Themen

'Little's Britain'

Stifling learning technologies with vested interests

London (UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Opinion is growing around the world that the US, Canada and UK dominated "old school elite" of learning technologists now need to recognise learning technologies' appeal and relevance to the whole world - and so allow their colleagues from the rest of the world to play an equal part in helping to shape the future of this worldwide industry. » MORE

Open Source LMS

New OLAT 7.2.0 Public Release Now Available

Zurich (CH), June 2011 - OLAT 7.2.0 has been released! First planned as a maintenance release (7.1.1), now all changes (HG-related refactoring and Maven) have been released together with the 7.1 fixes as 7.2 public. That means that 7.1 was skipped, and 7.2 is being pushed as the next release. » MORE

Language Learning

goFLUENT Helps Improve Employees' English Skills

Endicott, NY (USA), June 2011 - The global glassmaking giant O-I has been working with goFLUENT, a provider of distance English training, to improve the English communication skills of its worldwide workforce with a unique blended-learning approach. » MORE

Advance Offer

CERTPOINT VLS 7.1 Ready for Release

Roslyn, NY (USA), June 2011 - In advance of the July CERTPOINT VLS™ 7.1 release, CERTPOINT Systems offers free implementations to applicants who sign an agreement with CERTPOINT before 30 June 2011. » MORE

Oil & Gas Industry

Learning Nexus Develops eLearning Solution

London/Stroud (UK), May 2011 - Tendeka is a provider of completion and reservoir-monitoring products and services to the upstream oil and gas industry. The firm operates across a network of eighteen regional bases strategically located in key energy hubs including the North Sea, Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the USA. » MORE

Health & Safety

Webanywhere Collaborates with British Safety Council

Leeds (UK), May 2011 - Webanywhere, the European Moodle and Totara Partner, has been selected by the British Safety Council, a health, safety, and environmental charity, to provide a Moodle-based learning platform that will enable them to realise a number of strategic objectives for managing and delivering online training courses. » MORE

Virtual Classroom

Raytheon Offers BTEC Apprenticeship Programme

Milton Keynes (UK), May 2011 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, is the first provider in the U.K. to launch a recognised Business and Administration Apprenticeship programme delivered in a virtual classroom environment with a collaborative learning approach. » MORE

New Facility

Blackboard to Open New Data Centre in Canada

Washington D.C. (USA), May 2011 - Blackboard Inc. has announced plans to open a new data centre in Canada this summer, responding to growing interest from Canadian institutions for an in-region facility to host and manage their learning environments. The new data centre will be located in Calgary, Alberta, and will be the company's seventh production facility. » MORE

Strategic Partnership

Fern / TT Knowledge Force Teams Up with U&I Learning

Holsbeek/Ghent (BE)/Heidelberg (GER), May 2011 - U&I Learning has taken the well-known TT Knowledge Force into their portfolio. This gives U&I Learning the opportunity to reach top-100 fortune companies, which are already working with this solution, but also to start new projects in an efficient way. » MORE

Strategic Alliance

Leading Experts on Management Innovation Join Forces

Redwood Shores/Woodside CA (USA), May 2011 - Saba, a people cloud provider, has announced its strategic alliance with the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), a community of progressive management innovators architected by Gary Hamel. The MIX is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. » MORE