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Corporate eLearning
"E" gets the elbow
London (UK), September 2012 - (by Bob Little) According to a report from Elliott Masie, the world renowned e-learning guru, the "e" in eLearning seems to be vanishing. Masie's The Masie Center, in Saratoga Springs, New York state, has noticed that there's been a 20 per cent decrease this year in advertised "eLearning" job vacancies. Apparently, "eLearning developers" are now more likely to be called "learning developers" or "designers"... » MORE
Red Cross Poll Shows How to Motivate People to Prepare
Washington, DC (US), September 2012 - Americans are becoming increasingly reliant on mobile devices during emergencies to provide information, useful tools, and a way to let loved ones know they are safe, according to a new survey conducted by the American Red Cross. » MORE
New applications for eBooks by Apps
Hamburg (GER), September 2012 - With their first iPad app, the German start-up company Frankbooks enables users to communicate with other readers, as well as with the author or a particular character from the novel via an integrated Facebook plugin. » MORE
Saba Helps Svevia to Improve Process Performance
London (UK) / Växjö (SE), September 2012 - Svevia uses Saba Learning to manage training and certifications for a countrywide workforce to improve productivity and assure compliance. Svevia is a wholly state-owned company and is one of Sweden's largest road and construction contractors. Located throughout Sweden, the company has about 2.500 employees and a turnover of more than eight billion Swedish krona. » MORE
Training-Needs-Analysis Tool launched by EssentialSkillz
Milton Keynes (UK) / Galway (IR), September 2012 - Global health and safety eLearning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a new training-needs-analysis tool that simplifies the process of identifying training requirements and enrolling staff on courses. » MORE
Kineo Launches "jumpstart" On-Demand LMS
Chicago, IL (US), September 2012 - Kineo US has launched jumpstart, a bundle of services to create a rapid version of the open source Totara LMS for small and medium businesses. The products are initially only available to firms in the US. » MORE
Social Learning to Become a Dominant Player
London (UK), September 2012 - Social-learning tactics will challenge traditional classroom-based learning to become an influential characteristic of the corporate training mix by 2014 according to the L&D experts participating in Redtray's collaborative research programme. » MORE
Ontuitive Link-Up with Learning and Performance Institute
Leicester (UK), September 2012 - Ontuitive, a world leader in performance-support solutions, has joined the Learning and Performance Institute, a membership body of 3,500 learning professionals and 400 learning organisations established in 1995 to raise the standard and value of workplace learning. » MORE
Study, learning and maturity
London (UK), September 2012 - (by Bob Little) A recent request, received from a journalist, ran: "Here at Staffordshire Living magazine we are currently working on our September/October edition which includes a feature on the options available if you would like to become a MATURE STUDENT…" Some people would argue that being a 'mature student' is an oxymoron.
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Totara launches Version 2.2
Whitstable, Kent (UK), September 2012 - Totara Learning Solutions, provider of the powerful packaged distribution of Moodle, has released Totara LMS 2.2. The launch of Totara 2.2 is an important milestone for the company as it brings together the latest innovations from Totara along with all the benefits of being on the Moodle 2.x framework. » MORE
