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London (UK), May 2020 - These days, Marshall E-Learning is launching The Manager's Lockdown Toolkit - Guidance for now and the future. The Toolkit is immediately available to Marshall's client community, which includes most universities in the UK and every university in the Republic of Ireland. » MORE

London (UK), May 2020 - Emerald Works has revealed new evidence-driven support to learning leaders with its Road to Resilience campaign. The support package for learning leaders helps them build personal resilience and lead resilience initiatives across their organisation. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), May 2020 - Our experiences over the past few months have had a big impact on many of us. In some cases, this has changed how we think about the future of learning and development and talent management. How is this impacting you and your organization? What skills have helped you? What skills is your team developing? What will be the priorities going forward? » MORE

Brighton (UK), May 2020 – Skills Shift, a management training company focused on change - shifting managers' people skills to adapt to shifting business needs - has released a new training programme called Successfully Managing Homeworking Teams. » MORE

Hyderabad (IN), May 2020 - Organizations across the globe are struggling to cope with the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up. Classroom training is no longer an option for employee training, with both the trainers and employees working from home. Classroom instructors are now faced with the seemingly impossible task of making the transition to the virtual space. » MORE

Toronto (CA), May 2020 - To meet the new reality of public health measures, including physical distancing, Docebo has donated nine months of free use of their leading AI-powered online learning platform to Heart & Stroke. This will allow the health charity to continue to deliver critical training during the COVID-19 pandemic in a safe manner. » MORE

Lincolnshire (UK), May 2020 - LiNCHigher has announced that they have teamed up with Lincolnshire-based the creative digital agency First Media to launch LiNCHigher Learning. LiNCHigher Learning will provide around 25,000 students across Lincolnshire access to specialist learning resources online during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. It is available now free of charge for schools and colleges across Lincolnshire. » MORE

Berkshire (UK), May 2020 - The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has introduced a series of virtual classrooms to encourage professional marketers to continue learning and development from home. » MORE

Cirencester (UK), May 2020 - Fosway Group, a European HR industry analyst, recently opened new rapid research into the impact of COVID-19 on organisational learning and development. The goal of the research is to provide practical insight into what's really happening in corporate L&D, as organisational and financial priorities evolve during the COVID-19 crisis.  » MORE

Frankfurt (GER), May 2020 - Companies around the world are increasing their use of industrial robots: Within five years, the global operational stock rose by about 65 percent to 2.4 million units (2013-2018). For the same period of time, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a positive impact on the job market: Employment in the automotive industry - the largest adopter of robots - increased by 22%, from 824,400 to 1,005,000 jobs (2013-2018). » MORE

Paris (F), May 2020 - In response to the massive disruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic affecting 1.57 billion learners in 191 countries, UNESCO has issued a Call to support learning and knowledge sharing through Open Educational Resources (OER) worldwide. » MORE

Exton, PA (USA), May 2020 - Syandus has announced the addition of automated language translation and synthetic human AI voices to AliveSimTM, its virtual practice and coaching platform. » MORE

London (UK), May 2020 - The Learning Technologies Awards 2020 programme has been announced, including information about when the awards entry opens; three new categories including onboarding, data analytics, and COVID-19 response; sponsorship opportunities; and key dates. » MORE

Helsinki (FI), May 2020 - Varjo™, a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR headsets, has announced the launch of sales and direct shipping to key markets in the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore, Israel, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. In order to better meet industry demand and the needs of current customers, Varjo's portfolio of VR/XR headsets is available immediately in these new countries for enterprise users. » MORE

Harleen (NL), May 2020 - The "Learn STEM: Innovative pedagogy for STEM education" conference was an unexpected and incredible success: More than 700 teachers and headmasters from five continents registered to join online on 29 April 2020. » MORE