Themen

Training Administration

Enterprise Study Is Still Leading Innovation

Cheltenham (UK), February 2012 - After ten years of developing Enterprise Study to a leading provider of learning technologies, the company is planning the next decade with a focus on product development and customer experience. » MORE

Key Markets

REDTRAY Expands to Nordic Region

London (UK)/Copenhagen (PK), February 2012 - After observing increasing demand in cloud-based learning solutions in northern Europe, the UK training provider REDTRAY is expanding its services to Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, and Finland from early February 2012. » MORE

Computer-based Testing

Pearson VUE Appoints New Managing Director for Europe

London (UK), February 2012 - Pearson VUE, the company's computer-based testing business, has announced the appointment of Matthew Poyiadgi as Managing Director for Europe. Matthew has over twenty years' experience of working for international IT and computer-based testing companies, having established successful teams and customer partnerships to deliver new products and launch global programmes. » MORE

Performance

Ontuitive Argues for Radical Shift in Learning

Washington, D.C. (USA), February 2012 - Ontuitive, a performance-support systems and services provider, encourages businesses to make a radical shift to performance-based learning by integrating more learning into business workflows. Ontuitive's Chief Learning Evangelist Bob Mosher argues that business and L&D departments need to reappraise their approach to how they train employees. » 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

Offer Your Expertise

What are Key Technologies to Support Educational Change?

Brussels (BE), February 2012 - MENON is conducting the study Mapping and Analysing Prospective Technologies for Learning (MATEL) on behalf of the European Commission - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). People interested in contributing to this research are cordially invited to participate in the survey before 26 February 2012. » MORE

Risk Assessment

EssentialSkillz Launches Updated Version of ErgoWize

Milton Keynes (UK)/Galway (IE), February 2012 - eLearning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced version of its popular DSE risk-assessment and training software ErgoWize. The course became available 30 January 2012. » MORE