Xpertise to acquire Parity Training to create the second largest IT Training company in the UK
Xpertise | 23/07/2008
Xpertise, one of the fastest growing training companies, has today announced that it is has agreed, subject to Shareholder approval, to acquire Parity Training in a deal which will create the second largest IT Training company in the UK.
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OutStart and Eedo Knowledgeware MergeCombined Company is World's Largest Provider of Learning Content Management Software
Eedo Knowledgeware | 23/07/2008
- July 22, 2008 - OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations, making the new company the largest provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge through learning and social collaboration. The merged company, conducting business as OutStart, immediately becomes the dominant vendor of learning content management systems (LCMS).
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O2 and Imparta bring Award-winning Innovation to Retail Training
Imparta | 22/07/2008
Communications company O2 and its training partner Imparta have picked up the prize for 'Best Use of Technology for Employee Training or Communication' at the 2008 European Retail Solutions Awards.
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Richardson's Perfect Selling Book Reaches USA Today Best Seller List
Richardson | 22/07/2008
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and consulting firm, today announced that Perfect Selling, written by Founder Linda Richardson, has reached the Best Seller List for USA Today.
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The ROI Academy™ invited to speak at the HR Exchange Forum
The ROI Academy | 21/07/2008
The ROI Academy™ was invited to run a workshop session at last week’s meeting of the HR Exchange Forum. The HR Exchange forum meet on a quarterly basis to discuss key issues and last week’s meeting was focussed on Reward Issues and Performance Management.
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InfoBasis adds test functionality to competency management platform
InfoBasis | 21/07/2008
InfoBasis, the capability management expert, has expanded its competency management platform, InfoBasis ESI v 5.0, by adding question-based testing. Users can now sit a short test of their knowledge and skills, and use the results to verify skills levels selected during self-assessment.
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Website blog reveals Government's problems with the Planning Bill
Echelon Learning | 21/07/2008
The latest edition of the Legal Commentary - a blog - on the town planning website, www.planningmatters.co.uk, lifts the lid on the debate on the current Planning Bill in the House of Lords.
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REDTRAY eLearning Package wins Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT Award
REDTRAY Group | 17/07/2008
Kerry Watts, lead nurse for medicines management at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, collected a Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT Award. The winning e-learning package, developed by blended learning specialist REDTRAY, delivers mandatory medicines management training.
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Richardson Executive Receives Stevie® Award at the 2008 American Business Awards
Richardson | 17/07/2008
Jim Brodo, Senior Vice President of Marketing, was named top Marketing Executive at the 2008 American Business Awards.
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The ROI Academy™ licenses National Occupational Standards for Management
The ROI Academy | 16/07/2008
The ROI Academy™ has licensed the National Occupational Standards for Management to use in conjunction with its leading edge training evaluation tool, the Performance Pound™.
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RapideL-i now helps you convert your Power Point slides into eLearning
Brainvisa | 15/07/2008
RapideL-i, the internet-based rapid e-Learning tool has been upgraded to include a new feature to convert MS Powerpoint slides into eLearning.
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Giunti Labs' HarvestRoad Hive eases content migration issues
Giunti Labs | 14/07/2008
A software system - HarvestRoad Hive, from leading learning and mobile content management technology provider, Giunti Labs - is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to save both time and manpower as they make information more readily available to users.
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Website hits on town planning site continue to soar
Echelon Learning | 14/07/2008
Visits to town planning web site www.planningmatters.co.uk have hit a record high.
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OnPoint Digital Teams with VoiceCloud for Mobile Content Transcription
OnPoint Digital | 14/07/2008
OnPoint Digital, Inc., a leading eLearning and mobile solutions provider, today announced a partnership with VoiceCloud, Inc., an innovative provider of instant speech-to-text conversions, wherein VoiceCloud will transcribe recorded audio responses to voice-based questionnaires, surveys and blog entries submitted by mobile workers via OnPoint's CellCast Solution platform and mobile widgets. Once transcribed, responses are immediately available and searchable, and can be leveraged as institutional knowledge in ongoing communications, informal learning and detailed reporting.
