Themen

Oil & Gas Industry

ATEC Approved for Training Initiative in North America

Houston, TX (USA), April 2012 - The Atec Training and Certification Services Center in Houston is the first to meet the stringent criteria set by learning and skills specialist Atlas to invigilate the International Minimum Industry Safety Training (IMIST) eLearning programme, a global initiative developed to drastically improve safety standards for the offshore workforce worldwide. » MORE

Next Generation

New Version of CrossKnowledge Learning Suite

London (UK), March 2012 - CrossKnowledge, a European provider of distance Learning solutions, has announced the launch of version 11.3 of the CrossKnowledge Learning Suite. The platform has been totally redesigned to open up new possibilities for training. » MORE

e-Excellence

Speexx Receives Innovation Award

Munich / Hanover (GER), March 2012 - dp (digital publishing), provider of the corporate language training Speexx, has been awarded a Gold European Seal of e-Excellence 2012. dp has now been honoured with Europe's prime award promoting the marketing of e-innovation for the third year in a row. » MORE

Open Source

Totara Announces New Partnerships

Canterbury (UK), March 2012 - Totara Learning Solutions, amongst the winners disclosed at the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition, has announced a new Totara LMS Partner: Lambda Solutions, a Moodle Partner with clients in Canada and the United States. » MORE

Education Marketing

Website Acquisition of Learning Institutions

Lenexa, KS (USA), March 2012 - PlattForm, an Internet marketing and enrolment solutions provider for postsecondary education and a division of Ad Venture Interactive, has announced the acquisition of numerous website properties from Guider Media, an online inquiry-generation company based in Sweden. » MORE

New Partnership

U&I Learning Supports CMB

Ghent (BE), March 2012 - U&I Learning trains white collars of the Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) to help them use their software successfully. This is done by an interactive eLearning course that trains them on important actions and new functionalities. » MORE

Workplace Policies

Social Media Use of Employees in the UK

London (UK), March 2012 - Croner, a Wolters Kluwer business, makes recommendations on social-media policies for the workplace. The firm has found that over a quarter of UK businesses (28%) still don't have a social media, internet, or email policy in place. » MORE

Key Issues

What to Know about mLearning

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), March 2012 - As consumers acquire more and more mobile technology, they are pushing organizations to deliver information and services via that technology. Yet not all information and services are appropriate. In an article in the online publication Learning Solutions, Anita Rosen, president of ReadyGo, Inc. compared the pros and cons. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Sex, drugs and social media

London (UK), March 2012 - (by Bob Little) No - this headline does not refer to The Learning Awards, a glittering evening held to honour those in the learning world, which was held at the Dorchester Hotel in London in February and attracted the corporate learning world's great, good and glitzy. These were the first annual Learning Awards but, oddly enough, they were also the 16th annual awards. The previous 15 events had been held under the auspices of the Institute of IT Training which, last year, morphed into the more ubiquitous, charismatic and, frankly, relevant Learning and Performance Institute. » MORE

Informed Employees

Teaching Support for Windows 7 and Office 2010

Stuttgart (GER), March 2012 - The Windows 7 operating system and the Office 2010 package offer a completely new operating concept and a wealth of new features. Providing quick and sustainable training for employees on this software environment is an important factor for companies. » MORE