Themen

Learning Industry

Work and Salary Survey 2009

Bromsgrove (UK), February 2010 - Blue Eskimo, a recruitment company for professionals in the areas of training, learning, and eLearning, has published its 2009 work and salary survey. It shows that learning professionals are working harder than before and are being paid less, but there are signs that the worse may now be over. The intent of the survey was to gather and publish information about key aspects of employment in the learning industry. Over 500 learning professionals participated during the fourth quarter of 2009. » MORE

Good for You

Recipe for eLearning Success

Ilkley (UK), February 2010 - A new eLearning menu is being served up to the food, drink, and hospitality sectors. Offering a variety of courses, it comes courtesy of the newly established Food, Drink & Hospitality e-Academy and is the latest 'dish of the day' from online-training pioneer Virtual College, based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. » MORE

LCMS

Netherlands Railways Makes High-Speed Move to XML

Boulder, CO (USA), February 2010 - Xyleme® Inc., a provider of 100% XML, open and standards-based learning-content-management solutions has announced that the Netherlands Railways (NS) has selected Xyleme LCMS for development and delivery of rolling-stock operating manuals and training materials. » MORE

Professional Development

Mediapharm Teams up with Edvantage

Brighton (UK), February 2010 - Pharmacy-education company Mediapharm has entered into an exclusive partnership with leading managed-learning specialist Edvantage group to offer pharmaceutical companies a simple way of delivering training and communications directly to pharmacists through a new online portal, CPD Easy. » MORE

Staff Training

XOR Delivers Safeguarding Children Course

London (UK), February 2010 - XOR LTD has developed a Safeguarding Children Course for David Lloyd Leisure (DLL). The program helps ensure that children and vulnerable people are protected while with company team members and volunteers. » MORE

Assessment

Questionmark Releases Perception Version 5

London (UK), February 2010 - The ability to deliver a single assessment to different types of devices and in multiple languages and contexts - plus improved accessibility and scalability - are among the improvements introduced in version 5 of the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment-management system. » MORE

Letter from UK

ELearning's movers and shakers

London (UK), February 2010 - (by Bob Little) Traditionally, this is the time of year for awards and accolades - think of the New Year's Honours List in the UK, as well as the USA's Golden Globes and the Academy Awards (Oscars). Recently, a list of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector emerged. There were three lists covering the world, Europe and the UK. Such a list is bound to be controversial but, in the interests of information and informed debate, here are some of the highlights. » MORE

IT Skills

Innovative Experiential-Learning Solutions

London (UK)/Pleasanton, CA (USA), February 2010 - gtslearning and Toolwire have announced a new training solution for the CompTIA A+ 2009 Edition. It combines the strength of gtslearning content and the hands-on power of Toolwire LiveLabs and "Day-in-the-Life" interactive scenarios. » MORE

New Appointments

Aurion Learning Beats Recession

Belfast (Northern Ireland/UK), February 2010 - Aurion Learning has not only managed to survive the recession but also to grow its business. Barry Kelly has been appointed as Research Development Manager and Noleen Turner is Aurion's new Marketing Officer. » MORE

Learning Practioners

New Branding and Qualification for UK

Newcastle Emlyn (UK), January 2010 - The Learning Practitioners' Association (LPA), has launched new branding to identify the Association as a distinct and unique body within the learning and development sector. It has also announced a new qualification, a BTEC level 5 Professional Certificate in Learning Practice Management. » MORE