Themen

Educational Shot

Tutoring Marketplace Preply Is Going back to the US Market

Brighton, MA (USA), March 2015 - The American-Ukrainian startup Preply.com is going back to the US market with an updated product marketplace for local and online language tutoring. Back in October 2012, Preply launched their marketplace in Boston for online tutoring only. Backed by famous Semyon Dukach, currently director of TechStars Boston, and a group of business angels, Preply was looking for a business model for six months. The team experienced huge competition from mature players. That's why the young co-founders decided to build their product and gain a critical mass of clients in the much smaller, but growing, Eastern Europe market. » MORE

Microlearning

Exaltive Partners with Media Learning International

Fremont, CA (USA), March 2015 - Silicon Valley-based Exaltive, Inc. has announced a partnering with West Des Moines, Iowa-based Media Learning, International (MLI) to create clickable interactive video versions of MLI's "Management Coach", a breakthrough high-production-value microlearning video-performance support tool for HR, managers, and supervisors. » MORE

Marketing Bubble

The Traps of eLearning Trends

Brühl (GER), March 2015 - (by Pascal Balancier, AWT and Rolf Reinhardt, LANETO e.V.) Predicting eLearning trends can be tricky - not just for self-proclaimed eLearning experts, but even for highly respected committees such as the New Media Consortium (NMC), which publishes the "Horizon Report". In one of his latest blog posts, Stephen Downes claims that the predictions of the NMC would not be based on "deep knowledge", but would, in fact, be influenced by "popular press and marketing campaigns". » MORE

Global User Reach

Jenison Acquires ManagersPitStop.com

Southampton (UK), March 2015 - Jenison, the UK publisher of high-quality off-the-shelf online-learning resources, learning-management tools, and rapid content authoring, has acquired the online management-development resource ManagersPitStop.com. » MORE

Xyleme

Leslie Farinella: Vice President of Customer Success

Leslie FarinellaBoulder, CO (USA), March 2015 - Xyleme, the leading content-management system for learning and development, has announced the naming of Leslie Farinella as Vice President of Customer Success. With her deep-rooted training-industry experience and extensive knowledge of content strategy, Farinella will oversee the customer-success teams and lead the new customer-success program for Xyleme, as they continue on a fast-paced growth trajectory. » MORE

Adapt Builder

A Revolutionary Tool for Responsive eLearning

Derry (UK), March 2015 - Learning Pool has just released a game-changing tool that allows users to effortlessly build, edit, and customise responsive content that's been built on the Adapt Learning-¯framework. Adapt Builder is the product of more than twelve months' development work and intensive beta trials with hundreds of Learning Pool customers across the UK; it makes eLearning development easy for even non-technical learning professionals. » MORE

Responsive Solutions

IMC AG Extends Compliance Offering

Saarbruecken (GER), March 2015 - Regardless of whether companies are dealing with statutory or in-house regulations, they are not only responsible for making sure their employees are compliant, but also for offering them reliable and efficient training. With its Compliance Suite, IMC AG is now able to offer a comprehensive solution that has been especially developed for companies of any size and in any industry to manage their regulatory-compliance-training measures. » MORE

Mediathek

New Opportunities for Learning Awarded

Friedrichsdorf (GER), March 2015 - A leading German financial-services company with headquarters in Frankfurt is continuously improving its in-house range of qualification offerings. New to this range is the Mediathek, a new type of learning platform that offers customised learning measures for each of its more than 11,000 employees. The concept was so trend setting that the project partner and M.I.T e-Solutions GmbH have received the eLearning Journal Award 2015, awarded at the didacta 2015 in Hannover. » MORE