Themen

New Rental Model

Luminosity Rapid eLearning Platform Available per Author

Bristol (UK), May 2011 - Until recently, Luminosity Studio had been provided only as an enterprise-level system for the largest and most demanding leading organizations. Firms that wanted the total security and control a locally installed server can provide installed their own local Luminosity server behind their firewall on their corporate LAN. » MORE

Oil & Gas Industry

Learning Nexus Develops eLearning Solution

London/Stroud (UK), May 2011 - Tendeka is a provider of completion and reservoir-monitoring products and services to the upstream oil and gas industry. The firm operates across a network of eighteen regional bases strategically located in key energy hubs including the North Sea, Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the USA. » MORE

Health & Safety

Webanywhere Collaborates with British Safety Council

Leeds (UK), May 2011 - Webanywhere, the European Moodle and Totara Partner, has been selected by the British Safety Council, a health, safety, and environmental charity, to provide a Moodle-based learning platform that will enable them to realise a number of strategic objectives for managing and delivering online training courses. » MORE

Merger

SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau

San Mateo, CA (USA), May 2011 - SuccessFactors has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Plateau, the leading learning-management system (LMS), a Next Generation Portal technology, and CaaS - content as a service. This acquisition forms a symbiotic combination with SuccessFactors-˜ acquisition of social video mobile learning provider Jambok. » MORE

Research Findings

Further Education Boosts Economy by £75 Billion

London (UK), May 2011 - Further education participants generate an additional £75bn for the economy over their lifetimes, with apprenticeships generating around £40 for each pound of government investment, new research shows. The study, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, examines the economic value generated by Government-funded post-nineteen qualifications. » MORE

On-Demand Assessment

Questionmark Adds New Analytics Solutions

Norwalk, CT (USA), May 2011 - New tools for analyzing and reporting on assessment results top the list of new features in the latest release of Questionmark On Demand assessment- management solutions. Questionmark Analytics, a new module within Questionmark Perception, enables users to generate reports on assessment items and results. » MORE

New Executive Committee

ELIG's Leaders Represent a Diverse Learning Industry

Paris (FR), May 2011 - The drive to continually raise the profile of learning on the European political and commercial agendas has been given greater impetus with a newly expanded Executive Committee for the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). » MORE

Free Access

World Leading Leadership and Management Resources

Stroud (UK), May 2011 - LMMatters is offering organisations free access to its leadership and management online resources for the whole of Adult Learners' Week, starting Monday, 16 May. Organisations will be able to access the Harvard ManageMentor alongside LMKnowledge (LMK) with more than 10,000 articles, videos, and podcasts from worldwide sources. » MORE

Fit4Age

Older People Learn Differently, Not Worse

Bremen (GER), May 2011 - Numerous project partners from industry and science developed solutions for the challenges of demographic change in the "Fit4Age" research association, which has been working for the last three years. Together with the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and the University of Regensburg, szenaris GmbH looked at the conditions under which older people can be successfully qualified with eLearning. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

The UK's sports world embraces eLearning

London (UK), May 2011 - (by Bob Little) We're used to industries such as financial services and pharmaceuticals using eLearning to reduce the cost of staff learning and development; make it more available on demand; help meet regulatory/compliance obligations, and even help maintain competitive advantage through improved product knowledge and efficiency. » MORE