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New York, NY (USA), October 2016 - Launched this year in China and other key markets, Poptropica English features an all-new range of stunning digital content, including varied interactions, quests, games, songs, and other media. The resources are fully blended with a groundbreaking, six-level primary course based on the children’s gaming phenomenon Poptropica. » MORE

Paris (F), October 2016 – (by Sally-Ann Moore, iLearning Forum) We have been talking to users who bought an LMS: few were very happy with their purchase once deployed; many shared useful experience with us. This article summarizes our findings.  » MORE

Cirencester (UK), October 2016 - Kallidus Perform, a modern and simple-to-use cloud-based solution, has been designed to make performance management easier and more effective. Kallidus Perform enables regular check-ins between managers and team members, anytime, anywhere, using any device, reducing the burden of annual reviews and improving relationships between managers and employees. It does this by shifting the focus to open conversations about the future rather than reflecting on the past. » MORE

London (UK), October 2016 - Business Smart International, a leading business-simulation company, has recently delivered one of the most engaging and innovative live simulation events for one of its global-banking clients. In a prestigious London hotel, 500 high-calibre graduates took control of a virtual bank and navigated it through a simulated four years of business in a challenging marketplace. » MORE

Pune (IN), October 2016 - The UK’s largest and Europe’s second-largest provider of self- storage solutions, Safestore, trusts UpsideLMS to deliver consistent training to its new recruits and existing employees. » MORE

Gloucestershire (UK), October 2016 - Fosway Group, a European HR analyst, has unveiled its new Fosway 9-Grid™ for cloud human capital management (HCM). The company also announced the 2016 update to its popular Fosway 9-Grid™ for integrated talent management (ITM). » MORE

Milton Keynes (UK), October 2016 - EssentialSkillz, an industry leader in providing high-quality corporate health and safety eLearning, have launched a new website offering instant access to online training courses 24/7 to SMEs and individuals. » MORE

London (UK), October 2016 - Unicorn Training has joined Learning Heroes in their mission to save the world from boring eLearning after partnering to deliver brand-new workplace-skills content. » MORE

Athens, GA (USA), October 2016 - With more than 13,044 lifetime-enrolled users and a 30- percent year-over-year growth rate, Nintex, a workflow-technology company, chose Docebo because it needed a learning-management system capable of managing internal growth while enabling customer and partner networks. » MORE

London (UK), October 2016 - The leadership communications specialist CloudQast has taken delivery of a 1964 "classic" Airstream Globe Trotter caravan. This 16-foot-long example of touring history will become CloudQast’s "creative headquarters" in St Albans – the venue for the creative scriptwriting for CloudQast’s many video-based learning-and-development (L&D) materials. » MORE

Oulu (FI), October 2016 – Bittium will exhibit its customized, secure R&D services for IoT solutions at the IoT Solutions World Congress, to be held in Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain, 25–27 October 2016. On display will be the "Bittium wearable platform for health monitoring", which is targeted for preventive healthcare. It enables the development of customized products and services quickly and cost efficiently.  » MORE

Plymouth (UK), October 2016 - Expert advice on how to engage employees in the knowledge they need to safeguard company data will be on offer at an interactive webinar on Thursday, 27 October entitled "Cyber Security: Bring the risks to life for your workforce". The time is 1500 (BST).  » MORE

London (UK), October 2016 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2017 Learning Awards, the learning sector’s annual celebration of outstanding achievement, best practice, and excellence in corporate learning and performance. » MORE

London (UK), October 2016 - Education-technology thought-leadership platform EdTechXAsia 2016 Summit and Expo will be held for the first time in Singapore, at the Singapore EXPO @ MAX Atria, 08-09 November 2016. With technology at the heart of the event and education startups a key focus, EdTechXAsia will power conversations to transform education and Asia’s lifelong-learning needs. » MORE

Yakutsk (RU), October 2016 - This year, Siberia has experienced unique progress. In Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (formerly called Yakutia) and the only city worldwide built on permafrost, the government launched a hot season, and the Lensky Education Forum, which took place in August 2016, heated up the debate about open education. (The Lensky District is one of 34 administrative and municipal districts in the Sakha Republic, Russia.) » MORE

Oslo (NO), October 2016 - The webinars will be held in the last part of 2016 and the first part of 2017 and will be hosted by internationally renowned experts in the field. The chosen topics are "Challenges for leadership in open and distance education"; "Challenges for quality in open and distance education"; "Supporting students for success in open and distance education"; "Co-developing strategies for rural and remote communities"; "Open education: what is really happening?"; and "Changing pedagogies for open education". » MORE

Jönköping (SE), October 2016 - The call for papers for the EDEN 2017 Annual Conference in Sweden is now open. The congress will take place in Jönköping at the Jönköping University in co-operation with Destination Jönköping, 13-16 June 2017.  » MORE