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Corporate eLearning
EdTech Europe Launches High-Profile Advisory Board
London (UK), April 2014 - Edxus Group and IBIS Capital, founders of EdTech Europe, an exclusive one-day eLearning summit, have named a number of high-profile experts from across the education, technology, media, and financial markets as founding members of the EdTech Europe Advisory Board. Designed to encourage innovation and investment in the European eLearning market, board members will work closely with the EdTech Europe founders on the event itself, as well as the launch of the search for Europe's fastest-growing and most-innovative eLearning companies, the 2014 EdTech 20. » MORE
Language Training for Spain's Construction Sector
Munich (GER), April 2014 - Speexx has been selected as the preferred language-training provider for Spain's Labour Foundation for Construction. In this project, Speexx will help to build the Foundation's new online language-learning platform. » MORE
City & Guilds Acquires Mindset Limited Business
London (UK), April 2014 - The City & Guilds Group has announced its acquisition of Mindset Limited, a digital-learning company that provides services to colleges and employers in the UK. Mindset has developed a leading platform known as Profiler to manage and deliver functional skills. The core capabilities include initial and diagnostic testing and the assessment of maths, English, and ICT. This acquisition will further enhance the City & Guilds functional-skills offer in the UK. » MORE
Free Community Version of Popular LMS
Wellington (NZ), April 2014 - Totara Learning Solutions has announced a significant change in its open-source distribution strategy. Since its launch in 2011, TotaraLMS has been offered as a distribution of the popular education platform, Moodle. For a low-cost subscription fee, customers receive the benefit of code support and maintenance, security updates, error correction, patch updates, and a continuing stream of new innovations supported by Totara Learning Solutions. Now, in addition to its enterprise offering, Totara Learning will also offer Totara Seedlings, an unsupported version of the popular software. » MORE
tesa Oartners with NetDimensions to Steer Innovation
Neu-Isenburg (GER), April 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has recently announced that tesa has selected NetDimensions Learning as their new centralised global learning-management system (LMS) for the company's 3,900 employees in more than fifty countries around the world. » MORE
Joint Solution Pairs Advanced Biometrics with LMS
Biel / Martigny (CH), April 2014 - KeyLemon SA, pioneering developer of biometric ID and motion-analysis technologies, have announced their partnership with Swissteach AG to bring face recognition to Swissteach's Global Teach(r) online learning-management system (LMS). Demonstrated using a Bosch Rexroth LMS installation for presentation purposes, this joint effort highlights the security, ease of use, and other benefits of supplementing or replacing legacy LMS access control with the latest in biometric ID-verification technology. » MORE
Survey Confirms IMC Content Studio Is a Great Success
Graz (A) / Saarbrücken (GER), April 2014 - Almost ninety percent of those questioned agree that they will, in future, use the modern authoring solution IMC Content Studio in their daily work. This was the outcome of an independent quality survey amongst twenty Content Studio users and interested parties undertaken as part of this year's LEARNTEC trade fair in Karlsruhe, Germany. » MORE
The Reality of Learning-Effectiveness Evaluation
Mumbai (IN), April 2014 - Fifty percent of L&D departments have never tried to conduct learning-effectiveness evaluation beyond Kirkpatrick Level 2. Thirty-five percent have managed to get to Kirkpatrick Level 3, with only 15% reaching Level 4. Tata Interactive Systems' webinar on -œLearning-Effectiveness Evaluation- highlights key challenges facing organizations and is available via video now. » MORE
LINE to be acquired by Learning Technologies
London (UK), April 2014 - LINE Communications Ltd announced that it is to be acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG). LINE will be merged with Epic, LTG's principal operating company, to form the UK's leading custom content provider, and the combined company will have the requisite size, scope and reach to deliver complex, global learning solutions. » MORE
Strengthening Support for Australian Organisations
Melbourne (AU) / Saarbruecken (GER), April 2014 - IMC, a European learning-technology provider, have taken a number of initiatives this year to further strengthen their commitment to the Australian market and provide local organisations with a leading advantage when it comes to solutions. The company has seen their customer base grow steadily in Australia since their arrival three years ago and has recently expanded their local operations. Services now include dedicated local support, training, implementation, solution design, and consultancy. » MORE
