Themen

City & Guilds Group

Investment in Filtered as Part of New Venture Fund

London (UK), March 2016 - The City & Guilds Group has invested in London-based online-training company Filtered as the first investment from its New Venture Fund. The Fund, launched in September 2015, will invest £2.5m in post-revenue companies to support innovation in skills development across the world. » MORE

EMR Provider

Tableau Announced New Technology Agreement

Seattle, WA / Las Vegas, NV (USA), March 2016 - Tableau Software, a global leader in rapid-fire business analytics software, has announced a technology agreement with Epic. The agreement will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses, and case managers for clinical analysis. » MORE

Collaboration

SXSWedu and EdTechXEurope Partnership

London (UK), March 2016 - EdTechXEurope, one of Europe's leading education-technology-focused conference platforms, has extended its partnership with SXSWedu®, an energetic and innovative American education-sector event, for the third consecutive year. The collaboration will see the newly rebranded EdTechXEurope summit providing European expertise and showcasing European EdTech All Stars companies during the Industry Hub programme track as part of SXSWedu in Austin, Texas. Reciprocally, SXSWedu Executive Producer Ron Reed and a selection of US education influencers will attend the EdTechXEurope London. » MORE

Lecturio

One Click away from Personalized Compliance Training

Martin Schlichte, CEO at LecturioLeipzig (GER), March 2016 - ELearning provider Lecturio has announced the release of a fully integrated compliance course in English for its business partners. The video-based training included in the course will allow them to comprehensively introduce their employees and managers to all compliance topics and in doing so minimize liability risks. » MORE

New Programmes

10Eighty Attains ILM Recognised Provider Status in Dubai

Dubai (AE), February 2016 - 10Eighty has announced that it has achieved Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Recognised Provider status for all its new management and leadership-training programmes delivered in Dubai. ILM is a market leader in leadership and management qualifications - it develops over 90,000 people annually and works with a quality-assured network of over 2,500 approved learning providers worldwide. » MORE

New Chair

The Springboard Consultancy Appoints Ann Clayton

Ann ClaytonBarnstaple (UK), February 2016 - Ann Clayton has been appointed as the new Chair of The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), a UK-based international training company specialising in addressing women's development issues. Ann is also a Trustee and Director of "Instructus", the charity that now owns and manages SBC. » MORE

The eLearning Guild

Badging Expertise from eXact learning solutions

Genoa (I), February 2016 - eXact learning solutions, the Italian-based digital learning content management business solution provider, is being featured at this year's Learning Solutions conference and expo. Taking place at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, and organized by The eLearning Guild, this major event in the USA's online-learning calendar runs 16-18 March. » MORE

Charity

Create eLearning Uses its LMS to Raise Funds

Glasgow (SCL), February 2016 - To support the UK Sepsis Trust, the new-generation learning-management system (LMS) producer Create eLearning is giving a copy of its platform to winners of its quarterly prize draws. The platform that Create eLearning is donating includes a fully implemented eLearning solution and a custom-designed Oculus Rift training pack. The whole system is worth £25,000, but the winners receive all of this completely free of charge. » MORE

Public Sector LMS

IMC Provider for US Agencies

Saarbrücken (GER), February 2016 - In December 2015, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) added the IMC learning-management system to its list of approved products. Consequently, U.S. government agencies can now acquire the system. » MORE

Single Sign-On

LearnUpon Announces Microsoft Azure Integration

Dublin (IR), February 2016 - LearnUpon, the world's fastest growing learning-management system, has announced a new integration with Microsoft Azure. LearnUpon customers can now use Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) to manage user access and enable single sign-on (SSO). The integration will make it even easier for learners to access and use their LMS securely, and admins can enjoy a simple step-by-step user interface to configure the integration with Azure AD. » MORE