Themen

Lifetime Learning

EdTrIn Reveals Its Innovative Business Model

Graeme Coomber, CEO of EdTrInSheffield (UK), August 2014 - At an event that attracted the UK's top suppliers of online-delivered learning content, held at the end of July in the Australian High Commission in The Strand, London, Graeme Coomber, CEO of EdTrIn explained his organisation's aim. The firm aspires to manage a lifetime of learning for large numbers of the world's population - beginning with those living in the Asia-Pacific, Indian sub-Continent, and MENA regions. » MORE

Win-Win Relationship

Security and Support Prompts NMP to Opt for Docebo

Naples (I), August 2014 - When New Market Partners (NMP), a USA-based program-services company focusing on the financial-services sector, realized that increases in demand for its training programs meant that it had to deliver those programs online, it chose the Docebo eLearning Platform to help it do so. » MORE

Workplace Behaviour

IMC Help Organisations Meet Workplace Diversity

Melbourne (AU) / Saarbrücken (GER), August 2014 - Helping employees interpret legislation and develop sound judgment about appropriate workplace behaviour is critical to an organisation's success. Developing effective and engaging training in-house can be a challenge. To ease this burden on organisations, IMC have joined forces with their longstanding Australian partner BeyondEdge to provide two interactive eLearning workplace-behaviour modules. » MORE

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

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