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Latest Course-Source Health Sector Event Highlights Importance of Rich Media to e-Learning
Course Source | 14/07/2008
The latest in Course-Source's series of nationwide events to help develop e-learning in the health sector has focused on the benefits of using rich media in e-learning programmes. The 50 plus health professionals who gathered in Manchester last week heard from various experts on the subject, among them a former BBC TV cameraman and director. All agreed technology is now so far advanced that anyone developing any e-learning programme should be able to include rich media material, whatever their budget.
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The importance of CPD in coaching
The Performance Solution | 13/07/2008
The Performance Solution know that the concept of CPD is not new, but agree that effective professionals in all fields have always realized the importance of new knowledge, improved skills and the development of personal qualities.
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TrainerBase accredits two more Certified Learning Practitioners
TrainerBase | 11/07/2008
TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners has accredited Andrew Miller and Toni Johnson as Certified Learning Practitioners.
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Raptivity Releases Blackboard and Moodle Integration Accelerators: Makes it Easy to Add Learning Interactions to Course Management Systems
Harbinger Knowledge Products | 10/07/2008
Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release of Raptivity Integration Accelerators for Blackboard and Moodle. Trainers and educators who use Blackboard or Moodle can now quickly integrate learning interactions built using Raptivity, the award-winning eLearning software for creation of learning interactions, in their course management systems.
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Matching Courses with Careers Made Easy - SEEK Learning Launches in UK and Ireland
Seek Learning | 10/07/2008
Getting the skills you need for work just got easier with SEEK Learning recently launching in the UK and Ireland, and partnering with the region's leading job boards, reed.co.uk and Irishjobs.ie. SEEK Learning, an online education provider of career-related training and development, provides distance-based education suited to people with busy lifestyles. The IT industry will be the first to benefit from the fast and flexible service with seeklearning.co.uk a licensed distributor of SkillSoft, the world's leading online IT certification training provider.
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Cornerstone in the Leaders Quadrant in leading industry analyst's 2008 Corporate Learning Systems Magic Quadrant
Cornerstone OnDemand | 10/07/2008
Cornerstone OnDemand delivers a full suite of learning and talent management software-as-a-service solutions to optimise workforce success.
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Trainer1 offers the latest in mobile learning technology
Trainer1 | 10/07/2008
Trainer1, the vendor neutral e-learning specialist which has become the UK's only authorised training centre and re-seller for the authoring tool, ToolBook, has revealed that the tool's producer - SumTotal Systems - is about to release ToolBook 9.5.
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New eLearning creation platform set to transform training strategies
CM Group | 09/07/2008
Today's launch of Luminosity, the new eLearning creation platform, heralds a new direction in eLearning development. The solution is being launched by learning content and consultancy specialist CM Group.
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SITA aligns learning with organizational goals using Global Learning Alliance's analytics services
Global Learning Alliance | 08/07/2008
SITA, a leading European environmental and waste services business is using Global Learning Alliance's learning analytics services to measure the performance of its career development and literacy training programs.
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Seek success with FranklinCovey courses from QA-IQ: New workshops improve personal, organisational and team performance
QA-IQ | 07/07/2008
QA-IQ has today launched a new relationship with FranklinCovey in the UK. The first exciting new workshops available are based on Stephen Covey's hugely influential bestseller, '7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. Improve your personal performance as an individual, a manager and as a leader, in the workshops available from July 2008.
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LearningGuide Solutions Forms a Customer Advisory Board
LearningGuide Solutions | 07/07/2008
Company announces Customer Advisory Board to share implementation success stories and help shape Performance Support industry.
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'Radio Show' to Feature CEO Adam Miller of Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand | 07/07/2008
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., the provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services, today announced that company CEO, Adam Miller, will be the featured guest on this week's "The Bill Kutik Radio Show."
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Richardson Releases Perfect Selling, a New Sales Skills Improvement Book Written by Linda Richardson
Richardson | 03/07/2008
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com)announced the release of Perfect Selling: Open the Door, Close the Deal (McGraw-Hill; July; $19.95), the latest book written by Founder, Linda Richardson.
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Global Knowledge welcomes new Cisco CCNA Concentrations
Global Knowledge | 02/07/2008
Global Knowledge, Europe's leading independent training company, is welcoming the expansion of the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification program which was announced today at Cisco Live. The introduction of three new entry level technology–based CCNA concentrations which are designed to build upon Cisco’s most popular career certification CCNA are seen as an ideal stepping stone for those delegates not able to make the full commitment that a professional level certification requires.
