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Corporate eLearning
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
A Quarter of "Train to Gain" Learners Don't Finish
Coventry (UK), May 2009 - Fiona Hudson-Kelly, co-founder of Funded Training Made Easy, has had a deluge of calls from customers in the recent past who have just discovered that they are unable to recruit new learners for their "Train to Gain" contracts because the scheme has run out of funding for the current financial year. » MORE
Atlantic Link Certified as a "Top 20% Performer"
Waltham, MA/Atlanta, GA (USA), May 2009 - During the recently awarded General Services Administration contract (GSA), Atlantic Link has been certified as a "Top 20% Performer" based on the Past Performance Evaluation (PPE) survey responses of its reference customers. The evaluation was performed through the Dunn & Bradstreet Open Ratings Systems Review. » MORE
Survey Confirms Echelon's Solutions' 'Value for Money'
London (UK), May 2009 - Organisation-development specialist Echelon has received a strong vote of confidence from its customers via the results of its recent 'Client Survey', which rated the 'effectiveness' and 'value for money' of Echelon's solutions particularly highly. » MORE
TATCOT: Spinal Orthotics by Blended Learning
Vienna (AU), May 2009 - (by Arndt Bubenzer) Since 2008, TATCOT, the Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopedic Technologists in Moshi, has been offering a substantial continuing- education eLearning course program on "Spinal Orthotics" for orthopedic technicians across Africa. The development of the program has been supported by the Health Division of InWEnt, Capacity Building International in Bonn, Germany. » MORE
The Africa Mundus Project
London (UK), May 2009 - AFRICA MUNDUS is a programme to support professional and entrepreneurial training and skills in Africa within the framework of the Commission for Africa, the Millennium Development Goals, ODA (Official Development Assistance), and the Recommendations to the G8 Summit 2006 in favour of the education sector. An effort to create a network, the programme will be presented by Prof. Emmanuel Argo at the eLearning Africa Conference in Dakar. » MORE
OutStart Appoints Matthias Schulz for European Sales
Boston, MA (USA)/ Berlin (GER), May 2009 - OutStart Inc. has promoted Matthias Schulz to vice president of European Sales, a newly created position. In addition to leading European Sales, Mr. Schulz will continue as the managing director of Berlin-based OutStart GmbH. » MORE
Edvantage Group Cooperates with Planet Wise
Brighton (UK), May 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and managed- learning service provider, has been awarded the contract to provide travel-safety experts Planet Wise with four bespoke eLearning modules focussing on UK travel safety, international travel safety, data security, and car safety. » MORE
