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Corporate eLearning
McDonald's to Issue its Own Qualifications in the UK
London (UK), February 2008 - The British Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has awarded McDonald's, Network Rail, and Flybe awarding-body status. For the first time, commercial companies are now able to award nationally accredited qualifications to employees. The move was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event attended by McDonald's CEO and President, Steve Easterbrook, and Chief People Officer and Senior Vice President, David Fairhurst. » MORE
How ING Wholesale Banking Supports Informal Learning
Amsterdam (NL), February 2008 - (by Jean In het Panhuis, Head Innovative Learning ING Wholesale Banking) ING Wholesale is an international wholesale bank with about 12,000 employees. The Learning & Development department within ING Wholesale Banking supports and optimizes the process of informal learning and uses all kinds of technology solutions. People acquire most of their skills and knowledge in regard to wholesale banking in an informal way. » MORE
Partnership to Ease Interoperability Issues
Nashua, NH (USA), February 2008 - SumTotal® Systems, Inc., SkillSoft, and Eedo Knowledgeware have announced they are partnering to evolve standards to meet their customers' needs, ensuring less costly integrations and richer solutions through SkillSoft's Open Learning Services Architecture (OLSA). OLSA is a web services-based, dynamic content solution for enterprise eLearning systems. » MORE
Centre for Autism Launches eLearning Initiatives
Toronto (CA), February 2008 - Palm Canada has announced a Palm Foundation cash grant and the donation of 100 Palm(R) handhelds and accessories to kick-start a new eLearning program at the Geneva Centre for Autism. The resources are being used for training and technical-support costs associated with transferring paper-based visual cues and reminders onto Palm handheld devices. The handheld's design, portability, ease of use, and ability to support visuals has proven to be a valuable learning tool for individuals with autism. » MORE
Giunti Labs and Cegos Announce Global Partnership
Sestri Levante (I)/Paris (F), February 2008 - Giunti Labs, eLearning and mobile learning content management technology provider, has entered into a partnership with Cegos, a major European training company. Under the terms of this strategic partnership, Cegos will promote Giunti Labs' learn eXact learning content management system (LCMS) suite of products as its first-choice content production tool. Giunti Labs will promote the Cegos course catalogue alongside its own bespoke content production services. » MORE
NetDimensions Releases Enterprise Knowledge Platform
Hong Kong (CH), February 2008 - NetDimensions has announced the release of Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) 5.0, the latest version of its flagship offering. Building on existing capabilities, the 5.0 release will enhance EKP with support for SCORM 2004 and with accessibility improvements, including a new Application Programming Interface (the Portal Toolkit API) that permits the creation of custom satellite sites that are catered to specific user communities, yet transparently make use of sophisticated EKP services. » MORE
ILX Accommodates Hilton's Learning
London (UK), February 2008 - ILX Group plc, a training-services company that provides flexible training services through eLearning, traditional classroom, and blended- learning courses, has announced that it has been appointed to provide 25 financial and commercial-awareness eLearning courses to Hilton Hotels as part of a three-year deal. This international effort will be responsible for implementing training courses for more than 65,000 people in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. » MORE
Virtual Enterprise Network Created in the UK
Sheffield (UK), February 2008 - Learning Light (LL), a non-profit organisation that focuses on integrating systems and aligning learning and people development programmes to meet strategic business goals, has created the UK's first Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN). It comprises a consortium of companies and tenders for large private and public sector contracts to sell learning-related products and services and aims to benefit both customers and suppliers. » MORE
BB&T Bank Gets Instant Pay Back with ForceTen LCMS
Nashua, NH (USA), February 2008 - A year after deploying Eedo ForceTen™, BB&T, America's eleventh largest bank, is reveling in the success of its learning and development programs. Since it began to use Eedo Knowledgeware's learning content management system (LCMS), BB&T has been able to move 55 courses online, employees are finishing their courses sooner, delinquency rates have declined by an average of seventy percent, and the firm has saved a considerable amount of money by moving away from a mainframe system. » MORE
Language Training for Every Step of the Way
Cologne (GER), February 2008 - Not only do Auralog offer TELL ME MORE® Corporate for businesses and TELL ME MORE® Education for schools, but the firm have recently developed TELL ME MORE® Campus for higher education. Auralog also offer specific online language learning portals for schools, academic institutions, and businesses. » MORE
