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CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 21/01/2016 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710

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Higher Capability

Capita Acquires eLearning Company Brightwave

London (UK), January 2016 - Capita has announced the acquisition of Brightwave, an eLearning company that specialises in designing learning solutions to improve performance in businesses. Seventy-five employees in Brighton will transfer to Capita as part of the deal. » more

Plethora of Choices

Why Video Is Still a Vital Part of Internal Communications Plan

Berlin (GER), January 2016 - Simpleshow is a rapidly expanding Berlin-based company that specializes in "explainer videos". The following explains their view on the importance of their work in a variety of professional contexts. » more

Latest Annual Rankings

Top Ten eLearning Movers and Shakers lists

St. Albans (UK), January 2016 - Now in its seventh year, the latest annual lists of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate eLearning sector in the World, North America, Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific contain the names of 39 people. Of these, 26 are men and 13 are women. » more

New Components

Social Learning Analytics and Contents

Edmondo GnerreAvellino (I), January 2016 - New technologies like cloud computing, real-time collaboration, and social and mobile technologies have already transformed our personal lives and are now moving into the workplace. This is changing the expectations about how managers and employees access information, learn new things, and share ideas inside and outside the organization, anytime and anywhere. Italdata has developed new components to satisfy these trends. Italdata is exhibiting at Learning Technologies 2016. » more

Snap Interface

Blackboard Releases Moodlerooms 2.9 Upgrade

London (UK), January 2016 - Blackboard has announced the release of Moodlerooms 2.9, its enterprise open source solution dedicated to institutions and organisations that leverage Moodle, one of the most widely used learning-management systems (LMSs) in the world. » more

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Partnerships

2015 Totara Learning Awards Winners Announced

Brighton (UK), January - The Totara Learning Awards 2015 recognise the expertise, performance, and outstanding projects from across our global partner network. This year has been more tightly fought than ever. » more

Report

The Secret Learning Life of UK Managers

Edinburgh (SCO), January 2016 - A GoodPractice/ComRes report of 500 senior managers in the UK has produced some startling results. For example, it revealed that UK managers do not care how good their learning resources are; they are still going to use Google first because it is easy. » more

Third Generation

Learning Portal "VR-Bildung" for 185,000 Users

Friedrichsdorf (GER), January 2016 - The 1,047 cooperatively organised German Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken have implemented a common online-learning portal with VR-Bildung. Since 2008, the learning-management system SITOS from M.I.T has been the technical basis for VR-Bildung, which together with its many network partners have made it one of the largest learning portals in Europe. » more

Fourth Annual Survey

Speexx Releases Global Research Results on Corporate L&D

Armin HoppMunich (GER), January 2016 - Speexx, a global provider of corporate online language training, has released initial findings from its fourth annual survey of HR and L&D professionals. The survey reveals that flexible learning, big data, and better employee communications are recognised as key enablers to align learning more closely to business requirements. The results will be available as a white paper and infographic at the Learning Technologies show in London, 03-04 February 2016. » more

Effectiveness

Upside Learning’s Client Case Studies Released as Videos

Pune (IN), January 2016 - Upside Learning has released the first set of Video Case Studies for its Custom eLearning and Custom mLearning solutions. Keeping pace with the rising consumption of video content and the great potential it offers, Upside Learning has released its first set of five video case studies for Custom eLearning and mLearning. Earlier available on the Upside Learning website as text-based PDFs with course screengrabs, these case studies have been infused with new life in their video versions. » more

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Value Proposition

Powerful Experiential Learning for Business Impact

Paris (F), January 2016 - StratX has launched a new value proposition for 2016. With the tagline "Powerful Experiential Learning for Business Impact", the company is engaged to provide experiential learning programs instilled with emotion and competitive spirit, leading to lasting on-the-job change. » more

eLearning Guide 2016

The Current Trends and Future of eLearning

London (UK), January 2016 - Following the success of its Unconscious Bias whitepaper, Marshall eLearning is making a follow-up resource available: The Guide to eLearning in 2016. In this eLearning guide, L&D professionals will find everything needed to understand current best practice, how eLearning can be used to improve the performance of staff with an organisation, and strategies for planning training and development programmes. » more

Flexible Solution

ILX Launches a New App Designed to Support Classroom

London (UK), January 2016 – ILX, the global best-practice learning company, has launched the "ILX Player App" to allow mobile access to a broad range of ILX’s eLearning courses. The new app provides users with short video content that actively supports online or classroom training. This includes a wide range of courses such as PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Management of Risk (MoR), Agile PM, and ITIL. » more

L&D Environment

Olive Learning to Unveil Oculus Rift for eLearning

Dublin (IR), January 2016 - A new wave of virtual reality (VR) applications is to be showcased at Learning Technologies 2016 that allows L&D professionals to deliver a cost-effective and truly immersive learning experience for employees. » more

Gamification LMS

Reward Centre to Offer Learners Real-World Prizes

Berkshire (UK), January 2016 - Growth Engineering, a multi-award-winning learning-technologies company, has added new functionality to its social, gamified Academy LMS. The Reward Centre allows learners to trade in online points and badges for tangible rewards. » more

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Learning Technologies

International Blended Learning: Learning in Diversity

Ashridge (UK), January 2016 - Today’s managers and employees must acquire, assimilate, and apply knowledge much faster and efficiently to meet organisational goals. In a competitive and fast-paced environment, blended learning and collaboration are central to executive and management learning. Ashridge helps people to better understand blended learning in an international arena and how to empower learning through diverse experiences. » more

eCom Scotland

Cloud-Based Authoring for eLearning Teams

Dunfermline (SCO), January 2016 - eCom Scotland will launch eNetAuthor, its new cloud-based authoring tool for eLearning teams, at Learning Technologies 2016. This new tool is designed to help companies manage the creation of eLearning projects from the initial concept right through to delivery. » more

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gomo learning to Launch Native App Capability

Brighton (UK), January 2016 - gomo learning is delighted to announce the launch of a revolutionary learning distribution method, the gomo central app, at Learning Technologies 2016. The gomo central app allows teams to deploy multi-device learning content direct to devices at a global scale. By harnessing the power of gomo, teams can publish content to devices in minutes, giving learners easy access to training on the device of their choice. » more

Key topics

Gamification, Mobile Learning, and Learning Analytics

Saarbrücken (GER), January 2016 - IMC will be exhibiting at the Learning Technologies, 2016 – Europe’s leading L&D exhibition and conference as one of 250 exhibitors. Experts from IMC UK Learning will talk about current learning trends and new products at the upcoming Learning Technologies, 03-04 February 2016 at Stand P9. » more

Business Networking

Global eLearning Systems User Group Conference

Genoa (I), January 2016 - The latest in a series of user-group conferences organised by eXact learning solutions takes place at the Ibis London Earl’s Court Hotel, 02 February. The user-group conference is a preface to the two-day Learning Technologies conference and exhibition, which opens the following day in London’s Olympia - and at which eXact learning solutions will be exhibiting. » more






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