Themen

Virtual Classroom

Raytheon Offers BTEC Apprenticeship Programme

Milton Keynes (UK), May 2011 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, is the first provider in the U.K. to launch a recognised Business and Administration Apprenticeship programme delivered in a virtual classroom environment with a collaborative learning approach. » MORE

New Facility

Blackboard to Open New Data Centre in Canada

Washington D.C. (USA), May 2011 - Blackboard Inc. has announced plans to open a new data centre in Canada this summer, responding to growing interest from Canadian institutions for an in-region facility to host and manage their learning environments. The new data centre will be located in Calgary, Alberta, and will be the company's seventh production facility. » MORE

Strategic Partnership

Fern / TT Knowledge Force Teams Up with U&I Learning

Holsbeek/Ghent (BE)/Heidelberg (GER), May 2011 - U&I Learning has taken the well-known TT Knowledge Force into their portfolio. This gives U&I Learning the opportunity to reach top-100 fortune companies, which are already working with this solution, but also to start new projects in an efficient way. » MORE

Strategic Alliance

Leading Experts on Management Innovation Join Forces

Redwood Shores/Woodside CA (USA), May 2011 - Saba, a people cloud provider, has announced its strategic alliance with the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), a community of progressive management innovators architected by Gary Hamel. The MIX is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. » MORE

Talent Management

Totara Announces Roadmap for New Features

Wellington (NZ), May 2011 - The roadmap of Totara LMS, the open source LMS for the corporate sector based on Moodle, is now out for consultation with partners and subscribers and includes new talent-management modules to manage appraisals. It also includes 360 feedback and an exciting new program-management feature to create learning paths, mandatory learning, and recurring learning requirements. » MORE

Ready to Grow

UK Business Missing Out on Efficiency Gains

London (UK), May 2011 - Heads of UK learning companies contend that as cuts-ridden Britain emerges from recession, it is missing out on a potential source of significant cost savings and efficiency gains because of outdated attitudes to training among top management. » MORE

Business Competitiveness

Learning Technologies Must Play Crucial Role

Brighton (UK), May 2011 - Brightwave has launched a new series of videos featuring leading figures from the world of workplace learning to share success stories and lessons learned. The videos also explore how learning technologies can support fast-changing business practices in the next decade. » MORE

Informal Learning

Shortlist of Five Myths

Den Bosch (NL), May 2011 - Bob Mosher, Chief Learning and Strategy Evangelist at LearningGuide Solutions, is helping L&D professionals to understand how to approach implementing the right informal learning strategy for their workplace. "I'd like to share some myths I've encountered when trying to intentionally implement a successful informal learning strategy", says Mosher. » MORE

Expansion

digital publishing Launches New Office in London

Munich (GER)/London (UK), May 2011 - digital publishing, a provider of online language-training courseware, has announced the opening of a new office in London that will offer the full range of dp's corporate language training services throughout the UK. digital publishing's expansion into the UK market is a natural step in the company's continuing international growth. » MORE

Growth

GP Strategies Acquires Ultra Training

Elkridge, MD (USA), May 2011 - GP Strategies Corporation, the corporate parent of global performance-improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), has announced that GP's wholly owned subsidiary General Physics (UK) Ltd. has acquired Ultra Training Ltd, an independent skills-training provider located in the United Kingdom. » MORE