Themen

Project Management

QA Continues to Gain Market Share

London (UK), December 2011 - According to figures released by the accrediting organisation APMG, QA was the largest global provider in PRINCE2®, MSP®, M_o_R®, P3O® and APMG-International's Change Management Foundation for the first six months of 2011. » MORE

Language Learning

dp Wins Prestigious BOOAOO Awards in China

Munich (GER), November 2011 - digital publishing (dp), a provider of corporate language training (CLT), has received the prestigious BOOAOO eLearning Award in China for excellence in education for its innovative language courses called Speexx. The platform was selected out of more than forty competing training solutions. » MORE

Recognition

Toolwire Named as a 2011 Finalist Red Herring Global 100

Pleasanton, CA (USA), November 2011 - Toolwire, a provider of experiential-learning technologies, has announced that it has been named a finalist for the Red Herring Global 100, a prestigious list honoring the world's most promising private information-technology companies. » MORE

Expanding Sales

Certpoint Systems Secures $3.75 Million Growth Round

Roslyn, NY (USA), November 2011 - On the cusp of releasing its most innovative global mobile-enabled learning platform, CERTPOINT Systems raised $3.75 million in growth capital from existing shareholders, lead by Wheatley Partners. This capital will be used to expand CERTPOINT's sales operations in North America and Europe. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

The trouble with training

London (UK), November 2011 - (by Bob Little) A recently-published report by the UK's National Audit Office (NAO) estimates that the Civil Service wastes hundreds of millions of pounds every year - some £275m in the last year alone - putting staff through training courses that "do not work". Less than half of the staff questioned by the NAO felt the training they received in the past 12 months had helped them to do their job better. » MORE

Electronic Behaviour

New eLearning Course in Social Media Policy

Milton Keynes (UK)/Galway (IE), November 2011 - EssentialSkillz adds a new Social Media Policy Course to its suite of interactive eLearning solutions aimed at the health-and-safety and human-resource industries. The course is fully editable using a built-in authoring tool. » MORE

Email Etiquette

Training Offers Cure to Information Overload

London (UK), November 2011 - An email-etiquette course that saves employees 31 minutes each day, cuts inboxes by 40%, and reduces unnecessary email traffic by 25% is being offered as a behavioural solution to email overload. » MORE

Authoring

iSpring Introduces New eLearning Toolkit

New York, NY (USA), November 2011 - iSpring Solutions has announced the release of the new iSpring 6.0 product line. iSpring Suite is a comprehensive eLearning-authoring toolkit that provides every feature required for course development. » MORE

Knowledge Transfer

Didactical Materials, Tools, and Training by U&I Learning

Gent (BE), November 2011 - The Ghent-based firm U&I Learning provides vertical mission-critical knowledge transfer solutions to the European market. The company is currently developing instructional movie clips for Belgium's Scientific Institute of Public Health and optimising training through eLearning for Acerta, a leading Belgian HR-services provider. » MORE

Mobile Progress

Take Part in Webinars, Even When You're on the Train

Karlsruhe/Montabaur (GER), November 2011 - Mobile people require mobile solutions. This concept is well understood by the Academy of German Cooperatives (ADG), a network of associations that encompasses five regional groupings of cooperatives, and it has been put into practice in the programs made available to 160,000 employees of around 1,150 co-operative banks. Martin Greff, the head of the Academy's Department of Quality Management and Learning Methodology, will speak at LEARNTEC on the challenges and opportunities presented by the current developments. Stating, "We want to expand access", he explains that mobile devices are already being used on the train, at home, and also during consultation sessions with clients in banks. » MORE