Themen
Corporate eLearning
A Quarter of "Train to Gain" Learners Don't Finish
Coventry (UK), May 2009 - Fiona Hudson-Kelly, co-founder of Funded Training Made Easy, has had a deluge of calls from customers in the recent past who have just discovered that they are unable to recruit new learners for their "Train to Gain" contracts because the scheme has run out of funding for the current financial year. » MORE
Atlantic Link Certified as a "Top 20% Performer"
Waltham, MA/Atlanta, GA (USA), May 2009 - During the recently awarded General Services Administration contract (GSA), Atlantic Link has been certified as a "Top 20% Performer" based on the Past Performance Evaluation (PPE) survey responses of its reference customers. The evaluation was performed through the Dunn & Bradstreet Open Ratings Systems Review. » MORE
Survey Confirms Echelon's Solutions' 'Value for Money'
London (UK), May 2009 - Organisation-development specialist Echelon has received a strong vote of confidence from its customers via the results of its recent 'Client Survey', which rated the 'effectiveness' and 'value for money' of Echelon's solutions particularly highly. » MORE
At the Center of Attention: User Conferences
London (UK), May 2009 - USA, Europe, Asia - Eric Shepherd is always travelling. As CEO of Questionmark, a provider of software and services for computer assessment, he attends all user conferences himself to learn about users' needs first hand. In an interview with Kirsten Seegmüller, he explains that the behaviour of user groups differs mainly due to local restrictions rather than to stereotyped cultural characteristics. » MORE
Top eLearning Group to Help Industry
Paris (F)/Berlin (GER), May 2009 - A powerful group of experts has been appointed by Europe's top eLearning advocacy group to help modern industry develop vital skills. Senior executives from IBM, Elsevier, and Cambridge University Press are to join colleagues from Blackboard, IMD, PAU Education, Giunti Labs, and Intel on the Executive Committee of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). » MORE
How to Embrace Full Potential of eLearning?
Saarbrücken (GER)/Sevenoaks (UK), May 2009 - An independent study recently launched by eLearning and advanced-content-solutions provider IMC (UK) Learning Ltd revealed that although three quarters (74%) of universities have virtual learning environments (VLE) to support teaching and learning, only 14% of lecturers publish their recorded lectures on them. » MORE
'Little's Britain': People problems
London (UK), May 2009 - (by Bob Little) Originally funded by the UK's Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Towards Maturity is an e-skills UK project aimed at helping organisations improve the impact of learning technologies at work. Intended to discover how employers are making use of learning technologies, the project currently supports a community of over 1,000 organisations with research , case studies and contributions of from an ever increasing virtual advisory network. » MORE
ADL Continues as "Steward of SCORM"
Piscataway, NJ (USA), May 2009 - Rather than transfer stewardship to LETSI (The International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability), the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) will continue to develop and maintain SCORM and will assign certain rights to use SCORM to external organizations on a non-exclusive basis. » MORE
IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Sponsors
Barcelona (ES)/Sestri Levante (IT), May 2009 - The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced at its annual Learning Impact conference that several of its member organisations have committed to funding the development of a shared web catalogue of learning resources. » MORE
Improving Security Consciousness
London (UK), May 2009 - Information security is critical to the smooth functioning of British Airways' business, and creating employee awareness about information security is a vital organizational requirement. In a project for BA, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) used its proprietary Story-based Learning Objects™ (StoBLs™) approach to create a product that set the learning in the context of a realistic and pertinent narrative. » MORE
