Themen

Performance

Kallidus Appoints Tim Drewitt as Product Innovator

Tim DrewittCirencester (UK), March 2016 - As part of the product-management team, Tim will drive innovation by working in partnership with customers to understand their learning-technology roadmaps and ensure Kallidus' solutions deliver what they truly need. A key focus of Tim's role will be sharing best practice with customers to help them maximise their investments in learning technologies. » MORE

Learning Services

QA Receives Director’s Award from Red Hat

Director's AwardLondon (UK), March 2016 - QA, one of the UK leaders in IT and business-skills training, has been presented with a Director’s Award from Red Hat. Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open-source software solutions, gives one Director's Award a year to partners that go the extra mile in their work with Red Hat.

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Major Contracts from Mexico

Rheinmetall to Build Training Centre for Oil Platforms

Düsseldorf (GER), March.2016 - Rheinmetall has been awarded contracts worth €250 million to build and operate a modern centre for initial and advanced training of platform personnel for Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas producer PEMEX. Following a three-year construction and installation phase, Rheinmetall will operate the centre in Mexico for a period of twelve years.

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Accredited Skills

Collaborating to Save Charities from Boring eLearning

London (UK), March 2016 - The Charity Learning Consortium has partnered with Accredited Skills to offer its members access to an inspirational new range of learning resources. Accredited Skills’ unique approach has created an engaging library of online resources, using a multimedia mix that includes videos, offline workbooks, infographics, and eye-catching artwork. These include marketing help for learning professionals, along with images to support the in-house creation of course materials.

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Pan-European Collaboration

Gamification Nation Scoops Major Contract Win and Award

London (UK), March 2016 - Gamification Nation, a leading business gamification design consultancy, has recently won a contract from a globally known sports clothing and equipment provider. Under the contract, Gamification Nation will help this company to boost its gamification strategy for its learning and development departments.

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Case Study

RAW eLearning Made Simpler, Easier, and More Flexible

Glasgow (SCO), March 2016 - RAW Technology Ltd, a company providing spill response, remediation, and specialist environmental services, is seeing a number of benefits from using the Create eLearning learning-management system (LMS). According to Justin Price, a health and safety advisor whose responsibilities include delivering in-house training courses for RAW as well as acting as learning-system administrator, “Since making learning materials available via the LMS, we’ve noticed an immediate and appreciable reduction in our training-related travel and subsistence costs."

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SAP Learning Hub

New SAP® Education Network for Digital Transformation

Walldorf (GER), March 2016 - SAP SE and the SAP® University Alliances program have announced the global launch of SAP Education Network for Digital Transformation, an initiative to engage and prepare executives and professionals to lead their organizations to become digital enterprises in collaboration with academia and partners. The announcement was made at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. » MORE

Fosway 9-Grid™

NetDimensions Positioned again as "Core Leader"

London (UK), March 2016 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the unique European learning and talent-market-insight report, Fosway 9-Grid™ for learning- management systems (LMSs). NetDimensions continues to be the only company positioned as a "Core Leader". » MORE

Quality Issues

Certify Your Courses and Programmes with ECB-Check

Bonn (GER), March 2016 - The ECB-Check certification has been developed with the aid of more than 65 organisations worldwide and has been running quality checks of eLearning courses and programmes for more than five years. So far, ECB-Check has awarded almost forty certifications to more than twenty organisations, including the FAO, the World Bank Institute, Germany's GIZ, the ITC-ILO, and many others. » MORE

MLS

City & Guilds Kineo Launches PIVOT 1.6

London (UK), March 2016 - City & Guilds Kineo has launched a brand-new version of PIVOT, its managed-learning service (MLS). PIVOT 1.6 offers a more streamlined and connected experience for learners, assessors, and administrators. Not only this - its new "My Team" functionality offers better communication between learners and those delivering training. » MORE