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Corporate eLearning
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
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
Leslie Farinella: Vice President of Customer Success
Boulder, 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
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
SlidePresenter Wins bsoco Award
Frankfurt a.M. (GER), March 2015 - SlidePresenter, a provider of a cloud-based solution for the fast and easy production and distribution of multimedia training and communication content wins a bsoco award in the Rapid Learning category. » MORE
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
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
LEO and NEMA App Enters Major Public App Stores
London (UK), March 2015 - LEO and the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) have announced the launch of their app, EMAC Essentials, on the Apple and Android app stores. The app, which was built using the award-winning gomo authoring tool by leading learning-technologies firm and gomo reseller LEO, aims to prepare and inform personnel before or during a deployment through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) - a nationally adopted mutual-aid agreement that facilitates the sharing of personnel and equipment in times of disaster. » MORE
NetDimensions Strengthens Its Position as "Core Leader"
London (UK), March 2015 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced today it has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the latest release of the unique European learning and talent-market insight report, Elearnity 9-Grid™ for Learning Management Systems (LMS). » MORE
Pearson Joins Forces with Scoopshot
London (UK), March 2015 - With the announcement that Scoopshot, the mobile platform for photo and video crowdsourcing, has partnered with Pearson, technology and learning have linked yet again. The learning company is using Scoopshot to reach out to and engage with millennials, crowdsourcing photos to illustrate its publications. » MORE
