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Online Personal Learning Space Redesigned
Wolverhampton (UK), March 2013 - Following a three-year redesign and rebuild process, Pebble Learning's popular PebblePad system has been completely updated and improved to meet the needs of individuals and their organisations. » MORE
The New Social Video Platform for Inditex
Keighley (UK), March 2013 - Earlier this year, Inditex launched its latest development in health and safety training: INview. This social training platform, created by Webanywhere, provides an interactive platform where employees can upload YouTube-style health and safety videos. These can then be viewed, shared, and commented upon by staff across the organisation at the touch of a screen or click of a mouse. » MORE
Battling Blazes with Risk-critical eLearning
Derry (GB), March 2013 - Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) needed to give its 1,000 firefighters quick and easy access to risk-critical training - without burning through their budget. Jay Hounsell, HFRS Station Manager, found that classroom training was sometimes difficult to run in this environment. Using Learning Pool gives HFRS firefighters tailored training online at a time that suits them - and their daily routine. » MORE
Skills Academy Chief Executive Finds Cross-Party Support
Milton Keynes (UK), March 2013 - In the run-up to last week's National Apprenticeship Week, Peter Sherry, chief executive of the National Skills Academy for Logistics, wrote to around 650 MPs to highlight the importance of apprenticeships and pre-employment training. "The goal", says Sherry, "was to arrange as many meetings with MPs as possible. MPs are busy, busy people, and although this is an important issue, I didn't feel that all of them would be aware of how we can help people in their constituencies. So although this is a massive task, it's also a vital one." » MORE
Brightwave Launches Learning Skylines
Brighton (UK), March 2013 - Next-generation-learning expert Brightwave has renewed its sponsorship of the eLearning Awards with the launch of a new initiative to investigate how diverse industries, technologies, and corporate perspectives are influencing how we learn for work today. » MORE
Worldwide Centralization and Standardization
Amsterdam (NL), March 2013 - ABN AMRO uses Saba Unified Learning Management Suite to manage distribution, financial settlement, and provision of training and eLearning for a global workforce. ABN AMRO was seeking to centralize and standardize the supply of all training across a worldwide workforce. The Bank also wanted to introduce a blended-learning program of informal learning and classroom training, as well as ensuring that training is available anytime and anywhere. » MORE
Launch of WebCaptioning.com
Atlanta, GA (USA), March 2013 - StreamText.Net and The Captioning Studio have announced the launch of WebCaptioning.com, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool for captioning web-based media. WebCaptioning.com is an easy-to-use, affordable platform that produces multiple captioning formats for any online video player, and applies captioning rules that improve the quality and appearance of captions. » MORE
HCCS Releases New Social-Media Online Training Course
Jericho, NY (USA), March 2013 - Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS), a provider of online healthcare compliance and competency training, has announced the release of a new online training course called Responsible Use of Social Media in Healthcare. The course defines the risks and consequences of social networking and provides guidance to help employees use social media responsibly. » MORE
Literati Academic Earns Education-Industry Recognition
Boston, MA (USA) / Oxford (UK), March 2013 - Credo, a provider of information-skills solutions, has announced that its Literati Academic was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Education CODiE Awards for Best Education Reference Solution. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier award for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. The awards have over 75 categories and are organized by industry focus in terms of content, education, and software. » MORE
Key issues in mobile learning
London (UK), March 2013 - (by Bob Little) The drivers for adopting new technologies in learning include not only the suppliers and customers (buyers) but also the consumers (users) - in other words, everyone. Decide, design, develop and deploy is the standard four-step process relating to technology. Increasingly - since about 2006 - consumers want to use mobile devices for learning and for the less formal 'performance support'. Initially, there can a high cost of ownership (of the latest mobile devices). So the key issue for HR and learning & development (L&D) professionals is how to get the maximum value from, and use of, this technology. » MORE
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