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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Not one but two learning management systems (LMS) success stories have just emerged – from the broadcasting as well as the oil and gas industries. For the last three years, the e-learning consultancy Core Learning Services (CLS) has been working with Global Radio (GR) - the UK's premier commercial radio company – to host [...]
In his keynote speech at Plateau Insights, Plateau Systems’ European user conference, held in Rome and the end of March, Thomas Otter, Research Vice President at the market analyst firm Gartner, Inc, revealed that he and his team receive a wide range of queries about ‘talent management’, ranging from the extremely general to the highly [...]
Funding for learning and development has continued to fall as employer budgets feel the squeeze, according to the Chartered Institute of Learning and Development (CIPD)’s recently published annual Learning and Talent Development survey. According to the survey, some 40% of organisations have either decreased funding for learning and development this year or anticipate doing so, [...]
Bring any three experts together and you should get at least four opinions. Yet this wasn’t the case during the Learning Experts’ panel session at Plateau Insights Rome – the European user group conference for Plateau Systems’ talent management software, held at the end of March. Clive Shepherd, Donald H Taylor and Nigel Paine [...]
Asked – at the European user group conference for Plateau Systems’ talent management software, held in Rome at the end of March – what are today’s hot learning technologies, three of the UK’s top e-learning experts answered: Clive Shepherd: Mobile Apps rather than websites Self-study learning statistics should be available to show a learner what [...]
Elliott Masie has reported that he and 11 others – from Singapore, Finland, Canada, the UK and the USA - have met at Harvard in order to discuss the topic of ‘21st Century Skills - A Potential Curriculum’. The idea was to see what set of skills we need the next generation of students to [...]
Alan Nelson, of Nelson Croom, which won an E-Learning Age Award last November, has now clarified in print his thoughts – delivered at this year’s Learning Technologies conference – on ‘the good, the bad and the ugly of e-learning’. He argues that, before deciding on what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ in e-learning, [...]
