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Munich (GER), December 2017 - The TÜV SÜD Academy’s "Digital Transformation" project was launched about a year ago. Its task is transforming about 10,000 face-to-face seminars with 120,000 participants annually into digital and partially digital format and enriching them with digital materials. “We are tackling the topic of digitalization systematically and holistically, i.e. it affects all of the Academy’s organizational units," explains Thomas Seidel, Chief Digital Officer at TÜV SÜD Academy, Munich.  » MORE

Cologne (GER), December 2017 - The REWE Group’s decision to introduce a performance support system was made back in 2014. The vision was grand: Direct workplace help would not only be created for individual software launches, but for all applications. With more than 500 IT applications, this not only meant an immense effort in regard to content creation, but also a change in learning culture. Mareike Heidemann-Jarosch of REWE Systems, the REWE Group’s IT subsidiary, remembers, "When it was introduced, workplace learning did not yet command the same importance as formal measures." » MORE

Bonn (GER), December 2017 - Thorsten Hölzer is a psychologist who specializes in media and organizational psychology, and is a lifelong learner in the fields of pedagogy and learning technology. As a technical-concept specialist at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a German-government-owned company that oversees the country’s international cooperation efforts, he has been working at the organization’s in-house academy for over a decade in the qualification of administrators and technical specialists being sent abroad. His subject area at the LEARNTEC Convention is formal and informal learning. » MORE

Berlin / Saarbrücken (GER), December 2017 - LISA, short for Learning Analytics for Sensor-Based Adaptive Learning, is a project whose focus is delivering learning analytics for the benefit of the individual learner, not - as in previous approaches - for the educational organisation. The idea is that when individuals can see the role of their own behaviour plays in the learning process and receive personalized recommendations about it, they will be in a position to organize their personal learning processes better and improve their success.  » MORE

Stuttgart (GER), December 2017 - Wissen erLEBEN ("Experience Knowledge") is Allianz Life Insurance’s slogan for the new form of learning and information search the company has developed in cooperation with the "inside Business Group". It is addressed toward several thousand Allianz internal staff members and field representatives, as well as sales partners and banks. The project offers them the opportunity to tap into available expertise that is necessary for successful, demand-oriented customer consultation independently, efficiently, and sustainably.  » MORE