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Themen

'Little's Britain'

The Shadow between the Idea and Reality

London (UK), April 2012 - (by Bob Little) The term "eLearning" was first coined in the mid-1990s. Before that, it was "computer based training". Over the last 20 years or so, if the idea has been to harvest the promise of eLearning in every aspect of corporate learning, what has obscured that reality? » MORE

Get Involved

Compare and Improve How You Use Learning Technologies

Brighton (UK), April 2012 - Brightwave has partnered with Towards Maturity in the launch of a benchmark designed to dig deeper into how learning technologies can support customer strategies. The results of the survey will be released as a report in May 2012. » MORE

Oil & Gas Industry

ATEC Approved for Training Initiative in North America

Houston, TX (USA), April 2012 - The Atec Training and Certification Services Center in Houston is the first to meet the stringent criteria set by learning and skills specialist Atlas to invigilate the International Minimum Industry Safety Training (IMIST) eLearning programme, a global initiative developed to drastically improve safety standards for the offshore workforce worldwide. » MORE

Health Sector

Increasing Productivity with Learning Automation

Pasco, WA (USA), April 2012 - Vivid Learning Systems has provided Kittitas Valley Community Hospital (KVCH) with a new training program powered by a robust enterprise learning- management system (LMS), including comprehensive OSHA and healthcare-compliance course libraries. » MORE

Expanding Market

The Training Associates Announces Record Growth in 2011

Westboro, MA (USA), April 2012 - The Training Associates (TTA) has announced a record growth in 2011, with a 175% increase in sales over the previous year and sales growth of 103% over the last four years. TTA projects 2012 sales of over $60 million, with continued profits above industry averages. » MORE

Open Source

Totara Announces New Partnerships

Canterbury (UK), March 2012 - Totara Learning Solutions, amongst the winners disclosed at the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition, has announced a new Totara LMS Partner: Lambda Solutions, a Moodle Partner with clients in Canada and the United States. » MORE

Education Marketing

Website Acquisition of Learning Institutions

Lenexa, KS (USA), March 2012 - PlattForm, an Internet marketing and enrolment solutions provider for postsecondary education and a division of Ad Venture Interactive, has announced the acquisition of numerous website properties from Guider Media, an online inquiry-generation company based in Sweden. » MORE

New Partnership

U&I Learning Supports CMB

Ghent (BE), March 2012 - U&I Learning trains white collars of the Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) to help them use their software successfully. This is done by an interactive eLearning course that trains them on important actions and new functionalities. » MORE

Workplace Policies

Social Media Use of Employees in the UK

London (UK), March 2012 - Croner, a Wolters Kluwer business, makes recommendations on social-media policies for the workplace. The firm has found that over a quarter of UK businesses (28%) still don't have a social media, internet, or email policy in place. » MORE

Key Issues

What to Know about mLearning

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), March 2012 - As consumers acquire more and more mobile technology, they are pushing organizations to deliver information and services via that technology. Yet not all information and services are appropriate. In an article in the online publication Learning Solutions, Anita Rosen, president of ReadyGo, Inc. compared the pros and cons. » MORE