Themen

Digital Learning

Tribal and eXact Learning Solutions

Bristol (UK)/Genoa (I), March 2014 - Tribal is delighted to announce a distribution agreement with eXact learning solutions. The agreement will see Tribal supply eXact learning's learning-content-management system (LCMS) and digital authoring tools to UK customers. » MORE

Industry Leaders

EdTech Europe Launches High-Profile Advisory Board

London (UK), April 2014 - Edxus Group and IBIS Capital, founders of EdTech Europe, an exclusive one-day eLearning summit, have named a number of high-profile experts from across the education, technology, media, and financial markets as founding members of the EdTech Europe Advisory Board. Designed to encourage innovation and investment in the European eLearning market, board members will work closely with the EdTech Europe founders on the event itself, as well as the launch of the search for Europe's fastest-growing and most-innovative eLearning companies, the 2014 EdTech 20. » MORE

Speex Selected

Language Training for Spain's Construction Sector

Munich (GER), April 2014 - Speexx has been selected as the preferred language-training provider for Spain's Labour Foundation for Construction. In this project, Speexx will help to build the Foundation's new online language-learning platform. » MORE

Takeover

City & Guilds Acquires Mindset Limited Business

London (UK), April 2014 - The City & Guilds Group has announced its acquisition of Mindset Limited, a digital-learning company that provides services to colleges and employers in the UK. Mindset has developed a leading platform known as Profiler to manage and deliver functional skills. The core capabilities include initial and diagnostic testing and the assessment of maths, English, and ICT. This acquisition will further enhance the City & Guilds functional-skills offer in the UK. » MORE

New Alliance

Partnership between LearnSmart and CrossKnowledge

Tampa , FL (USA), April 2014 - LearnSmart, a full-service provider of IT and skills training for business, and CrossKnowledge, a provider of distance-learning solutions for leadership and business skills development, have announced their new partnership. This alliance helps both companies expand their already broad reach of combined IT, soft skills, management, and leadership training using the most advanced and latest technologies across the globe. » MORE

Talent Suite Chosen

NetDimensions Selected to Transform Uster's Processes

Neu-Isenburg (GER), April, 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced that Switzerland-based Uster Technologies, a global market player in textile quality control, has chosen NetDimensions Talent Suite as their secure SaaS in order to provide training to employees all over the world. » MORE

Authoring Tool

Epic Announces the Official Launch of gomo 2.0

London (UK), April 2014 - Epic has announced the official launch of its brand-new authoring tool gomo 2.0, created by Epic's Learning Technologies Group (LTG) sister company gomo learning. gomo is the first SaaS authoring tool that allows users to create their own fully responsive and adaptive HTML5 eLearning. » MORE

New Position

Saba Announces Paige Newcombe as CCO

Paige NewcombeBracknell (UK), April 2014 - In its mission to maximize customer success, Saba as a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, has appointed Paige Newcombe to its newly established position of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) reporting directly to president and CEO, Shawn Farshchi. In this role, Newcombe will be responsible for Saba's global customer advocacy and for ensuring customer centricity is at the core of Saba's growth strategy. » MORE

Practical Approaches

The Reality of Learning-Effectiveness Evaluation

Mumbai (IN), April 2014 - Fifty percent of L&D departments have never tried to conduct learning-effectiveness evaluation beyond Kirkpatrick Level 2. Thirty-five percent have managed to get to Kirkpatrick Level 3, with only 15% reaching Level 4. Tata Interactive Systems' webinar on -œLearning-Effectiveness Evaluation- highlights key challenges facing organizations and is available via video now. » MORE

Merger

LINE to be acquired by Learning Technologies

Pears Lea, CEOLondon (UK), April 2014 - LINE Communications Ltd announced that it is to be acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG). LINE will be merged with Epic, LTG's principal operating company, to form the UK's leading custom content provider, and the combined company will have the requisite size, scope and reach to deliver complex, global learning solutions. » MORE