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Corporate eLearning
Online Support Resource for People with Diabetes
Brighton (UK), July 2013 - Diabetes UK and next-generation learning expert Brightwave, together with Bupa, have partnered to create support and resources for people with Type 2 diabetes. In the UK, ninety percent of the three million people living with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes, while a further 850,000 people have Type 2 but have not yet been diagnosed. » MORE
New Personal Training Fitness App
London (UK), July 2013 - Award-winning personal training provider MotivatePT have partnered with European software developer Mercier Technologies SARL to create their latest fitness application designed to help clients with their personal training programs. The fitness app is the latest in a suite of technology developments designed for MotivatePT to use in conjunction with their customers' personal training sessions. » MORE
Saba's Next-Generation Talent-Management Platform
Redwood Shores, CA (USA), July 2013 - Saba has announced that it has built patent-pending machine-learning technology into its open, standards-based talent-management platform. This bold innovation adds to the company's advanced cloud platform that was announced this past March at People 2013, Saba's annual global user conference. In addition, the company has continued to enhance end-user engagement and several other key features of its platform, including social, mobile, and core learning functionalities. » MORE
Redtray Changes Name to Commelius
London (UK), July 2013 - The training and learning-technology provider Redtray Solutions Ltd has announced its new company name - Commelius Solutions Ltd. CEO Carl Smith says, "We're still the same great organisation with the same great variety of products and services. The only thing that has changed is that we now have a name that reflects what we try to achieve for our customers." » MORE
IMC Opens Office in San Francisco
Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - With subsidiaries in Graz, London, Melbourne, Sibiu, and Zurich, IMC has mainly been present in Europe and Asia. Now, however, due to the global spread of the company's learning solutions, a higher demand for its service and support activities has risen in North and South America. » MORE
Top Tips for Successful Talent Management
Cobham (UK), July 2013 - Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a provider of business applications and services, has commissioned a white paper that explores the increasing importance of -œtalent management- in the HR field. The paper looks at how an organisation can maximise efforts to attract, mould, and retain the best people in the current financial climate and as employee expectations continue to change. » MORE
Customer Success Story: British American Tobacco
London (UK), July 2013 - British American Tobacco recently implemented a new eRecruitment system based on the Kenexa 2x BrassRing platform. The company needed to find a way to train and support users - spread across more than 180 countries - and ensure that the new system was successfully adopted. » MORE
$50 Million Education-Focused Venture Fund
River Grove, IL (USA), July 2013 - Follett Corporation has announced the establishment of the Follett Knowledge Fund, a capital-funding source for new technologies that have the potential to improve and even disrupt the way educational content is delivered and consumed. Follett has committed $50 million to the fund, which complements and extends the company's extensive portfolio of digital solutions and tools. » MORE
Jurys Inn's learners continue to "Grow" with Totara
London (UK), July 2013 - Jurys Inn is a hotel chain with over 1,900 employees working in a busy 24/7 environment in 35 locations across the UK and Ireland. With a growing distributed workforce comprising a young demographic, comprehensive and engaging learning was key to success. The rollout of Totara LMS across the organisation has had a dramatic impact: reduced payroll costs associated with learning and 1,840 users successfully trained through a blended program. » MORE
Into the Summer: The New Moodle GPS Course Format
Heidelberg (GER), July 2013 - On time for the summer season, Moodle users can now utilize location-based learning. The newly developed -œkamedia GPS Format Free-œ allows eLearning content to be displayed according to the geo-coordinates of the learner. This enables location-based mobile learning. » MORE
