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Corporate eLearning
Financial Sector Training Programme for 'Tough Times'
Oxford (UK), November 2008 - Adkins Matchett & Toy (AMT) has developed a training programme for bankers and investment professionals. It focuses on financial institutions clients and deals with the repercussions of the recent turmoil in the financial sector. » MORE
TAG Academy Signs Agreement with Pearson VUE
Amman (JO), November 2008 - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Academies (TAG-Academies) in the Middle East, in cooperation with Pearson VUE, announces the launch of its first Pearson VUE Authorised Testing Centre, which will provide computer-based test delivery for ICT certification. This will be the first of a number of test centres as part of this agreement. » MORE
Four New Members to The Charity Learning Consortium
Stroud (UK), November 2008 - The Charity Learning Consortium (CLC), a membership organisation dedicated to providing cost-effective eLearning in the charity and voluntary sectors, has announced the addition of four new members. CLC now has a membership of forty voluntary organisations and has seen an increase in membership of over forty percent in the last six months. » MORE
Applying Educational Concepts is the Key
New York, NY (USA), November 2008 - Dr. David Guralnick from Kaleidoscope Learning knows that people are using their mobile phones or PDAs to do a lot more than stay in touch with their friends. CHECK.point eLearning asked him about the development of the learning solution "Mobile Stocking Training System", a learning-by-doing simulation for the retail trade. » MORE
Meeting Gen Y Training Demands
Dubai (UAE), November 2008 - "Unlike all previous generations, generation Y is probably the largest and only truly global generation", says Fadi Abdul Khalek, CEO of UKS in the United Arab Emirates. CHECK.point eLearning asked him in which ways Gen Y's demands differ from those of previous generations and in what way new technologies can help. » MORE
IBM: Informal Learning in School, University & Business
Munich (GER), November 2008 - Rank-and-file teachers are normally lone fighters. Therefore, an exchange of ideas and information with colleagues beyond school and university walls would be advantageous. It is the basis of informal learning and, as recent studies show, guarantees more interesting education. But there is often a lack of technical resources and proper organisational structures. To resolve this deficit and to strengthen collaboration, IBM offers a combined bundle of software and services. » MORE
Starwood Hotels Partners with Cornerstone OnDemand
Santa Monica, CA (USA), November 2008 - Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, has announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., one of the world's largest hotel and leisure companies, will use Cornerstone's learning and development platform, Cornerstone Learning, to train and develop its employees around the globe. » MORE
IKEA Selects Giunti Labs as a Preferred Supplier
Lund (SE), November 2008 - Giunti Labs, a learning and mobile-content-management solution provider and bespoke content producer, has been chosen as one of the limited number of official providers for eLearning content production services for the next two years to the Scandinavia-based home-furnishing-products retailer, IKEA. » MORE
ELearning from NASA
Washington, DC (USA), November 2008 - The American Space Agency is making a free, web-based educational product available across the country to learners of all ages. NASA eClips consists of more than 55 short, 5-10 minute video segments that are available on-demand via the Internet. NASA eClips features many of the Agency's missions and engages learners in the excitement of science and engineering. » MORE
Nokia Getting on Top of Handset Media Portability
London (UK), November 2008 - Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum, writes about problems of multimedia portability. He classifies the latest edition of Nokia's S60 as a good example with only minor shortcomings. Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth edition of its S60 platform for the Symbian OS in an effort to overcome the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. » MORE
