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Innovate UK funds Glasgow University and eCom Scotland joint project

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is collaborating with the University of Glasgow in a six-month project, funded by Innovate UK.   Running until October 2021, the project – called Super-immersive remote working via virtual reality controlled robotics (‘Superior’) – explores extending the capability of eCom’s virtual reality (VR) authoring tool, eNetReality, to [...]

eCom Scotland offers help to the UK’s training-starved Pharmacies

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is offering help to the UK’s 12,000 or so retail pharmacies – in particular, to help meet pharmacists’ need for education and training on digital technologies. This need was revealed via recent surveys of early career pharmacy professionals, including students, with most respondents (87.3%) saying that they [...]

eCom Scotland represented at this year’s NHS Scotland event

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is among the exhibitors accompanying Scotland’s leading event for healthcare professionals: The NHS Scotland Event 2021, which is being held, virtually, from 22nd to 24th June.   Scheduled to attract over 2,000 health and social care leaders, key decision makers and frontline staff from across NHS Scotland [...]

By | June 22nd, 2021|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

VirtualSignature partners with Tiger Eye to launch iManage Integration

The UK systems innovator, VirtualSignature (www.virtualsignature.com), has integrated its cloud-based VirtualSignature platform with iManage, following the development of an API integration by Tiger Eye, the leading iManage Partner for Knowledge and Technical Expertise.   Designed to make online experiences frictionless, VirtualSignature enables compliance-led businesses, including law firms, accountants, estate agents, training companies and recruiters, to [...]

eCom Scotland’s investments in digital skills professionals pay off

In the light of growing demand for its products and services – taking its current turnover beyond pre-pandemic levels - the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is continuing growing its investment in skilled digital skills professionals.   While not all its digital skills professionals are based in Scotland, eCom’s Managing Director, Wendy Edie, [...]

Gas Industry Should Embrace Innovative Learning Technologies, says eCom Scotland

The gas industry’s professional engineering institution, the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM), held its inaugural safety conference on 9th June. Supported by the Gas Industry Safety Group (GISG), the conference was held online.   Conference delegate, Helen Robertson, of the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, commented, “Safety being a vital pillar [...]

eCom Scotland takes a seat at the Top Table of Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tanya MacDonald, of the virtual reality development team at the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, has taken part in the recent Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Global Summit Online.   Organised by the VR/AR Association and billed as ‘the largest and fastest growing immersive tech event in the world’, the Summit – held [...]

eCom Scotland develops eLearning materials on complying with the UN Child Rights Convention

Following the news, in March, that Scotland is to become the first devolved nation in the world to directly incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law, a webinar has explored the legal and service delivery implications for the implementation of this Convention into Scottish law.   In [...]

By | June 3rd, 2021|Categories: Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

eCom Scotland is among the first to publicly support the Customer Excellence Pledge

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland has become one of the first companies in the world to sign up to the Customer Excellence Pledge. Aiming to identify learning system vendors that promise to provide elite customer service and support, the Customer Excellence Pledge is a program developed by the internationally-known Craig Weiss.   [...]

Applying VR-Delivered Learning to the Energy Decommissioning Sector

The value of using virtual reality in learning how to decommission energy installations – notably in the oil and gas industry – efficiently, effectively and above all, safely, is being further emphasised in a presentation on 20th May to delegates at Decom Week 2021. The event, which runs from 17th to 21st May, is organised [...]