Themen

Blackboard Executives

Supporting IMS Global Learning Consortium Boards

Lake Mary, FL (USA) August 2007 - IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) has selected two Blackboard executives to serve on its boards. Blackboard's President and CEO, Michael Chasen, was appointed to the organization's Executive Strategic Council. Blackboard's President of North America Higher Education and Operations, Peter Segall, was elected to its Board of Directors. » MORE

Portable Navigation

TomTom Academy Helps Retailers to Advise Buyers

Amsterdam (NL), August 2007 - TomTom, the world's largest portable navigation provider, launched its new Academy. The TomTom Academy is an extensive eLearning programme for in-store staff at retailers to enhance their knowledge of satellite navigation and TomTom products and services. The TomTom Academy enables in-store staff to better advise potential buyers and guide them in their search to find a navigation device that best fits their needs. » MORE

Learning Planet

Tata Interactive Systems Launches Its Own LCMS

London (UK) / Mumbai (India), August 2007 - The global learning solutions provider Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has launched Learning Planet™, an enterprise learning content management system (LCMS). Learning Planet™ is based on TIS's business insights gained from some thirty custom-built learning management system (LMS) implementations at clients including McGraw-Hill and the Bank of Montreal. » MORE

Educational Value

Worlddidac Quality Charter Accreditation for Digital Publishing

Munich (GER)/Bern (CH) - August, 2007 - digital publishing, a leading producer of interactive learning software, has received certification under the Worlddidac Quality Charter (WQC). This prestigious designation was presented by the Worlddidac Foundation, an independent, international trade association for the education market with members in nearly fifty countries. The Worlddidac Quality Charter is a quality certification for companies who participate in educational projects worldwide. » MORE

Interactivity Builder

New Release 4.5 Makes Raptivity More Flexible

Redmond, WA (USA), August 2007 - Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced a major update of Raptivity - release 4.5. The significant highlights are the increased ease and flexibility of deployment in a multi-user corporate environment and more convenient integration with other tools. This release also comes with a Spell Checker add-on and a learning interaction guide. » MORE

Partnerships

Assima Goes for Growth in the Far East

London (UK), August 2007 - Assima Plc has taken a major step into the training market in the Asia-Pacific region with the signing of partnership deals with two leading training organisations based in China and Singapore. The partnerships with eLearn Consult Ltd (ELC) and Knowledge Platform (KP) will enable the companies to market and resell Assima products and services. » MORE

Collaboration

University Network Chooses HarvestRoad Hive

Perth (AU), July 2007 - Technology company HarvestRoad has announced that oncampus GmbH has chosen HarvestRoad Hive® and IBM systems as its future digital marketplace Learning Object Repository infrastructure solution. oncampus GmbH is made up of 25 German and Baltic Universities that provide eLearning courses for their International University Network, which represents thousands of distant-education-program students from around the world. » MORE

MyKnowledgeMap

The UK's Biggest Mobile-learning Project

York (UK), July 2007 - The UK's largest-scale exercise in mobile education to date is helping 9,000 students throughout Yorkshire to assess their own competencies via their phones and related handheld devices. The Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS) aims to ensure that the graduates, studying sixteen different subjects from a wide range of health and social care courses, have the skills needed to be effective in the workplace. » MORE

UK Expansion

CrossKnowledge Collaborates with the Open University

London (UK), July 2007 - CrossKnowledge, a European leader in web-based management training with more than one million users worldwide, has introduced the first in a series of distance learning management programmes developed with the Open University. The launch of the course on effective project management follows CrossKnowledge's recent expansion to the UK and the opening of its London headquarters, aimed at serving the second-largest eLearning market in the world. » MORE

Partnership

QA-IQ Expands International Delivery

Slough (UK), July 2007 - QA-IQ, an English IT-Training company, has launched a global partnership programme to provide its customers with access to technical, professional skills, management, and personal-development training across a wide range of international locations. » MORE