Themen

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

Totara Seedlings

Free Community Version of Popular LMS

Wellington (NZ), April 2014 - Totara Learning Solutions has announced a significant change in its open-source distribution strategy. Since its launch in 2011, TotaraLMS has been offered as a distribution of the popular education platform, Moodle. For a low-cost subscription fee, customers receive the benefit of code support and maintenance, security updates, error correction, patch updates, and a continuing stream of new innovations supported by Totara Learning Solutions. Now, in addition to its enterprise offering, Totara Learning will also offer Totara Seedlings, an unsupported version of the popular software. » MORE

Unified Training

tesa Oartners with NetDimensions to Steer Innovation

Neu-Isenburg (GER), April 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has recently announced that tesa has selected NetDimensions Learning as their new centralised global learning-management system (LMS) for the company's 3,900 employees in more than fifty countries around 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

More Growth

Strengthening Support for Australian Organisations

Melbourne (AU) / Saarbruecken (GER), April 2014 - IMC, a European learning-technology provider, have taken a number of initiatives this year to further strengthen their commitment to the Australian market and provide local organisations with a leading advantage when it comes to solutions. The company has seen their customer base grow steadily in Australia since their arrival three years ago and has recently expanded their local operations. Services now include dedicated local support, training, implementation, solution design, and consultancy. » MORE

Veeam® Software

Global Company Praises the Docebo eLearning Platform

Naples (I), April 2014 - Having installed the Docebo eLearning Platform some eight months ago, Veeam Software, a global information technology and software company, has seen more than 50,000 of its business partners access online learning materials related to its products. » MORE