Themen

National Health Service

Major eLearning Programme Successful on CLIX

Sevenoaks (UK), May 2011 - CLIX and IMC's team of consultants have helped eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH) to deliver one of the most ambitious LMS projects seen in the UK in recent years. The project's aim is to deliver 6,000 hours of eLearning materials to healthcare professionals across the National Health Service (NHS). » MORE

New Rental Model

Luminosity Rapid eLearning Platform Available per Author

Bristol (UK), May 2011 - Until recently, Luminosity Studio had been provided only as an enterprise-level system for the largest and most demanding leading organizations. Firms that wanted the total security and control a locally installed server can provide installed their own local Luminosity server behind their firewall on their corporate LAN. » 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

'Little's Britain'

The UK's sports world embraces eLearning

London (UK), May 2011 - (by Bob Little) We're used to industries such as financial services and pharmaceuticals using eLearning to reduce the cost of staff learning and development; make it more available on demand; help meet regulatory/compliance obligations, and even help maintain competitive advantage through improved product knowledge and efficiency. » MORE

Talent Management

Totara Announces Roadmap for New Features

Wellington (NZ), May 2011 - The roadmap of Totara LMS, the open source LMS for the corporate sector based on Moodle, is now out for consultation with partners and subscribers and includes new talent-management modules to manage appraisals. It also includes 360 feedback and an exciting new program-management feature to create learning paths, mandatory learning, and recurring learning requirements. » MORE

Ready to Grow

UK Business Missing Out on Efficiency Gains

London (UK), May 2011 - Heads of UK learning companies contend that as cuts-ridden Britain emerges from recession, it is missing out on a potential source of significant cost savings and efficiency gains because of outdated attitudes to training among top management. » MORE