Themen

Cloud is OpenSaaS

Totara Continues to Innovate with Open Source LMS

Richard Wyles, CEO of Totara Learning SolutionsWellington (NZ), September 2015 - Totara Learning Solutions, an open-source-learning- platform company, has pushed its product set forward - and upward - into the cloud. Totara recently announced that its hugely successful open-source Totara LMS is now available as software as a service in the cloud (OpenSaaS). It's joined there by Totara Social, the enterprise social network that enables collaboration, connection, and curation for social learning in a secure environment. » MORE

NHS Trust

Training Online to Free Up More Time for Patient Care

Plymouth (UK), September 2015 - One of the largest NHS Trusts providing community, mental health, learning disability, and social care services in England is transforming its workplace training with thirteen new eLearning modules aimed at helping to improve safety and free up more time for staff to spend with patients. » MORE

Is Bigger always Better?

JZero Discusses Newly Released Cloud LMS

London (UK), September 2015 - In a recent interview, JZero's Paul McCoy and Matt Eggby discussed JLMSCloud, JZero's new cloud-based LMS. The system provides small to medium businesses with an easy-to-deploy, scalable, adaptive, and cost-effective LMS to get them up and running very quickly. » MORE

VOOC®s

Creating Forced-Marriage-Related Online Learning

Ilkley (UK), September 2015 - A forced marriage is one in which one or both of the future spouses do not consent, and pressure or abuse is exercised until the objection is overcome by one means or another. Approximately 8,000 to 10,000 British citizens are coerced into such marriages every year although the practice is now illegal in the UK, and the first prosecutions have taken place. » MORE

Funding Sought

Video Putting Game Simulates Real Golf Courses

San Diego, CA (USA), September 2015 - Here's a video putting game for the home or office that simulates real golf courses and even miniature-golf courses. Unlike other video games, you putt with a real ball and putter, and you have to account for breaks in the trajectory. » MORE

In North America

eXact learning solutions Launches Major Sales Campaign

Valerio TordaGenoa (I), September 2015 - The Italian-based digital-learning content-management business-solutions producer eXact learning solutions is expanding its operations in North America. Among other things, this involves the opening of a new North American headquarters office in Washington, DC. » MORE

For the Sixth Time

Named among Top 20 Learning Portal Companies

Rocky Hill, CT (USA), September 2015 - NetDimensions has once again been named to TrainingIndustry.com's annual Top 20 Learning Portal Companies List. "The companies selected have the platforms required not only to effectively deliver, curate, and administer great programs, but also measure the impact of the training," sai d Ken Taylor, President of Training Industry, Inc. » MORE

speexx

Part 3 of Video Guide on Global HR and L&D trends

Munich (GER), September 2015 - Speexx has published the final edition of its three-part video guide to help HR and L&D professionals deal with a multinational workforce. "How to Drive Corporate Training with Big Learner Data" gives insight into how learner analytics benefit organisations in their training programmes and decision-making processes. It also lists practical tips on applying the right metrics and predicting learner behaviour in the future. » MORE

Job Alerts

Learning-Sector Success Drives Growth at Blue Eskimo

Stoke Prior (UK), September 2015 - Blue Eskimo's improved performance in the learning industry is fuelling rapid growth for the company, a specialist provider of recruitment services to the sector. Blue Eskimo says that escalating demand for skilled people is driving "rapid growth" within its own business. » MORE