Themen

High Performers

2009 Finalists Named for EFQM Excellence Award

Brussels (BE), August 2009 - Fourteen finalists for the EFQM Excellence Award 2009 have been announced by EFQM, a non-profit membership foundation headquartered in Brussels. From this list of nominees, the award and prize winners will be named on 28 September 2009 in the Plaza Hotel at EFQM's Celebration Award dinner in Brussels. » MORE

Still Emerging

New Creative Centre for Serious Games in France

Valenciennes (FR), August 2009 - In the north of France, a new centre for serious games is being established at the initiative of the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI). The target group will be creative companies, professional training schools, and IT students. Jean Menu, Director of Digital Development at the Valenciennes Chamber of Commerce and Industry, spoke with Kirsten Seegmüller of CHECK.point eLearning about the focus of his project. » MORE

New Organisation

Certified Standards for UK Learning Practitioners

Newcastle Emlyn (UK), August 2009 - TrainerBase has evolved into a new organisation, The Learning Practitioners' Association, which strives to become the voice of learning practitioners in the UK and a marketplace where learning practitioners attract new business. » MORE

Human Resources

Performance and Talent Management

Manchester/London (UK), August 2009 - Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. has announced that Manchester Airport Group (MAG), the UK's second-largest airport operator, is using Cornerstone's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based talent management solution to support its people strategy. » MORE

Language Training

dp Makes Software Satisfaction Awards Shortlist

London (UK)/Munich (GER), August 2009 - digital publishing, a provider of language training software solutions, has been shortlisted for this year's British Software Satisfaction Awards for "HR & Training - Learning Software". » MORE

ELearning Asia

Giunti Labs Offers Workshop in Seoul in September

Seoul (KR), August 2009 - Giunti Labs is running a ninety-minute seminar on innovative and creative solutions for new-generation educational content production, sharing, and management. The seminar takes place as part of eLearning Asia (02 - 04 September 09), on Wednesday, 02 September in Seoul, South Korea. » MORE

Continuing Growth

Giunti Labs UK Appoints Sales Manager

Richmond-upon-Thames (UK), August 2009 - Following its expansion within the UK market in 2008 and its continuing growth in revenue, Giunti Labs has appointed Dan Taylor as its Sales Manager in the UK. A sales and marketing professional with over seventeen years of experience in technology-led multi-channel operations, Taylor came to Giunti Labs from PPi Learning Services Ltd, where he had been client director. For some ten years before that, he had worked in sales-related roles for Thomson NETg. » MORE

Rapid eLearning

Build Your Own Learning Resources with ARED

Brisbane (AU), July 2009 - A new version of the ARED (Application for Rapid eLearning Development) resource development tool has been released, helping practitioners, even those with little more than basic computer skills, to easily build their own eLearning resources. » MORE

Software Engineering

Microsoft Infrastructure Training Project in China

Shanghai (CN), July 2009 - John Bryce Training China, has announced the completion of the first phase of the strategic deal for software engineering training in Petro China, the national oil and gas company of China. The training project was tailored to answer Petro China's learning needs and covers aspects of the Microsoft infrastructure technology. » MORE

Gaining Speed

HowToMoodle Expands with New London Office

London (UK), July 2009 - HowToMoodle has expanded, with the opening of a new office in Clerkenwell, London supplementing its Telford office. The company provides training, consultancy, and technical advice in the use of the open source course-management software platforn Moodle. » MORE