Themen

London Olympics

Hotel Prices Hold Back Staff Development

London (UK), June 2012 - Training provider Redtray Solutions has reported that businesses are cancelling their employees' training booked months in advance because of the rocketing accommodation prices for the period of the Games in the UK. » MORE

Specialist Courses

Financial Services Training Company to Offer eLearning

London (UK), June 2012 - Webanywhere, the Yorkshire-based workplace-learning solutions provider, is delivering an innovative online training platform based on its Traininganywhere LMS to FinTuition, an international training company operating in the Finance sector. » MORE

Consumer Survey

Social Media and the Olympic Games

New York, NY (USA), June 2012 - As the London 2012 Olympic Games unfold, the public can witness the flight of the "Social Media Butterflies," digitally savvy moms who crave connection and conversation around major events. » MORE

Change Management

Transforming an Instructional Design Team

Santa Rosa (CA), USA, June 2012 - How do you know if a team needs to change? If change seems like a good thing, how do you implement it? Here are some thoughts on change management by Dick Handshaw (Learning Solutions Magazine), adapted by CHECK.point eLearning. » MORE

EVOLUTION³

The Rolls Royce of the Production Platforms

Chichester (UK), June 2012 - The launch of CBTL's EVOLUTION³ production platform in Great Britain took place in the exclusive ambiance of Rolls Royce. The premises of the Goodwood production facility in West Sussex, constructed in 2003 and honored for its architecture, were made available for the Evolution clients in attendance at this very special users' gathering. In addition to gaining insight into the future-oriented content-production possibilities offered by EVOLUTION³, the participants also had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with the tradition-rich, tried-and-true manufacturing plant from which Rolls Royce's exclusive vehicles emerge. » MORE

High Achievers

Speexx Secures the 2012 Golden Engine Award

Munich (GER)/Beijing (CN), June 2012 - The online language-training provider Speexx has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Golden Engine Award for Strategically and Sustainably Driving China's Education Industry. Speexx took the top spot in the "est contribution to the improvement of the education industry" category. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Signs of the season and the time

London (UK), May 2012 - (by Bob Little) For many years, trade magazines have devoted their August (or July/ August) editions to features on 'training' or 'learning and development' (L&D). The traditional rationale is that 'real' advertisers don't advertise in that edition of the magazine because readers are on holiday. So that's the edition of the magazine that doesn't get read. Consequently, to salve the magazine's conscience about not considering L&D at any other time of the year - and to make the industry that the magazine serves appear to have a soft, human side - it cynically devotes a few pages to L&D issues in August. » MORE

Interoperability

Videoconferencing Hardware for the Future

Montpellier (FR), June 2012 - In order to allow customers to easily host videoconferences without dealing with interoperability issues, Tixeo has released its H.323 and SIP gateway for WorkSpace3D 5.0, a first step toward a "universal" interoperability strategy. » MORE