Themen

Risk and Safety Services

High Demand for Training and Education Services

Dr Manfred Bayerlein Cologne (GER) / Warrington (UK). March 2014 - TÜV Rheinland, a global provider of independent inspection services, is acquiring the UK company Risktec Solutions Limited. Risktec is based in Warrington in the UK and operates from fifteen offices in the UK, the Netherlands, the Middle East, and North America. Risktec provides risk and safety services and offers technical training and education to highly regulated industrial sectors around the world. Risktec's core industries include the oil and gas industry, nuclear power generation, and the railway sector. » MORE

Rapid Service

One Hour Translation Launched in the UK

London (UK), March 2014 - One Hour Translation, the world's fastest professional translation agency, has launched its UK operations. One Hour Translation provides high-quality human translation of 75 languages and over 2,500 language pairs, thanks to a community of 15,000 active professional translators from 100 countries. » MORE

Latin America Market

Brazil Has Strong Potential for Totara

London (UK), March 2014 - Totara Learning Solutions, a leader in custom distributions of Moodle LMS for enterprises, has announced a strategic partnership with Fábrica de Cursos in Latin America. Fábrica de Cursos is a provider of education solutions in Brazil, with offices in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The company has over sixteen years of experience in the learning and courseware development business and is aiming to grow the business and enhance their product offering. » MORE

Looking to Grow

IMC Expands into the Growing Malaysian eLearning Market

Saarbruecken (GER), March 2014 - The Malaysian eLearning provider APPSTRONIC has entered into a partnership with IMC AG, a European provider of learning-technology solutions. The two companies complement each other well, as IMC's Learning Suite LMS solution and their new authoring tool, IMC Content Studio, are a good fit to the creative eLearning content solutions APPSTRONIC offer. » MORE

Setting the Standard

Speexx Wins eLearning Award 2014

Munich (GER), March 2014 - Speexx, a global provider of online communication-skills training, has secured the German eLearning Award 2014. The award went to the Speexx language-training solution that was implemented for a leading biopharmaceutical company. The official award ceremony will take place 29 March 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany at the didacta international trade fair for education and training. » MORE

Case Study

Centralizing Corporate Training for 5,000 Employees

Hong Kong (HK), March 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced the AURORA Group's successful launch of NetDimensions Learning as its new centralized learning-management solution. » MORE

Train the Trainer

Nick Mitchell Explains Why TAP® Is Unique

Nick MitchellCoventry (UK), March 2014 - In November 2013, the 25,000th TAP® Certificate was awarded, and to mark this milestone Nick Mitchell, who founded the Training Accreditation Programme (TAP®) in 1998, was interviewed by TrainingSuccess.TV. He was asked: -œWhat makes TAP® different from other train-the-trainer programmes?- » MORE

Elearnity 9-Grid™

NetDimensions Positioned again as a -œCore Leader-

London (UK), February 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the 2014 release of the unique European learning and talent-market insight report, Elearnity 9-Grid™ for Learning Management Systems (LMS). » MORE

Rapid Adoption

Kaltura Raises $47 Mio on the Heels of Massive Growth

Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura New York, NY (USA), February 2014 - The open-source video platform Kaltura has secured an additional $47 million of funding. The financing round was led by new investors SAP Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Commonfund Capital, and Brazil-based Gera Ventures. There was also participation from existing investors: 406 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc., and Silicon Valley Bank. Kaltura will use the additional capital to further accelerate product development and extend operations into Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Korea. » MORE

Dementia Alliance

Experiential Learning Tool Incorporates Gaming

Willie Cruickshank, Director at Norfolk & Suffolk Dementia AlliancePleasanton, CA (USA)/ London (UK), February 2014 - Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance and Toolwire have announced their winning of the Gold Award for "External Learning Solution of the Year" at The Learning Awards sponsored by the Learning and Performance Institute, a global institute for learning-and-development professionals. The tool is accessible for free through The Learning Location website, which is open to individual carers, families, professional staff, and organisations looking for relevant information, guides, and training support. » MORE