Themen

New Partnership

IMC Increases Local Support in New Zealand

Melbourne (AU), July 2014 - IMC AG, a European provider of learning-technology solutions has entered into a partnership with leading New Zealand eLearning consultancy Learning Tech. With Learning Tech's creative eLearning-content solutions, and IMC's award-winning learning-management system (LMS), the two complement each other well. » MORE

Professionalisation

WillowDNA Supports New Diploma in Learning Design

Bristol (UK), July 2014 - Design eLearn is a consortium of eight further-education colleges that have joined forces to develop the first dedicated Advanced Apprenticeship training route for digital learning designers. WillowDNA have been part of the employers group supporting the design of the qualification. » MORE

ABP Award

neuTrain Training Material Sharing Platform

London (UK), July 2014 - neuTrain, the not-for-profit platform, which was built in order to share content and prevent much of the wheel reinvention that is the plague of the training industry, was recently recognised at the prestigious Association for Business Psychology (ABP) annual awards. » MORE

Social Learning

New Platform to Harness Informal Learning

London (UK), July 2014 - A revolutionary social-learning platform from Commelius Solutions is launching next month. The training and learning-technology provider has created a social-learning platform, altoconnect, which will help organisations bring their dispersed learners together and measure the social side of learning. » MORE

IMC Learning Suite

One of the Top Three eLearning Systems Worldwide

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2014 - The IMC Learning Suite has reached third place in the recently published, international LMS Mid-Year Ranking Report 2014. The report is deemed an important foundation for decision-making by eLearning professionals searching for an appropriate system. The ranking is published periodically by analyst Craig Weiss, who is one of the most influential individuals in the eLearning community with his eLearning 24/7 blog. » MORE

Around the World

PANDORA Finds a Learning Jewel

Genoa (I), July 2014 - As PANDORA, the global jewelry firm, has been expanding its operations - currently into eighty countries - it has discovered the value of using eLearning to ensure that its sales teams around the world sell the right products to the right people. Per Ferdinandsen, PANDORA's eLearning Manager - based at the company's Copenhagen headquarters - explained, "eLearning materials are valuable because they're available to everyone and present a coherent message." » MORE

IBM Unveils Cloud

To Break Down Collaboration Barriers

Armonk, NY (USA), July 2014 - IBM has introduced new cloud and on-premises social software to help clients better connect, collaborate, and share information with key stakeholders inside and outside their organizations. The latest version of the market-leading IBM Connections platform features an open and fully integrated suite of social and real-time collaboration, analytics, and content-management tools, all securely delivered on any screen or device. » MORE

Publication Excellence

Upside Learning Bags its Eighth APEX Award

Pune (IN), July 2014 - Upside Learning has won its eighth APEX award with the recently announced 2014 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence. The award, won under the Education & Training Electronic Media category, was for its "Information and Data Protection Game". This award takes the company's tally to eight APEX awards in eight years. » MORE

OpenSesame

Saba Marketplace Bolsters Its Talent Ecosystem

Bracknell (UK), June 2014 - Saba has announced Saba Marketplace's welcoming of HireRight and OpenSesame to its diverse ecosystem of third-party application partners for the Saba Cloud. First announced at the company's @Work 2014 annual global user conference, Saba Marketplace seamlessly integrates numerous applications across learning, talent, and HRMS into a single interface, simplifying and accelerating talent sourcing, employee development, and collaboration. » MORE

Medical Education

Learning Technology Proves Essential for CME Accreditation

Vicky Jones, CommeliusWest Sussex (UK), July 2014 - The new eLearning programme sponsored by Systagenix, the global wound-care company, has been awarded a CME credit by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME). The honor came because the programme meets essential and desirable criteria set by the European Union of Medical Specialists. » MORE