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Call for entries announced for prestigious IT Training Awards 2009
Institute of IT Training | 01/07/2008
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce the call for entries for the IT Training industry's most prestigious awards event, the IT Training Awards 2009 sponsored by the British Computer Society (BCS).
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ATA motors past 9000
Institute of the Motor Industry | 01/07/2008
Paul West, who works at Inchcape Volkswagen Chelmsford, is the 9,000th technician to achieve the Automotive Technician Accreditation standard, governed by the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI).
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REDTRAY in UK's top 50 IT Training Companies
REDTRAY Group | 01/07/2008
REDTRAY, the true blended learning company, has jumped two places in the UK's top 50 IT Training Companies to 28th position with revenues in IT training of £4.4 million in its 2007 financial year. IT training represents half of REDTRAY's revenues alongside its provision of learning solutions for areas such as professional development, compliance and, health and safety.
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Groundbreaking Business Service Management solution from FireScope
Firescope | 01/07/2008
Business Service Management (BSM) software specialist FireScope is heralding its new configuration management database (CMDB) program in support of its pioneering Business Service Management (BSM) solution as revolutionising the way businesses manage their IT operations.
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KnowledgePool named again as one of the world's top training outsourcing companies
KnowledgePool | 01/07/2008
KnowledgePool, the UK market leader in managed learning, has been named as one of the Top 20 companies in the global training outsourcing industry, for the second year running, by the web-based knowledge community TrainingOutsourcing.com.
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Xyleme Unveils Xyleme LCMS 3.2
Xyleme | 30/06/2008
Fully integrated, highly scalable and truly collaborative LCMS for Reusability 2.0
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Hewden's award winning training program LearningGuide: more efficiency and lower cost of ownership
LearningGuide Solutions | 30/06/2008
"One of the main benefits of LearningGuide is that it is a low maintenance support platform, which allows control of published information and provides users with a one-stop-shop for policy and procedural information. It facilitates the increase of productivity, and is particularly useful to individuals who are new to the Movex system", says Darren Owen, Training and LearningGuide Manager of Hewden Stuart PLC, the UK's largest and most diverse specialist in equipment rental in the construction industry.
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Institute of IT Training launches new Innovation category for IT Training Awards
Institute of IT Training | 27/06/2008
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce the launch of a new category at the IT Training Awards 2009; The Innovation in Training Services Award.
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Elearnity provides guide to managing Rapid e-learning
Elearnity | 25/06/2008
Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced its latest research on the different approaches and considerations to managing Rapid e-learning.
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BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice
BTL | 25/06/2008
- An Essential Course for Authors Facing the Challenge of Creating e-Assessments - BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of e-Assessment solutions, has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of highly experienced educational consultants with extensive experience in e-Assessments, to launch the 'e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course'.
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BTL commits to ITIL: best practices in the provision of IT services
BTL | 24/06/2008
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK e-Assessment development and delivery company, announced today that all of its senior management and the majority of its Project Management, Software Development and IT/Technical Support teams are now ITIL qualified. This further enhances the commitment previously made by BTL to ensure all Project Managers and other relevant members of staff are PRINCE2 qualified.
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SQA Releases White Paper on Sustainable Development of e-Assessment
BTL | 23/06/2008
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), a prominent BTL Group Ltd customer, has released a white paper, Innovating Assessment in Scotland, outlining a sustainable model of e-Assessment development utilising BTL's state-of-the-art authoring tool, ContentProducer.
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Pearson VUE extends partnership with TDA
Pearson VUE | 23/06/2008
Pearson VUE is helping to raise England's teaching standards through its delivery of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) skills tests for the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). This new three-year partnership will see the specialist provider of Computer Based Testing (CBT) solutions, delivering electronic tests to over 35,000 trainee teachers each year, helping the Government ensure greater measurability and performance in the profession.
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TPS motivational speaker, Alan Chambers, returns to UK
The Performance Solution | 21/06/2008
Alan Chambers a renowned motivational speaker and leader of the first British team to walk unsupported to the North Pole is set to return to the UK.
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IT Training Award winners join speaker line-up at Training 2008
Institute of IT Training | 20/06/2008
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce that winners of the IT Training Awards 2008 are amongst the speakers at their annual conference and exhibition, Training 2008.
