Themen

Practice Firms

Virtual Reality for Transport and Logistics Students

Melbourne (AU), March 2007 - An Australia-wide network of virtual practice firms is helping drive more skilled young people toward jobs in the transport and logistics sector. The TOLL Virtual program, which began in May 2006 and is now operating in every state and territory, is a joint initiative of the Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council and TOLL Holdings, Australia's largest transport and logistics service provider. » MORE

Sales Specialist

Mike Ramsay Appointed at Rhema Group

Rochester (UK), March 2007 - Rhema Group has appointed Mike Ramsay as their Sales Training Specialist in the area of using leasing products to increase sales for vendors and their value added resellers (VARs). » MORE

Development Programme

Intel® Teach in Romania

Bucharest (RO), March 2007 - (by Elena Lita) It is planned to train more than 60,000 Romanian teachers as part of the Intel Teach programme, officially launched in Romania by the signature of a cooperation protocol between Intel Corporation and The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. As this initiative represents an important moment for the Romanian educational system, it seemed like a good time to chat about it with Mr. Irinel Burloiu, Intel Business Development Manager in Romania. » MORE

Partnership

Caspian Learning Closes Deal with WiedzaNet

Sunderland (UK), March 2007 - Caspian Learning, a global leader in the use of games and simulations to solve learning issues, has announced a licensing deal with the Polish company WiedzaNet. As master distributor, WiedzaNet will be able to use Caspian's Thinking Worlds™ authoring engine to develop and promote learning applications for the education and corporate training sectors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia. » MORE

Adaptive Learning

RapideL Enables Creation of Branching Courses

Jersey City, NJ (USA), March 2007 - In mid-March this year, RapideL will start to provide support for the pedagogically sound adaptive learning techniques. Instructional designers and course authors will be able to build simple branching courses to suit learners' non-linear response to content. » MORE

Strategic Plans

Trainer1 Exports eLearning Expertise to Russia

London (UK) / Moscow (RU), March 2007 - Trainer1, a UK learning consultancy, is supplying its eLearning expertise and experience to Business Training Russia (BTR), one of Russia's short-term business education and training companies. » MORE

New Paths

OutStart Expands into Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Boston, MA (USA)/ St.Ingbert (GER), February 2007 - OutStart, a provider of eKnowledge software solutions for learning and knowledge sharing, has announced the establishment of OutStart GmbH, its new German subsidiary. The company also announced it has acquired - and will continue to sell, enhance, and support - LearnCube, a popular eLearning product in German-speaking regions. » MORE

SmartLearning

CLIX in the Driver's Seat at Continental

Saarbruecken (GER), February 2007 - Continental AG, one of the world's leading tyre manufacturers and a major supplier for the automotive sector, has just implemented the learning management system CLIX from IMC, the leading German provider of learning technologies. ContiSmartLearning will mainly deliver product and sales trainings for truck tyres. » MORE

Case Study

Registering eLearning Success with Kadaster

London (UK), February 2007 - Kadaster, the Dutch Land Registry Office, has chosen ForceTen™, Eedo's Learning Content Management System (LCMS), to improve the way it trains its staff in line with other service improvements that have resulted in financial benefits, flexibility, and time savings. » MORE

Blackboard

Patent Pledge in Support of Open Source Software

Washington, DC (USA), February 2007 - Blackboard Inc., a provider of enterprise technology to the education community, announced a "Patent Pledge" in support of learning institutions worldwide that use or develop open source and home-grown course management software as well as the commercial entities supporting them. » MORE