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Charity Aims

Learn Appeal Announces Appointment of New CEO

Lesley PriceBrighton (UK), October 2014 - Learn Appeal, the eLearning industry charity, has announced the appointment of Lesley Price as its new Chief Executive. A veteran with over thirty years' experience, Price will lead on stakeholder engagement, creating awareness and fundraising initiatives across the learning community to support educational causes worldwide. » MORE

Central Place to Engage

The Learning Professional Network

Coventry (UK), October 2014 - The Learning & Performance Institute (LPI) is excited to announce the launch of a new social network for learning professionals. The Learning Professional Network, or simply LPN, will replace the previous thetrainingprofessionalnetwork.com with a more updated style, fully responsive for modern browsers and mobile devices. » MORE

For eLearning Projects

Upside Learning Launches Multi-device Testing Lab

Pune/Maharashtra (IN), October 2014 - In line with the growing need for multi-device learning and the unique challenges encountered in its testing, Upside Learning has launched a full-fledged lab for multi-device testing. » MORE

Against Abuse

New Digital Prevention Platform

London (UK), October 2014 - Saffron Interactive, innovators in the learning-technologies sector, working alongside AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) in a Comic Relief-funded project, has created a Digital Prevention Platform and eLearning course to help practitioners take the correct steps to safeguard children who disclose instances of abuse and implement a whole school approach to prevent violence against women and girls. » MORE

In Australia and Germany

EdTrIn Prepares for Stock Market Listing

Victoria (AU), October 2014 - Following the success of technology companies listing on the Australian National Stock Exchange (NSX), EdtrIn Group, a platform for online education, is preparing for listing on this exchange. » MORE

Talent Management

Saba Announces New Patents

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), October 2014 - Saba, an international provider of cloud-based intelligent talent management, has announced that it has secured three new patents. They are in the areas of social network influence analysis, offline learning access, and enterprise-wide security control. » MORE

Extensive Experience

PebblePad's Expansion Boosted by New Consultant

John CouperthwaiteTelford, Shropshire (UK), October 2014 - As PebblePad goes from strength to strength, it has recruited a new consultant to help further drive growth. John Couperthwaite joins from the University of Birmingham, where he spent fifteen years and led a technology-enhanced-learning team at the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. » MORE

One-Word Reaction

New Social Media Platform Qwikword Launched

Gianmarco CrismaleNew York, NY (USA), October 2014 - The unveiling of the new social media app, Qwikword, which is based on one-word immediate reactions to visual stimuli, has taken place from the company's corporate offices in New York City. Qwikword, an instantaneously engaging application that provides users with "sparks", a continuous stream of visual stimuli in the form of pictures, videos, and the best of the web as prompts for one-word immediate reactions. These words, called Qwikwords, become the catalyst for linking the global community. » MORE

Step-by-Step Navigation

New Version of IMC Process-Guidance Suite Now Available

Saarbruecken (GER), September 2014 - Electronic performance support, micro-learning, informal learning, all of these words are associated with performance support and illustrate the increasing demand for IT solutions in this area. Business Process Guidance includes these concepts and provides a solution for decision makers looking to guide their users through complex business processes and IT landscapes in a context-sensitive, application-specific and role-specific way. IMC has now upgraded its performance-support software to offer exactly this service. » MORE

Interactive eLearning

Free Compliance MOOC

Saarbrücken (GER)/ London (UK), September 2014 - eLearning software and content provider IMC (UK) Learning has launched a new Massive Open Online Course specifically aimed at those who are new to or already working in the UK financial-services-compliance sector. The MOOC is a free and interactive approach to compliance learning that has been created as a result of both the increased expectations on those who occupy controlled functions and the rising fines imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on individuals and firms who breach the ever-increasing laws and regulations. » MORE