Themen

Veteran L&D Recruiter

Cathy Sands Joins SweetRush Talent Solutions Team

San Francisco, CA, (USA) January 2022 - SweetRush, a learning and development vendor known for engaging solutions and a culture of caring, has announced the addition of Cathy Sands to its growing Talent Solutions team, which helps clients build L&D teams with contingent labor.

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Acquisition in the UK

Semcon Expands in Digital Learning

Derbyshire (UK), January 2022 - In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of organisations are discovering that digital learning solutions offer learning that is flexible and targeted to their audiences. Through the acquisition of the UK company Walkgrove, Semcon is expanding its leading offering in digital learning with a local presence in a new geographic market.

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Adaptive Learning

Learning Pool Acquires True Office Learning

Derry (XI), January 2022 - Learning Pool, a UK-based leader in learning technology, has announced the acquisition of True Office Learning, the award-winning adaptive compliance technology firm based in New York City. True Office Learning is the creator of award-winning adaptive eLearning and behavioral-intelligence technology that measurably improves performance in organizations around the world. 

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Digital Transformation

eCom Scotland Helps Future-Proof Organisations' Learning Strategies

Wendy Edie, Managing Director eComDunfermline (SCT), January 2022 - The internationally known provider of online training and assessment, eCom Scotland, is helping organisations future-proof their learning and assessment strategies. It has been encouraged to take this step by the growing focus on combatting climate change and the workplace becoming carbon neutral - fostered by the COP26 climate change conference held in Glasgow towards the end of last year.

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Data Analytics Career Accelerator

Thoughtworks Joins as Industry Collaborator

Danilo Sato, Head of Data & AI Services UK at ThoughtworksLondon (UK), January 2022 - Technology consultancy Thoughtworks has joined the Data Analytics Career Accelerator, a new programme developed by The London School of Economic and Political Science and online education company FourthRev. Set out as a specific skill in need earlier this year by the UK Government, there will be an estimated twenty million data analyst roles required by 2025 globally. This, combined with Thoughtworks' research showing that just 40 percent of CEOs worldwide regard their own knowledge of data strategy as "good", points to the fact that companies are eager to address the issue.

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Game-Changing Analytics

thirst LXP Launches in Partnership with Anders Pink

Manchester (UK), January 2022 - A brand-new learning experience platform has been launched by bespoke learning platform creators BuildEmpire. Partnering with leading content curators is Anders Pink, who will curate content from thousands of sources, while thirst targets the content specifically to each user's profile.

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Ambitions for Growth

Vlerick Business School Launches Entrepreneurship Academy

Brussels (BE), December 2021 - Entrepreneurship is of vital importance to the economy, as well as to society as a whole. Yet although Belgium is a country dominated by micro-companies (95.1%), it had just 9.3 startups per 1,000 residents in 2020. Just 920 fast-growing businesses are responsible for 52,779 new jobs. So, relatively few businesses grow quickly, not to mention sustainably. What's more, 79% of entrepreneurs say they lie awake worrying about the healthy continuation of their business, rather than growth in turnover, profit, and shareholder value.

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Open LMS

Pro-Bono Partnership with Pancare Foundation

Indianapolis, IN (USA), December 2021 - Open LMS, a major provider of open source learning systems, has announced a new pro-bono partnership with Australia-based Pancare Foundation, a leading charity committed to improving survival and support for people impacted by upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.

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eCom Scotland

Online Assessments Add Value for Oil and Gas Industry

Zdenek Sehnal, CEO IWCFDunfermline (SCT), December 2021 - Within the oil and gas drilling industry - a key part of a sector that produced revenues of some $3.3 trillion in 2019 and comprises some 3.8% of the global economy - the use of online assessment (eAssessment) is demonstrably improving the assessment process, as well as streamlining the operations of organisations and, thus, providing added value to their stakeholders.

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Research

L&D Struggling to Swap Courses for Real-Time Learning

London (UK), December 2021 - New research highlights disconnect between what leaders know and want L&D to look like and the continuing reality of course-led learning. The data reveals that as many as 40% of organisations are still working to course-led learning strategies, while just 4% are leading with real-time learning on the job. This is despite 92% of respondents agreeing that access to knowledge on demand is a key driver for business performance.

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