Speaking at a conference for members of Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL), held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, Andrew Lamb, a Director of Appropedia (a wiki which focuses on sustainability issues – see: http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia), argued that ‘web 2.0’ has encouraged new forms of social interaction and collaboration. He added that [...]
'Whatever happened to so and so?’ is a common question when old colleagues get together – and the question is far from rare in the e-learning world. One person, who established quite a high profile in the industry a few years ago and then seemed to drift away from e-learning was Mark Pittaway. Once [...]
Omniplex, the e-learning solutions provider which distributes corporate e-learning products in Europe and the Americas, has pronounced itself delighted with the news that the recent Brandon Hall Awards have awarded two further awards - a Gold and a Silver Award - to the Absorb Anywhere learning management system (LMS). At this year’s Brandon Hall [...]
The Ufi has announced (http://www.ufi.com/home2/news/presscentre/rothschild.asp) that Ufi Charitable Trust, the charitable organisation which promotes learning and skills online, has appointed Rothschild to advise on the sale of its Ufi Limited business. Ufi Limited, the company behind the learndirect brand, had turnover of £140m last year and claims to have helped more than 3m people gain [...]
Goodwood-based Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (R-RMC) is using the Absorb learning management system (LMS), supplied by Omniplex, to facilitate its global dealership training. Staff at the 107 year old prestige car maker’s 84 dealerships around the world – including those in China, Japan, the Middle East and the USA – selling the Rolls-Royce brand, along [...]
Two UK-based projects - both involving eXact Learning Solutions, a provider of learning content management systems (LCMS) and digital repository (DR) solutions - have been shortlisted for this year’s IMS Global ‘Learning Impact Awards’, which are being announced in Long Beach, California, this month. The IMS Learning Impact Awards are designed to recognise ‘the most [...]
It has been revealed that the 422,000 workers in the City and Canary Wharf contributed £11bn last year through income tax – which is the same figure as the tax paid by the entire Scottish workforce. According to research from Ambition, the amount of combined income tax and NI contributions paid by City workers [...]
Omniplex, a leading provider of e-learning solutions, has reported seeing impressive and rising levels of demand for its training courses in how to use the Articulate suite of e-learning rapid authoring tools. Omniplex’s managing director, Matthew Lloyd, explained: “Most of the people we see on these courses are HR or training specialists who are developing [...]
Platinum Point, the unique business breakfast group - which is based in St Albans and which numbers this blogger among its members - has revealed that, since 2006 when the group began, the group’s members have generated an estimated £1.9m in revenue for fellow members’ businesses. Tim Parfitt, managing director of the St Albans-based [...]
There are rumours that Trainer1, the north London-based producer and supplier of e-learning products has taken on Alan Samuel as its Director of Client Solutions. Until the end of October last year, Samuel was in charge of the UK operations for the e-learning content producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), which is part of the India-based [...]
