Themen

'Little's Britain'

New Trend - and Standard - in Collaborative Relationships

London (UK), January 2011 - (by Bob Little) There has been a lot of talk in the UK recently about partnering and collaboration in business. In the eLearning world, Martin Baker, managing director of both leadership and management online specialists LMMatters and the Charity Learning Consortium, has become one of the Founding Ambassadors of Towards Maturity, supporting the work carried out by the eLearning research organisation, Towards Maturity. » MORE

At Learning Technologies

2010 - A Year of Consolidation for Learning?

London (UK), January 2011 - CBTL continue to invest in the future in spite of the learning budget cuts that were made by many businesses in the UK in the previous year. During 2010 some businesses were more inclined to invest in infrastructure, such as a new Learning Management Systems. Others took the opportunity to review their learning and development strategy to ensure that they are taking full advantage of the alternative learning media and teaching methods. Each recognise the importance of investing in their teams and partners to gain a competitive edge. Both have the short or longer term goal of moving towards a blended learning strategy in order to achieve that aim. For many 2011 will be the start of this journey. » MORE

Imparting a New Technolog

CBTL and Wacker Neuson SE Work Together

Munich (GER), January 2011 - Members of the Marketing Department staff at Wacker Neuson are well acquainted with heavy machinery: As representatives of a global manufacturer of high-quality construction equipment and compact construction machines, they demonstrate devices that support every phase of the building process to their clients. The equipment ranges from the classical rammer and the vibration plate and gas hammer to the mini-excavator and compact loader. However at the beginning of 2010, state-of-the-art computer technology was embedded into the most powerful vibration plate on the market - a development accompanied by an innovative service and operating concept. » MORE

Learning Terminals

Mobile Learning Solutions from CBTL

Munich (GER), January 2011 - eLearning makes it possible to offer and implement further education programs that are oriented toward a specific target audience. However, not every potential user's workstation has the technical prerequisites, which means that entire departments or even complete facilities are unable to avail themselves of the latest educational media. But CBTL's mobile learning solutions have a singular mission: Qualifying employees worldwide with uniform standards. » MORE

EVOLUTION 3

Enhanced User Friendliness and Technical Flexibility

Munich (GER), January 2011 - The content-production platform EVOLUTION has made a major stride in its development. Previously, it was only possibly to produce Flash-based final products, but with version 3, HTML5-format output can also be fashioned, allowing the creation of content for mobile terminal devices. Printed materials that accompany the course can also be exported as a .pdf. EVOLUTION 3 makes it possible to go beyond the production of instructional and training materials and a wide variety of tests and surveys - websites, e-book contents, Apps, and many other interactive media can also be created. » MORE

CBTL Is Expanding

Sophisticated Content for Great Britain and Europe

Munich (GER), January 2011 - CBTL offers a full range of products and services to the learning industry and is well known for producing high quality bespoke blended learning programs with its in-house production platform "EVOLUTION". For over ten years, the company concentrated on the German market, but is now expanding its focus to Great Britain and the other European markets. Johannes Schnell, CBTL's Managing Director, gives his view on the year 2011 and the developments that his company is targeting. » MORE

Scenarios

How to Ensure Effective Language Training

Cologne (GER), December 2010 - Trainers and companies need to gear their training objectives clearly toward employees' professional activities and goals. This can be achieved using scenarios. Scenarios consist of a chain of actions and guide employees toward achieving their professional objectives. In the language training field, SKYLIGHT has joined forces with Henkel AG & Co. KGaA to develop a blended-learning system that supports this approach. » MORE

Giving Voice

New Translation Tool and Collaboration on Viral Campaign

London (UK), December 2010 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, has announced the launch of its proprietary cost-saving text translation tool. LINE has further teamed up with Kanoti, a global digital-production agency, to produce an innovative, interactive web viral campaign for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. » MORE

Business Resources

Have an "Appy" Christmas!

North Woodchester (UK)/Rheinfelden (GER), December 2010 - To celebrate the launch of its Leadership and Management App, LMMatters is giving away a free iPad to every new LMKnowledge business subscriber between now and 24 December 2010. » MORE

Case Study

Boots Delivers in-Store Assessments

London/Nottingham (UK), December 2010 - Questionmark Perception is part of the eLearning solution provided by e2Train that has helped Boots UK move away from traditional training methods and allowed the international pharmacy-led health and beauty group to gain a number of distinct advantages by moving to online assessments. » MORE