Corporate eLearning

London (UK), March 2011 - (by Bob Little) Technically, the UK Government - and there's every reason to believe that other European governments take the same view - says that it wants to, and does, encourage small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to bid for, and get, Government contracts. The Government says that this will provide the taxpayer with greater value for money because SMEs tend to be more creative, flexible and so on - and also tend to be cheaper because they don't have the overheads of a larger firm. » MORE

Sheffield (UK), March 2011 - Learning Light has developed a consultancy model intended to move an organisation from operating a traditional "command-and-control-led" training model to becoming a "learning organisation", where learning makes a positive impact on the organisation's bottom line. » MORE

London (UK), March 2011 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, has reported a dramatic upsurge in the number and quality of enquiries for mobile learning. Most recently, LINE helped pilot an app on iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives explain some of the features on the C-MAX vehicles. » MORE

Hanoi (VN), March 2011 - South Korea's proposed Internet curfew for youths from midnight to 6am seems positively namby-pamby compared to this actual measure being implemented by the Vietnamese government: Since the government thinks that people are wasting too much time playing online games, it is implementing a ban on online gaming from 10pm to 8am. » MORE