Themen

Product Marketing

Learn.com Names New Executive Director

Sunrise, FL (USA), July 2009 - Learn.com, provider of on-demand workforce development and productivity, has announced that David Wilkins, former Senior Director of Product Strategy at Mzinga (formerly KnowledgePlanet) has been named the company's Executive Director of Product Marketing. » MORE

Letter from UK

Elearning: now the yak herders' choice

London (UK), July 2009 - (by Bob Little) The UK eLearning sector has been intrigued to discover that the US-based learning content management system (LCMS) vendor OutStart has merged with Hot Lava Software, a company producing applications for mobile phone subscribers - with the newly combined companies conducting business as OutStart. Massood Zarrabian continues as CEO and president of OutStart, while Bob Sanregret, CEO of Hot Lava Software, becomes vice president of the OutStart Hot Lava Mobile business unit. » MORE

Gaining Speed

Digital Learning in the Middle East

Dubai (UAE), July 2009 - UKS, a learning-solutions enabler in the Middle East and the professional training provider Cegos Group have announced the launch of eLearning Solutions by Cegos (eLS) and Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) to support the long-term performance and growth of commercial and public-sector organisations in the Middle East. » MORE

Open Source

Kineo Supports Moodle's Site-Wide Groups

Brighton (UK), July 2009 - Kineo Open Source has donated $3000 AUS to Moodle, the open source learning management system. This will be put into the development fund run by the Moodle Trust - which contracts programrs to work on Moodle - to help fund the development of the Site-Wide Groups feature in Moodle 2.0, which is due at the end of 2009. » MORE

Rapid eLearning

Atlantic Link Chosen by Capital City Bank

Atlanta, GA (USA), July 2009 - After years of investing their training budget with third-party instructional designers, Capital City Bank has made an internal decision to bring their eLearning development in-house to save time, money, and resources. » MORE

Outsourcing

ELearning Report from ValueNotes

Pune (IN), July 2009 - ValueNotes, a business research company based in India, has announced the publications of 'eLearning Outsourcing 2009: Advantage India'. It features in-depth insights and analysis, including the competitive standing of India as an outsourcing destination, the services being outsourced, the client markets, and providers and their strategies for the future. » MORE

Search Tool

Finding Learning Resources Made Easy

Brisbane (AU), June 2009 - The Australian national training system's eLearning strategy "Framework", announces the release of an enhanced version of the Vetadata Tool, making it even quicker and easier to create Vetadata for learning resources. » MORE

Digital Repository

Giunti Labs Presents Solutions for Archiving

Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - At the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting organised by Sun Microsystems in St Julian's, Malta, from 24 - 26 June, Giunti Labs will present the new HarvestRoad Hive 4 Digital Repository (DR) platform for digital-content archiving and preservation initiatives of museums, libraries, and eGovernment. » MORE

Supplier Management

New Priority for Learning Outsourcing

Bracknell (UK), June 2009 - The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made 'supplier management' the current focus area for learning outsourcing, according to managed-learning specialist KnowledgePool. Their research indicates that 77% of organisations currently outsource some aspects of their learning provision and 5% outsource all learning activities. » MORE