Themen

Awards 2009

Atlantic Link Voted "Best eLearning Development Tool"

Atlanta, GA (USA), January 2010 - Elearning! and Government Elearning! Magazines have announced that Atlantic Link's collaborative rapid eLearning software, Content Point, has been voted as the "Best eLearning development tool" in the "Best of Elearning! Awards 2009". » MORE

Knowledge on Demand

Giunti Labs at Learning Technologies

Florence (IT), January 2010 - Giunti Labs believes that in a world of rapidly developing competition, organisations need to reinvent their training style and effectiveness if they are to keep their talents and competencies up to speed. » MORE

New Face

Pebble Learning Team Beefed up by Zoo Keeper

Telford (UK), January 2010 - Pebble Learning, producer of the online Personal Learning System PebblePad, has appointed a new ePortfolio Consultant. Matthew Wheeler formerly worked at the internationally renowned research department, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, led by Professor Gilly Salmon at the University of Leicester. Colin Dalziel, Director of Pebble Learning, comments, "We're delighted that Matthew has chosen to join Pebble Learning." » MORE

Social Business

Membership Rockets for eLearning Network CIC

Hadlow (UK), January 2010 - After more than twenty years as an unincorporated association with around 150 members, the eLearning Network (eLN), a non-profit organisation run by the eLearning community for the eLearning community, is beginning its first full year as a community-interest company (CIC). » MORE

Serious Games

Open Tendering: Four projects by KTM Advance Selected

Paris (F), January 2010 - As a result of the open tendering "Serious Games", launched in the "digital" part of the economic revival plan, the French government chose four projects in partnership with KTM Advance. Dedicated to Serious Games as well as to the Web 2.0 and financed with thirty million euros, this public offer reflects the government's intention to accelerate the digital change of both the economy and the French society. » MORE

Motorcycle Safety

Coastal Releases New Training Program

Virginia Beach, VA (USA), January 2010 - Coastal Training Technologies is covering new terrain with Motorcycle Safety Awareness, a timely training program that describes various ways to keep riders secure and helps prevent injuries and fatalities. » MORE

Letter from UK

Quantifying the almost unquantifiable

London (UK), December 2009 - (by Bob Little) A report on the UK eLearning sector in 2009 - 'The UK eLearning market 2009' - published this month by Learning Light, the Sheffield-based centre of excellence in the use of eLearning and learning technologies in the workplace, paints an optimistic picture: stating that the sector is 'flowering' despite the recession. The report's principal finding is that the UK eLearning industry remains 'robustly positive in its view of the market and the prospect for continuing growth'. » MORE

eLearning Survey

What Participants Tell Kineo about eLearning Challenges

Brighton (UK), December 2009 - Kineo has taken a look at the responses of the first part of their eLearning Best Practices survey. Over 200 individuals have responded, and the second part is now open for responses. This is a summary of some of the key trends and challenges raised in responses. For each challenge, Kineo proposes links to advice on the issue. » MORE

Content Development

Authoring and Delivery of eLearning Content Made Easy

Pune (IN), December 2009 - Upside Learning announces UpsideLMS Version 4.0, with an in-built, integrated authoring module for rapid content development. The authoring module presents an innovative way of rapid authoring using a number of templates that provide a complete WYSIWYG editing experience to the content authors. UpsideLMS Version 4.0 has been designed to offer a complete learning-management solution to the customers, including training management as well as content authoring/ management. Even though the output is completely Flash-based, the tool requires no knowledge of Flash. The author simply needs to have a storyboard ready. » MORE