Themen
Corporate eLearning
Two Learning Impact Awards for Giunti Labs
Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - Giunti Labs has won a 'Gold' and a 'Best in category' award at the IMS Learning Impact Awards (LIAs), the world's annual competition for the high-impact use of technology to support and enhance learning. Organised by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), the LIAs recognise use of technology to improve learning across all education segments and in all regions of the world. » MORE
Datango Partners with OclassenHathaway
Waltham, MA (USA), June 2009 - datango AG, a provider of software that accelerates time to value and increases user acceptance of mission-critical systems, has announced that it has forged a strategic relationship with OclassenHathaway, experts in helping technology companies transform their learning businesses into significant profit centres. » MORE
LCMS on top of an Enterprise Content Management
Boulder, CO (USA), June 2009 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Utilizing an isolated platform for learning-content management makes it difficult for companies to leverage content from different parts of the organization for training purposes. Therefore Mark Hellinger, CEO of Xyleme, opts for the model to implement a learning-content-management system on top of an enterprise content-management platform. Xyleme provides XML-based SCORM-2004-certified content-management solutions. In an interview with CHECK.point eLearning, he explained how this would reduce the time and cost of content administration. » MORE
Epic Achieves ISO 14001 Environmental Standard
Brighton (UK), June 2009 - Epic has become the first key player in the UK eLearning market to achieve the ISO 14001: 2004 Environmental Management Standard, confirming its commitment to long-term environmental protection. The international standard requires procedures for managing environmental aspects of a business, with targets for waste reduction and energy efficiency. » MORE
Simbionix Offers New Product for OB/GYN Physicians
Cleveland, OH (USA)/Zurich (CH), June 2009 - Simbionix and VirtaMed have joined forces to provide OB/GYN surgeons with the most advanced training system for endoscopic surgery. The new VirtaMed HystSim™ simulator adds hysteroscopy to Simbionix's impressive line of medical simulation and eLearning products. » MORE
SkillSoft Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results
Nashua, NH (USA), June 2009 - SkillSoft, Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of on-demand eLearning and performance-support solutions for global enterprises, government, education, and small to medium-sized businesses has announced the financial results for its first fiscal quarter of fiscal 2010. » MORE
'Little's Britain': People problems
London (UK), May 2009 - (by Bob Little) Originally funded by the UK's Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Towards Maturity is an e-skills UK project aimed at helping organisations improve the impact of learning technologies at work. Intended to discover how employers are making use of learning technologies, the project currently supports a community of over 1,000 organisations with research , case studies and contributions of from an ever increasing virtual advisory network. » MORE
ADL Continues as "Steward of SCORM"
Piscataway, NJ (USA), May 2009 - Rather than transfer stewardship to LETSI (The International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability), the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) will continue to develop and maintain SCORM and will assign certain rights to use SCORM to external organizations on a non-exclusive basis. » MORE
IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Sponsors
Barcelona (ES)/Sestri Levante (IT), May 2009 - The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced at its annual Learning Impact conference that several of its member organisations have committed to funding the development of a shared web catalogue of learning resources. » MORE
Improving Security Consciousness
London (UK), May 2009 - Information security is critical to the smooth functioning of British Airways' business, and creating employee awareness about information security is a vital organizational requirement. In a project for BA, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) used its proprietary Story-based Learning Objects™ (StoBLs™) approach to create a product that set the learning in the context of a realistic and pertinent narrative. » MORE
