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TrainerBase

Sector Specific Tender Opportunities

Llandysul (UK), April 2008 - TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners, is being increasingly used by purchasers to find specialist trainers with sector and technical skills. » MORE

Course-Source

New Director of Sales and Marketing

London (UK), April 2008 - eLearning specialists Course-Source have appointed Paul Higgins to the new role of Director of Sales and Marketing. The role has been created toward the goals of growing the business by thirty percent over the next year, unifying sales activities, and supporting a young sales team pushing into new sectors. These include the recruitment and finance industries, media, publishing, transport, and the education sectors. Another task is enhancing the current high visibility within the health and local government sectors. » MORE

Educational Podcast

Xyleme Announces the Launch of Voices

Boulder, CO (USA), April 2008 - Xyleme® Inc., provider of 100% XML, SCORM 2004-certified learning solutions has announced the launch of Voices, an educational podcast series featuring interviews with today's top analysts, consultants, and practitioners in the field of learning. » MORE

Culture Change

More Transport Training for Echelon

London (UK), April 2008 - Learning specialist Echelon's consulting division has switched from trains to buses in its latest signing in order to improve customer service for transport providers. The company has been appointed to undertake a Culture Change Programme for bus drivers and inspectors employed by Belfast's transport provider, Ulsterbus, in a bid to heighten recognition and loyalty for its Metro brand through an improved service offer. » MORE

Legal Action

Blackboard's eLearning Patent Declared Invalid

Washington, DC (USA), April 2008 - In a preliminary re-examination, the US Patent Office, recently suggested that Blackboard's eLearning patent may be invalid. The Patent Office rejected all 44 claims in the disputed US patent for a system for teaching in a virtual classroom using the Internet, including chat, a virtual blackboard, and provision of teaching materials. » MORE

Blended Learning Solution

Dubai Municipality Selects GlobalEnglish

Brisbane, (CA), April 2008 - GlobalEnglish Corporation, a provider of online learning and support for business English communication, has announced that the Dubai Municipality, the government body responsible for public services and infrastructure in Dubai, has selected GlobalEnglish to provide on-demand business English training and instant communication-support tools for its employees in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). » MORE

Memorandum

IMC AG expands activities in Asia

Saarbruecken/Frankfurt (GER), April 2008 - The "German-Asian Business Community" and the "Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce" have invited representatives to a forum entitled "Discover Vietnam - Business opportunities in the 21st century". In the presence of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung, and the Hessian Minister for Arts and Sciences, Mr. Udo Corts, several agreements were signed between German and Vietnamese companies. » MORE

New Partnership

UAE and American Firms to Cooperate

Dubai (UAE), April 2008 - UKS, one of the Middle East's leading learning solutions enablers, has announced its partnership with Plateau Systems, an American provider of software for developing, managing, and optimizing organizational skills and talent. The joint effort will provide learning and workforce performance solutions to the rapidly growing commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East. » MORE

Food and Drug

LCMS Provides Technical Controls for Regulations

Nashua, NH (USA), April 2008 - Eedo Knowledgeware has announced that ForceTen™, its award-winning learning content management system (LCMS), is providing built-in technical controls for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 11. » MORE

Worldwide Training

Nespresso Relies on Swiss Software for Learning

Baar (CH), April 2008 - Nestlé Nespresso, the worldwide pioneer and market leader in pre-portioned coffee, supports the growing importance of international training management with an online solution from Switzerland. The i-qbox Human Performance Suite provided by Comartis allows Nespresso to offer learning material to its growing employee population globally and enable an effective training-management solution. » MORE