Themen
Corporate eLearning
The Traps of eLearning Trends
Brühl (GER), March 2015 - (by Pascal Balancier, AWT and Rolf Reinhardt, LANETO e.V.) Predicting eLearning trends can be tricky - not just for self-proclaimed eLearning experts, but even for highly respected committees such as the New Media Consortium (NMC), which publishes the "Horizon Report". In one of his latest blog posts, Stephen Downes claims that the predictions of the NMC would not be based on "deep knowledge", but would, in fact, be influenced by "popular press and marketing campaigns". » MORE
Jenison Acquires ManagersPitStop.com
Southampton (UK), March 2015 - Jenison, the UK publisher of high-quality off-the-shelf online-learning resources, learning-management tools, and rapid content authoring, has acquired the online management-development resource ManagersPitStop.com. » MORE
Leslie Farinella: Vice President of Customer Success
Boulder, CO (USA), March 2015 - Xyleme, the leading content-management system for learning and development, has announced the naming of Leslie Farinella as Vice President of Customer Success. With her deep-rooted training-industry experience and extensive knowledge of content strategy, Farinella will oversee the customer-success teams and lead the new customer-success program for Xyleme, as they continue on a fast-paced growth trajectory. » MORE
A Revolutionary Tool for Responsive eLearning
Derry (UK), March 2015 - Learning Pool has just released a game-changing tool that allows users to effortlessly build, edit, and customise responsive content that's been built on the Adapt Learning-¯framework. Adapt Builder is the product of more than twelve months' development work and intensive beta trials with hundreds of Learning Pool customers across the UK; it makes eLearning development easy for even non-technical learning professionals. » MORE
Jam Pan Learning Marketplace Attracts Digital Creatives
London (UK), March 2015 - Jam Pan, a new learning marketplace launched in late 2014, has announced that over 200 creative digital-production agencies have signed up to bid for learning and workplace performance projects. » MORE
Tutoring Marketplace Preply Is Going back to the US Market
Brighton, MA (USA), March 2015 - The American-Ukrainian startup Preply.com is going back to the US market with an updated product marketplace for local and online language tutoring. Back in October 2012, Preply launched their marketplace in Boston for online tutoring only. Backed by famous Semyon Dukach, currently director of TechStars Boston, and a group of business angels, Preply was looking for a business model for six months. The team experienced huge competition from mature players. That's why the young co-founders decided to build their product and gain a critical mass of clients in the much smaller, but growing, Eastern Europe market. » MORE
Pearson Joins Forces with Scoopshot
London (UK), March 2015 - With the announcement that Scoopshot, the mobile platform for photo and video crowdsourcing, has partnered with Pearson, technology and learning have linked yet again. The learning company is using Scoopshot to reach out to and engage with millennials, crowdsourcing photos to illustrate its publications. » MORE
Totara LMS Version 2.7 Released
Wellington (NZ), March 2015 - The supported enterprise release of Totara LMS Version 2.7 was released 02 March 2015. As usual, it was the result of a lot of collaboration with customers and partners to offer better value and flexibility for corporate LMS users. » MORE
Adecco and Speexx Launch Global Blended-Learning Project
Munich (GER), March 2015 - Speexx has signed a global training agreement with leading HR consultancy company Adecco. The project covers sixteen countries and supports potentially hundreds of thousands of Adecco employees in improving their foreign-language and business-communication skills. The courses, which commenced in February this year, are available to all employees via a specifically developed portal. » MORE
To Offer Technology to Other Sectors
New York, NY (USA), March 2015 - 1to5.com, an interactive video site focused on skill games such as poker, has applied for a patent for its innovative education technology for online learning and will expand its interactive video tool into other areas including economy, finance, business, management, as well as other skill games. » MORE
