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Luminosity

New eLearning-Creation Platform

Gloucestershire (UK), July 2008 - Luminosity, a novel Learning-creation platform that heralds a new direction in eLearning development, has recently been launched. The solution is a product of the CM Group, specialists in learning content and consultancy. » MORE

Full-service Offering

Best Global Partner by Harvard Business Publishing

Basel (CH), July 2008 - BRIDGE2THINK Group, with headquarters in Basel and activities in Europe, Asia, and Australia, has been named "Best Global Partner" by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) in Boston for the third time in a row. In addition, the management-development vendor also received the award as most successful HBP partner in Europe. » MORE

World's Largest Provide

OutStart and Eedo Knowledgeware Merge

Boston, MA (USA), July 2008 - OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations, making the new company the largest provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge through learning and social collaboration. The merged company, conducting business as OutStart, immediately becomes the dominant vendor of learning-content-management systems (LCMS). » MORE

SIMPLExity

IMC Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2008 - IMC AG, a leading European provider of learning technologies has announced that it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems (CLS). The Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment according to their completeness of vision and their ability to execute that vision. » MORE

Running on iPhone

Trainer1 Offers the Latest in Mobile Learning Technology

London (UK), July 2008 - Trainer1, the vendor-neutral eLearning specialist that has become the UK's only authorised training centre and re-seller for the authoring tool ToolBook, has revealed that the tool's producer - SumTotal Systems - is about to release ToolBook 9.5. Trainer1's Neil Lasher explained: "The launch of ToolBook 9 some fourteen months ago saw a major change in the product. Among other things, it became a 32-bit product, with an improved user interface." » MORE

New Opportunities

Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning

Bangor (WAL)/ Bremen (GER), July 2008 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) The new generation of eLearning will combine social networks with context-based services. Even though formal content will not vanish, modern technology will support user-generated informal content. And teachers have to adapt to a new role as facilitator instead of a pure information transmitter. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Graham Attwell, founder and senior researcher of Pontydysgu, about this current progression. » MORE

Mobile Learning

Mohive: First in Europe to Offer eLearning by iPhone

Oslo (NO), July 2008 - Training on the go is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to Mohive's decision this month to incorporate the possibility to export into the iPhone into its award-winning platform, the company announced recently. » MORE

Swiss Quality Deployed

Medical Center to Use Swiss Software for Training

Baar (CH), July 2008 - King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, has opted for the i-qbox Human Performance Suite as strategic tool to support training and competence management. For the Swiss-based Comartis Group Ltd. and Comartis USA in Tucson, Arizona, this is another important success in providing Swiss-quality software for the global market. » MORE

New Release

Xyleme Unveils Xyleme LCMS 3.2

Boulder, CO (USA), July 2008 - Xyleme® Inc., a provider of 100% XML, SCORM-2004-certified learning content management systems, has announced the release of Xyleme LCMS 3.2. This is Xyleme's newest version of its single-source solution for learning content management: fully integrated, highly scalable, and truly collaborative. » MORE

UK Financial Services

Using Mobile Learning Technology by Giunti Labs

Sestri Levante (I), June 2008 - A major bank's £6.3m fine in April 2006, following misconduct in its handling of share trades in two firms, has prompted one of the UK's major financial services institutions to use a novel approach - via mobile performance support delivered to its staff's PDAs and BlackBerrys - to provide 'nuggets' of regulatory and compliance-based information as well as key learning points related to data protection. » MORE