Themen

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

Online Courses

Free Guides for Learning Design

Bristol (UK), March 2012 - Developing great online learning is driven by great design. WillowDNA is currently publishing five free guides to help learning professionals to plan, develop, and launch online learning in just five days. » MORE

Language Learning

goFLUENT Enters Mobile Market

Geneva (CH), March 2012 - goFLUENT, a provider of business English via distance learning has launched its Business English Training iPhone app. This app, which has been approved by Apple and is now available on Apple's App Store, is the mobile version of its eLearning portal for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. » MORE

Bring On Video!

TechSmith Introduces New Versions of Snagit

Okemos, MI (USA), March 2012 - Packed with the easy-to-use yet powerful screen-capture and recording functionality, TechSmith has released Snagit 11 for Windows and Snagit 2 for Mac. Both versions provide users with the ability to communicate ideas faster and more effectively. » MORE

Results Assessment

Evaluation of Leadership Development Programmes

Basingstoke (UK), March 2012 - A survey on the evaluation of leadership-development programmes reveals confusion among learning-and-development professionals when it comes to the use and value of evaluation in measuring the impact of people-development initiatives. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

A potential Solution to HR Evaluation Challenges

London (UK), March 2012 - (by Bob Little) Results assessment specialist Ceres Management - which aims to enable clients to use the evidence of business results to make sound decisions about ongoing investments in people development - has launched a new approach to evaluation that: defines what business success looks like; aligns evaluation goals with business needs; focuses evaluation around clear performance needs; defines success indicators, especially for behavioural outcomes, and is easy to apply and administer. » MORE

Serious Games

Military Training with Virtual Technology

London (UK), March 2012 - A NATO-commissioned serious game is the first of its kind to be scheduled for large-scale deployment on Android and iOS mobile devices. It will be used by military personnel in operational areas throughout the world. » MORE

Free Reading

eBooks Made Simple

London (UK), March 2012 - Bookboon.com is turning the US book market upside down with free eBooks. In 2012, Bookboon.com aims to reach a market share of over ten percent in the USA. » MORE

Code Free

Creating Apps with Rich Content

Barcelona (ES), March 2012 - The Spanish company Aquafadas has made its Digital Publishing System compatible with its HTML5 animation-creation application MotionComposer. » MORE

Oil and Gas Industry

OPITO's IMIST Becomes Safety Standard

Houston, TX (USA), March 2012 - For the first time, OPITO, in cooperation with the oil and gas industry, has developed an online global standardized level of basic safety training that will reach an estimated 1.5 million people employed in exploration and production activities of oil and gas worldwide. » MORE