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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 10/12/2015 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
Survey from QA How UK Businesses Plan to Tackle Cybersecurity Threats in 2016 London (UK), December 2015 - Despite eight out of ten IT decision makers experiencing a data or cybersecurity breach in their organisation in 2015, less than one-third plan to invest in cyber security technologies in 2016. » more Save Santa! Sponge UK Launches "Best-Ever" Christmas Game Plymouth (UK), December 2015 - Award-winning learning provider Sponge UK is using its expertise in multi-device eLearning games to create a fun, festive challenge. The company has launched a new Christmas game, "Save Santa!" Players take on the role of an elf who must find a way through a frozen underground world, collect presents, dodge yetis, and defeat rocket-powered penguins before locating Santa and freeing him from the clutches of an evil Jack Frost. » more OEB 2015 Accelerating the Shift Berlin (GER), December 2015 - (by Andreas von Oertzen) OEB 2015, the 21st edition of Berlin’s landmark international conference on technology-enhanced learning and training for the corporate, education, and public sectors, bore the title "Accelerating the Shift". In fact, the event saw some of the demands to accelerate the shift presented with great vehemence from the very beginning. They ranged from relatively well-known points such as true end-to-end connections and the right mix of peer-to-peer and top-down learning, to a concrete vision for change, improved scalability, and more influence for learning experts in the role of consultants. » more Henriette Kloots LPI Expands Operations into Benelux Region Coventry (UK), December 2015 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) is to provide local operations and support to the workplace-learning sector in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Now LPI, the global body for learning professionals, has announced it will provide local operations and support for individuals and organisations in the Benelux region. » more Engagement P&MM Video Guides to Kick Start Employee Recognition Milton Keynes (UK), December 2015 – P&MM, an award-winning rewards and recognition company that specialises in performance improvement, has released a two-part video guide to help organisations understand the best way to implement an employee-recognition programme and a channel incentive programme.» more Advertisement Education Plan "Eppendorf Academy" for Extended Enterprise Training Saarbrücken (GER), December 2015 - As a world market leader in bioscience, Eppendorf AG develops and distributes equipment and services for use in laboratories across the globe. The Hamburg-based firm has enjoyed success for many years. » more The Best Solution Reseller Agreement for the DACH Region Cologne (GER)/Hong Kong (HK) – ILT Solutions, a provider of blended-learning programmes and strategies, and NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning- management systems for high-consequence industries, have announced their signing of a reseller agreement for the DACH market. » more Rapid Content Intuition Benefit from the eXact learning LCMS Genoa (I), December 2015 - Knowledge-management specialist Intuition is benefitting from using eXact learning solutions’ learning-content-management system (LCMS) to maintain and update its library of online content materials. » more Latin America LearnUpon’s Cloud LMS Released in Brazilian Portuguese Dublin (IE), December 2015 - LearnUpon, the world's fastest-growing cloud LMS, has expanded its global operations with the release of a localized version of the learning portal in Brazilian Portuguese. The launch coincides with the signing of LearnUpon's first Latin American customer in Brazil. LearnUpon now serves more than 450 existing customers, as it approaches the end of another year of rapid growth. » more Compliance Gothaer Insurance Commissions M.I.T e-Solutions Friedrichsdorf (GER), December 2015 - The Cologne-based Gothaer Versicherungsbank (Insurance Bank) WaG has commissioned the Friedrichsdorf eLearning specialist M.I.T to produce compliance-learning programs. In the future, the Gothaer company will be using two online trainings on the topics of The Code of Conduct and Corruption Prevention from M.I.T. » more Advertisement Smooth Implementation tts Honored with Amazon "WD-40-Award" London (UK), December 2015 – tts has offered the tt performance suite in the cloud since June 2014. Now more than fifty customer installations are in place, helping customers worldwide to transform knowledge into workplace performance. tts has now been honored with the "WD-40 Partner Award". The distinction recognizes a company that has "far exceeded expectations in ensuring that everything runs smoothly in cloud installations and which has thereby set a new benchmark for effective partner engagement". » more UNESCO Teachers to Become Advocates for Sustainable Development Brussels (BE)/Paris (F), December 2015 - A new UNESCO campaign is calling on teachers eager to become advocates for education to help lobby for progress toward achieving the new sustainable-development agenda. » more Inspirational Stories The Charity Learning Superstars 2015 London (UK), December 2015 - The winners of the Charity Learning Awards 2015 have been announced, with inspirational stories of creating resources with little or no budget and a clever use of blended resources catching the judges’ eyes. Read on to find out who is celebrating! » more Excellence in Training The City & Guilds Group Launches Brand-New Award London (UK), December 2015 - Organisations across the UK that successfully link learning and skills development to business performance will soon be able to receive national recognition, thanks to a brand-new awards programme delivered by the City & Guilds Group. » more iED First International Minecraft Cultural Exchange Melbourne (AU) / Boston, MA (USA), December 2015 - Immersive Education (iED) students from Boston's Saint John School (SJS) took part in the world's first international Minecraft cultural exchange with iED students from Melbourne, Australia. The event took place at the end of November and was featured at Openworld - and will also be the focus at upcoming Immersive Education conferences. » more Imagination Sought eLearning Africa 2016: Can You Make Vision Reality? Berlin (GER), December 2015 - African education experts want to hear from anyone with innovative ideas about how technology can help transform the Continent. They will be meeting in Egypt at eLearning Africa 2016, Africa's leading conference on technology-assisted learning, where they will discuss the role of technology in achieving the African Union's vision of a "transformed continent." » more Four Areas CIDUI 2016: Call for Papers Now Open Barcelona (E), December 2015 - The call for papers for the ninth edition of CIDUI (International Conference on University Teaching and Innovation), is now open. The congress will take place in Bellaterra at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 05–07 July 2016. The title of the event is "Learning and Teaching Innovation Impacts". » more

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