Themen

Cutting Costs

BB&T Bank Gets Instant Pay Back with ForceTen LCMS

Nashua, NH (USA), February 2008 - A year after deploying Eedo ForceTen™, BB&T, America's eleventh largest bank, is reveling in the success of its learning and development programs. Since it began to use Eedo Knowledgeware's learning content management system (LCMS), BB&T has been able to move 55 courses online, employees are finishing their courses sooner, delinquency rates have declined by an average of seventy percent, and the firm has saved a considerable amount of money by moving away from a mainframe system. » MORE

Second Life

Avatar Languages Offers New Methods in Teaching

La Paz (Bolivia), January 2008 - Second Life has established itself as an arena for innovative online education, attracting universities and eLearning institutes. One such institution is the virtual language school Avatar Languages, which has pioneered an approach to language teaching it calls "SurReal Quests". These Quests combine Second Life language teaching with real life and a wealth of media-rich online resources by integrating communicative and task-based approaches to learning. » MORE

From BBC to LINE

New Lead Consultant Appointed

London (UK), January 2008 - LINE Communications, a leading provider of learning and communications solutions, has appointed former BBC executive Gareth Jones as Lead Consultant. Gareth will be responsible for helping clients deliver business-focused results on their learning strategies. » MORE

Release 3.0

CourseAvenue Expands Hybrid eLearning Functionality

Warrenville, IL (USA), January 2008 - CourseAvenue, a leader in Learning Content Authoring Systems and learning integration services, is pleased to announce the availability of CourseAvenue Version 3.0. This important new release expands the collaborative functionality CourseAvenue brings to eLearning development teams at organizations around the world. » MORE

Growing Business

Kineo Appoints Operations Director

Brighton (UK), January 2008 - Rapid eLearning provider Kineo has announced the appointment of Nick Reed as the company's new Director of Operations. Nick's appointment follows Kineo's strong growth throughout 2007 and further expansion plans for 2008. » MORE

Neighborhood Watch

Steven Johnson's View on Digital Culture

Boston, MA (USA), January 2008 - (by Manuel Aineto) Steven Johnson is one of the fundamental analysts of digital culture of the last decade. Essay writer, popular science divulgator, and also Internet enterprising, he comments here on outside.in, his last initiative on the Web to provide users with information about what happens around their own neighbourhoods. » MORE

Romania

What do Banks Look for in an eLearning Solution?

Bucharest (RO), January 2008 - (by Elena Lita) ING Bank Romania has taken a step further in addressing its training needs. Now the bank is training its employees with the INTUITEXT solutions. Laura-Elena Duta, INTUITEXT's Corporate eLearning Product Manager, was kind enough to speak to us about this project within the dynamic context of the Romanian banking sector, which is growing continuously. » MORE

The Netherlands

Blackboard Signs Nationwide Agreement

Amsterdam (NL), January 2008 - Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of enterprise technology to the education community, has announced that it has signed a major three- year nationwide eLearning expansion agreement with SURFdiensten and SLBdiensten in the Netherlands. SURFdiensten facilitates the use of ICT in higher education and research, while SLBdiensten provides licenses for vocational, secondary, and adult education. Over a million students in the Netherlands and Belgium currently access Blackboard's software. » MORE

eGovernment

The French Finance Ministry Introduces eTraining

Nantes (F), January 2008 - As part of its strategy to becoming a true eTraining institute, the Institute for Public Management and Economic Development (IGPDE - Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement Economique), a training organisation for the French economic and budgetary ministries, has set up a monitored eTraining system based on the MEDIAplus solution from the company Editions ENI. EGovernment or electronic government is a fundamentally new, integrated, and continuous way of serving public departments by optimising the deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). » MORE

Fire Service College

IMC (UK) Learning Ltd Wins Major Tender

Sevenoaks (UK), January 2008 - IMC's learning management system CLIX overcame intense competition from a number of established players in the UK to win the Fire Service College tender for the implementation of a new Managed Learning System. Alongside CLIX, IMC's rapid authoring tool LECTURNITY will be used to enhance the creation and delivery of learning and communications content for the Fire Service College. Implementation of the CLIX system, hosted initially by IMC, is starting immediately with an initial 24-month contract. » MORE