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£1.5m notches Caspian up a level

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Leading North East venture capital firm, NorthStar Equity Investors (NSEI), has led a £1.5m funding round in Caspian Learning. NSEI has backed the business with £800,000 from its Co-Investment Fund (CoIF), attracting a further £400,000 from new investor hotspur Capital as well as ...

EDITOR'S COMMENT: Lessons from the past

Jun 01, 2008; Williams, Peter ... Many of the debates swirling around the benefits of rapid e-learning and the problems of linking learning to business can be traced back, at least in part, to John Dewey. A US educational writer and philosopher, Dewey's life (1856-1952) spanned the era of industrialisation and urbanisation of ...

Stress management competency framework launched

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Research and guidance on the behaviours required by managers to prevent and reduce stress in the workplace have been released. The research, jointly funded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Investors in People (IIP), ...

Fifty percent off certified membership of ALT

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is offering a 50 per cent reduction on certification fees for learning technology practitioners applying to become Certified Members of the Association. The limited offer applies to applications received up to 31 July 2008 and is partfunded ...

Academy Internet launches Insider's Guides

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Academy Internet has launched a series of insider's guides which are written with an inside track on e-learning development. They contain tips and techniques, best practice and case studies on a range of aspects of developing digital learning. The first three guides, available now, ...

E-learning improves patients' service

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Pharmaceutical wholesaler, MH Pharmaceutical, is making it easier and quicker for pharmacists to use their electronic Minor Ailment Scheme system in Scottish pharmacies and improve services to patients. AAH is using the Gobent Learning Compliance Suite (LCS) to develop and deploy ...

Computer game technology is a gas for trainee engineers

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Serious games experts at SkillszLeam have developed a set of six e-learning modules to train gas engineers in fault finding, central heating system controls, combination boiler guide, Part L, ventilation requirements and flueing requirements. Trainees learn skills through a blend of ...

Employers can't fill skills gaps

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... With the exam season in full swing employers' group the CBI has published the results of its annual audit of the nation's skills. The CBI/Edexcel Education & Skills Survey 2008 of 735 firms, which employ 1.7 million people between them, identifies skills gaps in the workplace, reveals the ...

Identity theft protection programme offered

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... People across the Midlands are being protected from identity theft now that a package has been developed by training and communications specialist, Walkgrove. Nottinghamshire County Council will have free access to Walkgrove's identity theft e-learning programme, enabling staff to ...

Employer training spend hits £38bn high

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The National Employer Skills Survey 2007 (NESS07) has revealed that companies spent an all time high of £38.6 billion on training last year, up 16% from 2005 The survey, published by the Learning and Skills Council, shows that the proportion of vacancies that can't be filled due to a ...

Towards Maturity comes of age

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Towards Maturity, the e-skills UK project aimed at helping organisations improve the impact of learning technologies at work, has now come of age. Having exceeded the objectives set at its inception, Towards Maturity is now moving on to a new phase of its development. Originally funded ...

Creating global awareness in research and development

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Brightwave has been commissioned by Unilever to create two e-learning programmes for its global research and development employees, focusing on open innovation and awareness. The initial course, Open Innovation Awareness, aims to get employees thinking in a different way, explaining the ...

Intellego buys retail financial services outfit

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Intellego has acquired The Professional Development Partnership Ltd (PDPL), a training company specialising in learning and development in the Retail Financial Services sector. Founded in 1993, PDPL brings with it expertise in the retail and financial services industry, and a range of ...

Academee ranked UK's 7th best workplace by FT

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Academee has been named the 7th best place to work in the UK by the Financial Times in the annual Best Workplaces survey. The e-learning company moved up 26 places from the previous year. This is the third year in succession that the provider of leadership learning solutions has made it ...

An historical move

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Natural History Museum has commissioned Epic to produce bespoke e-learning for its health and safety and fire safety training, to be rolled out to new starters within their first few weeks of employment. The flexibility and adaptability of the e-learning will enable the Museum to ...

Adobe goes public with beta service

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Adobe has launched a beta version of an online service in a bid to help people work together on documents anywhere and anytime. Acrobat.com is a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that attempts to put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools ...

EVENT NEWS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... TOWARDS MATURITY CIC SPONSORS E-LEARNING AWARDS Towards Maturity, the new community interest company set up to improve the impact of Learning Technologies at Work, has become the latest headline sponsor of the Å-Learning Awards 2008. A key part of Towards Maturity's sponsorship ...

The digital ages of man

Jun 01, 2008; Naish, Richard ... Do we need to design learning differently for Digital Natives? For the thousands of years of civilisation on Earth, teachers and trainers have belonged to the generation before that of their students. Right now we have Digital Immigrants (DIs) from the baby boomer generation purchasing ...

Out of focus

Jun 01, 2008; Shepherd, Clive ... The CIPD survey paints a confusing picture Am I alone in thinking that the CIPD's Annual Survey Report for 2008 on learning and development paints a highly confusing picture on the status of e-learning in the UK? The CIPD sent surveys to 5,000 of its members with the role of learning and ...

A moment in time

Jun 01, 2008; Waller, Vaughan ... Often training courses are used as a short-term solution, but how can you make sure that courses are having the desired effect? You probably know the sequence or something like it. Someone identifies that there is a business problem and senior management asks for a training course. The ...