Themen

'Little's Britain'

eLN election campaign hots up

London (UK), December 2010 - (by Bob Little) Elections have been in the news recently. There has been the recent General Election in Burma, which has prompted some misgivings among the international community. In the UK, its former immigration minister and Labour MP, Phil Woolas, has recently lost his seat in Parliament for making false statements against his opponent during the General Election campaign of earlier this year. » MORE

Health Sector

Aurion Learning to Develop eLearning for Roche Ireland

Belfast (UK), December 2010 - The online learning company Aurion has been awarded a contract to develop an eLearning programme for the Irish affiliate of pharmaceutical giant Roche. Principles of Musculoskeletal Assessment will be developed as part of a blended-learning programme for registered nurses and consultants. The aim is to help these professionals understand their role in relation to accurate and appropriate assessment of musculoskeletal signs, symptoms, and functions. » MORE

e-induction course

AVEVA Collaborates with Edvantage gGoup

Brighton (UK), December 2010 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and Managed Learning Service provider, has worked collaboratively with AVEVA Group plc, a provider of engineering data and design and information-management solutions to the plant, power, and marine industries, to launch a new eLearning induction programme for AVEVA's employees. » MORE

Quality Assurance

The Safety Train Gains NCFE Accreditation

Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - The Safety Train, a company that operates an eLearning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health and safety training, has been granted a bespoke quality license from the Northern Council for Further Education (NCFE) - making it one of the UK's first eLearning providers to be accredited in this way. » MORE

SCORM

Leadership in eLearning Content Standards

London (UK), November 2010 - Plateau Systems has announced that it has become the first major talent management provider to achieve Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 4th Edition conformance, marking its longstanding commitment to and leadership in eLearning content standards. » MORE

British Auto Maker

LINE Helps Pilot iPhone and iPod App for Ford

London (UK), November 2010 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, is helping Ford of Britain to pilot an innovative application for iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives explain some of the features on the C-MAX and Grand C-MAX. » MORE

Business Standards

PSL debates Collaborative Working with Government

London (UK), November 2010 - Having undergone a quality revolution in the 1980s and a productivity revolution in the 1990s, business practice in the UK is about to undergo another revolution in the second decade of the twenty-first century: that of innovation through collaboration. This is the view of John Hill, the Chief Executive of PERA Innovation Network. Mr. Hill was one of the speakers at "Collaborative Working with Government", the latest PSL (Partnership Sourcing Limited) Executive Partnering Knowledge Network conference. » MORE

Classroom Energy

Learning Software Introduces Training Games

Redmond, WA (USA), November 2010 - Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced a new library of training game interactions for YawnBuster, its software for adding group activities to PowerPoint. The group activities that YawnBuster brings include audience polls, competitive games, and group exercises. » MORE

Branching Out

Kineo eLearning Expands Global Presence

Brighton (UK)/Wellington (NZ), November 2010 - Kineo has announced that Flexible Learning Network, a privately owned eLearning company in New Zealand, has joined the Kineo group and become Kineo Pacific. » MORE

Preview

Olympic eLearning by Kineo and League Football Education

Brighton (UK), November 2010 - Kineo, working with League Football Education and Sportiv8, is producing a set of ground-breaking, reusable eLearning resources on functional skills for apprentices and learners within traditional school and college programmes. In a new case study, Kineo shares a preview of the programme and insights into their approach. » MORE