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CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 10/03/2016 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710

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City & Guilds Group

Investment in Filtered as Part of New Venture Fund

London (UK), March 2016 - The City & Guilds Group has invested in London-based online-training company Filtered as the first investment from its New Venture Fund. The Fund, launched in September 2015, will invest £2.5m in post-revenue companies to support innovation in skills development across the world. » more

Latest Report

Independent Report Identifies the World’s Top LMS

Craig WeissSimi Valley, CA (USA), March 2016 - A thorough, independent analysis of 690 of the world’s leading learning management – and related - systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing fifty. Published by eLearning 24/7, the report is a key tool for LMS buyers and is the work of the internationally known corporate online-learning-industry analyst Craig Weiss. For the last two years, Craig has been named the most influential person in the world of corporate online-learning-technologies in an independently produced industry list. » more

NHS Foundation Trust

Email Training Reduces Staff Stress

Gloucester (UK), March 2016 - With more than 200 emails received per head per day, the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust service managers’ inboxes were filling fast. Reports indicated that email volumes can increase stress and lack of focus, resulting in poor decision making. » more

Lecturio

One Click away from Personalized Compliance Training

Martin
Schlichte, CEO at LecturioLeipzig (GER), March 2016 – ELearning provider Lecturio has announced the release of a fully integrated compliance course in English for its business partners. The video-based training included in the course will allow them to comprehensively introduce their employees and managers to all compliance topics and in doing so minimize liability risks. » more

Fosway 9-Grid™

NetDimensions Positioned again as "Core Leader"

London (UK), March 2016 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the unique European learning and talent-market-insight report, Fosway 9-Grid™ for learning- management systems (LMSs). NetDimensions continues to be the only company positioned as a "Core Leader". » more

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MLS

City & Guilds Kineo Launches PIVOT 1.6

London (UK), March 2016 - City & Guilds Kineo has launched a brand-new version of PIVOT, its managed-learning service (MLS). PIVOT 1.6 offers a more streamlined and connected experience for learners, assessors, and administrators. Not only this - its new "My Team" functionality offers better communication between learners and those delivering training. » more

EMMA

A Great Variety of MOOCs

Brussels (BE), March 2016 – EMMA is a thirty-month pilot action supported by the European Union. EMMA offers free, open, online courses in multiple languages (e.g. English, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Estonian, Dutch, French, and Portuguese) from various European universities to help preserve Europe’s rich cultural, educational, and linguistic heritage and to promote cross-cultural and multi-lingual learning. Becoming an EMMA student is easy: Once you’ve registered, find the MOOC that interests you, click on the "enrol" button, and start learning! » more

SAP Learning Hub

New SAP® Education Network for Digital Transformation

Walldorf (GER), March 2016 - SAP SE and the SAP® University Alliances program have announced the global launch of SAP Education Network for Digital Transformation, an initiative to engage and prepare executives and professionals to lead their organizations to become digital enterprises in collaboration with academia and partners. The announcement was made at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. » more

Quality Issues

Certify Your Courses and Programmes with ECB-Check

Bonn (GER), March 2016 - The ECB-Check certification has been developed with the aid of more than 65 organisations worldwide and has been running quality checks of eLearning courses and programmes for more than five years. So far, ECB-Check has awarded almost forty certifications to more than twenty organisations, including the FAO, the World Bank Institute, Germany’s GIZ, the ITC-ILO, and many others. » more

Collaboration

SXSWedu and EdTechXEurope Partnership

London (UK), March 2016 - EdTechXEurope, one of Europe’s leading education-technology-focused conference platforms, has extended its partnership with SXSWedu®, an energetic and innovative American education-sector event, for the third consecutive year. The collaboration will see the newly rebranded EdTechXEurope summit providing European expertise and showcasing European EdTech All Stars companies during the Industry Hub programme track as part of SXSWedu in Austin, Texas. Reciprocally, SXSWedu Executive Producer Ron Reed and a selection of US education influencers will attend the EdTechXEurope London. » more

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Retail Network

FRESSNAPF Leverages Saba to Drive Culture of Learning

London (UK), March 2016 - Saba, a global leader in cloud-based intelligent talent-management solutions, has announced that FRESSNAPF, a market-leading provider of pet supplies in Europe, has selected Saba Cloud to advance its learning and development. FRESSNAPF has been a Saba customer since 2011 and has decided to extend the leverage of its learning initiatives with Saba Cloud to foster even better collaboration across its geographically dispersed, multilingual workforce. » more

300,000 Learners

Virtual College’s Online Patient-Safety Training

Pictured from
left to right Dr Tom Gallacher (Head of Postgraduate Medical Education),
Sarah Barwick (Account Manager, Virtual College), prize winner Dr. Jessica
Patel (FY1 Acute IM Critical care) and Dr Shyam Madathil, (Clinical Tutor)Ilkley (UK), March 2016 - A doctor from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has become the 300,000th National Patient Safety Suite learner. Developed by Virtual College in partnership with NHS England, the National Patient Safety Suite is comprised currently of sixteen patient-safety eLearning courses, including Safe Use of Insulin. Ninety-six per cent of learners would recommend these courses to a colleague. » more

EMR Provider

Tableau Announced New Technology Agreement

Seattle, WA / Las Vegas, NV (USA), March 2016 - Tableau Software, a global leader in rapid-fire business analytics software, has announced a technology agreement with Epic. The agreement will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses, and case managers for clinical analysis. » more

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E-book

How to Use an LMS to Reduce Staff Turnover

Glasgow (SCL), March 2016 - A learning-management system (LMS) can save the average business a great deal of time and money, according to the results various research projects brought together in an e-book by Create eLearning. » more

Guide

Better Health and Safety Practices in the Workplace

Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 – P&MM, an award-winning performance-improvement agency, has released a new guide that reveals workable strategies for driving better health and safety practice in the workplace through advanced reward and recognition techniques. The document is entitled "An advanced guide to health and safety recognition in the workplace". » more

Internships

Studyworld 2016 with International Academic Programmes

Berlin (GER), March 2016 - Whether it be an Erasmus semester, internship abroad, or even an international course of study at several different locations, the opportunities to go abroad are numerous. In Berlin on 22-23 April 2016, studyworld 2016, the international fair for higher and continuing education, will provide an overview of the various options for students and prospective students. One of the studyworld 2016 partners is EducationUSA. » more

eLearning Africa

Libraries, Vision and How African Innovation Benefits the World

Berlin (GER), March 2016 - Exciting ideas for Africa's libraries, museums, archives, and data will be an important part of this year's eLearning Africa conference, which takes place in Cairo, Egypt, 24-26 May. Keynote speakers at the event will include Egypt's Dr Ismail Serageldin, the founder and Director of the Biblioteca Alexandrina, one of the largest and most technologically advanced libraries in the world. » more

Webinar

Learning Benefits of Interactive Video Revealed

Plymouth (UK), March 2016 - A live webinar on 17 March 2016 will explore the benefits of using interactive video as part of a workplace learning strategy. Award-winning eLearning provider Sponge UK will outline how interactive video can be used to create highly engaging content that puts learners in control. » more






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