Stuttgart (GER), January 2023 - The factories of the future have significant demands to meet, including the ability to adapt to production processes quickly and function within tight spaces that come at a high operating cost. Mixed reality can provide efficient support for factory planning in exactly this kind of scenario.

Bristol (UK), January 2023 - Sponge is kicking off 2023 with a bang. Skill Pills by Sponge, the content library of over 400 off-the-shelf microlearning courses, has been refreshed with a new look and feel to make digital upskilling unforgettable. 

Bristol (UK), December 2022 - (by Liz Selman, Head of Learning Strategy, Sponge) Sponge's recent virtual roundtable put digital learning fatigue under the spotlight for interrogation. In light of this important discussion, featuring input from some of the top learning and development (L&D) minds from the likes of Google, AstraZeneca, Deloitte, and more, we have complied some key takeaways and top tips to help your organisation overcome digital learning fatigue.

Kaunas (LTU), December 2022 - At the official education side event at MetaExpo Singapore, "Web3 and Metaverse Education", Danielius Stasiulis, CEO of Learnoverse and BitDegree, inaugurated the Metaverse Education Alliance (MEA). The Alliance is a global initiative aimed at promoting cooperation among leading Web3 and Metaverse EdTech operators and related stakeholders.

Austin, TX (USA), November 2022 - For the past three years, an Austin company, Domain-U, has been quietly developing the next generation of training platforms for the hybrid workforce. "When we started, we didn't know Covid was coming, and nobody called it the 'hybrid workforce' back then," says John Hartigan, CEO of Domain-U. "We just knew there had to be a better way to train a decentralized workforce and this is what we set out to do and are now doing."

London (UK), November 2022 - Ufi Ventures is leading an investment into Assemble You, the audio innovation team bringing podcast-style courses to the learning industry. The £310k pre-seed round was led by Ufi Ventures with the team at Assemble You, bringing together a collection of industry thought leaders and influencers including Donald H Taylor, Chair of the Learning Technologies Conference, Toby Mansel-Pleydell, Chairman and CFO at Learnerbly, and Rob Small, Founder of Miniclip.

Barcelona (E), November 2022 - Meta has announced that it has built a speech-to-speech translation system powered by AI that can automatically translate spoken words from one language to another, especially languages that don't have a written form. Currently only partly developed in Israel, the technology is translating languages starting with Hokkien, a Taiwanese language that lacks a standard written form.

Ilkley (UK), October 2022 - As remote working reached an all-time high during the lockdown period of COVID-19, many organisations had to quickly adapt to the new ways of working. Although remote working isn't a new concept and has been adopted by many organisations across the globe, it wasn't the norm, especially remote working on a full-time basis.

Ilkley (UK), October 2022 - With World Mental Health Day, 10 October, there is a huge focus on mental health. Therefore, at Virtual College, they wanted to play their part and provide supportive resources for businesses that want to support their employees' mental health.

New Delhi (IN), September 2022 - The hottest factor in India's online education trade proper now could be going offline. After two years of blistering progress, sparked by one of the world's longest Covid-19 college shutdowns, India hosts an increasingly crowded discipline of education technology unicorns. Six hit the US$1 billion valuation milestone due to the March 2020 nationwide lockdown. They joined Byju's, which landed there in 2017, and is now the world's most valuable edtech startup, with a $22 billion price ticket after a funding cycle in March, according to PitchBook Data Inc.