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

Growth

GP Strategies Acquires Ultra Training

Elkridge, MD (USA), May 2011 - GP Strategies Corporation, the corporate parent of global performance-improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), has announced that GP's wholly owned subsidiary General Physics (UK) Ltd. has acquired Ultra Training Ltd, an independent skills-training provider located in the United Kingdom. » MORE

Put to Good Use

Articulate Suite Training and Absorb LMS Widely Adopted

Hemel Hempstead (UK)/Montreal, QC (CA), May 2011 - Omniplex, a provider of eLearning solutions, has reported rising levels of demand for its training courses on the use of Articulate rapid authoring tools. Omniplex has further announced the success of the Absorb LMS, employed by the academy of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) to help satisfy road-transport training needs around the world. » MORE

Merger

SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau

San Mateo, CA (USA), May 2011 - SuccessFactors has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Plateau, the leading learning-management system (LMS), a Next Generation Portal technology, and CaaS - content as a service. This acquisition forms a symbiotic combination with SuccessFactors-˜ acquisition of social video mobile learning provider Jambok. » MORE

Research Findings

Further Education Boosts Economy by £75 Billion

London (UK), May 2011 - Further education participants generate an additional £75bn for the economy over their lifetimes, with apprenticeships generating around £40 for each pound of government investment, new research shows. The study, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, examines the economic value generated by Government-funded post-nineteen qualifications. » MORE

On-Demand Assessment

Questionmark Adds New Analytics Solutions

Norwalk, CT (USA), May 2011 - New tools for analyzing and reporting on assessment results top the list of new features in the latest release of Questionmark On Demand assessment- management solutions. Questionmark Analytics, a new module within Questionmark Perception, enables users to generate reports on assessment items and results. » MORE

New Executive Committee

ELIG's Leaders Represent a Diverse Learning Industry

Paris (FR), May 2011 - The drive to continually raise the profile of learning on the European political and commercial agendas has been given greater impetus with a newly expanded Executive Committee for the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). » MORE

Free Access

World Leading Leadership and Management Resources

Stroud (UK), May 2011 - LMMatters is offering organisations free access to its leadership and management online resources for the whole of Adult Learners' Week, starting Monday, 16 May. Organisations will be able to access the Harvard ManageMentor alongside LMKnowledge (LMK) with more than 10,000 articles, videos, and podcasts from worldwide sources. » MORE

Fit4Age

Older People Learn Differently, Not Worse

Bremen (GER), May 2011 - Numerous project partners from industry and science developed solutions for the challenges of demographic change in the "Fit4Age" research association, which has been working for the last three years. Together with the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and the University of Regensburg, szenaris GmbH looked at the conditions under which older people can be successfully qualified with eLearning. » MORE