Corporate eLearning

London (UK), March 2011 - (by Bob Little) From the start of the eLearning industry (which some date to the mainframe, green screen days of the 1960s but which everyone agrees was in full swing by the late 1980s), eLearning producers fell, roughly, into two categories: those that produced what came to be called authoring tools (the software needed to develop eLearning content) and those that produced learning management systems (LMS) (the systems that monitored who accessed which bits of eLearning, how long they spent on them and their test scores having completed the learning materials). » MORE

Amsterdam (NL), April 2011 - The leaders in excellence and innovation in mobile broadband will be recognised at the LTE World Summit, taking place on 17-18 May in Amsterdam. The winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony, taking place in De Duif Amsterdam on 17 May. » MORE

Brighton (UK), April 2011 - As the Comprehensive Spending Review cuts begin to bite, and the public sector braces itself, one Scottish council has shown it is possible to do more with less and win awards in the process. The City of Edinburgh Council Interactive Learning (CECil) project has so far achieved savings of £1.18m and transformed the delivery of workplace training in the municipality. » MORE

Saarbrücken (GER), April 2011 - The US market-research company Gartner Research has recognized IMC AG as a visionary in its current -œMarket Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS)-. For its part, IMC has announced its further expansion into Scandinavia, with the opening up its office in Hämeenlinna, around 100km north of Helsinki, Finland. » MORE