Themen

Benchmarking

digital publishing Becomes Towards Maturity Ambassador

Munich (GER)/London (UK), March 2011 - digital publishing, a provider of computer-based online language training, has announced its participation in the Towards Maturity's Ambassador Programme. Towards Maturity, an internationally recognized benchmarking organization for learning innovation, tenders independent expert advice and support in the application of learning innovation to accelerate business performance. » MORE

Cost Benefits

Spend Less and Still Make eLearning More Effective?

Bristol (UK), March 2011 - Can eLearning be cost effective in your organisation? What are the costs, and where are the returns when using eLearning? Tim Buff examines the real costs of eLearning on the CM Group Learning blog and explores how you can make sure your own eLearning programme yields the cost benefits you want whilst increasing the educational effectiveness of your training. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Corporate eLearning's dilemma with Government

London (UK), March 2011 - (by Bob Little) Technically, the UK Government - and there's every reason to believe that other European governments take the same view - says that it wants to, and does, encourage small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to bid for, and get, Government contracts. The Government says that this will provide the taxpayer with greater value for money because SMEs tend to be more creative, flexible and so on - and also tend to be cheaper because they don't have the overheads of a larger firm. » MORE

Collaboration

élogos and OutStart Partner for Spanish-Speaking Market

Boston, MA (USA), March 2011 - OutStart has announced that élogos has selected OutStart LCMS to resell to its market in Spain and Latin America. élogos will also utilize OutStart LCMS as a core component in its new lifelong learning approach. Following an evaluation of learning technologies, élogos formed a partnership with OutStart. » MORE

New Content

Learning Light Redevelops Its eLearning Centre Website

Sheffield (UK), March 2011 - Learning Light has redeveloped its popular eLearning Centre website to include much of the intellectual property of Becta, whose website has closed in the Coalition Government's public-sector cutbacks. This site is the only place where this information will now be available. » MORE

On the Go

High Demand for Mobile Learning Reported by LINE

London (UK), March 2011 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, has reported a dramatic upsurge in the number and quality of enquiries for mobile learning. Most recently, LINE helped pilot an app on iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives explain some of the features on the C-MAX vehicles. » MORE

Partnership

Certpoint Provides eLearning Solutions for Spencer Gifts

Roslyn, NY (USA), March 2011 - Certpoint Systems, Inc., a global LMS provider, has announced its partnership with Spencer Gifts, LLC. Spencer Gifts will use the CertpointVLS suite to train personnel across its extended enterprise, including 600 Spencer Gifts retail stores, over 900 Spirit Halloween stores, and 100 ToyZam stores. » MORE

Vietnam

Mandatory 10 pm Curfew for Online Video Games

Hanoi (VN), March 2011 - South Korea's proposed Internet curfew for youths from midnight to 6am seems positively namby-pamby compared to this actual measure being implemented by the Vietnamese government: Since the government thinks that people are wasting too much time playing online games, it is implementing a ban on online gaming from 10pm to 8am. » MORE

Elearnity Viewpoint Paper

The Fall and Rise of Corporate Academies

Cirencester (UK), March 2011 - Corporate academies have been an established trend in enterprise learning for some time. Many organisations are now adopting them as a strategic vehicle to deliver business alignment and more holistic development strategies. However, many others have seen their academies initiatives wither and die. » MORE

Community Support

Global Knowledge Runs for Evie

Wokingham (UK), March 2011 - A team from the IT-training organisation Global Knowledge have run the Wokingham half marathon to raise money for a two-year-old little girl suffering from quadriplegia cerebral palsy. In a bid to meet the target and fund Evie's treatment, Global Knowledge has promised to match whatever the team raises. » MORE