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Security Training

Lack of Cyber-Security Awareness among Employees

London (UK), March 2016 - UK organisations are putting their reputation, customer trust, and competitive advantage at greater risk by failing to provide their staff with effective cyber-security awareness and capability to defend against cyber attacks, according to the latest research from AXELOS. » MEHR

Performance

Kallidus Appoints Tim Drewitt as Product Innovator

Cirencester (UK), March 2016 - As part of the product-management team, Tim will drive innovation by working in partnership with customers to understand their learning-technology roadmaps and ensure Kallidus' solutions deliver what they truly need. A key focus of Tim's role will be sharing best practice with customers to help them maximise their investments in learning technologies. » MEHR

Major Contracts from Mexico

Rheinmetall to Build Training Centre for Oil Platforms

Düsseldorf (GER), March.2016 - Rheinmetall has been awarded contracts worth €250 million to build and operate a modern centre for initial and advanced training of platform personnel for Mexico’s state-owned oil and gas producer PEMEX. Following a three-year construction and installation phase, Rheinmetall will operate the centre in Mexico for a period of twelve years. » MEHR

Case Study

RAW eLearning Made Simpler, Easier, and More Flexible

Glasgow (SCO), March 2016 - RAW Technology Ltd, a company providing spill response, remediation, and specialist environmental services, is seeing a number of benefits from using the Create eLearning learning-management system (LMS). According to Justin Price, a health and safety advisor whose responsibilities include delivering in-house training courses for RAW as well as acting as learning-system administrator, “Since making learning materials available via the LMS, we’ve noticed an immediate and appreciable reduction in our training-related travel and subsistence costs." » MEHR

Pan-European Collaboration

Gamification Nation Scoops Major Contract Win and Award

London (UK), March 2016 - Gamification Nation, a leading business gamification design consultancy, has recently won a contract from a globally known sports clothing and equipment provider. Under the contract, Gamification Nation will help this company to boost its gamification strategy for its learning and development departments. » MEHR

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Video Conferencing

Goto Paradiso LMS

San Francisco, CA (USA), March 2016 - "A simple yet powerful way to hold online meetings within your LMS. And what are the benefits? The system offers crystal-clear audio and razor-sharp video and is amazingly affordable and seamless", said Sach Chaudhari, CEO of Paradiso Solutions.  » MEHR

Learning Services

QA Receives Director’s Award from Red Hat

London (UK), March 2016 - QA, one of the UK leaders in IT and business-skills training, has been presented with a Director’s Award from Red Hat. Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open-source software solutions, gives one Director's Award a year to partners that go the extra mile in their work with Red Hat. » MEHR

After Ten Years

LEO Becomes a Certified Moodle Partner

Brighton (UK), March 2016 - The certification makes LEO an official provider of Moodle services, cementing its position as a leading supplier of learning platforms and innovative training blends to the global corporate market. » MEHR

Rebranding

ELearning Awards Becomes Learning Technologies Awards

London (UK), March 2016 - CloserStill Media, organisers of Europe's leading L&D event, Learning Technologies and the annual eLearning Awards, has announced it is to rebrand the awards programme as The Learning Technologies Awards. The goal is to broaden the Awards’ focus to cover the whole learning technology and eLearning market and bring the programme in line with its other “Learning Technologies” branded events and products. » MEHR

Accredited Skills

Collaborating to Save Charities from Boring eLearning

London (UK), March 2016 - The Charity Learning Consortium has partnered with Accredited Skills to offer its members access to an inspirational new range of learning resources. Accredited Skills’ unique approach has created an engaging library of online resources, using a multimedia mix that includes videos, offline workbooks, infographics, and eye-catching artwork. These include marketing help for learning professionals, along with images to support the in-house creation of course materials. » MEHR

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European Project

Leadership for the Digital Transformation of Universities

Barcelona (E), March 2016 - The aim of the Transforming Universities for the Digital Age (D-Transform) project is to introduce a leadership training programme for the presidents and vice presidents of European universities that takes into account the role of digital technologies and open educational resources (OER) to transform their institutions.  » MEHR

Abu Dhabi

Keynote on Open Learning at International IEEE EDUCON

Heerlen (NL), March 2016 - Dr Christian M. Stracke, Associate Professor for Open Education and Innovations from the Open University of the Netherlands, will deliver the keynote on open learning at the International IEEE EDUCON Conference 2016. The presentation is entitled “Open Learning for Smart Education: Open educational policies, strategies and access for all”.  » MEHR

Relaunch

Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education

Barcelona (E), March 2016 - The publication formerly known as “Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del conocimiento” (RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal) has been renamed the “International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education” (ETHE). On 31 August 2015, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), editors of the journal, entered into an agreement with the prestigious Springer publishing group for RUSC’s publication.  » MEHR

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OEB 2016

Ownership Is the New Buzzword in Education

Berlin (GER), March 2016 - “Owning Learning”, the theme for this year's OEB, Europe's leading conference on technology-assisted learning, reflects the growing view among education professionals that developments in technology have created a fundamental shift in education. » MEHR

Learning 2016

Astronaut Scott Kelly Announced as a Featured Keynote Speaker

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), March 2016 - Elliott Masie has announced that astronaut Scott Kelly will be a featured keynote speaker at Learning 2016, taking place 23-26 October in Orlando, Florida. Back from his historic record-breaking year in space, NASA astronaut Captain Scott Kelly has laid the groundwork for the future of space travel and exploration and continues to garner media exposure like no other pioneer of our time.  » MEHR

Video Pedagogy

Media & Learning Association’s Upcoming Webinar

Brussels (BE), March 2016 - "Defining Video Pedagogy and activating interaction", the next webinar in the Media & Learning Video in Higher Education series, will be held on 24 March at 15:00 (CET). It will focus on the huge potential that video has for learning engagement and on how to facilitate learning events in remote learning contexts.  » MEHR

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Royal Marsden School

Free eLearning to Support Cancer Care in the Community

Plymouth (UK), March 2016 - A free eLearning programme is being launched to help health and social care workers broaden their knowledge of cancer care in the community. The Royal Marsden School, which has a national and international reputation for excellence in cancer education, has commissioned eLearning provider Sponge UK to create the new healthcare training.  » MEHR

Staff Appreciation Audit

Positive Trend in Employee Recognition

Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 - Employers have capitalised on "good will" at the start of 2016 by better recognising staff members for their efforts, according to findings from a new survey from award-winning performance-improvement agency P&MM.  The survey was conducted among 1,435 employees across 52 UK organisations between January and February 2016. It revealed that 87 percent of staff felt appreciated by their colleagues and 85 percent by their direct managers. However, the data also suggests that senior leaders are lagging behind in their recognition efforts, with only 57 percent feeling appreciated by senior management. » MEHR