Themen

New Appointment

REDTRAY Strengthens Business Development Team

London (UK), July 2009 - REDTRAY, a training-outsourcing provider, is strengthening its business development team with the appointment of Phil Horton as a Senior Account Manager. In his new role, Phil will work with REDTRAY's development team on the delivery of innovative blended-learning solutions for both existing and new customers. » 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

Outsourcing

ELearning Report from ValueNotes

Pune (IN), July 2009 - ValueNotes, a business research company based in India, has announced the publications of 'eLearning Outsourcing 2009: Advantage India'. It features in-depth insights and analysis, including the competitive standing of India as an outsourcing destination, the services being outsourced, the client markets, and providers and their strategies for the future. » MORE

Intercultural Issues

Toolbox Strengthens Awareness of Indigenous Culture

Brisbane (AU), July 2009 - Did you know that in my culture, to stare in your eyes is disrespectful? This is one of the messages given to teachers in South Australia as part of the roll-out of the Interactive Ochre Flexible Learning Toolbox (Toolbox), designed to train secondary and primary school teachers about contemporary Indigenous cultural awareness issues. » MORE

Authoring Tools

New Voiceover Function for CourseBuilder

Oslo (NO), July 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and Managed Learning Service provider, has announced the launch of its unique voiceover function for CourseBuilder - a content authoring tool -, CBVoice. The capabilities of CBVoice revolutionise working with sound in eLearning development. » MORE

Learning Environment

e2train Launches Kallidus 8

Cirencester (UK), July 2009 - e2train, a supplier of learning and performance technologies, has launched Kallidus® 8, an enterprise-wide learning and performance environment. The new system offers an easy-to-use 'iGoogle style' web-gadget learner interface, which enables learning professionals to integrate formal and informal learning within a single solution. » MORE

Product Marketing

Learn.com Names New Executive Director

Sunrise, FL (USA), July 2009 - Learn.com, provider of on-demand workforce development and productivity, has announced that David Wilkins, former Senior Director of Product Strategy at Mzinga (formerly KnowledgePlanet) has been named the company's Executive Director of Product Marketing. » MORE

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