Much of the intellectual property of Becta, whose website was closed in the Coalition Government’s public sector cutbacks, has found its way onto the recently redeveloped E-learning Centre website (www.e-learningcentre.co.uk) – as ‘the Becta Collection (http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/Resources/Becta_Collection). Of course, this is not the only place where Becta material is now to be found. The Becta [...]
Not for the first time, the world-renowned e-learning guru Elliott Masie has identified a new trend in the e-learning world. In his recent ‘learning trends’ newsletter, he writes: ‘Every week, I receive emails and phone calls from several colleagues in the learning field who are actively looking for new jobs. ‘Some of this is [...]
Vern Tepe, Managing Partner of VAT Enterprises, based in the ‘Greater Chicago area’ and Vice President of E-Learning at ExecuTrain West, has sent the following message to members of the ‘E-Learning Companies’ LinkedIn group: ‘I represent an on-line resource that has over 4,000 e-learning courses, over 1100 virtual labs, practice certification exams & more for [...]
The Reddtich-based Righttrack Consultancy is celebrating the success of its customer service training programme in Kuwait. IKEA Kuwait asked Righttrack to develop a bespoke programme to boost the skills of the furniture retailer’s customer service staff – and, after experiencing this programme - IKEA has been voted best furniture retailer in the recent Kuwait Service [...]
The recently published Kineo newsletter says – among other things: ‘We love to talk and, with so much to talk about, why don’t we all join in the discussion? We’ve set up a new ELearning Professionals Group on LinkedIn to do just that. 800 of your friends are there already. Maybe they’re talking about you. [...]
At the Learning Technologies conference in London at the end of January, a panel comprising Donald H Taylor, Chairman, Learning and Skills Group & Learning Technologies; Charles Gould, Managing Director, Brightwave; Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity, and Kenny Henderson, Head of Talent Development Operations, Sky, examined learning and development’s capability to support UK plc's [...]
News has emerged from the Serious Games Institute (SGI) in Coventry that, some three years since its inception, its founding head, David Wortley, has left – leaving the SGI’s operations director, Tim Luft, in charge. In a statement, Mr Wortley, writes: ‘Following the SGI restructuring consultation, I have decided that the time is right [...]
The extremely imminent demise of the publicly-funded body, Becta – a casualty of the coalition Government’s cuts – has prompted a number of developments in the learning technology field. Towards Maturity has raised its profile, signing up ambassadors from the industry, to bring more organisations into its benchmarking and information gathering fold. Learning [...]
Towards Maturity, the benchmarking and best practice organisation which aims to improve the impact of learning technologies at work, has launched a new benchmarking service. Called the Head Start Programme, Towards Maturity claims that this 12 month blended support programme will use benchmarking to help users find the most effective implementation path to enable them [...]
