News from Learning Light

• 23 Jan 2019

  • EQUS launches to prevent spreadsheet mistakes and misinterpretations

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2019-01-23

    Sheffield Hallam University has developed visualization plug-in software, ‘Ensuring the Quality and Usability of Spreadsheets’. EQUS aims to enhance the accessibility and understanding of almost all spreadsheet formulae and the data with which they work and is being distributed by VeryViz - a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and the online learning and training consultancy, Learning Light.

• 16 Dec 2014

  • Learning Light publishes its top ten Innovation Index for 2014

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-12-16

    Learning Light, the UK-based market analyst specialising in the online learning technologies and educational technology (edtech) sectors, has published an Innovation Index. This Index sets out a list of developments over the past 12 months that the Learning Light team has found ‘particularly interesting and exciting’.

• 10 Dec 2014

  • Learning Light publishes insights into e-learning in the Middle East

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-12-10

    Learning Light, the UK-based market analyst that helps organisations using e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, has published research into aspects of education and training in the Middle East.

• 24 Nov 2014

  • Learning Light augments its Course Wall with 75 e-learning courses

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-11-24

    Learning Light, the UK-based market analyst that helps organisations using e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, has added a further 75 courses to its portfolio of e-learning materials.

• 05 Nov 2014

  • Learning Light director in Barbados to deliver keynote lecture on e-learning

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-11-05

    David Patterson, a Director of Learning Light, the UK-based world e-learning market analyst, flies the flag for the UK’s e-learning producers when he visits Barbados in November to deliver an address in the ‘Services in Action Annual Lecture Series’.

• 29 Oct 2014

  • Learning Light offers alternative generic learning content

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-10-29

    Learning Light, the e-learning market analyst and approved centre delivering NVQ Levels 2, 3 and 4 into the workplace, is offering its customers access to an extensive library of generic e-learning content.

• 23 Oct 2014

  • Learning Light names its top eight performing learning management systems

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-10-23

    Learning Light, the UK-based independent e-learning industry market analyst, has produced its own thorough analysis of learning management systems (LMSs) identifying its top performers.

• 14 Oct 2014

  • Learning Light makes specialist e-learning market reports available

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-10-14

    Three months after publishing a major report on some the world’s leading e-learning markets - A Review of the e-learning markets of the UK, EU and China 2014 - Learning Light is making sections of the report available to suit the information needs of a range of potential customers.

• 10 Oct 2014

  • Learning Light offers trainers practical expertise in the light of BIS FELTAG response

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-10-10

    Learning Light is offering its expertise to private sector training organisations which are having to develop strategies to meet the response from the UK Government’s department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to recommendations from The Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG).

• 30 Jul 2014

  • EdTrIn reveals its innovative business model to the UK’s top e-learning suppliers

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-07-30

    At an event which attracted the UK’s top suppliers of online-delivered learning content, held at the end of July in the Australian High Commission in The Strand, London, Graeme Coomber, CEO of EdTrIn explained his organisation’s aim of managing a lifetime of learning for large numbers of the world’s population – beginning with those living in the Asia-Pacific, Indian sub-Continent and MENA regions.

• 15 Jul 2014

  • International company searches for UK e-learning suppliers

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-07-15

    In a move designed to attract potential high quality e-learning suppliers from the UK EdTrIn the global online education provider, joined by Learning Light's David Patterson, is holding an event at the Australian High Commission in London on 25th July.

• 03 Jul 2014

  • Learning Light publishes E-learning Industry Report

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2014-07-03

    The UK’s online learning technologies market is still the largest in Europe – but only just – according to a major report into the state of the e-learning industry in the UK, Europe and China.

• 28 Jan 2014

  • Learning Light E-Learning Centre customers access Virtual College courses

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2014-01-28

    A raft of online learning courses from Virtual College is now available to customers of The E-Learning Centre website.

• 21 Jan 2014

  • Learning Light supports PresentationTube by making open content available via the E-Learning Centre

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2014-01-21

    Learning Light, which provides advice and help to organisations on how to use e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, is making PresentationTube available via The E-Learning Centre website.