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Seven NHS Trusts Collaborate on E-learning for Mental Health with REDTRAY
REDTRAY Group | 19/06/2008
In a unique collaboration, seven NHS Trusts across the South East of England have developed new e-learning programmes based on the specific needs of Mental Health care. With content designed by blended learning specialists REDTRAY, the e-learning courses will enable each participating trust to provide training in key areas of healthcare.
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Collaboration Between InfoBasis and Salary.com's ITG Competency Group Boosts Clients' Capability Management
InfoBasis | 19/06/2008
Leading competency management software provider partners with leading competency content and services vendor to support competency-driven human capital management and drive maximum customer value.
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New Series of JO Exam Revision Workshops to Improve Financial Services Exam Success
Intellego | 19/06/2008
The Professional Development Partnership Ltd (PDPL), recently acquired by Intellego and one of the leading providers of training in the financial services industry in the UK, is running a new range of open J0 (Diploma in Financial Planning from the Chartered Insurance Institute) exam revision workshops for financial services professionals to compliment those run in house to larger firms.
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e2train reveals outstanding customer satisfaction scores at meeting of Kallidus User Group
e2train | 18/06/2008
e2train, the UK's leading supplier of learning and performance technologies, announces the outstanding results of its annual customer survey. Unveiled at the recent meeting of the Kallidus User Group, the survey reveals high levels of satisfaction amongst its customers, in particular for its support and implementation services.
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Celebrating excellence and achievement - IMI Awards outstanding achievers are a credit to the industry
Institute of the Motor Industry | 18/06/2008
From almost 50,000 students registered on qualifications awarded by IMI Awards, the qualifications subsidiary of the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), 10 were short-listed as finalists for the 2008 IMI Awards Outstanding Achievers, held at the IMI in the presence of its Patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
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Business Analysis Comes of Age
Matchett | 18/06/2008
Matchett, one of the world’s most trusted learning partners and AssistKD, the market leader in business analysis and systems development training and consultancy, launched the pioneering Business Analysis Maturity Model (BAMM) to a select audience of industry professionals at the futuristic Media centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
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HealthELearning.net and Video Arts Add a Humourous Touch to Health Sector Training
Course Source | 18/06/2008
Course-Source has just released twenty-two new Video Arts self-study interactive courses to its expanding online catalogue for the Health Sector via its HealthELearning.net website. The new courses cover a large range of subject areas from management and communication skills to interviewing techniques and diversity, and featuring top actors such as Ricky Gervais, James Nesbit and Kris Marshall. Significantly, this new development means Video Arts courses are now available to the Health Sector online, rather than only on DVD.
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Cornerstone OnDemand introduces innovations in succession and certification management with Spring 2008 release
Cornerstone OnDemand | 17/06/2008
Cornerstone OnDemand's Spring 2008 release offers strategic talent pooling, enhanced certification management for better compliance, and self-service tools to empower organisations to engage their workforce.
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Global eLearning Standards Group Taps OutStart's Alonso to Speak About Linking Learning to Virtual Worlds
OutStart | 17/06/2008
OutStart Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Alonso will speak to an international audience of training professionals about integrating virtual world simulations and learning content on June 19, 2008, in Hamburg, Germany.
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RapideL-i now enables complete design flexibility for eLearning Developers
Brainvisa | 17/06/2008
RapideL-i, the internet-based rapid e-learning tool innovated by Brainvisa has recently added a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) template for complete design flexibility.
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Intellego acquisition of Zenosis
Intellego | 16/06/2008
As a part of a continuing strategy to further expand its business and strengthen the expertise and solutions it supplies to its clients across the pharmaceutical, life science and medical sectors, Intellego is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Zenosis, a publisher of compliance and regulatory affairs e-learning courseware for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry.
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KnowledgePool Appoints Learning Consultancy Director
KnowledgePool | 16/06/2008
KnowledgePool, the managed learning services company, has enhanced its strategic consultancy and service delivery capability with the appointment of Al Bird to the newly-created role of Learning Consultancy Director.
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Economic climate potentially beneficial to independent trainers
TrainerBase | 13/06/2008
The current economic climate, brought on by the credit crunch is potentially a benefit for independent trainers; comments TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners.
