Themen

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ELearning: a Key Strategy for Fast-Growing Aviation

Melbourne (AU), October 2009 - New funding will help the aviation industry address workforce development issues arising from its unique position as being a high-growth, yet operationally driven and highly regulated, industry. To meet these challenges, the sector has identified the need for a whole-of-industry quality approach to learning that aligns with nationally accredited qualifications and provides much-needed flexibility for an operationally driven workforce. » MORE

Reseller Programme

Upside Learning Amplifies its Network

Pune (IN), October 2009 - Upside Learning has announced the launch of its reseller programme for UpsideLMS, the company's learning-management system and related services. Upside Learning invites independent organizations and individual professionals to join to the programme. » MORE

Awards

Rapid eLearning Tools Honored in Three Categories

Corona, CA (USA), October 2009 - Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, the industry voices of the eLearning market have announced the finalists of the Best of Elearning! Awards. Readers and professionals from both the private and public sector cast ballots for the best eLearning solutions providers across sixteen product categories. » MORE

Client Managers

LINE Pilots "Flying Classrooms" for Swiss Re

Zurich (CH), October 2009 - LINE, provider of learning and communications solutions, has announced the global roll-out of a new programme of sales refresher training developed for client managers at Swiss Re following successful pilots in Switzerland and Hong Kong. » MORE

Regional Initiative

Giunti Labs Takes the Lead with TRIO

Sestri Levante (IT), October 2009 - Giunti Labs, a vendor of learning-content-management solutions and digital-repository platforms, is leading a consortium of companies appointed to re-engineer the learning-content production and delivery infrastructure of Training Research Innovation and (job) Orientation (TRIO), the web learning system of Italy's Tuscany region. » MORE

Mobile Learning

Boosting the Quality of Education in Nigeria and Ghana

Boston, MA (USA), October 2009 - A technology triumvirate consisting of ABJAD, a Jordan-based mobile-information publisher; AD-CONNECT, a Nigerian high-tech consultancy; and OutStart Inc., maker of Hot Lava Mobile software, will launch a pilot project to turn the mobile devices carried by 150,000 Ghanaian and Nigerian students into a platform for publishing, delivering, and tracking multimedia learning content. » MORE

Compliance Training

Kineo Publishes New eLearning Guide

Chicago, IL (USA), October 2009 - Compliance training is a critical issue for today's organizations. In an increasingly regulated world, designing, delivering, and tracking compliance training is a key task. To support organizations in this task, Kineo has published a new guide providing practical advice on the design of compliance eLearning. » MORE

Evaluation

IMC Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant

Saarbruecken (GER), October 2009 - IMC AG, a provider of learning technologies, has announced that it has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS). This year's Magic Quadrant evaluated seventeen CLS providers worldwide according to their completeness of vision and their ability to execute that vision. » MORE

Content Management

XML-based Learning Solutions on EMC Documentum

Boulder CO (USA), October 2009 - Xyleme, a provider of 100% XML, SCORM 2004-certified learning content management solutions and Flatirons Solutions, a developer of enterprise and XML content management solutions, have announced their alliance to offer EMC Documentum services to training organizations in order to meet comprehensive, global learning requirements. » MORE

Letter from UK

Executives opt for low tech training tools

London (UK), October 2009 - (by Bob Little) Despite the alleged popularity of electronic performance support systems (EPSS) software among the UK's eLearning community, new independent research - commissioned by IMC (UK) Learning - shows that many executives are unaware of both what this EPSS software can do and its benefits for individuals and organisations. » MORE