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Plymouth (UK), March 2021 - The Sponge Group is delighted to announce its acquisition of Idox Compliance, one of Europe's leading providers of compliance eLearning solutions. With Idox Compliance’s offices in Berlin and Brussels, Sponge Group will now have an operating presence in the EU, enabling further growth and strengthening its library of ready-to-go compliance related content. » MORE

London (UK), March 2021 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has issued a report highlighting the Top 15 Highest-Performing Learning Departments for 2021. Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Institute has identified the fifteen highest-scoring internal learning departments, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance. » MORE

Dunfermline (SCT), March 2021 - 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. » MORE

Nottingham (UK), March 2021 - THRIVE is thrilled to announce they have appointed James Lindberg as VP of Sales to grow their US team and open an East Coast office this summer. THRIVE are already hiring across the board to scale their new US team by July.  » MORE

London (UK), March 2021 - Growth Engineering has been included in four Top lists developed by eLearning Industry at the start of 2021. These accolades are a continuation of Growth Engineering's award success throughout 2020 and a testament to the company's focus on driving meaningful business impact. » MORE

Sydney (AU), March 2021 - The Australian Institute of ICT (AIICT) has introduced a new Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional course, jointly developed with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for aspiring artificial intelligence (AI) developers and machine learning (ML) professionals. » MORE

Brighton (UK), March 2021 - LEO Learning has released its latest thought leadership eBook, which details the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the L&D industry and what we can expect from the future. » MORE

Bristol (UK), March 2021 - The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is an independent charity dedicated to improving public health and wellbeing. To achieve a vision of enabling every community, workplace, and individual to optimise their own health and wellbeing, RSPH provide a variety of educational services, including online courses and qualifications, workplace training, and accreditations. In partnership with Agylia, they have launched a new online learning platform that aims to reach 20,000 learners in the next three years. » MORE

Pune (IN), March 2021 - This exclusive Brandon Hall eBook, entitled "Not Playing Around - Gamification for Workplace Learning", explores what gamification in workplace learning is all about and why and how it works. Gamification is steadily transitioning from a buzzword to a media format and a practice that should exist in every team that is responsible for workplace learning. It has, in slightly over a decade, transformed learning initiatives and has displayed the potential to increase the impact of learning. » MORE

Frankfurt Oder (GER), March 2021 - One third of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are unable to meet the demand for digital know-how and skills and see the lack of knowledge among employees as a hurdle to digitalization. In particular, the challenge of developing IT security causes great difficulties for SMEs. New forms of industrial espionage, cyber attacks, and blackmail Trojans are forcing companies to protect their IT systems and processes against attacks from the Internet. » MORE

London (UK), March 2021 - A revealing survey undertaken to find out how organisations approach learning and development in the workplace found that only 35% of them have a dedicated in-house Training Manager (or someone with a similar title). In February, the workforce training course comparison site CoursesOnline conducted an anonymous survey of organisations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries that pointed out potential shortcomings in employee development. » MORE

Santa Clara, CA (USA), March 2021 - The annual Auggie Awards have been the most highly recognized AR & VR industry awards in the world since 2010. Now in their twelfth year, Auggies continue to showcase the best of the best in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. » MORE

Oslo (NO), March 2021 - ICDE is pleased to welcome delegates to our first fully virtual international conference, hosted by the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand: the ICDE Leadership Summit 2021 - Leadership for Responsiveness. » MORE

Dresden (GER), March 2021 - ICL2021 will be organized at TU Dresden and HTW Dresden, Germany, 22-24 September 2021. Although the organizers hope that colleagues and friends again can come in person to our conference, they plan the event as a hybrid one. This means that anyone who can't travel to Dresden will be able to take part in the conference online, too, as a presenter or participant. » MORE