London (UK), May 2019 - Skillcast has released a new version of GDPR Hero. This is a serious game in which people are challenged to make decisions on everyday data-processing scenarios.

Hohenfels (GER), May 2019 - Raytheon has won a contract valued at up to $159 million to support large-scale, live training exercises at the U.S. Army's Joint Multinational Readiness Center located in Hohenfels, Germany, and connected virtually to forces across Europe.

Mountain View, CA (USA), May 2019 - Coursera, an online learning platform, has announced closing a $103 million investment in a Series E equity round. SEEK Group, a global leader in investing, scaling, and operating online employment and education businesses, led the round, while existing investors Future Fund and NEA also participated in the funding.

Portland, OR (USA), May 2019 - OpenSesame, an eLearning innovator, has announced the addition of Mindscaling to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its world-class offering of curated leadership training critical to enterprise organizations. In today's complex, increasingly global ecosystem where business challenges evolve at record speed, organizations need to prepare leaders and managers for the future.

Reston, VA (USA), May 2019 - Meridian Knowledge Solutions has announced that the City of Anaheim, home to more than 358,000 residents and 20,000 businesses and destination for more than 25 million annual visitors in southern California, has selected Meridian LMS as its centralized learning for more than 3,000 municipal employees.

Newark, NJ (USA), May 2019 - BCT Partners and Red Fern Consulting have announced the launch of the first virtual reality tool that will transform diversity training programs and help mitigate unconscious bias in the workplace. Workplace discrimination, which is related to unconscious bias, costs businesses an estimated $64 billion annually according to a recent report from the Center for American Progress.

London (UK), May 2019 - Docebo, one of the world’s leading learning platforms powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has announced their continued expansion with two of their UK-based customers and operational growth figures.

Lake Mary, FL (USA), May 2019 - IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global), a world-leading non-profit collaborative advancing edtech interoperability, innovation, and learning impact, has announced that 32 projects are advancing to the final round of competition for the 2019 Learning Impact Awards.

Lake Mary, FL (USA), May 2019 - Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standard created by the IMS Global Learning Consortium that links content and resources to learning platforms. Its primary purpose is to connect learning systems such as a learning management system (LMS) with external service tools in a standard way across learning systems. Some see it as a key to unlocking next generation digital learning.

Brussels (BE), May 2019 - An online survey is currently being carried out in the context of the "Promoting Online Training Opportunities for the Workforce in Europe" initiative launched by the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs (DG GROW). This initiative is coordinated by PwC in cooperation with European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and Espace Mendes France.

Trieste (I), May 2019 - ESOF2020 has announced the opening of the Call for Proposals for of its Science programme, Science to business programme, and Careers programme for its next conference, to be held in Trieste, Italy, 05-09 July 2020. Submissions are open until 15 June 2019.

London (UK), May 2019 - The Women In Learning conference will to join a collective of men and women together to begin to raise awareness of the challenges women face in the workplace, but also highlight their successes and fascinating career trajectories. It's an event intended to inspire, motivate, empower, and most importantly, instigate change.