Themen

Collaboration

élogos and OutStart Partner for Spanish-Speaking Market

Boston, MA (USA), March 2011 - OutStart has announced that élogos has selected OutStart LCMS to resell to its market in Spain and Latin America. élogos will also utilize OutStart LCMS as a core component in its new lifelong learning approach. Following an evaluation of learning technologies, élogos formed a partnership with OutStart. » MORE

New Content

Learning Light Redevelops Its eLearning Centre Website

Sheffield (UK), March 2011 - Learning Light has redeveloped its popular eLearning Centre website to include much of the intellectual property of Becta, whose website has closed in the Coalition Government's public-sector cutbacks. This site is the only place where this information will now be available. » MORE

On the Go

High Demand for Mobile Learning Reported by LINE

London (UK), March 2011 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, has reported a dramatic upsurge in the number and quality of enquiries for mobile learning. Most recently, LINE helped pilot an app on iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives explain some of the features on the C-MAX vehicles. » MORE

Partnership

Certpoint Provides eLearning Solutions for Spencer Gifts

Roslyn, NY (USA), March 2011 - Certpoint Systems, Inc., a global LMS provider, has announced its partnership with Spencer Gifts, LLC. Spencer Gifts will use the CertpointVLS suite to train personnel across its extended enterprise, including 600 Spencer Gifts retail stores, over 900 Spirit Halloween stores, and 100 ToyZam stores. » MORE

Vietnam

Mandatory 10 pm Curfew for Online Video Games

Hanoi (VN), March 2011 - South Korea's proposed Internet curfew for youths from midnight to 6am seems positively namby-pamby compared to this actual measure being implemented by the Vietnamese government: Since the government thinks that people are wasting too much time playing online games, it is implementing a ban on online gaming from 10pm to 8am. » MORE

Learning Gateway

New Version of SaaS and Cloud-based LMS

Oslo (NO), February 2011 - Edvantage group, a European eLearning company, has announced the release of version 5.6 of its SaaS and cloud-based Learning Gateway learning-management system (LMS). This version focuses on helping large and small organisations gain more effect from their blended learning programmes with less administrative effort. » MORE

Market Analysis

Elearnity Announces Vendor Perspectives

Cirencester (UK), February 2011 - Elearnity, an independent learning industry analyst, has announced Elearnity Perspectives, a new tool for assessing learning-technology vendor options and suitability for corporate needs. » MORE

Medical Sector

SMART Training Mitigates Risk for Healthcare Providers

Dallas, TX (USA), February 2011 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company RTN, and Baptist Health have signed an agreement to deliver Synergistic Medical and Resource Team (SMART) training to healthcare systems. The training enables medical staff to prevent or mitigate patient safety threats originating from human interaction and systemic error. » MORE

Agreement

TATA Interactive Systems Now Preferred Supplier of DHL

Tübingen (GER), February 2011 - In recent years TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) and DHL have been working together on various successful projects all over the world, ranging from an eLearning project centred around on-boarding, to the development of the world's largest online logistics business simulation. Now the two organisations are going to intensify their cooperation and, toward this end, have signed a Preferred Supplier Agreement. » MORE