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Corporate eLearning
First Media Celebrate Twenty-Year Anniversary
Lincolnshire (UK), December 2019 - One of the UK’s leading eLearning design specialists are celebrating twenty years in business. The company started back in 1999 by developing CD-ROMs from a conservatory in a Lincolnshire village, but they have gone on to become one of the biggest names in eLearning.
"Catching" Trainees with Complex Serious Games
Karlsruhe (GER)/Augsburg (GER), December 2019 - Jörg Prohaszka is convinced that learning should be fun. Prohaszka is Head of Digital Qualification at the Augsburg based Training Centre of the DB Bahnbau Gruppe, the German Railways Construction Group subsidiary. One of the Centre’s projects, "Serious Games in the Building Trade - Apprentices Turn Into Avatars", strives to stimulate the trainees’ drive to learn through the use of well-known avatars. On 30 January 2020 at 11.30, he will report on the results of this learning project at the LEARNTEC Congress.
Work Hacks for Change at BASF
Karlsruhe (GER)/Berlin (GER), December 2019 - "We have set out to introduce a new logic into our company based on openness, cooperation, and interaction. Innovative ideas, a new self-image of togetherness and new markets are to emerge in a network. In the future, it will not only be specialists who generate the ideas. Instead, new ideas will sprout from the lively exchange among people". This is how Patricia Ohnhaus from Personnel Development at BASF Services Europe in Berlin describes the topic of her presentation at the LEARNTEC Congress. The session is on 30 January at 11:30.
Everything is possible - nothing is required!
Karlsruhe (GER)/Würzburg (GER), December 2019 - Michael Bräuer is the Chief Fire Officer and deputy head of the Würzburg branch of the federal state of Bavaria’s Fire Brigade School. The "Fire Brigade Learning Bar", which the school developed, was launched in 2018 and bundles all the State Fire Brigade Schools’ digital media. The central component is a lexicon that provides technical terms and related information in a structured, visualised form and is state certified. Michael Bräuer will present this learning project at the LEARNTEC Congress on 28 January at 17.15.
Re-branded Learning Experience Platform
Nottingham (UK), November 2019 - Following Learning Pool’s acquisition of HT2 Labs in June 2019, the learning experience platform Headstream had merged with Curatr LXP ahead of its re-launch last month - and just in time for its first live US demo at the DevLearn Conference & Expo 2019 in Las Vegas, NV.
» MOREThought Industries Opens New European Headquarters
Dublin (IRL) / Boston, MA (USA), November 2019 - Thought Industries, one of the fastest-growing online learning SaaS companies, has announced its expansion in Europe with the launch of an office in Dublin. The new operations, near St. Stephen's Greens in Dublin's multinational tech city center, is well positioned to supply a hyper level of support to the company's growing roster of European customers.
» MOREEukleia Launches Revised Courses on Tackling Modern Slavery
London (UK), November 2019 - With Anti-Slavery Day on 18 October serving as a reminder of the 2015 UK Modern Slavery Act, Eukleia, in partnership with Stronger Together, has revised its online training courses on tackling modern slavery to be multi-device compatible.
Sponge Joins Forces to Power Up Digital Learning
Plymouth (UK), November 2019 - Sponge, an award-winning custom digital learning company has been acquired by Aliter Capital to form part of the private equity firm’s corporate training group. Sponge will play a strategic role in supporting Aliter’s goal to establish a major new force in the learning technology market.
» MOREOffering Non-ICT Students a Pathway to High Demand Roles
Sydney (AUS), November 2019 - DDLS, one of Australia’s largest providers of corporate ICT and cybersecurity training, has introduced a course in cybersecurity that will take students with no ICT background to three internationally recognised cybersecurity certifications in less than six months.
LPI’s Ed Monk Joins Blue Eskimo in Strategic Role
Bromsgrove (UK), November 2019 - Blue Eskimo, a leader in learning recruitment, has appointed Edmund Monk as non-executive director. Monk, chief executive of the Learning & Performance Institute, is a well known and integral figure in the learning sector. Monk will help shape Blue Eskimo’s future strategy and services, bringing to the role exceptional insight into, and involvement in, finding solutions to the issues faced within learning and development.