• 12 Dec 2013

  • E-Learning Centre adds Virtual Coach courses in negotiation and sales skills

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2013-12-12

    Customers of The E-Learning Centre website can now develop their sales, sales planning and negotiation skills via four courses produced by the Virtual Coach.

• 03 Dec 2013

  • Learning Light develops an e-learning content evaluation tool

    Learning Light | 2013-12-03

    In association with The Virtual College, Learning Light, a company which provides advice and help to organisations using e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, has developed an e-learning content evaluation tool (ELCET).

• 28 Nov 2013

  • Vado courses now featured on the Learning Light E-Learning Centre

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2013-11-28

    Vado is the latest e-learning production house to have its online courses added to The E-Learning Centre website.

• 19 Nov 2013

  • Learning Light adds ej4 videos to its E-learning Centre

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2013-11-19

    Learning Light, which provides advice and help to organisations using e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, has further enlarged The E-Learning Centre website by including a wide range of performance support materials from ej4.

• 06 Nov 2013

  • Language learning courses added to the E-Learning Centre website

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2013-11-06

    The E-Learning Centre, an information resource about e-learning and learning technologies for business education, not-for-profit or the public sector, has added technology-delivered language courses in French, Spanish, German and Dutch for English-speakers to its growing portfolio of e-learning courses.

• 30 Oct 2013

  • Learning Light re-launches its E-Learning Centre website with the e-learning Content Store

    Learning Light | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 2013-10-30

    The E-Learning Centre, a long established information resource about e-learning and learning technologies for business education, not-for-profit or the public sector, has been re-launched with the new e-learning Content Store.

• 04 Feb 2013

  • Learning Light collaborates with IBIS Capital to produce a detailed e-learning market report

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2013-02-04

    IBIS Capital Limited, a specialist investment bank focused on the Media sector, has produced a 101 page report on the e-Learning sector – with market information and analysis from Learning Light, a consultancy with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the e-Learning marketplace and how to use e-Learning materials effectively.

• 17 Jan 2013

  • Learning Light enhances its range of online learning materials

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2013-01-17

    Learning Light, a consultancy with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the e-learning marketplace and how to use e-learning materials to best advantage, has enhanced its e-learning video library with two ranges of video-based learning materials.

• 25 Sep 2012

  • Learning Light helps companies capitalise on the changing demand for e-learning

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2012-09-25

    Many commentators and analysts agree that, increasingly over the last few years, the training industry has been changing.

• 26 Aug 2011

  • Learning Light speaks at the Enable Conference, in Kraków, Poland

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-08-26

    The Leonardo da Vinci seminar ‘Enabling labour market entry and mobility to disadvantaged groups engaging across Europe in learning through innovation’ will be held on 6th September 2011 in Krakow, Poland.

• 21 Jul 2011

  • Day One solution showcased on e-learning centre

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-07-21

    Leeds-based Day One’s Systems Training solution has been reviewed and selected to be showcased by Learning Light, operators of industry leading site (www.e-learningcentre.co.uk), as an exemplar of a modern, effective systems training solution which really impresses.

• 16 Mar 2011

  • Learning Light reveals the current top three trends in e-learning in the UK

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-03-16

    David Patterson, operations director of Learning Light, the Sheffield-based organisation which focuses on promoting the use of e-learning and learning technologies, is going to reveal the current top three trends in the UK’s e-learning market.

• 07 Mar 2011

  • Learning Light creates 'Learnscape' - a business-orientated approach to learning consultancy

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-03-07

    Learning Light has developed a consultancy model intended to move an organisation from operating a traditional, 'command and control led training' model to becoming a 'learning organisation', where learning makes a positive impact on the organisation's 'bottom line'.

• 03 Mar 2011

  • Learning Light clarifies its comments regarding Becta material on its E-learning Centre website

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-03-03

    Learning Light has clarified its comments about including much of the intellectual property of Becta on its E-learning Centre website, following new information which has come to light.

