London (UK), February 2018 - The learning and development community’s top organisations and outstanding individuals gathered together in London on 01 February to celebrate the 22nd annual Learning Awards. Devised and hosted exclusively by the Learning & Performance Institute and headline sponsored by BCS Learning & Development Ltd., the Learning Awards is recognised as the L&D sector’s premier awards ceremony.

Paris (F), January 2018 - A big hello and "Happy New Year" to all the Checkpoint readers across Europe and the world.

Introducing Learning Technologies France: an 18 year old show that is brand new

This is our first ever special edition in the great media resource that is CHECK.point eLearning. I am the founder of eLearnExpo series of events (Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Moscow and Hong Kong), the main one being Paris started in 2001. In 2006 the French event became I-Learning forum and went from strength to strength to become the leading enterprise eLearning show in the Francophone world. 

Berlin (GER), December 2017 - A senior adviser to Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and to the Finnish Government claimed recently that education ministers in England, Australia, and the United States are continuing to invest in unsuccessful education systems in spite of clear evidence that they are not working.

Singapore (SGP), November 2017 - Learning Technologies Asia, a new and major exhibition and conference for learning-and-development professionals, marks its successful inaugural edition at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, attracting circa 2,000 L&D professionals from across the region.  

Port Louis (Mauritius) / Berlin (GER), October 2017 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Special Representative for Africa was in Mauritius last week for the eLearning Africa conference, where he revealed the scale of German support for digital education. Ms Merkel has long believed in the importance of technology in education-based development aid for Africa, but the increased scale of German involvement was only made clear at eLearning Africa.

Ljubljana (SI), October 2017 - The second international World OER Congress 2017, held 18-20 September, led to the approval of the Ljubljana OER Action Plan and a revival of the quality debate. Experts and national delegates from 111 countries adopted the 41 recommended actions by acclamation. All United Nations' Member States are urged to mainstream open-licensed resources building knowledge societies and to achieve the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality Education. 

Oxfordshire (UK), September 2017 - Effective change management was the subject of a recent webinar led by Cath Convery and Julie Dungate of the learning-and-development consultancy Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS). The event was organised by the global accreditation and examination institute APMG International.

Milano (I), September 2017 - Digitalisation and technological innovations in areas such as big data are changing the way we offer public services globally according to participants at this year’s European Group for Public Administration’s annual conference, which was held at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, 30 Aug-01 Sep.

Heerlen (NL), July 2017 - LELLE stands for Let’s Learn how to Learn. The Erasmus+ project embraces a long-term vision to equip graduates with core life-skills that make them ready and mobile for the job market and the workplace. The regional LELLE Conference "Learning to Learning: Beyond 2020", held 01 June 2017 at the Open University of the Netherlands in Heerlen, attracted more than 50 students, lecturers, working professionals, young entrepreneurs, as well as key industry players. 

Barcelona (E), March 2017 - A new executive-education and corporate-learning conference took place in Barcelona, Spain, 18-19 January 2017 organised by Advent Group. The international event and media agency reported that the MERIT Summit assembled over 200 senior representatives from HR and higher education at Barcelona’s World Trade Center.