Themen

Public Sector

Making the Most of a Tight Training Budget

Bath (UK), July 2010 - Following the cuts, the job losses, and the pay freezes, the public sector is faced with having to continue to provide the same service with considerably less to offer staff. However there is something the public sector can do in order to keep staff motivated and better prepared to handle what lies ahead: Training. » MORE

Appointment

New Chief Learning Officer at Certpoint

Roslyn Heights, NY (USA), July 2010, Certpoint Systems, a provider of integrated enterprise learning solutions, has announced the appointment of Denis Finnegan as the company's Chief Learning Officer. Denis will oversee the effective implementation of Certpoint Systems' learning platform across its client base. » MORE

Language Learning

EF Englishtown Wins Prestigious Education Award

Hong Kong (HK), July 2010 - The online English language school EF Englishtown has received a Comenius-EduMedia Award recognizing excellence in educational multimedia services. The awards are given out by Germany's Society of Pedagogy and Information and are recognized throughout Europe for spotlighting outstanding products in the field of high-tech educational media. » MORE

Assessment

Questionmark adds Multilingual Interfaces

Norwalk, CT (USA), July 2010 - Assessment-software provider Questionmark has announced the latest version of the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment- management system, which features new multilingual administrative, scheduling, browser-based authoring, and reporting interfaces available in English, German and Dutch. » MORE

Sharing Knowledge

The Commonwealth of Learning in Action

Vancouver, BC (CA), July 2010 - Participants at a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) training workshop in Maldives developed course materials for a Diploma in Sustainable Agriculture for Small States. This is VUSSC's first diploma-level programme. » MORE

Serious Games

CrossKnowledge Launches Third Generation

London (UK), July 2010 - CrossKnowledge argues that learning is at its best when linked to having fun. In this vein, they have announced the launching of unique third-generation serious games from September 2010 onwards. » MORE

Mobile Content

Xyleme Partners with Chicago Police Department

Boulder, CO (USA), July 2010 - Mark Hellinger, Xyleme's President and CEO, made a presentation with Sgt Joseph Del Pilar of the Chicago Police Department at the eLearning Guild's mLearnCon conference in San Diego last month. The talk highlighted a mobile performance solution to deliver relevant and personalized information to Chicago police officers' mobile devices at the point of performance. » MORE

New Member

Adobe Joins European Foundation for Quality in eLearning

London (UK), June 2010 - By joining the European Foundation for Quality in ELearning (EFQUEL), Adobe is providing their support to the academic, corporate, and government sectors to promote and support the production of high-quality eLearning content. One of the targets of the EFQUEL is to develop suitable standards to ensure the creation and the management of high-quality eLearning content that can be produced with Adobe's eLearning Suite. » MORE

Learning Pass

CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE Sign Agreement

London (UK), July 2010 - SMEs are actively adopting new training solutions such as online learning, which allows them to efficiently train their employees without the large productivity drops and travel expenses associated with traditional instructor-led programmes. Recognising this, CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE have designed LEARNING PASS, which fuses two solutions into one integrated offering. » MORE

Collaborative Community

Sharing Questions and Answers on LearningGuide Manager

Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - LearningGuide Solutions has launched an online collaborative site using the NingTM social-media platform. The site enables authors using LearningGuide's single-source authoring environment to participate in a community where they can share ideas, provide product feedback, and read blogs and forum postings. » MORE