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Raytheon launches UK apprenticeship programme to address skills shortage in automotive industry
Raytheon Professional Services | 13/06/2008
Raytheon Professional Services (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has launched an apprenticeship programme to develop future generations of automotive technicians and after-sales personnel in the United Kingdom.
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UK's leading e-learning company Epic acquired by Andrew Brode
Epic | 13/06/2008
Epic, the UK's market leading e-learning company, has been acquired by a private investor with extensive corporate and organisational learning and development interests. On 12 June 2008 Huveaux plc sold Brighton based Epic to Andrew Brode.
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QA-IQ appoints new CEO to lead future growth: William Macpherson joins UK's leading learning company
QA-IQ | 12/06/2008
The UK's leading learning company, QA-IQ, has broadened its management team by appointing a new Chief Executive to lead the company and develop future opportunities for growth. William Macpherson joined QA-IQ on 9 June 2008.
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Elicitus Authoring Tool Announces New Version Trendy Looking Version 7.0 Adds Voiceover Recording, Enhances User Experience
Harbinger Knowledge Products | 12/06/2008
Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced the release of Version 7.0 of Elicitus, its award-winning rapid eLearning authoring tool. The highlights of this release are sound recorder and enhanced user experience. This release also boasts of a completely new trendy look.
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UK financial services institutions act to prevent compliance failures, using mobile learning technology by Giunti Labs
Giunti Labs | 11/06/2008
A major bank's £6.3m fine in April 2006, following misconduct in its handling of share trades in two firms, has prompted one of the UK's major financial services institutions to use a novel approach - via mobile performance support delivered to its staff's PDAs and BlackBerrys - to provide 'nuggets' of regulatory and compliance-based information as well as key learning points related to data protection.
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InfoBasis signs three-year capability management contract with Ministry of Justice
InfoBasis | 10/06/2008
Major British government department pilots InfoBasis capability management platform to support professional development across IT staff group
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Echelon steps up the pace at learningmatters.com
Echelon Learning | 10/06/2008
Workstation-based just-in-time learning has just got faster and easier following revisions to design and content sign posting at online resource www.learningmatters.com
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HeidelbergCement Selects Cornerstone OnDemand for Support of Enterprise-wide Compliance Management
Cornerstone OnDemand | 10/06/2008
One of the leading global producers of building materials is to roll out Cornerstone's learning platform for ethics and compliance training.
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Composica launches a French version of its Authoring Platform with X-PERTeam
Composica | 10/06/2008
Composica partners with X-PERTeam to offer a French version of Composica Enterprise.
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The City's top guns battle it out - Blue-chip companies from the Square Mile put forward their best shots for this prestigious shooting championships event
PPi | 09/06/2008
The 2008 Strutt & Parker City Shooting Championships took place this week at the beautiful estate of Highclere Castle on a typical British summer's day - absolutely chucking it down! But it was water off waxed jacket as far as the 160 guns were concerned and the spirits were resolutely un-dampened. Many of the UK's top shots take part in this fabulous event every year to raise monies for the chosen charity of that year.
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Podcasting with Industry Luminaries: Xyleme Discusses Learning Methods with Industry Expert Dr. Ruth Clark
Xyleme | 06/06/2008
features discussion with Dr. Ruth Clark on the effectiveness of visual aids in the learning process
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IMC releases updated LECTURNITY 3.0 rapid authoring tool with a new "one click" publishing feature
IMC Learning | 05/06/2008
Lecturnity’s simplified “one click” publishing process makes the recording and publishing of electronic content even easier. The simplified LECTURNITY 3.0 publishing process now consists of both document creation in the selected target format and the optional transfer (upload) to remote servers, all in one click.
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Course-Source Event and Podcast Share Rapid e-Learning Expertise With Health Sector
Course Source | 05/06/2008
Over 40 health professionals attended the latest Course-Source event dedicated to developing e-learning in the health sector. Held at the Royal Society of Medicine, this event was the second in a series aiming to support health sector professionals explore the technology and benefits of online learning. It focused on rapid design, development and delivery and highlighted the benefits of the new HealthELearning.net portal launched by Course-Source earlier this year.
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8 out of top 10 training companies hold Institute of IT Training Accreditation
Institute of IT Training | 05/06/2008
The Institute of IT Training (IITT) is delighted to announce that 8 of the top 10 organisations listed in the Top 50 IT Training Companies (compiled by IT Skills Research) are IITT Accredited. With 70% of the top 50 companies holding an IITT accreditation; this is further confirmation that the work of the Institute is held with highest regard by the most successful organisations in the IT training industry.
