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Corporate eLearning
Top Global Worlddidac Award for Speexx
Munich (GER), September 2012 - dp (digital publishing), the global provider of award-winning corporate language training Speexx, has announced that it has been awarded the prestigious Worlddidac Award for the category "Information and Communication Technologies." The renowned Worlddidac Association's international expert jury described the Speexx learning platform as particularly "innovative and valuable for education." The official award presentation ceremony took place in Bern, Switzerland. » MORE
e2train Changes Company Name to Kallidus
Cirencester (UK), September 2012 - e2train has announced that it is changing its name to Kallidus. The name change, which comes into effect at the end of September, is part of a rebranding effort that reflects the company's growth and transformation. The new name conveys the firm's learning, performance, and talent-management capabilities and solutions approach to consultancy, technology, and service excellence. » MORE
"E" gets the elbow
London (UK), September 2012 - (by Bob Little) According to a report from Elliott Masie, the world renowned e-learning guru, the "e" in eLearning seems to be vanishing. Masie's The Masie Center, in Saratoga Springs, New York state, has noticed that there's been a 20 per cent decrease this year in advertised "eLearning" job vacancies. Apparently, "eLearning developers" are now more likely to be called "learning developers" or "designers"... » MORE
Red Cross Poll Shows How to Motivate People to Prepare
Washington, DC (US), September 2012 - Americans are becoming increasingly reliant on mobile devices during emergencies to provide information, useful tools, and a way to let loved ones know they are safe, according to a new survey conducted by the American Red Cross. » MORE
New applications for eBooks by Apps
Hamburg (GER), September 2012 - With their first iPad app, the German start-up company Frankbooks enables users to communicate with other readers, as well as with the author or a particular character from the novel via an integrated Facebook plugin. » MORE
Saba Helps Svevia to Improve Process Performance
London (UK) / Växjö (SE), September 2012 - Svevia uses Saba Learning to manage training and certifications for a countrywide workforce to improve productivity and assure compliance. Svevia is a wholly state-owned company and is one of Sweden's largest road and construction contractors. Located throughout Sweden, the company has about 2.500 employees and a turnover of more than eight billion Swedish krona. » MORE
Training-Needs-Analysis Tool launched by EssentialSkillz
Milton Keynes (UK) / Galway (IR), September 2012 - Global health and safety eLearning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a new training-needs-analysis tool that simplifies the process of identifying training requirements and enrolling staff on courses. » MORE
Kineo Launches "jumpstart" On-Demand LMS
Chicago, IL (US), September 2012 - Kineo US has launched jumpstart, a bundle of services to create a rapid version of the open source Totara LMS for small and medium businesses. The products are initially only available to firms in the US. » MORE
Social Learning to Become a Dominant Player
London (UK), September 2012 - Social-learning tactics will challenge traditional classroom-based learning to become an influential characteristic of the corporate training mix by 2014 according to the L&D experts participating in Redtray's collaborative research programme. » MORE
Ontuitive Link-Up with Learning and Performance Institute
Leicester (UK), September 2012 - Ontuitive, a world leader in performance-support solutions, has joined the Learning and Performance Institute, a membership body of 3,500 learning professionals and 400 learning organisations established in 1995 to raise the standard and value of workplace learning. » MORE
