Themen

Financial Sector

SumTotal Continues to Expand Its Reach

Mountain View, CA (USA), September 2010 - SumTotal Systems, a provider of talent-development solutions, has announced strong customer growth in the financial-services sector. Continuing to expand its presence in the industry, SumTotal has five out of the six Fortune 500 financial data services companies as customers, including Western Union and First Data. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

The rise and fall of 'e'

London (UK), September 2010 - (by Bob Little) 'E-learning' was once a word denoting the 'leading edge' application of learning delivery technologies and the latest thinking in instructional design. Yet, for years, studies have showed that less than ten per cent of those who start an eLearning programme ever complete it. » MORE

Professional Development

Aurion Learning Builds Competency Assessment Tool

Belfast (UK), September 2010 - Aurion Learning has designed and built a new competency assessment tool for the Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC). The tool is designed to assist nurses and midwives in their continuing professional development. » MORE

Blended Learning

Greenlight Solutions Enhances Training Services

London (UK), September 2010 - Greenlight Solutions, a specialist employee-training and consultancy-services provider, has enhanced its training services through the use of Cobent Learning Compliance Suite (LCS). The new system allows them to offer clients a blended-learning environment and reach a wider market quickly and cost effectively. » MORE

Ethical Computing

QA Expands Market-Leading Green IT Training Portfolio

Slough (UK), September 2010 - The UK-based training company QA is expanding its range of Green IT training courses. With the British Computer Society (BCS), QA has co-developed the world's first officially accredited Green IT training course. For the first time, a full suite of Green IT training courses is available, from awareness through to certification. » MORE

Low-Cost Dial In

Netviewer Expands Audio Conference Offering

Karlsruhe (GER), September 2010 - Voice transmission is an integral part of all web conferences, webinars, and online support facilities. Netviewer, Europe's foremost provider of web collaboration solutions, has therefore not only incorporated free voice over IP functionality into its products, but also a professional audio-conference service. » MORE

Professional Training

France Lags Behind their European Cousins

Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR), September 2010 - Who is trained, and in what and how? What role does the company play? Are employees satisfied with this training? To answer these questions, the Cegos Group surveyed European workers in order to get their opinions and expectations relating to training. In Germany, Spain, France, and the UK, 2,200 workers from various sectors and companies of all sizes were surveyed in March 2010. » MORE

Accessibility

Blackboard Learn Achieves Gold Certification

Washington, DC (USA), September 2010 - Blackboard Inc. has announced that the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has awarded Blackboard Learn its Nonvisual Accessibility Gold Certification, stating that the company's software was the most accessible education application that the NFB had tested. This makes it the first and only learning-management system to achieve certification. » MORE

Collaboration

Kaplan IT Learning Partners with Larmer Brown

Atlanta, GA (USA), September 2010 - Larmer Brown and Kaplan IT Learning have joined forces to offer business transformation, content development, and training services for STT and Atlantic Link products, including STT Trainer, STT InfoShare, Content Point, Capture Point, and Knowledge Point. » MORE

Branching Out

IMC Intensifies Sales Activities in Europe

Saarbrücken (GER), September 2010 - IMC AG has tapped into another foreign market after opening up a new branch. The IMC office in Amsterdam, from where activities in the Netherlands and Belgium are managed, has now begun its operations. » MORE