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Corporate eLearning
Lockheed Martin Acquires 3Dsolve
BETHESDA, MD (USA), September 2007 - Lockheed Martin Corporation has announced its acquisition of 3Dsolve, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 3Dsolve is a privately held company that creates simulation-based learning solutions for government, military, and corporate applications. The company's innovative software tools assist clients with collaborative training using interactive 3D graphics. » MORE
Information Transfer to Produce Training Programme
Cambridge (UK), September 2007 - Consequent to a successful and ongoing working relationship with European Organon offices, Information Transfer will now be working with the company's global division, based in New Jersey in the USA. Organon has commissioned Information Transfer to produce a training programme on anaesthesia products for its international sales operation. The training materials will include manuals and electronic assessments and will be translated into many languages. » MORE
Canadian Grant for International Commercialization
Quebec (CAN), September 2007 - The Canadian Ministries of Labour and Economic Development have announced the award of $126,000 in repayable funding to SVI eSolutions Inc., a Quebec-based software and multimedia company. This assistance will be used to implement a marketing strategy outside Quebec. SVI eSolutions Inc. develops and markets interactive virtual solutions for the distance-training and collaborative-work markets. » MORE
Breakthrough for Virtual Learning Materials
Milton Keynes (UK), September 2007 - Giunti Labs, vendor of eLearning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has launched an authoring tool to create Sharable Content Object (SCO) virtual worlds and a run-time engine to administer them. That is, the tools are 3D collaborative virtual environments where each object can be experienced by a group of learners and any action of the learners can be tracked by an LMS. » MORE
U&I LEARNING Announces Takeover of HyperOffice
Ghent (BE), September 2007 - U&I Learning, a Ghent-based eLearning integrator operating in Belgium and the Netherlands, has announced its takeover of HyperOffice, the leading eLearning company on the French market. The agreement signed today involves a 100% buyout of HyperOffice shares. » MORE
Industry's First SCORM-Conformant 3D Serious Games
London (UK), September 2007 - LINE Communications, a leading provider of learning and communications solutions, and Caspian Learning, a pioneer of 3D learning-based games applications, have announced a partnership to produce and distribute the industry's first SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) conformant 3D serious games for learning management systems in the corporate training, government, and military sectors. » MORE
Online Training at Subaru Germany
Munich (GER), September 2007 - Right on time for the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Subaru Germany will introduce an interactive online training platform from Springer Transport Media for its vendors. Interactive training modules for three of Subaru's models - the Outback, Tribeca and Legacy - were already deployed last year, and all the members of Subaru's traders' network have been effectively and efficiently trained to use them. » MORE
IntraLibrary Connect Removes Traditional Boundaries
Linlithgo (UK), September 2007 - Intrallect, a leading provider of digital object repository software, has announced the launch of intraLibrary Connect - a web services suite that allows digital resources stored in the firm's intraLibrary solution to be accessed and used more easily in a wide range of eLearning tools. » MORE
Combining Mobile and Virtual Worlds for eLearning
Richmond (UK), September 2007 - Giunti Labs is collaborating with Coventry University's newly formed Serious Games Institute (SGI), Cisco, and mobile learning specialist Ambient Performance. The result of this collaboration will be on display at the Serious Virtual Worlds conference. » MORE
Insight into Learning Content Management Systems
Nashua, NH (USA), September 2007 - Stephen Shaw is chief learning officer of Eedo Knowledgeware and Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has helped Eedo to achieve a leading position in the LCMS market, while assisting a wide variety of customers in designing and implementing effective learning-content management strategies. In an interview with CHECK.point eLearning, Shaw speaks about operating mode and benefits of Learning Content Management Systems. » MORE
