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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

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

Training Standards

New Appointment Reinforces QA's ITIL Credentials

Slough (UK), October 2009 - Jeff Payne, Director of Professional Best Practice at QA, a provider of learning services, has been nominated by ISEB as the representative for Europe to the ITIL V3 ATO Sub-Group. In this role, Payne represents all Accredited Training Organizations (ATOs) across Europe as well as QA. » MORE

Health Care

Vertically Focused Learning Solutions

Mumbai (IN), October 2009 - Learning-solutions provider Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has announced the launch of its first business vertically focused learning solutions for organizations in the healthcare industry. TIS formally launched this initiative with the appointment of Candida Chandorkar as Vice President - Global Healthcare Solutions, a move from her earlier position as Vice President - ANZ. » MORE

Social Media

Trust No Barrier to Web 2.0 in Organizations

Zurich (CH), October 2009 - Trust issues surrounding wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 forms of communication should not delay adoption within organizations, according to European business leaders. Delegates to a roundtable discussion organised by LINE, a provider of learning and communications solutions, on the theme of 'Transforming Learning in the 21st Century' were strongly opposed to the idea that organizations should create specific rules to govern how employees use social media within the workplace. » MORE