Corporate eLearning

Philadelphia, PA (USA), May 2013 - Rapid development in online and mobile gaming continues to evolve and grow among users. Dario Priolo's new blog post, No More Playing Around: The Pros and Cons of Gamification, reviews some of the benefits and challenges of gamifaction in sales training. » MORE

Zurich (CH), May 2013 - Switzerland has long been famous for its discreet, trustworthy banks. True, bank secrecy has come under fire around the world in the wake of the global economic crisis - and the Alpine nation has not escaped. However, Swiss banking is unlikely to disappear any time soon. Tough bank secrecy laws - based on a deep-seated respect for privacy - are only one of the reasons behind the strength of Switzerland's financial industry. The country's political neutrality, economic stability, and rule of law are all key factors. » MORE

Wellington (NZ), May 2013 - The release of Totara 2.4 means Totara and Moodle will be the world's first learning-management systems to include Open Badges functionality. Last month Mozilla, the free software community, announced the release of Open Badges version 1.0. Mozilla's Open Badges project aims to provide a technically smart, web savvy, open-access framework through which any organization can offer tangible recognition to learners who demonstrate achievement in a given area, whether that be a soft or hard skill. » MORE

London (UK), May 2013 - (by Bob Little) We're all encouraged to see problems and challenges as opportunities. The only thing is, though, that sometimes there are insoluble opportunities. After more than 20 years, the HRD conference and exhibition - held, this year, at Olympia in London at the end of April - appears to be presenting its organisers, CIPD Enterprises, a division of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), with some of these insoluble opportunities. » MORE