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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 20/11/2014 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
OpenSesame EI Design Partners with the "Amazon of eLearning" Bangalore (IN), November 2014 - Global eLearning solutions provider EI Design has announced a new partnership with OpenSesame, an eLearning marketing portal accessed by several Fortune 500 companies. "OpenSesame is the 'Amazon of eLearning', so we're really excited that this marketing portal will now carry our ProductLine Suite 1," says EI Design founder, Asha Pandey. » more Blue Eskimo The Learning Sector Can Shape Its Own Pay Stoke Prior (UK), November 2014 - Blue Eskimo’s salary and work survey is one of the most influential ways for learning professionals to make their views known to employers and clients, says the company. According to Blue Eskimo, learning sector pay has roughly flatlined, with no significant improvement since 2009. » more KnowledgePoint eCourseWare Platform to Revolutionise IT Training Market Berkshire (UK), November 2014 - Business-training courses are becoming more intense as organisations try to extract the maximum value for employees in the shortest possible time. Courses that might at one time have lasted five days are being brought down to three. Three-day courses are being reduced to just two. » more Latest Version UpsideLMS Goes Multi-Device Pune (IN), November 2014 - Upside Learning’s best value, multi-award winning learning- management system, UpsideLMS, is now available on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones and is supported on Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari on Mac and IE. » more eLearning Awards Game Gold Award for McDonald’s Till Training Brighton (UK), November 2014 - McDonald’s UK and global learning solutions company City & Guilds Kineo are celebrating the success of their recent collaboration, having picked up the Gold Award for an innovative approach to systems training at the 2014 eLearning Awards. » more Advertisement A 44% Increase Learning Awards 2015 Finalists Announced by LPI Coventry (UK), November 2014 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2015 Learning Awards, the L&D sector’s annual celebration of outstanding achievement, best practice, and excellence in corporate learning and performance. This prestigious event, which is in its nineteenth year, will take place at The Dorchester, Park Lane, London on 05 February 2015. » more Integrated Talent Managem Saba Named a "Major Player" in the IDC MarketScape Redwood Shores, CA (USA), November 2014 – Saba, a global player in cloud-based intelligent talent-management solutions, has announced its position as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape on Integrated Management. » more Brandon Hall Group Assessment Strategies Survey Delray Beach, FL (USA), November 2014 - No business can afford to make a bad decision, which is why more and more organizations are looking to talent assessments to guide their hiring, development, and promotion decisions. In order to better understand how top- performing companies leverage assessment data throughout the talent lifecycle, Brandon Hall Group is undertaking a comprehensive look at the talent-assessment landscape, both pre- and post-hire. » more At Danish Business School Saffron Interactive to Create Experiential eLearning Platform London (UK), November 2014 - Saffron Interactive, recently named on Training Industry’s Top 20 Learning Portals Watch List, has been selected by Denmark’s International Business College (IBC) to realise its vision for a learning-experience network. The Open IBC project will use open-source technology and the Tin-Can API to act as a force multiplier for IBC’s digital presence for a new generation of students. » more Hybrid Technologies Language Translation and Localization Software Study London (UK), November 2014 - A study by WinterGreen Research called "Language Translation Software Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014-2020" indicates that language-translation software technology is reaching a more mature state utilizing hybrid technology, and comprehensive solutions are available that have never been available before. These solutions combine the best attributes of rule-based and statistical machine translation. These integrated systems are able to meet the full range of translation needs on an enterprise scale. » more Advertisement Cybersecurity Canadian Students to Learn Digital Safety Strategies Markham, ON (CA), November 2014 - Intel Security, in partnership with Discovery Education, the provider of digital content and professional development, have announced the Intel® Security Digital Safety Program, a three-year education initiative designed to teach children to "Think Before You Link" and make safer decisions when using the Internet. The first and only Discovery Education-supported initiative focusing on cybersecurity education, the Intel Security Digital Safety Program will equip educators, students, and parents with the tools they need to be confident, safe digital citizens. » more Try Platform for Free Docebo Launches Open-Source Mobile-Learning App Naples (I), November 2014 - Docebo, a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) eLearning-solutions provider, has published Docebo Mobile, a mobile app that enables users to learn anywhere, anytime, on demand. Claudio Erba, Docebo’s CEO, explained, "This app allows a client’s workforce to access learning materials on a just-in-time basis via their mobile devices. The Docebo Mobile app allows learners to attend Docebo-based eLearning courses via a smartphone and, ultimately, via any mobile device." » more IBM New Playbook to Expand P-TECH Schools Nationwide Albany, NY (USA), November 2014 - With the IBM P-TECH model gaining ground, IBM, together with many P-TECH schools and the City University of New York (CUNY), have introduced a new digital playbook. The tool makes publicly available a formula that is reinventing high school in the United States and preparing students to enter the workforce with marketable skills that many employers now require. » more Several Advantages Student Clubs Flourish in this Cyber School Midland, PA (USA), November 2014 - Student clubs in an online school? How does that work? Clubs in a cyber school work better in some ways than in brick-and-mortar schools, said Jane Camp. As supervisor of student events, she oversees thirteen high school clubs and two middle school clubs for students in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. » more Advertisement Multi-Sectoral Dialogue Keynote Lecture on eLearning on Barbados London (UK), November 2014 - David Patterson, a Director of Learning Light, the UK-based world eLearning market analyst, flew the flag for the UK’s eLearning producers when he visited Barbados to deliver an address in the "Services in Action Annual Lecture Series". » more Cooperation Sponge UK to Host Guild Webinar on Creativity London (UK), November 2014 - The eLearning company Sponge UK has teamed up with the respected industry body The Elearning Guild to offer a thought-provoking webinar on creativity. Called Courageous Creativity, the webinar will help participants to bravely readdress the idea of eLearning, think afresh, and use creativity to solve problems in new and imaginative ways. » more ONLINE EDUCA Berlin 20 Years of Berlin’s "Extraordinary, Transformative Conference" Berlin (GER), November 2014 - ONLINE EDUCA, the leading global conference on technology-supported learning and training, will be twenty this year, and the pioneers of two decades of radical change in education will be at Berlin’s Intercontinental Hotel to mark the occasion. » more ICMR 2015 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieva Shanghai (CN), November 2014 - Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners, and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. » more Call for Papers First Conference on Higher Education Advances Valencia (E), November 2014 - Information and communication technologies together with new teaching paradigms are reshaping the learning environment. The First International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’15), to be held 24-26 June 2015 in Valencia, Spain, aims to become a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences, opinions, and research results relating to the preparation of students, teaching and learning methodologies, and the organization of educational systems. » more

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