Latest press releases

Metropolitan Community College – Institute for Workforce Innovation (MCCIWI) has become a Totara LMS Partner

Totara | North America | 27 Jan 2012

Totara LMS New Partnership with Metropolitan Community College

EssentialSkillz launches newly updated version of ErgoWize - online Display Screen Equipment (DSE) risk assessment and training software

EssentialSkillz | Milton Keynes, UK and Galway, Ireland | 27 Jan 2012

E-Learning provider EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced version of its popular DSE risk assessment and training software, ErgoWize. The course will be available from January 30 2011. EssentialSkillz describes its online DSE Workstation risk assessment and training system as the most effective, cost-efficient and advanced DSE compliance software currently available.

Lumesse wins silver award in the 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology awards for Lumesse CourseBuilder

Edvantage group | London | 27 Jan 2012

Lumesse, Europe's largest independent talent management software vendor, has won a coveted Brandon Hall silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Content Authoring and/or Content Management Technology category for Lumesse CourseBuilder.

Record growth for LINE

LINE Communications | London | 27 Jan 2012

LINE Communications, one of Europe’s leading providers of learning and communications, announces record growth for 2011. In a difficult and unpredictable global market, LINE has achieved a 50% increase in turnover compared with 2010. Sales for the Group were more than 100% higher than sales for 2010.

Learning Technology Show visitors give definite maybe to iPads and tablets

REDTRAY | London Olympia, UK | 26 Jan 2012

Learning Technologies Show, Olympia, London: Conducted live at REDTRAY’s Cloud Lounge (stand 107) throughout the show, the REDTRAY Fast50 delivers the freshest thinking available anywhere at #LT12uk. New insights and opinion are gathered from 50 show visitors at random, analysed in minutes then published in seconds. Here's a rundown of yesterday's polling:

UK Businesses “Put the Customer Last” say Consumers

The Ken Blanchard Companies | London | 26 Jan 2012

In a nationwide review of surveys undertaken by retail organisations, statisticians, consumer organisations and ombudsmen, The Ken Blanchard Companies has found a mass of evidence suggesting that in the UK, the customer comes anything but first.

Real learning takes place beyond the classroom, debates ILX Group at Learning Technologies and Learning Skills 2012

Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills Exhibitors | London | 25 Jan 2012

ILX Group, the leading provider of Portfolio, Programme & Project Management, IT Service Management, Business Financial Literacy and Implementation Consulting, will be attending Learning Technologies 2012 on 25th and 26th January at the London Olympia, and hosting a seminar focusing on the need for businesses to adopt a more innovative and long term approach to professional business learning.

Transition Associates announces the immediate availability of CourseMill Online in the UK

Transition Associates | Tatsfield, Kent | 25 Jan 2012

CourseMill, the well known Learning Management System (LMS) with great functionality, extraordinary ease of use and real value for money, is now available as an on demand application in the cloud. Designed specifically for small- to medium-sized companies requiring e-learning with compliance and collaboration facilities, CourseMill Online can be up and running - including training - in less than a week.

European survey reveals organizations will be delivering more training through blended solutions to upskill staff

digital publishing AG | Munich, Germany | 25 Jan 2012

…8 out of 10 businesses looking to support language skills to improve communications and business efficiency... dp today released findings from a new European survey* entitled “Languages and business audit”. The data revealed that 71 percent of organizations believe that they will be delivering more blended learning content within the next two years. Furthermore, eight out of ten organizations (79 percent) regarded language learning to be a main focus in their workforce development plans.