Themen

Learning Pass

CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE Sign Agreement

London (UK), July 2010 - SMEs are actively adopting new training solutions such as online learning, which allows them to efficiently train their employees without the large productivity drops and travel expenses associated with traditional instructor-led programmes. Recognising this, CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE have designed LEARNING PASS, which fuses two solutions into one integrated offering. » MORE

Collaborative Community

Sharing Questions and Answers on LearningGuide Manager

Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - LearningGuide Solutions has launched an online collaborative site using the NingTM social-media platform. The site enables authors using LearningGuide's single-source authoring environment to participate in a community where they can share ideas, provide product feedback, and read blogs and forum postings. » MORE

Budget Cuts

Facing the Challenge in the Healthcare Sector

West Yorkshire (UK), July 2010 - In his first budget statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said that he will control spending in government departments to "get more for less". The Lean Healthcare Academy sets out to show how. » MORE

Training Resource

Eden Tree from GoodPractice Launches Toolkit

Edinburgh (UK), July 2010 - Eden Tree offers resources to support learning and development professionals. They include a suite of "instant" training self-assessments, exercises, case studies, workshops, and handouts. Compared with their previous experience trawling the internet, Eden Tree users report a time savings of up to eighty percent. » MORE

Web Portal

TRIO Wins IMS Learning Impact Leadership Award

Florence (IT), June 2010 - Giunti Labs has been given a "Learning Impact Leadership Award" at this year's IMS Learning Impact Awards. Giunti Labs, along with Italy's Region of Tuscany, received the award for "Building Europe's largest lifelong learning for employment initiative". The project - known as the Training Innovation Research and (job) Orientation (TRIO) - uses the Moodle LMS and the HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR). » MORE

Authoring & Publishing

Plateau Expands iContent

London (UK), June 2010 - Plateau Systems, a provider of SaaS solutions for talent management, has expanded its iContent solution to include best-in-class content-authoring and publishing capabilities. Under the terms of a renewed agreement with Trivantis Corporation, Plateau will bundle Trivantis' integrated content-authoring tool, Lectora Online with Plateau's iContent Content-as-a-Service (CaaS), offering to provide customers with an easy way to create and publish content directly to iContent. » MORE

Ranking

Best Web Conference Solution: Gold Award for Netviewer

Ogden, UT (USA) / Karlsruhe (GER), June 2010 - Following a wide-ranging test comparing products from different providers, Netviewer Meet 6.0 was presented with the Gold Award for the best web-conference solution by TopTenREVIEWS. The website features in-depth technology tests and product comparisons in more than 350 categories. » MORE

Sustainability

DuPont Develops eLearning Series for Energy Efficiency

Wilmington, DE / Virginia Beach, VA (USA), June 2010 - DuPont Training Solutions powered by Coastal has released the DuPont™ Energy Efficiency eLearning series. The sixteen online courses are designed to help industrial facilities around the world improve energy efficiency and profitability and are now available for free demonstration. » MORE

Expansion

Learn.com Increases Its Global Distribution Network

Sunrise, FL (USA), June 2010 - Learn.com® has announced the signing of several strategic partner agreements in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America as part of the company's ongoing expansion to deliver its cloud-based Knowledge Platform to global markets. » MORE