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Salt Lake City, UT (USA), May 2017 - eLearning Brothers has announced a first in the training industry: Customizable Courseware. Customizable Courseware is a fully designed and developed training package that includes the eLearning source files, classroom materials, and PowerPoint presentations.  » MORE

Riyadh (SA), May 2017 - LEORON Institute, one of the Gulf Cooperation Council region’s leading training providers has recently signed an MoU with BAE Systems SDT, a Saudi Arabian subsidiary of Britain’s BAE Systems, one of the foremost multinational defense, security, and aerospace companies.  » MORE

Saint Louis, MO (USA), May 2017 – ej4, an award-winning eLearning-content and learning-management-system (LMS) provider has added a new social-community feature to its LMS, Thinkzoom. This new space was created to encourage learners to connect with other learners for friendly competition, knowledge sharing, and training reinforcement for a more engaging learning experience. » MORE

Pune (IN), May 2017 - LinkedIn recently released a report on workplace learning entitled "2017 Workplace Learning Report", highlighting the top trends and challenges in 2017 that L&D professionals are tackling. While the report has generated buzz in the industry, companies are increasingly faltering to find new ways and means to tackle the challenges. UpsideLMS, a highly regarded SaaS learning-management system, has once again put itself in the driver’s seat to help companies surmount the problems and emerge unscathed. » MORE

Raleigh, NC (USA), May 2017 - Training Industry has announced its 2017 Content Development Companies Watch List as part of its mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies. » MORE

Ilkley (UK), May 2017 - Virtual College is to work in partnership with Arabian Child to deliver innovative online child-safeguarding training in the Middle East. The partnership will help support a new initiative in the United Arab Emirates that makes child-protection training mandatory for individuals who work with children. The UAE’s new child-protection law applies to all children up to the age of eighteen and will place teachers on the front line in the crackdown on child abuse. » MORE

Chester (UK), May 2017 - Global eLearning supplier EssentialSkillz have launched a new product that enables any client to deploy and update fully editable off-the-shelf training from the EssentialSkillz training library in their own LMS without the need to re-upload course files after editing.  » MORE

London (UK), May 2017 - The Towards Maturity Benchmark™ gives L&D leaders an opportunity to review their strategy and personally identify the tactics they need to unlock potential in their organisation. » MORE

Hertfordshire (UK), May 2017 - Business Smart International, a leading business-simulation company, will deliver an engaging and innovative live-simulation event for a global banking client. In a prestigious London hotel, over 600 high-calibre graduates will take control of a virtual bank and navigate it through a simulated four years of business in a challenging marketplace.  » MORE

Cirencester (UK), May 2017 - Acheson and Glover Ltd manufacture a wide range of construction and landscaping products for both the commercial and residential sectors. They employ over 400 staff and have a very broad and diverse customer base of both construction professionals and domestic consumers. All of their Health and Safety Training was previously done face to face and took over an hour, putting a lot of strain on the training department. » MORE

London (UK), May 2017 - Blackboard Inc., a leading education-technology company for teaching, learning, and student engagement, has announced general availability of Blackboard Ally, its accessibility solution that helps make course content more accessible for all learners. » MORE

Berlin (GER), May 2017 - Uncertainty is the defining characteristic of our age. Can we learn to live with it? Can we accept it, manage it, and even thrive on it? We live in an age of acceleration. We are in the midst of a sea-change - a profound, transformative shift in knowledge, experience, and perception. It is a new era defined by technology, globalisation, information, and - above all - uncertainty.  » MORE

London (UK), May 2017 - The Learning Technologies Awards 2017 programme is underway:  the awards entry is open; sixteen awards categories have been announced; sponsorship opportunities are available; key dates have been set. » MORE

London (UK), May 2017 - The Learning Technologies Summer Forum has announced its speaker lineup and published the conference programme for the upcoming one-day event in London this June.  » MORE

London (UK), May 2017 - Dr Itiel Dor, cognitive neuroscientist, is to open the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in London this June, aiming to help the L&D community to create memorable learning experiences that affect long-term behaviour. » MORE

Heerlen (NL), May 2017 - The final programme for the World Learning Summit 2017, 07-09 June 2017 in Kristiansand, Norway, has been published. Exciting keynotes, interactive workshops, scientific research, EdTech experiences, and innovative projects provide many reasons to attend WLS 2017.  » MORE