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Echelon Learning Offers DIY Board Review Tool
London (UK), April 2007 - A do-it-yourself board review programme is available free of charge from Echelon Learning's consulting division. The programme, which comprises a diagnostic and a toolkit, is being offered in the context of the company's launch of added-value board development services for public sector and not-for-profit organisations and is based on six 'hot' questions with challenging action points. » MORE
Telework Increases in the U.S.
Alexandria, VA (US), April 2007 - The April 2007 issue of T+D (Training + Development) reports that last year, 63 percent more employers allowed their employees to work remotely than in 2004, according to the WorldatWork, an association for HR professionals. Based on government estimates of 149.3 million workers in the United States's labor force, the 2006 data means that roughly eight percent of American workers are able to telecommute one day per month, and roughly twenty percent of both employed and self-employed workers engage in telework. » MORE
Child Protection Training
London (UK), April 2007 - The global eLearning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), and BT, one of the UK's largest providers of learning services to government - with contracts with the MOD (Defence), NCSL, and the Police Training Agency, Centrex - are collaborating to produce a five-module programme to enable those working within 'children's services' to understand such concepts as the basics of child protection, how to identify a child at risk, and how to develop the skills needed to help each child. » MORE
Global Knowledge Introduces New VMware Courses
London (UK), April 2007 - Global Knowledge, one of Europe's leading providers of learning services for IT and management professionals, will soon be running the new VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3: Deploying, Securing and Analysing course and the Virtual Infrastructure for Operators course from its training locations throughout the UK. » MORE
Comartis Announces Enhancements to i-qBox
Baar (CH), April 2007 - Recently, Comartis delivered i-qBox release 5.270. In close cooperation with customers, many new enhancements have been implemented. Among other functions, i-qBox contains a new module that was specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of test centers. » MORE
eLearning for Accident Prevention in Transport
Graz (AT), March 2007 - Two out of every three containers transported on German roads either have left or are destined for the Port of Hamburg. Special knowledge and compulsory trainings are mandatory to ensure the safe transport of hazardous goods and to prevent accidents with serious consequences. An eLearning course on the safe transport of hazardous goods was recently offered to the employees at the Port of Hamburg. » MORE
Pocket Language Course and Telephone Training
Munich (DE), March 2007 - Online learning without an Internet connection is a solution that is currently being developed by the language experts at digital publishing in Munich. The accessibility of all courses should be free of technical restriction, facilitating anytime, anyplace learning for the worldwide 50,000 students of the dp online language school, CLT. The latest innovation is CLT Plug&Learn, the smallest-ever mobile interactive language course; CLT Plug&Learn saves all course content on a USB flash drive, which can be used at any computer » MORE
MyKnowledgeMap Launches Web-Based Initiative
York (UK), March 2007 - According to Health & Safety Executive figures, some thirteen million working days for 560,000 people in the UK are lost to work-related stress, making "stress, anxiety and depression" the second-most-common cause of work-related illness. A web-based initiative to help reduce stress in the workplace has been introduced by MyKnowledgeMap (MKM). » MORE
Giunti Labs Expands Its Global Presence
Sestri Levante (IT) / Boston, MA (USA), March 2007 - Giunti Labs, a European eLearning and mobile learning content management solutions and services provider is further expanding its international presence in Spain and South America by launching the Spanish version of its learn eXact platform. A Spanish web site has been launched (www.giuntilabs.es), and Stefan Whitefield has been appointed Sales Manager for Spain and South America. On another front, Giunti Labs has recently opened its North American headquarters in the USA in Boston, MA. » MORE
Female Power in Romanian Management
Sibiu (RO), March 2007 - (by Joscha Remus) In Sibiu, Romania, Cristina Werther is working as a manager of the IT service provider Eytro and the eLearning forge Eytro Media Dimensions. Her creed is: It is time to show more female thinking in the eLearning sector and to support more creative courage and the development of modern multidimensional eLearning solutions. Also, she asks her female colleagues to search for new ways beyond a purely rationally guided but playful and often routine-blinded men's world. Joscha Remus spoke with her for CHECK.point eLearning. » MORE
