Themen

Shifting Gears Program

Training Initiative for Soldiers Returning to Civilian Life

Waltham, MA (USA), August 2014 - The U.S. Army, General Motors, and Raytheon Company have announced they are teaming up to provide eligible transitioning Army soldiers with skills to become service technicians at GM dealerships after they return to civilian life. » MORE

Campus Card Solutions

Blackboard Acquires CardSmith

Washington, DC (USA), August 2014 - Blackboard has acquired CardSmith, a leading cloud provider of campus-card solutions and turn-key-card-program-management services. CardSmith joins Blackboard's growing set of student-identification services and broadens the credentialing-deployment options the company offers schools and institutions. » MORE

Adapt Learning

Learning Pool Launches the Largest Online Catalogue

 Paul McElvaneyDerry (UK), August 2014 - Adapt Learning, the responsive eLearning framework that's taking the eLearning industry by storm, has become a lot more interesting. Learning Pool, a founding partner in Adapt has launched its new catalogue of content created in the open-source Adapt framework. » MORE

Social Learning

New Platform to Harness Informal Learning

London (UK), July 2014 - A revolutionary social-learning platform from Commelius Solutions is launching next month. The training and learning-technology provider has created a social-learning platform, altoconnect, which will help organisations bring their dispersed learners together and measure the social side of learning. » MORE

Extensive Requirements

Parking Institute Praises Docebo's LMS

Kathleen Federici, Director of Professional Development at the IPINaples (I), July 2014 - When the USA-based International Parking Institute (IPI) realized the opportunities and advantages to be gained from disseminating its knowledge and experience via eLearning, it started searching for a suitable learning-management system (LMS). » MORE

NewVoiceMedia

The Power of the Consumer in a "Social Media Era"

Sydney (AU), July 2014 - More than half of "Generation Y" consumers harness online channels following poor customer service. As further evidence that customer complaints can't be kept quiet in the digital age, new research from NewVoiceMedia, a provider of cloud contact-centre technology, reveals that 32 percent of Australian consumers take their revenge online following inadequate customer service, spreading the complaint across their network and beyond. » MORE

WeVideo

Video Creation for Small Business Marketers

Jostein Svendsen, cofounder and CEO of WeVideoMountain View, CA (USA), July 2014 - WeVideo, a leading online video-creation platform chosen by over three million users worldwide, has unveiled its latest release of WeVideo for Business. The tool is a simple, yet powerful video-creation suite that gives small-business marketers affordable, easy-to-use, in-house video production capabilities for inspiring, educating, and engaging their customers. » MORE

Additive Manufacturing

Deloitte University Press Launches MOOC

New York, NY (USA), July 2014 - Deloitte University Press has announced the launch of a massive open online course on the business implications of additive manufacturing. 3D Opportunity: The Course on Additive Manufacturing for Business Leaders is the first course of its kind to be offered by a large professional services firm and is designed to help educate the market on the business drivers of additive manufacturing, more popularly known as 3D printing. » MORE

New Partnership

IMC Increases Local Support in New Zealand

Melbourne (AU), July 2014 - IMC AG, a European provider of learning-technology solutions has entered into a partnership with leading New Zealand eLearning consultancy Learning Tech. With Learning Tech's creative eLearning-content solutions, and IMC's award-winning learning-management system (LMS), the two complement each other well. » MORE

Professionalisation

WillowDNA Supports New Diploma in Learning Design

Bristol (UK), July 2014 - Design eLearn is a consortium of eight further-education colleges that have joined forces to develop the first dedicated Advanced Apprenticeship training route for digital learning designers. WillowDNA have been part of the employers group supporting the design of the qualification. » MORE