Themen

Guidance

Aurion Learning Celebrates Launch of Informing Families

Belfast (Northern Ireland), July 2010 - Informing families that their child has a disability is never an easy task, but now some help is at hand. The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies and Equality, Disability, and Mental Health Minister John Moloney have launched the Informing Families Project, which has culminated in the development and launch of a range of tools and materials designed to support best practice at the time of a child's diagnosis with a disability. » MORE

Learning Pass

CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE Sign Agreement

London (UK), July 2010 - SMEs are actively adopting new training solutions such as online learning, which allows them to efficiently train their employees without the large productivity drops and travel expenses associated with traditional instructor-led programmes. Recognising this, CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE have designed LEARNING PASS, which fuses two solutions into one integrated offering. » MORE

Collaborative Community

Sharing Questions and Answers on LearningGuide Manager

Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - LearningGuide Solutions has launched an online collaborative site using the NingTM social-media platform. The site enables authors using LearningGuide's single-source authoring environment to participate in a community where they can share ideas, provide product feedback, and read blogs and forum postings. » MORE

Budget Cuts

Facing the Challenge in the Healthcare Sector

West Yorkshire (UK), July 2010 - In his first budget statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said that he will control spending in government departments to "get more for less". The Lean Healthcare Academy sets out to show how. » MORE

Training Resource

Eden Tree from GoodPractice Launches Toolkit

Edinburgh (UK), July 2010 - Eden Tree offers resources to support learning and development professionals. They include a suite of "instant" training self-assessments, exercises, case studies, workshops, and handouts. Compared with their previous experience trawling the internet, Eden Tree users report a time savings of up to eighty percent. » MORE

Ranking

UK Top 50 IT Training Providers 2010

London (UK), July 2010 - Pardo Fox, specialist provider of market intelligence and strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has published its annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers by revenue. » MORE

Change

Christian M. Stracke Is the New Chair of CEN TC 353

Essen (GER), July 2010 - Mike Collett of Great Britain, Chair of the European Standardisation Body for eLearning (CEN TC 353), has gone into retirement. Under his leadership, the standardization committee for eLearning has produced considerable results in only three years. » MORE

Accreditation

Omniplex Becomes Bloomfire's First Certified Partner

Hemel Hempstead (UK), July 2010 - Omniplex has signed a reseller agreement with Bloomfire to become its first certified partner. Bloomfire is a contemporary social-media tool that provides a way to share knowledge within an organization or group. » MORE

Quality Video

Tixeo Chooses Google's VP8 for HD Web Conferencing

Montpellier (FR), July 2010 - In February this year, Google acquired On2 Technologies and its famous VP8 codec. The search-engine giant has recently released the source, providing a free alternative to H.264. Many industry leaders such as Mozilla, Logitech, and Nvidia, have since announced they will soon support the codec, making it the future standard of Internet video. » MORE

'Little's Britain'

Moves to foster partnering and collaboration

London (UK), July 2010 - (by Bob Little) New research suggests that a new job title is coming to the business world: the human systems director. According to a study - conducted by the Future Foundation on behalf of Google - of 3,500 employees, 100 HR managers and 100 IT managers across the UK, France, Germany, the US and Japan: by 2020, the workplace will be transformed by the sharing and development of ideas. » MORE