Themen

Social Media

To Tweet or Not to Tweet? That is the Question …

London (UK), June 2011 - In the latest Charity Learning Consortium blog, Lawrence Clarke examines some possible reasons behind a lack of enthusiasm towards social media and explains why understanding your organisation's values, and aligning social media policy in regard to them, is so critical. » MORE

Recent Addition

LMMatters Welcomes New Managing Director

London (UK), June 2011 - LMMatters has appointed James Reed as its new Managing Director. Reed brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of online leadership and management development with him, having most recently been Chief Operating Officer of 50 Lessons. » MORE

'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

Medical Content

Learning Impact Awards: NHS Case Study Wins Platinum

Atlanta, GA (USA), June 2011 - Exact learning solutions and eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH), an established leader in developing and providing educational content for the overall UK National Health Service (NHS), have won the prestigious IMS Platinum Award at the Learning Impact 2011 ceremony. » 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

International Presence

Launch of Imparta South-Eastern Europe

London (UK), June 2011 - Imparta Ltd has further expanded its growing international sales-training capabilities by announcing the launch of Imparta South-Eastern Europe. The company is independent and licensed to sell and deliver Imparta's training effectiveness programmes. » 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