Corporate eLearning

London (UK), September 2009 - (by Bob Little) Research by Learning and Skills (L&S) - the new exhibition being co-located in London's Olympia exhibition venue with the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition in January 2010 - claims that businesses in the UK are responding to the adverse economic conditions by continuing to invest in skills that will be needed in the future. Donald H Taylor, chair of the L&S Group's membership community, is quoted as saying: "Training budgets used to be cut as a way of saving costs whereas, this time, companies seem to have recognized the need to keep investing in skills." » MORE

Munich (GER), September 2009 - Learning should be fun, motivating, and interactive. That's why the language-learning specialists from digital publishing send a tutor and other learners to their client's homes - via the Internet. » MORE

London (UK), September 2009 - Professional associations, textbook companies, awarding bodies, and other test publishers can streamline individual and bulk sales of online quizzes and tests using a new solution from Questionmark, a provider of assessment technologies and services. » MORE

Santa Monica, CA (USA), September 2009 - Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a provider of on-demand learning and talent management software and services, has proclaimed that despite the current economic climate, the company has performed at record levels for the third straight quarter. New client bookings for the first half of 2009 were up by more than 100 percent from the previous year, led by the addition of more than 742,000 new users. » MORE