Themen

Learning English

goFLUENT Offers New Resources and Receives Praise

Geneva (CH), June 2011 - goFLUENT, a provider of distance Business English training, now offers New York Times News Syndicate (NYTNS) videos and Harvard Business Review articles as resources on its eLearning platform. The firm was named as one of the top online providers of English language- learning materials by the French website "Pour Se Former". » MORE

Mobile Strategy

Ixonos Designs Boutique App Store for Intel

Helsinki (FI), June 2011 - Ixonos, creator of wireless technologies, mobile devices, services, and software, has delivered a mobile AppUp Store to Intel. The comprehensive project entails the creation of a full UX strategy for mobiles as well as concept creation, delivery of detailed designs, a working demo and UX design guidelines. » MORE

Tools

Zapping up Manufacturing Training

Brisbane (AU), June 2011 - Thanks to the use of stop-motion video technology and a bunch of very entertaining LEGO characters, a "dry and boring" training subject has been turned into an action- packed and hilarious eLearning tool. » MORE

White Paper

Learning and Assessment on SharePoint

Norwalk, CT (USA), June 2011 - With the increasing use of Microsoft SharePoint to create collaborative web sites, there's tremendous potential for using it together with assessments to support learning, education, training, and compliance. » MORE

Support of the Disabled

SkillSoft Wins ARPCT Business Partner Award

Nashua, NH (USA), June 2011 - SkillSoft, a SaaS provider of eLearning and performance-support solutions for business, government, and education has announced its recognition as the 2011 Outstanding Business Partner Award by the Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Computer Technology (ARPCT). » MORE

Professional Development

Transforming Pharmacy eLearning with Webanywhere

Leeds (UK), June 2011 - Mediapharm, a UK pharmacy-education company, has selected Webanywhere to deliver an open-source Totara LMS technology transformation for CPDEasy.com, its web-based managed learning service for pharmacy training, development, and product knowledge. » MORE

Updating Skills

Businesses Struggle to Capitalise on Economic Recovery

London (UK), June 2011 - The majority of senior management agree on a pressing need to educate their employees for future growth. Yet many companies are failing to deliver the right training as a result of budget cuts and lacking resources. As a solution to these challenges, blended learning provider Redtray has created ALTO Online. » MORE

Accelerating Growth

Upside Learning Announces New Partnership Programme

Pune (IN), June 2011 - Upside Learning has announced its new comprehensive partnership programme intended to accelerate partner growth and profitability for its Learning Management System - UpsideLMS and its platform for mobile learning - Upside2Go. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Maslow's hierarchy of needs; porn, and poker

London (UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Speaking at a conference for members of Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL), held at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in north London in May, Andrew Lamb, a Director of Appropedia (a wiki which focuses on sustainability issues), argued that 'web 2.0' has encouraged new forms of social interaction and collaboration. He added that firms have learned to exploit social media by using fun or viral notions to take advantage of people's innate desire to gather and interact with each other and pass along interesting bits of information. » MORE

Award

OutStart Wins Gold for Technology Excellence

Boston, MA (USA), June 2011 - OutStart has won a coveted Brandon Hall Gold Award for Technology Excellence in the Learning Content Management category. The honor recognizes OutStart LCMS's delivery of personalization content in a variety of ways to maximize the flow and effectiveness of knowledge. » MORE