Themen

FRED

Responsive eLearning Development Framework

Upside LearningPune (IN), January 2014 - Upside Learning has launched the Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED), which helps develop responsive learning and performance support interventions for multiple devices. The news is accompanied by great anticipation within the eLearning fraternity, as responsive framework is changing the face of how eLearning courseware is built for multi-device learning. » MORE

Authoring Tool

Mike Alcock Joins Epic to Launch gomo 2.0

gomo 2.0Brighton (UK), January, 2014 - Initially developed by Epic, gomo 2.0 will launch as a software as a service (SaaS) authoring tool that allows customers to create their own beautiful multi-device learning. It will operate as part of the larger Learning Technologies Group (LTG) plc. » MORE

Learning Needs

NetDimensions Selected by Thales Training

London (UK), January 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has been selected by Thales Training & Consultancy to increase the company's success with clients and grow their managed training-services business. » MORE

Enterprise Security

Saba Joins Cloud Security Alliance

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), January 2014 - Saba, a global provider in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, has announced its membership in the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance in cloud computing and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing. » MORE

Control Mechanism

The Focus of Educational Controlling Is Effectivity

Erich R. UnkrigErlangen (GER), January 2014 - Learning transfer is a dimension that worries most training managers. Erich R. Unkrig, Head of People Development / Deputy VP HR Germany at the technology group Areva, tracks the contribution that qualifying employees through training makes to business success. For him, the pivotal point in the issue is a strong commitment by senior management. » MORE

Empowerment

Executives as Part of the Learning Process

Heinz-Josef BotthofKarlsruhe (GER), January 2014 --Workplace training can only succeed when management accepts it as essential", is the position of Heinz-Josef Botthof, Business Development Manager at Plaut Business Consulting. From his experience, Botthof knows that the supportive leadership style so widely touted today is far more often mere wishful thinking in light of the assertive alpha-types who populate the executive suites. The empowerment of staff could provide a solution. » MORE

Cultural Change

Learning Is Best Done When Learners Have Fun

Michael PößneckerHildesheim (GER), January 2014 - Coca-Cola uses game-based learning to emulate cultural interaction in change projects because the approach is particularly well suited for the purpose. The following is a conversation with Michael Pößnecker, Head of Sales Training and Coca-Cola's -œAdventure-Based Learning- project on the use of serious games in the corporate environment. » MORE

Methodology Models 2.0

Independent Learning with Social-Learning Components

Martin Greff Karlsruhe (GER), January 2014 - On 05 February 2014 at the LEARNTEC Congress, Martin Greff of the Academy of German Cooperatives will present the path from social learning to methodology model 2.0. As part of a comprehensive advancement process, the training providers within the cooperative financial group have established guiding principles for the sustainable development of their training programs. The focus is on the consistent expansion of online learning phases through components of social learning. » MORE

IMC's MOOC Platform

More Attractive and Open to Other Training Providers

Saarbruecken (GER), December 2013 - Since its inception this year, the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform OpenCourseWorld from IMC AG, a leading European eLearning provider, has offered free, open online courses. The programmes are available to students, company employees, and other individuals. More than 10,000 participants have already taken a course. The learning content is created in collaboration with experts with practical experience and lecturers from renowned universities. OpenCourseWorld thus offers top-class academic and practical knowledge. » MORE