Themen

Free Reading

eBooks Made Simple

London (UK), March 2012 - Bookboon.com is turning the US book market upside down with free eBooks. In 2012, Bookboon.com aims to reach a market share of over ten percent in the USA. » MORE

Code Free

Creating Apps with Rich Content

Barcelona (ES), March 2012 - The Spanish company Aquafadas has made its Digital Publishing System compatible with its HTML5 animation-creation application MotionComposer. » MORE

Oil and Gas Industry

OPITO's IMIST Becomes Safety Standard

Houston, TX (USA), March 2012 - For the first time, OPITO, in cooperation with the oil and gas industry, has developed an online global standardized level of basic safety training that will reach an estimated 1.5 million people employed in exploration and production activities of oil and gas worldwide. » MORE

Social Media

MindLeaders Launches Online Marketing Training App

London (UK), March 2012 - eLearning company MindLeaders has released a new training app for businesses on Facebook. Developed in cooperation with Facebook, the app shows how to succeed in building brand awareness through word-of-mouth marketing on the social network. » MORE

Certification

COLF Celebrates Its First Birthday

Coventry (UK), March 2012 - Launched in January 2011 by The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), the Certified Online Learning Facilitator (COLF) course has enjoyed unprecedented success, with hundreds of trainers achieving the certification in the last twelve months. » MORE

Online Courses

Free Guides for Learning Design

Bristol (UK), March 2012 - Developing great online learning is driven by great design. WillowDNA is currently publishing five free guides to help learning professionals to plan, develop, and launch online learning in just five days. » MORE

New Opportunities

Bluedrop Awaits First Day of Trading

St. John's, NL (CA), February 2012 - A recently completed business transaction with Serebra Learning Corporation will see Bluedrop Performance Learning, a pioneer in eLearning, become Canada's largest full-service eLearning company. It thus becomes one of the few technology companies from Atlantic Canada to cross over the public trading threshold. » MORE

Talent Management

Kenexa Acquires eLearning-solutions Company OutStart

Wayne, PA (USA), February 2012 - In an effort to expand its reach into the eLearning market, Kenexa, a publicly listed provider of business solutions for human resources and talent management, has agreed to acquire Boston-based OutStart. » MORE

eLearning Africa 2012

Towards a Sustainable ICT Policy for Benin

Cotonou (BJ), February 2012 - eLearning Africa 2012 will take place from 23-25 May in Cotonou, Benin. In an interview, Ken Lohento, a specialist in the design and implementation of ICT projects to support agriculture and rural development, offers some lessons from his native Benin. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Invisible idiot

London (UK), February 2012 - (by Bob Little) Someone - in the early days of technology - put the English proverb 'out of sight, out of mind' into a mainframe-housed forerunner of Google Translate. The idea was that the proverb would be translated into Russian and then back into English to prove that the software worked correctly. The result of the computer's deliberations was: 'Invisible idiot'. » MORE