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Themen

Skills Academy

Core Learning Services Active in Sport & Leisure

London (UK), May 2011 - The eLearning-related solutions and services consultancy, Core Learning Services (CLS), is working with the UK's National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure (NSA) to provide a wide and growing range of eLearning materials to over 2,000 workers in this sector. » MORE

Open Source

International Contact at Moodlerooms

Brussels (BE), May 2011 - Moodlerooms has introduced Bas ten Holter, the new Executive Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at Moodlerooms, Inc. Currently based in Brussels, he has been working in the education industry for over fifteen years. » MORE

Successes

Trivantis Expands and Stirs Up the Market with Snap!

Cincinnati, OH (USA), May 2011 - Trivantis Corporation has announced the release of Snap! by Lectora, which - with a price of $99 - redefines affordable rapid eLearning, leading the market at a fraction of the competitors' costs. Lectora Inspire has also just received a 2010 Brandon Hall Gold Award, and Trivantis is expanding with the recent announcement to acquire its partner Flypaper Studio. » MORE

Research Participants

Technology-Led Leadership Development

Stroud (UK), May 2011 - Laura Overton, the MD of the independent not-for-profit research organization Towards Maturity, is asking for those responsible for leadership and management development to give fifteen minutes of their time to contribute to groundbreaking benchmarking research. » MORE

National Health Service

Major eLearning Programme Successful on CLIX

Sevenoaks (UK), May 2011 - CLIX and IMC's team of consultants have helped eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH) to deliver one of the most ambitious LMS projects seen in the UK in recent years. The project's aim is to deliver 6,000 hours of eLearning materials to healthcare professionals across the National Health Service (NHS). » MORE

New Rental Model

Luminosity Rapid eLearning Platform Available per Author

Bristol (UK), May 2011 - Until recently, Luminosity Studio had been provided only as an enterprise-level system for the largest and most demanding leading organizations. Firms that wanted the total security and control a locally installed server can provide installed their own local Luminosity server behind their firewall on their corporate LAN. » MORE

Growth

GP Strategies Acquires Ultra Training

Elkridge, MD (USA), May 2011 - GP Strategies Corporation, the corporate parent of global performance-improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), has announced that GP's wholly owned subsidiary General Physics (UK) Ltd. has acquired Ultra Training Ltd, an independent skills-training provider located in the United Kingdom. » MORE

Put to Good Use

Articulate Suite Training and Absorb LMS Widely Adopted

Hemel Hempstead (UK)/Montreal, QC (CA), May 2011 - Omniplex, a provider of eLearning solutions, has reported rising levels of demand for its training courses on the use of Articulate rapid authoring tools. Omniplex has further announced the success of the Absorb LMS, employed by the academy of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) to help satisfy road-transport training needs around the world. » MORE

Merger

SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau

San Mateo, CA (USA), May 2011 - SuccessFactors has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Plateau, the leading learning-management system (LMS), a Next Generation Portal technology, and CaaS - content as a service. This acquisition forms a symbiotic combination with SuccessFactors-˜ acquisition of social video mobile learning provider Jambok. » MORE

Research Findings

Further Education Boosts Economy by £75 Billion

London (UK), May 2011 - Further education participants generate an additional £75bn for the economy over their lifetimes, with apprenticeships generating around £40 for each pound of government investment, new research shows. The study, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, examines the economic value generated by Government-funded post-nineteen qualifications. » MORE