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The Boeing Company and General Dynamics UK to Present at ITEC 2008
Eedo Knowledgeware | 05/06/2008
Eedo Knowledgeware™, the leading provider of learning and knowledge systems, today announced that Chris Lewis-Cooper, Principal Training Architect, General Dynamics UK and Calvin (Trey) Cooper, Sr. Manager, Instructional Systems Training Systems and Services, The Boeing Company, will be presenting at ITEC 2008, a conference dedicated to defence training, simulation and education, June 10th – 12th, 2008.
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UK top 50 IT training providers 2008
IT Skills Research | 04/06/2008
IT Skills Research has published its annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers.
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HarvestRoad Hive facilitates the 'buzz' of learning at Staffordshire University
Giunti Labs | 03/06/2008
Remaining at the leading edge of learning technology, Staffordshire University - one of the first users of virtual learning environments (VLEs), known in the corporate world as learning management systems (LMSs) - is now discovering the benefits of using a Federated Digital Repository System (FDRS).
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Xpertise positioned as the number three IT training provider in the UK in independent research
Xpertise | 03/06/2008
Independent research firm IT Skills Research has ranked Xpertise as third in its annual list of the UK’s top 50 IT training providers.
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Final Call for Entries for the 4th Annual E-Learning Awards
E.learning age | 03/06/2008
The deadline for entries and submissions for the E-Learning Awards 2008 is Monday 30 June 2008, just 4 weeks away.
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TrainerBase is now able to recommend 2 more Certified Learning Practitioners
TrainerBase | 02/06/2008
TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners is now able to recommend Mike Morrison and Mike Mortby as a result of them successfully meeting the Standard for Learning Practitioners.
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Richardson to Host Series of Interactive Presentations on Selling in a 2.0 World at ASTD Conference
Richardson | 30/05/2008
Richardson is to host a series of complimentary, 30-minute, interactive presentations on Selling in a 2.0 World, on the Expo Floor, at this year's ASTD 2008 International Conference and Exposition, being held June 1-4 in San Diego.
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Pearson steps up investment in China
Pearson VUE | 30/05/2008
Pearson, the international education and information company, today announces that it has agreed to acquire two privately-owned English language school chains in China.
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One month to go for 'Early Bird' rates at Training 2008
Institute of IT Training | 30/05/2008
There is just one month remaining to book your place at Training 2008 at the discounted 'Early Bird' rates offering a massive saving on bookings taken before 30th June 2008.
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Workshop from Dr Itiel Dror shows how to create brain-friendly e-learning
Learning Technologies | 30/05/2008
Dr Itiel Dror, the celebrated cognitive and behavioural psychologist, has announced a one-day public workshop for learning professionals. Building e-learning with the brain in mind will take place on 17th June in central London.
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Giunti Labs reveals leading edge military support technology at ITEC
Giunti Labs | 29/05/2008
The tasks of those responsible for providing learning and operations support information for the world's armed forces are being made easier, thanks to advances being made in content management technologies, standards and methodologies.
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Convergence 2008 highlights key trends in talent management
Cornerstone OnDemand | 29/05/2008
Social networking and collaboration, integrated learning and talent management, and training the extended enterprise are among today's important trends in workforce technology, according to delegates at Cornerstone OnDemand's client and partner conference, Convergence 2008.
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Giunti Labs wins 'Platinum' at the IMS Global Learning Consortium '2008 Learning Impact Awards'
Giunti Labs | 27/05/2008
Leading learning and mobile content management technology provider, Giunti Labs has won a 'Platinum' Learning Impact Award (LIA). The Giunti Labs' learn eXact learning content management system LCMS won the award for its application with Volkswagen Group Italia, the fully owned Italian subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, which distributes Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor vehicles and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Italy.
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Rhema Group MD addresses high profile Dubai HR Conference and Expo
Rhema Group | 26/05/2008
The Dubai annual HR Conference and Expo is a highly prestigious event, drawing its invited keynote speakers from the ranks of experts from all over the world.As a keynote speaker at the 2008 conference on May 18-19 Rhema Group MDJeremy Francis addressed Achieving Excellence through Advanced Training and Development, for an HR professional audience representing the competitive drive for business excellence the Middle East’s rapidly-developing and globally-minded nations.
