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London (UK), July 2016 – (by The Company of Thought) Reading the recent article in The Guardian newspaper asking how UK universities should prepare for a Brexit world set our thoughts turning to how the Brexit may impact upon corporate training and, in particular, eLearning’s part in it. » MORE

London (UK), July 2016 - Games-based learning creator Nitrospark has released the latest version of its Nitroworld 3D learning-simulation software, which fully supports the latest tablet and mobile devices. Heading up the list of new features is the ability for 3D virtual worlds, simulations, and learning programmes to be made available across all modern devices - what Nitrospark's chief executive, Jim Piggot, calls "virtual everywhere". » MORE

Pune (IN), July 2016 - Brandon Hall Group has released its latest report "The Buyer-Provider Partnership: The Key to High-Quality Custom Content". The publication is supported by Upside Learning, a leading player in the eLearning outsourcing domain. The report aims to help organisations build successful client-vendor relationships in eLearning outsourcing. » MORE

Denver, CO (USA), July 2016 - Totara Learning is delighted to announce that Totara LMS is powering Kaya – the one-stop digital humanitarian learning platform – hosted by the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. The Humanitarian Leadership Academy will enable local people around the world to prepare for disasters and emergencies in their own countries.  » MORE

Nottingham (UK), July 2016 - Mind Click, Silver winner of the eLearning Development Company of the Year award 2015, have announced the official launch of its latest innovation: off-the-shelf compliance eLearning modules built in Articulate Storyline 2.  » MORE

Cirencester (UK), July 2016 - The new strategic research partnership between Fosway and Learning Technologies was born out of the vacuum that exists within L&D around the precious information needed to feed into strategic decisions. This first report is based on the data from the Learning Technology Trends survey. » MORE

Bournemouth (UK), July 2016 - Unicorn Training has underlined its commitment to developing world-class learning games by taking a majority stake in BAFTA-nominated games studio, Amuzo. Unicorn Training first invested in Bournemouth-based Amuzo last December, and the partnership’s potential has proved so positive in its first six months that Amuzo has now officially become part of the Unicorn Training Group. » MORE

Genoa (I), July 2016 - The global learning company eXact learning solutions has recently updated the "HM" content model associated with its learning-content-management system (LCMS). Now in its third version, the content model – known as "HM" – is intended to help users create engaging learning materials that are delivered online. The webinar is being held 27 July, 17.00 to 17.45 CET (16.00 – 16.45 BST, 11.00 – 11.45 EDT and 08.00 – 08.45 PDT).  » MORE

London (UK), July 2016 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced that Moody’s Analytics has successfully completed the implementation of the NetDimensions Talent Suite to provide innovative risk- management training solutions to financial-sector organisations worldwide. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), July 2016 - For the third consecutive year, Kaltura took a poll of over 1,500 educators, administrators, students, IT and Media staff, instructional designers, and others in the educational community around the world to find out more about "The State of Video in Education 2016". » MORE

New York, NY (USA) / Heidelberg (GER), July 2016 - tts, a market and innovation leader for digital learning and performance-support technology has appointed Patrick Dunlap as SVP, Business Development - North America. Dunlap brings over 25 years of experience with learning tools, electronic performance-support systems (epss), as well as enterprise software sales and global alliances. In his last appointment, Dunlap was responsible for Global Sales and Alliances at ANCILE Solutions, Inc. » MORE

Barcelona (E), July 2016 - The Learning Impact Awards recognize the most outstanding and influential learning-technology applications from around the world. They were created in 2007 to showcase excellent technological applications that tackle the most important challenges in education on a worldwide scale. "Explica!, Assess and Submissions" make up the ecosystem of UOC mobile apps to support continuous assessment and are being piloted this semester by the Technology department. » MORE

Plymouth (UK), July 2016 - Staff and partners joining Specsavers will be able to earn a virtual coin to donate to charity in a new online induction course. The international optical and hearing business will make a real money donation to charity in proportion to the virtual coins earned by employees who complete the induction training. » MORE

Liverpool (UK), July 2016 - From 13–16 September, Europe’s largest international higher education conference and exhibition will take place in Liverpool, UK. Organised by the European Association for International Education (EAIE), the event will gather more than 5,000 international higher education professionals from over ninety countries.  » MORE

Berlin (GER), July 2016 - Momentum behind OEB 2016 is surpassing all preceding years, with eleven leading sponsors already signed up and more than double the number of registered participants in comparison to last year at this time. OEB 2016 Sponsors are Oracle Academy, mediasite by sonicfoundry, Open Assessment Technologies, LPLUS GmbH, speexx, Presentations 2Go, CREATE.21st century, Cengage Learning, Amity Online, smartspokes, and WildFire. The diversity of the group, covering a wide range of specialties, serves as a perfect metaphor for the cross-sector focus of the conference itself.  » MORE

Barcelona (E), July 2016 - This first-of-its-kind event is aimed at heads and directors of European higher education institutions – presidents, rectors, vice presidents, deans of faculty and directors of units – who are interested in learning, sharing, and developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for correct decision making regarding the uses of digital technologies in eLearning, distance learning, MOOCs, and educational digital transformation in teaching and learning in the classroom and online. Digital libraries, digital natives, and academic resistance to ICT will be some of the main topics dealt with. » MORE