• 01 Mar 2011

  • Learning Light augments and redevelops its E-learning Centre website

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-03-01

    Learning Light has redeveloped its popular E-learning Centre website to include much of the intellectual property of Becta, whose website has closed in the Coalition Government's public sector cutbacks.

• 07 Jan 2011

  • Top ten lists validate our efforts, say Learning Light and Creativesheffield

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2011-01-07

    Learning Light and Creativesheffield have welcomed the publication of the ‘top ten movers and shakers in e-learning’ lists because they believe these lists endorse their choice of delegates to the European e-learning Summit, held at the end of 2010 in Sheffield.

• 24 Dec 2010

  • Manifesto for e-learning published from the European e-learning Summit

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-12-24

    The results of discussions by the delegates at the European e-learning Summit, organised by Learning Light with support from learndirect and Creativesheffield and held in Sheffield (17th to 19th November), have been published in the form of a manifesto for e-learning.

• 20 Dec 2010

  • Record sales already for Learning Light’s research report on the corporate e-learning market

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-12-20

    Within a month of publishing its third report in four years on the state of the e-learning sector in the UK the rest of Europe, Learning Light has reported that an unprecedented - and record - number has been sold.

• 25 Nov 2010

  • European e-learning Summit agrees a programme to promote the corporate e-learning sector

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-11-25

    Delegates at the European e-learning Summit, organised by Learning Light with support from learndirect and Creativesheffield and held in Sheffield (17th to 19th November) have agreed to pursue dialogue with national governments to establish a single, independent and impartial body representing the corporate e-learning sector.

• 19 Nov 2010

  • Learning Light publishes its third definitive research report on the corporate e-learning market

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-11-19

    Learning Light has published its third report in four years on the state of the e-learning sector in the UK – and, this year, provides analysis on e-learning in 19 other countries too.

• 15 Nov 2010

  • Learning Light, learndirect and Creativesheffield stage the European e-learning Summit in the UK

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-11-15

    Europe’s top e-learning strategists, content and systems developers will gather in Sheffield on 17th and 18th November for the first European e-learning Summit to be held in the UK.

• 03 Nov 2010

  • Learning Light prompts The Safety Train to gain NCFE accreditation

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-11-03

    The Safety Train, a company which operates an e-learning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health & safety training, has been granted an NCFE bespoke quality licence – making it one of the UK’s first e-learning providers to be accredited in this way.

• 19 Oct 2010

  • The Guardian features Learning Light’s e-learning programme for e-waste workers in Nigeria

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-10-19

    The Guardian newspaper has featured an e-learning programme developed by Learning Light which is helping people in Nigeria to recycle electrical and electronic waste safely.

• 18 Oct 2010

  • Learning Light e-learning programme helps protect the environment and e-waste workers in Nigeria

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-10-18

    An e-learning programme developed by Learning Light and demonstrated via workshops run by staff at the University of Northampton is helping people in Nigeria to recycle electrical and electronic waste.

• 29 Sep 2010

  • US e-learning magazine names Sheffield as the UK’s new e-learning capital

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-09-29

    Sheffield has been named as the UK’s new corporate e-learning capital in an article published in eLearn magazine, the New York based e-learning magazine with a worldwide readership.

• 21 Sep 2010

  • Learning Light-led EU project to reach marginalised learners sparks interest from New Zealand

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-09-21

    ENABLE, the Leonardo project led by Learning Light, which aims to bring e-learning to marginalised learners, is making such impressive progress that it is attracting interest from outside Europe.

• 22 Jul 2010

  • The Safety Train benefits from Learning Light

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-07-22

    One of the UK’s newest and brightest stars in the e-learning sector, The Safety Train, has re-located its operations to Sheffield, thanks to Learning Light’s advice and guidance. Already, the move seems to be paying off.

