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Better Integration

5 Ideas for Embedding Learning into the Workflow

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - This year, the annual and independent Towards Maturity Benchmark highlighted that nine out of ten learning-and-development professionals recognize the need to better integrate learning and work. In their report IMC and Towards Maturity show - with the help of survey results - innovative methods, theories, and practical case studies how to support employees in their daily working processes. » more

Trends and Realities

EMEA Analyst Launches New 9-Grid™ Model

Cirencester (UK), July 2013 - Elearnity, the leading European analyst, has announced a new model for analysing the performance and potential of solutions and vendors in the learning and talent market place. The Elearnity 9-Grid™ model is based on the results of independent research and insights from Elearnity’s corporate research network of over 100 client organisations, including BP, Lloyds Banking Group, Rolls Royce, and Vodafone. » more

White Paper

Top Tips for Successful Talent Management

Cobham (UK), July 2013 – Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a provider of business applications and services, has commissioned a white paper that explores the increasing importance of “talent management” in the HR field. The paper looks at how an organisation can maximise efforts to attract, mould, and retain the best people in the current financial climate and as employee expectations continue to change. » more

For the Third Time

Hat-trick for Tata Interactive Systems

Mumbai (IN), July 2013 – Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is a strategic partner in enabling the success of key organizational initiatives of Fortune 500 companies. In 2013, TIS has again been placed among the top twenty global content-development companies – being honored for the third straight year. TrainingIndustry.com’s annual global survey results confirm Tata Interactive Systems’ supremacy in developing custom content. » more

Changing Values

Engagement Key to Success in Compliance eLearning

Warwickshire (UK), July 2013 - A major new study has revealed that over two thirds of the organisations queried fail to engage their employees with their compliance learning programmes despite improved engagement being an objective for 98% of participants. Compliance training’s poor reputation was also cited by over half of respondents as negatively impacting the success of their programmes. » more

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"On-the-Go"

New Personal Training Fitness App

London (UK), July 2013 - Award-winning personal training provider MotivatePT have partnered with European software developer Mercier Technologies SARL to create their latest fitness application designed to help clients with their personal training programs. The fitness app is the latest in a suite of technology developments designed for MotivatePT to use in conjunction with their customers' personal training sessions. » more

Workplace Health

CM Group Creates NHS-Endorsed Stress Training

Bristol (UK), July 2013 - CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative learning solutions comprising interactive eLearning and mLearning, has created Lighten Up’s eLearning courses. These form part of a blended-learning programme to help address stress, improve the work-life balance of employees; and reduce the cost of absenteeism for employers. » more

Diabetes

Online Support Resource for People with Diabetes

Brighton (UK), July 2013 - Diabetes UK and next-generation learning expert Brightwave, together with Bupa, have partnered to create support and resources for people with Type 2 diabetes. In the UK, ninety percent of the three million people living with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes, while a further 850,000 people have Type 2 but have not yet been diagnosed. » more

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Real Meaning

Redtray Changes Name to Commelius

London (UK), July 2013 - The training and learning-technology provider Redtray Solutions Ltd has announced its new company name - Commelius Solutions Ltd. CEO Carl Smith says, "We’re still the same great organisation with the same great variety of products and services. The only thing that has changed is that we now have a name that reflects what we try to achieve for our customers." » more

App for Sales People

Video Arts Wins IELA Award for mLearning

London (UK), July 2013 - Video Arts has won the 2013 International eLearning Award for the best business use of mobile learning, presented by the International eLearning Association. The winning project was a bespoke app that Video Arts created for a global telecoms group to provide product and skills training via smartphones and tablets to over 500 field-based sales people. » more

International Growth

IMC Opens Office in San Francisco

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - With subsidiaries in Graz, London, Melbourne, Sibiu, and Zurich, IMC has mainly been present in Europe and Asia. Now, however, due to the global spread of the company’s learning solutions, a higher demand for its service and support activities has risen in North and South America. » more

SkillSet

Customer Success Story: British American Tobacco

London (UK), July 2013 - British American Tobacco recently implemented a new eRecruitment system based on the Kenexa 2x BrassRing platform. The company needed to find a way to train and support users – spread across more than 180 countries - and ensure that the new system was successfully adopted. » more

Get in the Game

My Nikon World Is a New Facebook Experience

Melville, NY (USA), July 2013 - Nikon has announced the launch of the exciting new interactive experience My Nikon World, a Facebook application that awards users for doing what they love: taking great photos. User participation will be rewarded with community points and digital badges for uploading photos and participating in the community. The experience will include contributions from Nikon professional photographers, who will issue challenges for users to earn points, badges, and bragging rights. » more

Machine Learning

Saba’s Next-Generation Talent-Management Platform

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), July 2013 - Saba has announced that it has built patent-pending machine-learning technology into its open, standards-based talent-management platform. This bold innovation adds to the company’s advanced cloud platform that was announced this past March at People 2013, Saba’s annual global user conference. In addition, the company has continued to enhance end-user engagement and several other key features of its platform, including social, mobile, and core learning functionalities. All these enhancements are critical for transforming learning and talent-management processes and helping organizations meet the challenges in today’s new world of work. » more

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Learning Marketplace

Elliott Masie Video Webinar for Learning Suppliers

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), July 2013 - Elliott Masie, Chair of the Learning CONSORTIUM and Host of Learning 2013, will provide a thirty-minute interactive video briefing for learning suppliers and vendors on shifts in the learning marketplace at 12 noon (Eastern Daylight Saving Time) on 30 July 2013. » more

Conference in Spain

EFMD Launches New Career-Services Network

Brussels (BE), July 2013 - At the request of the EFMD membership, EFMD is launching a new networking group focused on career services. The first conference of this new network will be hosted by IE Business School, Madrid, Spain on 20 - 22 November. » more

User Conference

Questionmark Users to Meet in Barcelona 10-12 November

London (UK), July 2013 - Users of Questionmark’s assessment-management system will gather for two days of intensive learning at the Questionmark 2013 European Users Conference in Barcelona, 10-12 November. Conference delegates will explore best practices in deploying online surveys, quizzes, tests, and exams. » more

Draft a Blueprint

Equinox Summit Learning 2030

Waterloo (CA), July 2013 - Equinox Summit Learning 2030, 29 September - 03 October 2013 in Waterloo, Ontario, brings together experts in education and young leaders to draft a blueprint for high-school education that serves the high-school graduates of 2030. The event will be hosted by the Waterloo Global Science Initiative. » more

Moscow Education

Shaping the Future by Building on Traditions

Moscow (RU), July 2013 - The "Education 3.0" international exhibition will be held as a part of the Moscow Salon of Education (MSE), an extensive international forum 31 October - 03 November 2013. The event will embrace leading innovative technologies in the education sphere. » more