Themen

Accreditation

Omniplex Becomes Bloomfire's First Certified Partner

Hemel Hempstead (UK), July 2010 - Omniplex has signed a reseller agreement with Bloomfire to become its first certified partner. Bloomfire is a contemporary social-media tool that provides a way to share knowledge within an organization or group. » MORE

Quality Video

Tixeo Chooses Google's VP8 for HD Web Conferencing

Montpellier (FR), July 2010 - In February this year, Google acquired On2 Technologies and its famous VP8 codec. The search-engine giant has recently released the source, providing a free alternative to H.264. Many industry leaders such as Mozilla, Logitech, and Nvidia, have since announced they will soon support the codec, making it the future standard of Internet video. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Moves to foster partnering and collaboration

London (UK), July 2010 - (by Bob Little) New research suggests that a new job title is coming to the business world: the human systems director. According to a study - conducted by the Future Foundation on behalf of Google - of 3,500 employees, 100 HR managers and 100 IT managers across the UK, France, Germany, the US and Japan: by 2020, the workplace will be transformed by the sharing and development of ideas. » MORE

Case study

Center of Excellence in Instructional Design

Fremont, CA (USA), July 2010 - The production process of Emantras, a provider of comprehensive eLearning-related services, involves research and analysis, brainstorming, development, and reviews. The firm's output has proven to be quality learning solutions focused on the learner's needs. » 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

Luminosity

Rapid Translation of eLearning Courses

Bristol (UK), June 2010 - CM Luminosity has announced a new rapid- translation-support module. It fits alongside the Luminosity rapid eLearning authoring software and allows the automatic output of XLIFF documents that are ready for translation by the chosen translation method. XLIFF is the industry standard XML document format for content translation and localisation. » MORE

Thinking Worlds

Serious Games Challenge Winners Announced

London (UK), June 2010 - Caspian Learning challenged both novice and expert users alike to create the most innovative serious game in just thirty days. The entries were whittled down to two finalists whose games were selected based on how well the entrant used Thinking Worlds innovatively to create a game with a good storyline and good use of learning interactions. » MORE