• 30 Jun 2010

  • Learning Light’s David Patterson gives keynote e-learning speech

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-06-30

    David Patterson, of Learning Light, is a keynote speaker at the IADIS International ‘Conference e-Learning 2010’, being held in Freiburg, Germany, from 26th to 29th July. He will be addressing: ‘E-learning: Regeneration, Research and Innovation’.

• 04 May 2010

  • Learning Light co-ordinates pan-European e-learning project

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-05-04

    Learning Light is co-ordinating a pan-European project to enable ‘marginalised’ learners to develop their knowledge and skills via e-learning.

• 19 Apr 2010

  • Academics and industry value Learning Light’s e-learning sector report

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-04-19

    Learning Light’s definitive report into the UK e-learning sector in 2009 is winning recognition not only among the corporate e-learning community but also among UK academics.

• 13 Apr 2010

  • Learning Light invites contributions for its 2010 e-learning industry report

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-04-13

    Learning Light is beginning work on updating its figures on the size, shape and state of health of the UK’s e-learning industry.
    

• 29 Mar 2010

  • Learning Light helps create jobs in Yorkshire and Humberside

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-03-29

    Learning Light’s business contacts and facilitation skills have helped its client companies in the field of corporate e-learning to create a ‘significant number of jobs’ in the last 12 months.

• 24 Mar 2010

  • Learning Light re-launches the e-learning centre website

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-03-24

    Learning Light has revised and re-launched the e-learning centre website, which attracts a worldwide audience and over 72,000 unique hits a month.

• 23 Mar 2010

  • Learning Light’s fourth anniversary sees a change of direction

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2010-03-23

    Learning Light, a company limited by guarantee that focuses on promoting the use of e-learning and learning technologies, has revised its mode of operations.

• 17 Dec 2009

  • Learning Light spots key learning and development trends at Learning 2009

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2009-12-17

    Learning Light identifies key learning technology trends in the USA, from attending Elliot Masie’s Learning 2009 conference, held in Florida in November.

• 07 Dec 2009

  • The UK's e-learning sector is set to grow by up to eight per cent next year, according to Learning Light's report

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2009-12-07

    Learning Light's definitive report into the UK e-learning sector in 2009 not only highlights Sheffield as the UK's 'e-learning capital' but also states that the sector is 'flowering'.

• 13 Mar 2008

  • Learning Light proves that professional communities' collaboration brings benefits

    Learning Light | Sheffield, Yorkshire | 2008-03-13

    Nine companies in the digital industries sector are now meeting their business goals as well as growing their reputation for providing high quality products and services as a result of joining a professional community network organised by Learning Light, a non-profit organisation which focuses on integrating systems and aligning learning and people development programmes to meet strategic business goals.

• 08 May 2006

  • Learning Light completes preliminary research into e-learning

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2006-05-08

    Learning Light (LL), a non-profit organisation, seeking to establish itself as a Centre of Excellence in the use of learning technologies in the workplace, has concluded the first stage in its major research programme to map trends in coporate e-learning. The initial survey aimed to discover the types of e-learning research that interest, and are of importance to, those working in corporate e-learning.

• 29 Mar 2006

  • Learning Light researches e-learning

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2006-03-29

    Learning Light, a non-profit organisation that helps to build relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners, has embarked on a major research programme to map trends in coporate e-learning.

• 27 Mar 2006

  • Learning Light illumines e-learning's new era

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2006-03-27

    Yorkshire's top e-learning specialists, along with other key figures from industry and the public sector in the county have attended the official launch, in Sheffield, of Learning Light.

• 13 Mar 2006

  • Jane Knight joins Learning Light

    Learning Light | Sheffield, UK | 2006-03-13

    Jane Knight, the founder of the e-Learning Centre, has become the Head of Research, Organisational Learning Technologies, at Learning Light, a non-profit organisation that helps to build relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners.

• 06 Mar 2006

  • Switching on the Learning Light

    Learning Light | Sheffield | 2006-03-06

    Learning Light, a non-profit organisation that helps to build relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners, is launched officially on Thursday 16th March at a special reception in Sheffield.

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