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Measuring the impact of learning
Global Learning Alliance | 23/05/2008
Hedy Tilmanns from Global Learning Alliance is to present on learning measurement at the forthcoming Training Journal Conference and Awards 2008, in London on 24 June.
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The Natural History Museum invests in e-learning with Epic
Epic | 23/05/2008
The Natural History Museum has recently commissioned Epic to produce bespoke e-learning for their 'Health and Safety' and 'Fire Safety' training to be rolled out to new starters within their first few weeks of employment. This is an exciting initiative, which will no doubt pave the way for others in the Museums and Galleries sector.
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Epic combat Age Discrimination at work with free e-learning
Epic | 23/05/2008
Epic make Age Awareness training available for free as part of National Learning at Work Day
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Information Transfer to hold E-learning Masterclass, 26th June, London
Information Transfer | 22/05/2008
"Maximising the benefits of e-learning for compliance and induction training" Exploring the potential of new e-learning technology for professional services training
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CustomGuide Offers 100 Free Software Quick References
CustomGuide | 20/05/2008
CustomGuide Software Training released nearly 100 Software Quick References for free public use and distribution on May 19, 2008. The free Quick Reference Cards can be downloaded at www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm.
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TPS explores the role of Executive Coaching in today's modern workplace
The Performance Solution | 20/05/2008
Scores of major UK companies have made coaching a core part of executive development. The belief is that, under the right circumstances, one-on-one interaction with an objective third party can provide a focus that other forms of organizational support simply cannot.
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The Performance Solution announces a new Performance Assessments division
The Performance Solution | 20/05/2008
The Performance Solution is proud to announce a new department, Performance Assessments, to their expanding portfolio of products available to clients.
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Elearnity lifts the lid on Rapid e-learning
Elearnity | 20/05/2008
Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced a comprehensive programme of research and white papers into Rapid e-learning, one of the most significant e-learning trends of recent years.
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NetDimensions and Active Mind Solutions win tender for UK Government Funded Program
NetDimensions | 19/05/2008
NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, together with their affiliate partner Active Mind Solutions, has been selected by the Artemis Children’s Workforce Induction Project, supported by six local authority areas in the West Midlands: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Sandwell, Dudley, Herefordshire and Warwickshire.
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Turning passion into a profession
Institute of the Motor Industry | 19/05/2008
- IMI to spearhead Careers Zone at the 2008 British International Motor Show - Promoting the UK motor industry as a progressive and exciting sector of employment is the aim of the Careers Zone at the British International Motor Show at Excel in London this summer.
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Pearson VUE bring UKCAT closer to home
Pearson VUE | 19/05/2008
Pearson VUE has recently developed and opened "Occasional Sites" where students in more remote areas of Scotland can sit their UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT).
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Happy Computers Introduces Speed Learning, a New Way to Learn
Happy | 19/05/2008
Happy Computers has introduced an innovative new way to learn. On a Speed Learning day every student chooses a different subject to learn every hour and creates their own course. With 14 different options every hour, there are over 750,000 different possible combinations.
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Certified Learning Practitioner induction day a great success
TrainerBase | 19/05/2008
TrainerBase; the Association for Learning Practitioner held its first public Certified Learning Practitioner induction day workshop. The day was attended by both members and non members of TrainerBase and was a great success and an enlightening day for participants.
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Trainers sign to partner business skills video house DTV
DTVUK | 16/05/2008
Training companies are signing up partnering agreements for exclusive regional and sector representation of newly launched online learning and development solution, Digital Training Videos (DTV) - www.DTVuk.com
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UK IT training market up ten per cent
IT Skills Research | 16/05/2008
IT Skills Research, the UK's leading IT training market analyst, has announced that the UK IT skills sector, on which it gathers a wealth of statistics, grew by over ten per cent during 2007, the largest annual growth in UK IT training spending since 2000.
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New Cisco Unified Communications Project Management Training from Global Knowledge
Global Knowledge | 16/05/2008
Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, has announced the launch of its new Cisco Unified Communications Project Management training class, a five-day course where students learn to manage a Unified Communications (UC) deployment from start to finish.
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IITT seeks OFT support for a better deal for those funding their own training