The launch of the much-heralded Storyline from the Articulate stable (now believed to be scheduled for early May) increases the opportunity for anyone – well, anyone who can use software deftly – to produce technology-delivered learning materials. In many ways, this puts the ‘traditional’ skills of the professional instructional designer – a profession even older [...]
Offering predictions are fun because you can do 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 [...]
The global vendor of online and mobile learning content management and digital repository solutions, eXact learning solutions, is running a series of open webinars and workshops at venues throughout Europe and the USA. The webinars and workshops explain the new learning and training documentation standard from the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) group [...]
Blatant Media Corporation’s Absorb learning management system (LMS) platform – distributed in the UK and Continental Europe by Omniplex - has received a ‘Best in Class’ rating in Brandon Hall Group’s Smartchoice® Solution Provider Certification program. According to Omniplex, a provider of e-learning solutions, Blatant Media Corporation received its highest scores in the [...]
Anticipating the imminent launch of Articulate Storyline – which claims to be the latest in desktop authoring tools - Omniplex, the e-learning solutions provider, has scheduled the first training courses relating to this tool. According to Helen Smirthwaite, Omniplex’s Community Manager, Omniplex has already sold a number of licences for Storyline – in advance [...]
Marcel Proust said that the secret of discovery is not to find new lands but to see with new eyes. This is the key to success when introducing new learning technology into any organisation. Some tips for learning technology success are: Partner with others - but be smart about it. You can benefit by [...]
The term ‘e-learning’ was first coined in the mid-1990s. Before that, it was ‘computer based training. Over the last 20 years or so, if the idea has been to harvest the promise of e-learning in every aspect of corporate learning, what has obscured that reality?’ If you ask an engineer to build a bridge [...]
People working for the European Commission, Parliament, its Bodies and Agencies will now have access to state-of-the-art online blended learning materials and programs on EU decision making, law and policies. The contract to supply these materials has been awarded to The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA, the leading centre of European learning and development [...]
E-Learning Age, the magazine which organises the UK’s E-Learning Awards has announced that e2train – the supplier of learning, performance, talent management and succession planning technologies - has signed up as exclusive sponsors of the event’s champagne reception. The E-Learning Awards (www.elearningage.co.uk/categories.aspx) – which, this year, incorporate 17 categories - are open to anyone [...]
goFLUENT, a lprovider of business English via distance learning, has launched a Business English Training iPhone App. This App, which has been approved by Apple and is now available on Apple’s App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gofluent-elearning/id484994915?ls=1&mt=8), is the mobile version of goFLUENT’s e-learning portal for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. Christophe Ferrandou, CEO [...]
