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An Hour to Skill

Virtual College Joins Government to Help Boost Nation’s Skills

Hannah BrindleIlkley (UK), January 2021 - Virtual College is delighted to be part of the "An Hour to Skill" campaign, alongside companies and other educational institutions. These include Amazon Web Services, FutureLearn, Cisco, Lloyds Bank, LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft, The Open University, and many more.

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Holistic Service

eCom Adds Consultancy Services to Expand Its Client Offering

Wendy EdieDunfermline (SCT), January 2021 - As part of its strategic move to supply overarching learning and development (L&D) solutions to its clients around the world, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom, is developing its consultancy offering. Wendy Edie, eCom's Managing Director, explained, "eCom originally focused on developing and providing innovative learning products and services. Now that we've reached our 25th year and have built an international reputation for dependability and reliability, we're not just broadening our digital L&D product offering. We're also developing the resources to provide clients with a complete solutions-based approach."

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Content Curation

Learning Pool's Stream LXP Integrates With Anders Pink

London (UK), December 2020 - Launched in 2017, Anders Pink is an award-winning content curation tool that enables learners, teams, and organisations to stay up to date and continuously learn about any given topic. Over one million learners and the world's leading learning providers and businesses save time, stay smart, and power continuous learning in the flow of work with Anders Pink.

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Nursing Education Program

Rhonda Lawes, Ph.D. (c) joins Lecturio as Director

Rhonda Lawes Ph.D.Leipzig (GER), December 2020 - Lecturio welcomes Rhonda Lawes Ph.D. (c), RN as Director of Nursing Education Programs. In her role, Professor Lawes will act as a link between the educators, students, and product developers guiding future content development and delivery.

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Collaborative Workflow

CrossKnowledge and Elucidat Announce Global Partnership

London (UK), December 2020 - CrossKnowledge, a leader in high impact digital learning solutions and Elucidat, an award-winning eLearning authoring platform for big employers, recently announced a new partnership to help clients speed and scale up the delivery of personalized and engaging training for large enterprises through eLearning.

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eThink Education

Open LMS Expands Global Moodle Offering with Acquisition

Indianapolis, IN (USA), December 2020 - Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG) has announced the acquisition of eThink Education, one of the largest Moodle providers in the world and a Platinum Totara Partner. With this addition, Open LMS, a subsidiary of LTG, will bolster its credentials in the high-growth Moodle market and expand its presence in North America by joining the largest commercial provider of the Moodle open source Learning Management System (LMS).

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Remote Working Platform

A Unique Working Home Professional Development Solution

Chelmsford (UK), December 2020 - Barefoot eLearning and Imagine Performance have announced their collaboration in the creation of a complete package of resources to help those working from home. The Barefoot suite of CPD accredited online courses and Imagine Performance's Perform™ Remote Working platform enable a learner to become fully prepared for remote working and track the implementation of their learning in their workplace, wherever that might be.

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Hope for the Unemployed

Free Online Courses Offered by Study Academy

London (UK), November 2020 - Workers are being offered a spark of hope as UK redundancies hit their highest level in more than a decade. Study Academy, an online training provider, offers thousands of courses to help people and organisations upskill, re-train, or simply learn something new.

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Increased Cyberattacks

Outmoded Training Methods in Cybersecurity

Spokane, WA (USA), November 2020 - (by Heather Stratford) The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed cybercriminal activity that has given rise to a surge in cyberattacks. With so many employees working remotely, and with so many new processes and so much uncertainty, nefarious actors continue to take advantage of the chaos. Cybersecurity awareness training is no longer reserved for financial institutions or hospitals. All organizations need it in order to prevent successful attacks - because if a business has money transactions, it is a target for criminals. Yet, cybersecurity training has not evolved to meet the current needs of an ever-changing workforce and its new work conditions.

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