned to help take this virtual learning format to the next level.
Open eLMS to change from numbered to named releases - Morpheus brings even more customisation to Open eLMS
Themes for Online Educa Berlin (OEB) have just been launched and learning and education professionals are invited to submit ideas and insights to speak at this year’s event.
LEO GRC (formerly Eukleia) has launched new bite-sized eLearning modules to help organizations manage compliance training at speed and at scale in the face of changing needs for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) training during and beyond COVID-19.
Yopa Property, team up with THRIVE to upgrade their LMS to an LXP and saw a 3,900% increase in content views.
Open LMS announces plans to further its commitment to open source by releasing all of its Moodle™ modules and enhancements in order to go fully open source by the end of 2021.
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