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

Elearnity Viewpoint Paper

The Fall and Rise of Corporate Academies

Cirencester (UK), March 2011 - Corporate academies have been an established trend in enterprise learning for some time. Many organisations are now adopting them as a strategic vehicle to deliver business alignment and more holistic development strategies. However, many others have seen their academies initiatives wither and die. » MORE

Community Support

Global Knowledge Runs for Evie

Wokingham (UK), March 2011 - A team from the IT-training organisation Global Knowledge have run the Wokingham half marathon to raise money for a two-year-old little girl suffering from quadriplegia cerebral palsy. In a bid to meet the target and fund Evie's treatment, Global Knowledge has promised to match whatever the team raises. » 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