CHECK.point eLearning

Themen

Recognition

Docebo Awarded US$ 170,000 for eLearning Project

Milano (IT), July 2011 - Docebo SRL, an Italian company providing cloud and mobile services for eLearning training has received an award of more than US$ 170,000 for the "FIMSER - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund in the Business-services Sector" tender organized by Italy's Lombardy region. » MORE

Performance Support

Mobile Learning Technology Gets a Boost

Sestri Levante (IT), July 2011 - eXact learning solutions presented the new Android version of its "eXact Mobile" solution - which is also available for the Blackberry, iPad and iPhone device series - at the mLearnCon 2011 conference in San Jose, California, on 21 and 22 June. » MORE

Future Trends

Who Else Wants a Photovoltaic Wi-fi Charger?

Edinburgh (SCO), July 2011 - Dr. Zara Dobson has been exploring a brand-new technology to maintain the battery packs of wi-fi gadgets. During the last couple of years, she has paid attention to information about wireless charging mats and maintains that the world of wi-fi charging is getting ready to bust wide open! » MORE

Tools

Zapping up Manufacturing Training

Brisbane (AU), June 2011 - Thanks to the use of stop-motion video technology and a bunch of very entertaining LEGO characters, a "dry and boring" training subject has been turned into an action- packed and hilarious eLearning tool. » MORE

White Paper

Learning and Assessment on SharePoint

Norwalk, CT (USA), June 2011 - With the increasing use of Microsoft SharePoint to create collaborative web sites, there's tremendous potential for using it together with assessments to support learning, education, training, and compliance. » MORE

Support of the Disabled

SkillSoft Wins ARPCT Business Partner Award

Nashua, NH (USA), June 2011 - SkillSoft, a SaaS provider of eLearning and performance-support solutions for business, government, and education has announced its recognition as the 2011 Outstanding Business Partner Award by the Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Computer Technology (ARPCT). » MORE

Professional Development

Transforming Pharmacy eLearning with Webanywhere

Leeds (UK), June 2011 - Mediapharm, a UK pharmacy-education company, has selected Webanywhere to deliver an open-source Totara LMS technology transformation for CPDEasy.com, its web-based managed learning service for pharmacy training, development, and product knowledge. » MORE

Updating Skills

Businesses Struggle to Capitalise on Economic Recovery

London (UK), June 2011 - The majority of senior management agree on a pressing need to educate their employees for future growth. Yet many companies are failing to deliver the right training as a result of budget cuts and lacking resources. As a solution to these challenges, blended learning provider Redtray has created ALTO Online. » MORE

Accelerating Growth

Upside Learning Announces New Partnership Programme

Pune (IN), June 2011 - Upside Learning has announced its new comprehensive partnership programme intended to accelerate partner growth and profitability for its Learning Management System - UpsideLMS and its platform for mobile learning - Upside2Go. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Maslow's hierarchy of needs; porn, and poker

London (UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Speaking at a conference for members of Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL), held at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in north London in May, Andrew Lamb, a Director of Appropedia (a wiki which focuses on sustainability issues), argued that 'web 2.0' has encouraged new forms of social interaction and collaboration. He added that firms have learned to exploit social media by using fun or viral notions to take advantage of people's innate desire to gather and interact with each other and pass along interesting bits of information. » MORE