Themen

Letter from UK

Elearning: now the yak herders' choice

London (UK), July 2009 - (by Bob Little) The UK eLearning sector has been intrigued to discover that the US-based learning content management system (LCMS) vendor OutStart has merged with Hot Lava Software, a company producing applications for mobile phone subscribers - with the newly combined companies conducting business as OutStart. Massood Zarrabian continues as CEO and president of OutStart, while Bob Sanregret, CEO of Hot Lava Software, becomes vice president of the OutStart Hot Lava Mobile business unit. » MORE

Gaining Speed

Digital Learning in the Middle East

Dubai (UAE), July 2009 - UKS, a learning-solutions enabler in the Middle East and the professional training provider Cegos Group have announced the launch of eLearning Solutions by Cegos (eLS) and Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) to support the long-term performance and growth of commercial and public-sector organisations in the Middle East. » MORE

Open Source

Kineo Supports Moodle's Site-Wide Groups

Brighton (UK), July 2009 - Kineo Open Source has donated $3000 AUS to Moodle, the open source learning management system. This will be put into the development fund run by the Moodle Trust - which contracts programrs to work on Moodle - to help fund the development of the Site-Wide Groups feature in Moodle 2.0, which is due at the end of 2009. » MORE

High-res Animations

ESRI Canada Brings Earth's Treasures to Life

Toronto, ON (CA), June 2009 - As part of an ongoing commitment to actively promote Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education, ESRI Canada has collaborated with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) to enhance one of its most renowned attractions - the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures. » MORE

Benchmarking

UK Top 50 IT Training Providers 2009

London (UK), June 2009 - Pardo Fox, a provider of market intelligence and strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has published its tenth annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers by revenue. » MORE

Search Tool

Finding Learning Resources Made Easy

Brisbane (AU), June 2009 - The Australian national training system's eLearning strategy "Framework", announces the release of an enhanced version of the Vetadata Tool, making it even quicker and easier to create Vetadata for learning resources. » MORE

Digital Repository

Giunti Labs Presents Solutions for Archiving

Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - At the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting organised by Sun Microsystems in St Julian's, Malta, from 24 - 26 June, Giunti Labs will present the new HarvestRoad Hive 4 Digital Repository (DR) platform for digital-content archiving and preservation initiatives of museums, libraries, and eGovernment. » MORE

Supplier Management

New Priority for Learning Outsourcing

Bracknell (UK), June 2009 - The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made 'supplier management' the current focus area for learning outsourcing, according to managed-learning specialist KnowledgePool. Their research indicates that 77% of organisations currently outsource some aspects of their learning provision and 5% outsource all learning activities. » MORE

Business Cooperation

CMEurope Partners with Cobent for Quality Training

Guildford (UK), June 2009 - CMEurope is expanding its training services through a partnership with Cobent Limited. CMEurope is the European division of the Australian-based HR outsourcing and recruitment company Chandler Macleod Group. CMEurope's services extend further than its Australian parent, covering the entire employment lifecycle, from marketing vacancies and candidates, to recruitment outsourcing and consultancy around organisational culture and leadership. » MORE

Blended Learning

UKS partners with Cegos Group

Dubai (UAE), June 2009 - Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS), a learning-solutions enabler based in the Middle East, has partnered with Cegos Group, a professional training provider, in an exclusive relationship to provide Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) and eLearning Solutions by Cegos (eLS) to the commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East. » MORE