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Corporate eLearning
Raytheon Opens New Training Centre in Samara, Russia
Rüsselsheim (GER), November 2008 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has opened a training centre in Samara, Russia, to provide basic and advanced technical and sales training for automotive dealerships. The 200-square-meter centre will employ training and administrative personnel to provide services in Russian. » MORE
Starwood Hotels Partners with Cornerstone OnDemand
Santa Monica, CA (USA), November 2008 - Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, has announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., one of the world's largest hotel and leisure companies, will use Cornerstone's learning and development platform, Cornerstone Learning, to train and develop its employees around the globe. » MORE
IKEA Selects Giunti Labs as a Preferred Supplier
Lund (SE), November 2008 - Giunti Labs, a learning and mobile-content-management solution provider and bespoke content producer, has been chosen as one of the limited number of official providers for eLearning content production services for the next two years to the Scandinavia-based home-furnishing-products retailer, IKEA. » MORE
ELearning from NASA
Washington, DC (USA), November 2008 - The American Space Agency is making a free, web-based educational product available across the country to learners of all ages. NASA eClips consists of more than 55 short, 5-10 minute video segments that are available on-demand via the Internet. NASA eClips features many of the Agency's missions and engages learners in the excitement of science and engineering. » MORE
Nokia Getting on Top of Handset Media Portability
London (UK), November 2008 - Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum, writes about problems of multimedia portability. He classifies the latest edition of Nokia's S60 as a good example with only minor shortcomings. Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth edition of its S60 platform for the Symbian OS in an effort to overcome the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. » MORE
Epic Thinking Posts Ten Tips on Being a Good eLearner
Brighton (UK), November 2008 - Epic Thinking, a British provider of eLearning, blended learning, and knowledge solutions, offers some considerations for making eLearning more effective. The company has developed a list of ten tips for fun eLearning experiences that leave a lasting, positive effect. » MORE
CEO of datango in the finals for "Entrepreneur of the year"
Berlin (GER), October 2008 - Oswald P. Zimmermann, CEO of datango AG, a technology provider in the eLearning and electronic performance-support sectors, has been nominated as a finalist for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year 2008" awards. The auditing and consulting company will be honoring the best entrepreneur in Germany for the twelfth time. » MORE
SkillSoft Announces Fall Schedule for Leadership Channel
Nashua, NH (USA), October 2008 - SkillSoft PLC, a SaaS provider of eLearning and performance-support solutions, has announced its lineup for the Leadership Development Channel (LDC) learning program. SkillSoft's LDC is designed to help subscribing organizations develop their managers and leaders to be more effective at managing people and driving results. » MORE
Relaunch of FuturEd Consulting in Dubai
Dubai (UAE), October 2008 - Dr. Kathryn Chang Barker, who was Director of eLearning at eTQM College in Dubai in the past year, is re-launching FutureEd Consulting Education Futurists in Dubai. FuturEd now offers advice and networks for individuals and organizations planning to set up education or training businesses in the UAE. » MORE
Using Technology to Transform Business
Paris (F), October 2008 - The e-business solution launched by Educational Testing Service (ETS) Global more than a year ago has surpassed all expectations. The e-business system has emerged as a backbone for a decentralised company like ETS Global, allowing for any number of countries to be included within the solution. » MORE
