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Walldorf (GER), November 2016 – (by Celine Burgle, Patrick Robinson, and Corinna Machmeier) Caipei Song started at SAP in August 2016 as associate developer. It’s his first job after graduating from university, and he enjoys it. However, joining the world of SAP can be quite a culture shock. "At the beginning, it was not easy for me to get to know the company because I was not sure where to start," remembers Caipei. » MORE

Plymouth (UK), November 2016 - Sponge UK, a leading provider of custom-made workplace eLearning solutions, has announced that it is complementing its corporate-learning services with the Axonify Employee Knowledge Platform. The platform uses advanced technologies to help improve business performance by ensuring employees build and retain their knowledge over time. » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - Towards Maturity’s new Learning Benchmark Report shows a record 93% of L&D professionals want to integrate learning and work – however, only 15% are delivering on this. At a time when businesses need to respond faster than ever before, this is a challenge that people professionals clearly need to address. » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - Award-winning adaptive training provider Filtered.com is launching Global Filter, a new learning-recommendation engine set to disrupt the EdTech and training industries. This brand-new product solves one of the biggest headaches for enterprise-level learning and-development-practitioners: overload. Staff are overwhelmed with huge libraries of learning assets that quickly become obsolete. » MORE

Paris (F), November 2016 - StratX and Territoria Ltd. have announced a strategic partnership to deliver experiential-learning solutions for the biopharmaceutical industry. » MORE

Heidelberg (GER), November 2016 - The Venlo (Netherlands) city council is a modern, ambitious organization in full development and intent on improving its services to its residents. This development focuses on improving executive and civil management, operating more customer focused, working more integrally, and giving more space and responsibilities to its staff. » MORE

Toronto (CA), November 2016 - Improving performance in the modern workplace requires learning-and-development professionals to reinvent themselves. The 70:20:10 Primer, a paper published in collaboration between the 70:20:10 Institute and learning-management-system provider Docebo, is a call to action for the corporate-training industry.  » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - The leadership-communications specialist CloudQast has upgraded the features of its video-based learning platform. » MORE

Aalborg (DK), November 2016 - Fuse Universal has announced the recent partnership with BLENDIT LEARNING, an expert in the digital-learning industry based in Aalborg, Denmark.  » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - Millions of practitioners in the global DevOps and IT service management (ITSM) communities are to gain access to a new DevOps awareness-training program. This high-quality program is based on IT Revolution’s DevOps Handbook and draws on the combined expertise of IT Revolution and AXELOS in the fields of DevOps, lean, agile, and ITSM. » MORE

San Jose, CA (USA), November 2016 - Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TubeMogul for approximately $540 million net in debt and cash. Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will commence a cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of TubeMogul for $14 per share. TubeMogul is a leader in video advertizing, with a single platform that enables brands and agencies to plan and buy video advertizing across desktops, mobile, streaming devices, and TVs.  » MORE

Bristol (UK), November 2016 - Training and digital learning consultancy Hewlett Rand is making its mark in Hong Kong, having secured a contract with the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB). The Bristol-based consultancy has developed a new eLearning strategy for the organisation that is now being rolled out to all its members.  » MORE

Bath (UK), November 2016 - Developed with De Montfort University, Cylix's new HTML 5 eLearning course will provide university staff with a practical guide to complying with consumer-protection law and meeting the standards defined by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).  » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - The winners of the Charity Learning Awards 2016 are proof that little or no budget is no barrier to delivering innovative eLearning. Most of the winners had no resources to speak of, but came up with award-winning solutions to the business challenges they faced. Their stories of success are an inspiration to all organisations, not just fellow charities. » MORE

Heerlen (NL), November 2016 - The internet and globalization are changing our world and ways to communicate, learn, and live together. They are offering huge opportunities but also challenges that the special conference "Digital Risks - Digital Chances" is addressing. "We invite all interested people to explore and discuss digitalization, online learning, and collaboration in schools and lifelong learning", emphasizes Dr. Christian M. Stracke, Associate Professor for Open Education and Innovation from the Open University of the Netherlands and organizer of the event.  » MORE

Munich (GER), November 2016 - Speexx, a leading online language-training provider, has been honoured by the Worlddidac Association for the sixth consecutive time for innovative solutions in the Blended Learning category. The award ceremony, sponsored by telecommunications provider Swisscom, took place in Bern, Switzerland.  » MORE

London (UK), November 2016 - The conference programme for Learning Technologies 2017 in London has been announced, and booking is open. It is a five-track programme, with over seventy conference speakers, including keynotes from Thimon de Jong and Deborah Frances-White.  » MORE

Valencia (E), November 2016 - After the great success of the previous HEAd conferences, which received submissions from 54 countries, the organizers are pleased to announce the Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'17), 21-23 June 2017 in Valencia, Spain.  » MORE

Brussels (BE), November 2016 - This year, the annual Media & Learning get-together in Brussels will be structured around two separate events: the Media & Learning Conference entitled Learning Media for Digital Citizenship and the Media & Learning Symposium called Video in Higher Education. This highly interactive gathering will include lots of inspiring talks, demos, best-practice showcases, and workshop sessions.  » MORE

Winter Garden, FL (USA), November 2016 - Please consider contributing by submitting an article to the fifteenth International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2017, to be held 08-11 July 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA, jointly with the eleventh International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics: IMSCI 2017; the twenty-first World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2017 and the tenth International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2017. » MORE