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Partnership

Certpoint Provides eLearning Solutions for Spencer Gifts

Roslyn, NY (USA), March 2011 - Certpoint Systems, Inc., a global LMS provider, has announced its partnership with Spencer Gifts, LLC. Spencer Gifts will use the CertpointVLS suite to train personnel across its extended enterprise, including 600 Spencer Gifts retail stores, over 900 Spirit Halloween stores, and 100 ToyZam stores. » MORE

Vietnam

Mandatory 10 pm Curfew for Online Video Games

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

Elearnity Viewpoint Paper

The Fall and Rise of Corporate Academies

Cirencester (UK), March 2011 - Corporate academies have been an established trend in enterprise learning for some time. Many organisations are now adopting them as a strategic vehicle to deliver business alignment and more holistic development strategies. However, many others have seen their academies initiatives wither and die. » MORE

Community Support

Global Knowledge Runs for Evie

Wokingham (UK), March 2011 - A team from the IT-training organisation Global Knowledge have run the Wokingham half marathon to raise money for a two-year-old little girl suffering from quadriplegia cerebral palsy. In a bid to meet the target and fund Evie's treatment, Global Knowledge has promised to match whatever the team raises. » MORE

Market Analysis

Elearnity Announces Vendor Perspectives

Cirencester (UK), February 2011 - Elearnity, an independent learning industry analyst, has announced Elearnity Perspectives, a new tool for assessing learning-technology vendor options and suitability for corporate needs. » MORE

Medical Sector

SMART Training Mitigates Risk for Healthcare Providers

Dallas, TX (USA), February 2011 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company RTN, and Baptist Health have signed an agreement to deliver Synergistic Medical and Resource Team (SMART) training to healthcare systems. The training enables medical staff to prevent or mitigate patient safety threats originating from human interaction and systemic error. » MORE

Agreement

TATA Interactive Systems Now Preferred Supplier of DHL

Tübingen (GER), February 2011 - In recent years TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) and DHL have been working together on various successful projects all over the world, ranging from an eLearning project centred around on-boarding, to the development of the world's largest online logistics business simulation. Now the two organisations are going to intensify their cooperation and, toward this end, have signed a Preferred Supplier Agreement. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Sex, Italians, the US military, Obama - and mobile learning

London (UK), February 2011 - (by Bob Little) Mobile learning is being put to use to help alleviate the effects of an age-old human tragedy: human trafficking. The Italy-based learning content management and digital repository solution provider, eXact learning solutions, along with Achieve Labs Inc; Intuition Publishing Inc; OnPoint Digital; OutStart, and Trivantis, is providing mobile learning materials to US Department of Defense (DoD) personnel to help them combat human trafficking. » MORE

Language Learning

goFLUENT's New Appointment and Distribution Agreement

Geneva (CH)/ Seattle, WA (USA), February 2011 - goFLUENT, a provider of distance business- English training, has appointed Jean Paul Minarro as its new Vice President and General Manager of goFLUENT Europe. It has also joined forces with Livemocha to provide community-enabled English-language learning resources worldwide. » MORE