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Hong Kong (HK), July 2019 - (ISC)², an association of certified cybersecurity professionals, has named DDLS an (ISC)² Official Training Provider to offer official (ISC)² cybersecurity education to certification candidates in Australia. The first official CISSP CBK training seminars announced will be held in Melbourne and Sydney. The first official (ISC)² CBK Training Seminars for the CISSP will be held at DDLS's venues in Sydney, 16-20 September, and in Melbourne, 14-18 October. » MORE

Plymouth (UK), July 2019 - The LPI's Learning Provider of the Year, Sponge, has launched Cybersecurity Sorted, an engaging learning game that transforms cybersecurity training to make people a first line of defence for businesses. With human error the root cause of one in five data breaches, the new mobile game not only mitigates risk, but arms employees with the skills and confidence to build a 'human firewall'. » MORE

San Rafael, CA (USA), July 2019 - Knowbly^TM, developer of an intuitive rapid authoring tool for creating digital content, has announced an eLearning industry first: a fully responsive, element accessible, mobile driven, interactive video and video assessment experience. » MORE

Saarbrücken (GER) / Graz (A), July 2019 - IMC provides eLearning content on a wide range of job training topics. IMC's Sales Manager, Sarah Pitzius, recently elucidated her thoughts on how to create the best content. » MORE

London (UK), July 2019 - Degreed, a leading workforce learning and skill-tracking platform, has announced it raised $35 million in equity funding from existing investors Owl Ventures, Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, and GSV Accelerate, along with new investor Alliance Bernstein. Degreed also closed a $40 million venture debt facility with Alliance Bernstein Growth Stage Capital. » MORE

Paris (F), July 2019 - Cegos, a worldwide provider in training and development, and Leapest, an EdCast company that offers a B2B marketplace for training resources, have signed a partnership agreement. Through this new partnership, the business buyers on Leapest marketplace will now have access to Cegos' eLearning catalog on soft skills (including HTML5 training modules). This premium content will be available to Leapest customers worldwide. » MORE

London (UK), July 2019 - Dedicated to developing new topics, alongside managing existing content, MicroLearn's Creative team have created nine brand new courses to be released in July 2019. The additions increase the size of their off-the-shelf catalogue to over 150 titles. » MORE

Karlsruhe (GER) / New York, NY (USA), July 2019 - time4you GmbH has yet another award to celebrate. This time, the company was awarded second place in the IELA, the International E-Learning Award 2019. The prize is awarded annually to the most successful applications, solutions, and products in the following categories: eLearning, Blended Learning, and Mobile Learning. » MORE

Bournemouth (UK), July 2019 - Unicorn LMS 8.5 brings improvements to many existing features, with enhanced form functionality with new fields and email options, as well as introducing better ways to report on them. Unicorn continues to update eCreator, making it even easier to design content. There have been improvements to My Team Activity for tracking Team activity progress. This release also sees the introduction of the Qualification Portlet enhancing the Qualification functionality of the LMS. » MORE

London (UK), July 2019 - Eukleia, a specialist in governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) training, has published a new ebook, titled "5 approaches to creating engaging compliance training". » MORE

London (UK), July 2019 - Filtered's groundbreaking AI recommendation engine, magpie, has amassed 45,000 delighted users. In their Summer Forum seminar, Filtered's Head of Customer Success, Rob MacAllister, will explain how attendees can implement the engagement and adoption techniques that have helped the L&D teams they work with successfully introduce this new tool to large audiences. » MORE

London (UK), July 2019 - Evidence is vital to backing up a case for change and even more powerful when internal data is being compared against high-performing learning organisations. » MORE

Vienna (A), July 2019 - The 14th Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation gathered trade unions in Vienna to discuss "A Fairer Europe for Workers". The 699 delegates, of whom 48.5% were women and 10% were young people, discussed the European Pillar of Social Rights. » MORE

Boston, MA (USA), July 2019 - ARtillery Intelligence's latest report examines original consumer survey data: How do consumers feel about VR? Who's using it? What devices and apps do they prefer? And what do they want to see next? Perhaps more important, what are non-users' reasons for disinterest? And how can VR software developers and hardware players optimize product strategies accordingly? » MORE