| Housing Legislation |
| Virtual College Offers eLearning for Scottish Landlords |
 Ilkley (UK), May 2012 – Both the Scottish Social Housing Charter and the new regulatory framework from the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) are currently coming into effect. In response to this new legislation, Virtual College is gearing up to help Scottish landlords comply. [more...] |
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| New Funding Scheme |
| Giving UK Communities a Say over Learning |
| London (UK), May 2012 – The British Government has announced a pilot scheme that will give people a say in decisions about their local adult-learning courses and bring better value for money for taxpayers. The Government is planning to select between ten and fifteen Community Learning Trust pilots that will begin work in August 2012. [more...] |
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| New Position |
| e2train Welcomes Head of Marketing |
| Cirencester (UK), May 2012 - e2train, the UK leader in learning and talent-management software solutions has appointed Dave Iles as Head of Marketing. Dave is a Chartered Marketer and committee member for the Gloucestershire Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. [more...] |
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| Free Assessment Trial |
| Balance Learning Demonstrates the ez in ez360 |
 Stroud (UK), May 2012 - Balance Learning Ltd. is offering a free trial of its assessment tool ez360 that allows organisations to test its effectiveness with up to five candidates. The ez360 assessment tool is used by organisations to provide employees with targeted feedback generally based on organisational competencies that helps them with performance improvement. [more...] |
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| Entrepreneur Programme |
| Essential Skills for Small and Medium Businesses |
| Wokingham (UK), May 2012 - Global Knowledge, provider of IT and business training, has announced that can now deliver the complete Cisco Entrepreneur Programme portfolio, making Global Knowledge the first Cisco Learning Partner in Europe capable of delivering this training. [more...] |
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| Videoconferencing |
| LOTOS Capital Group Speeds Up Decision Making |
| Warsaw (PL), May 2012 - Polycom, Inc, a provider of open standards-based unified communications (UC), has been selected by LOTOS Group, a producer and supplier of oil products across Poland and abroad, to provide a unified communications solution to better connect its 5,000 employees through video collaboration. [more...] |
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
| Assessing learning technology predictions |
 London (UK), May 2012 - (by Bob Little) Making predictions is fun because you can do so in the fairly safe knowledge that no one will remember them. So you can say what you like because you’ll never be held to account for them. So I was delighted to discover that, about this time six years ago, Mark Harrison – formerly of Epic and now of Kineo – offered his predictions for learning technologies in 2012. He was speaking at a meeting of the eLearning Network – now known by the acronym, 'eLN'. [more...] |
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| Higher Education |
| Swedish University Selects Blackboard Learn 9.1 |
| Amsterdam (NL), May 2012 – After a formal evaluation, Halmstad University in Sweden has chosen Blackboard Learn™ 9.1 as its new learning-management system (LMS) over three regional competitors. The school’s goal is to provide eLearning solutions with the flexibility to support a wide range of learning activities. [more...] |
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| Taking the Step |
| LIVECONTEXT Makes Upgrading Easy |
| Saarbrücken (GER), May 2012 - Upgrading to a new operating system or the latest version of MS Office can be a headache for many a business as it can cause staff to lose precious time from their day-to-day work. LIVECONTEXT for Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 provides users with learning sequences that ease acclimatising to a new working environment. [more...] |
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| Safety Training DVD |
| DuPont Fights Hearing Loss of Employees |
 Virginia Beach, VA (USA), May 2012 - DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Hearing Conservation: Noise Under Control, a new safety-training program that helps employees learn how to protect their hearing and manage occupational noise exposure. [more...] |
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| New Report |
| Survey on Most Effective Online Marketing Tools |
| New York, NY (USA), May 2012 – "Ditch Digital Dabbling: How Small Businesses and Nonprofits Can Master Online Marketing", reveals the "magic number" of hours required to make social-media marketing a success. According to the report, it takes a minimum of 25 hours per week to see worthwhile results from social-media efforts. [more...] |
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| Growing Market |
| Positive Attitudes on Mobile Learning |
| London (UK), May 2012 - Attitudes of senior learning-and-development leaders towards mobile learning have changed, with many now having had positive experiences and harbouring enthusiasm for this method of delivery. This is a significant turnaround from prior attitudes, which named problems with technology as a crucial barrier to implementation. [more...] |
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| Participation Invited |
| European Conference on Learning Innovations |
 Essen (GER)/Brussels (BE), May 2012 - The European conference "Learning Innovations and Quality" (LINQ 2012) has launched its call for papers. Experts from learning, education, and training (LET) are invited to present their professional or academic efforts at the event in Brussels on 23 October 2012. [more...] |
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| Interoperability |
| Open Webinars and Workshops in DITA XML Standard |
| Sestri Levante (IT), May 2012 - eXact learning solutions is running a series of open webinars and workshops at venues throughout Europe and the USA to explain the new learning and training documentation standard from the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) group at OASIS. The effort is driving XML content formats convergence in technical training and documentation fields. [more...] |
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| Call for Papers |
| Third Conference on New Horizons in Education |
| Prague (CZ), May 2012 – This conference - abbreviated "INTE 2012" - is an international forum for academics, teachers, and educators that diffuses knowledge and research and also leads new developments in educational sciences. This year’s edition is being held at the Dorint Hotel Don Giovanni, Prague, Czech Republic, 05-07 June. [more...] |
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