One of the great things about today’s digital age is that it’s rare to completely miss something of interest and/or value. These days, we can see television programmes and hear radio programmes more or less when we wish. More or less on demand, we can find podcasts and webinars on the web dealing with issues [...]
Webinars offer the ability to learn something and interact with colleagues – and, sometimes, competitors – with the added advantage of not having to leave your home or office to do so. Consequently, in recent years, webinars have grown in frequency and popularity – much to the dismay of the hotel and catering industry, whose [...]
It appears that Blackboard, a well known provider of learning management system (LMS) software to the higher education market, has accepted a $45-a-share cash takeover bid from a group led by Providence Equity Partners – a company founded in 1989 which manages some $23bn of assets and focuses on media, communications, information and education investments. [...]
eXact learning solutions and Link2ICT, a division of Service Birmingham, a partnership between Birmingham City Council and the Capita Group, won a Learning Impact Leadership Award (LIA) at this year’s IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) LIA ceremony, which was held in Long Beach, California. The LIA related to the Birmingham City Learning Platform an [...]
At the eMadrid Workshop on e-learning (http://www.emadridnet.org/en/ii-emadrid-workshop-elearning), held at Ciudad Universitaria, in Madrid, at the beginning of June, Fabrizio Cardinali - Vice President of Global Business Development at eXact learning solutions – along with other mobile learning specialists including Marcus Specht of the Open University of the Netherlands, explored trends in mobile learning relating to [...]
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 [...]
eXact Learning Solutions has announced that the latest version of its LCMS – eXact LCMS version 7 – has been certified as conforming to the latest SCORM standard: SCORM 2004 Third Edition. As everyone in the e-learning world knows, the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications adapted [...]
From the start of the e-learning industry (which some date to the mainframe, green screen days of the 1960s but which everyone agrees was in full swing by the late 1980s), e-learning producers fell, roughly, into two categories: those that produced what came to be called authoring tools (the software needed to develop e-learning content) [...]
Fundeon – a consultancy centre for the building and construction industry in the Netherlands – has engaged eXact learning solutions to ensure that Dutch industry professionals are prepared for their industry’s future needs Having implemented eXact learning solutions’ products and systems, Fundeon has seen its share of the Dutch building and construction industry training [...]
Giunti Labs has undergone a management buy-out and, from 1st August, rebranded to eXact learning solutions (ELS). ELS (www.exact-learning.com) will continue to be engaged in the leading EU R&D framework projects and offer the multi-language content production activities formerly offered by Giunti Labs. The new management team, which acquired the company with the financial [...]
