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Toronto (CA), December 2016 - The newly released eLearning Market Trends and Forecast 2017-2021 report by Docebo, a leading learning-management-system provider, addresses the emerging technology, new learning trends, and evolving business needs that will shape the eLearning industry for the next five years. » MORE

London (UK), December 2016 - Caroline Freeman, Director of Design at global learning and performance agency Brightwave Group, celebrated success at Learning Technologies Awards ceremony in the Learning Designer of the Year category. Nearly 800 guests gathered at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel, London for the newly rebranded awards gala to recognise the best in digital learning technologies and solutions. » MORE

Saarbruecken (GER), December 2016 - At 26.6% (Q2/2016), unemployment levels in South Africa are extremely high. Youth unemployment in particular is often a supply-side problem because many young South Africans lack the appropriate skills and higher education qualifications, required for a high-skills economy. Many students are leaving the secondary school system underprepared. South Africa still has a post-school education-and-training system that does not offer sufficient places to the many youth and adults seeking education and training. Also, those students entering a college are usually not on the same knowledge level, and therefore many of them struggle to keep up in class. » MORE

Vienna (A), December 2016 - Knowing, not learning, is the goal. The KnowledgeFox learning solution, developed by an Austrian pioneer in microlearning, focuses on results and makes it easy to get them. » MORE

London (UK) / Mexico (MX), December 2016 - Totara Learning has targeted Latin America, with a brand-new Mexican eLearning company joining the Totara Partner network. e-Mentory and Medio Digital are brands of the Soluciones GBC S.C partnership. Both brands are specialised in different, yet complementary, services and products, offering customers a full digital solution. » MORE

Gloucestershire (UK), December 2016 - New research has been initiated to get beyond the hype surrounding the next generation of learning technology and uncover what is working for organisations in practice. The Digital Learning: European Realities research is led by Fosway Group, a European HR and learning analyst and a leading European workplace-learning event, Learning Technologies, accompanied by its supporting community, The Learning and Skills Group. » MORE

London (UK), December 2016 - As we look towards the fast-approaching New Year, SumTotal, a leading provider of unified HCM solutions proven to drive organizational performance, took the opportunity to ask 100 customers in Germany and the UK about the HR challenges they’ve faced this year. The survey results found that 38% of respondents considered a lack of insight into the existing skills within their business to be the biggest challenge when upskilling their workforce. Another big finding was related to the question of data: 60% of those asked stated they needed data to confidently understand the L&D needs across the business.  » MORE

Ottawa (CA), December 2016 - For dominKnow Learning Systems, it's both something old AND something new. Winners of the "Top Learning Content Management System" for the second year in a row, dominKnow has also added an Award of Excellence in "Mobile Authoring" in this year's edition of the prestigious Elearning! Magazine Best of Elearning! Awards. » MORE

London (UK), December 2016 - Fuse Universal has announced the appointment of Robert Wrubel, Founding CEO of Ask Jeeves, to its Board of Directors. "Rob’s impressive experience across a number of important businesses adds an invaluable perspective to our Board," said Steve Dineen, CEO of Fuse Universal. "We appreciate his willingness to serve as a director." » MORE

London (UK), December 2016 - The apprenticeship support and knowledge for schools (ASK) project will deliver apprenticeship and traineeship information to young people in years 10, 11, 12, and 13. This will ensure young people are aware of all the options available to them. The project is funded by the Skills Funding Agency and National Apprenticeship Service and will offer young people in the North, Midlands, London, and the South the skills they need to get on in work. » MORE

Nancy (F), December 2016 - UNIT- Université de Lorraine/ LORIA will host the 2017 ICDE Presidents’ Summit, taking place 22-23 May 2017 in Nancy, France with the theme "Adaptive learning and learning analytics: possible consequences for leadership management". » MORE

Berlin (GER), December 2016  - (by Andreas von Oertzen) ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN’s banner is "Shaping the Future of Learning". This year’s event (OEB 2016), entitled "Own Your Own Learning", marked the twenty-second edition of the international conference on technology-supported learning and training for the corporate, education, and public sectors. » MORE

London (UK) / Singapore (SG), December 2016 - CloserStill Media, the London-based exhibition and conference organiser, has announced the acquisition of LEARNTech Asia from Kydon Holdings for an undisclosed sum. CloserStill, recently ranked number 10 in the Sunday Times International FastTrack 200 of the UK’s fastest-growing exporters, will incorporate LEARNTech Asia into its launch of the Learning Technologies Asia conference and exhibition, to be held 08-09 November 2017 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.   » MORE

Berlin (GER), December 2016 - If you’re looking for state-of-the-art technology in education, or innovative ideas about how the public sector can work in partnership with private firms to boost learning outcomes, you may want to book a trip to Iceland. Rebecca Stromeyer, Managing Director of ICWE, the Berlin-based firm that organizes OEB, the global cross-sector conference on technology-supported learning and training, has decided to do just that. In June 2017, shortly before midsummer, she will launch "OEB MidSummit", a new event that she describes as "part university, part think-tank, part party," in Reykjavik, the world’s most northern capital city and the perfect mid-point between North America with Europe. » MORE

Orlando, FL (USA), December 2016 - Please consider contributing by submitting an article to the eighth International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2017, to be held on March 21 - 24, 2017, in Orlando, Florida, USA. » MORE

London (UK), December 2016 - Gain invaluable practical insight into the "how" of social and collaborative learning at the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference with performance strategist Mark Britz and digital collaboration specialist James Tyer. » MORE