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New items added to the Learning Directors Network between 1/10/2009 and 13/11/2009

NEWSDESK:


QA wins award for service management
QA has proven the quality of its service management training once again, scooping this year's itS...

Global Knowledge announces new MD
Global Knowledge has appointed Allan Pettman as the new UK Managing Director. Allan brings a weal...

ILX grows e-learning revenue but total down 6%
ILX Group has announced its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2009. They show to...

REDTRAY acquires First Stop Training
REDTRAY has purchased the business of First Stop Training Ltd. The deal adds authorised Microsoft...

Shortlist Announced for IT Training Awards 2010
The Institute of IT Training is pleased to announce the shortlisted entrants for its IT Training ...

How to keep your staff productive during consolidation
Consolidation, whether through merger or business streamlining, doesn’t have to result in a produ...

The Reality of Challenges in 2009
Andi Campbell, Director of Education & Consulting for LPL Financial, embraces the reality of chal...

Bellinger's Economic Update for LDN Members
A week of mixed messages; but one in which the good news was eclipsed by the bad news! In the bac...

Learn.com opens EMEA headquarters in London
Learn.com® has announced today that the company has officially opened its EMEA headquarters in Lo...

Action Learning in a virtual world
Action Learning (AL) has an impressive pedigree dating back to the 1950s, but does it have a role...

Giunti Labs partners with Saffron Interactive
Giunti Labs, a leading global vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) ...

Looking Beyond Training Budgets
Key studies on the impact of training investments have focused on heavier versus lighter spending...

National Training Awards for LINE
At a ceremony in London's historic Banqueting House, LINE, one of Europe's leading providers of l...

QA and Epic form partnership
QA and Epic, leading providers of training solutions to the Public Sector in their respective fie...

New National Occupational Standards for IT and Telecoms now available
New national occupational standards (NOS) for IT & Telecoms have been approved, and will replace ...

Training will be compulsory for long-term unemployed
The long-term jobless will have to undertake four weeks' training or work experience as part of w...

Streater joins OU
Kevin Streater, formerly Customer Learning Manager at Sun Microsystems, is now Executive Director...

Tackling today's learning challenges
During the last five years, many organisations have seen a marked change in their working process...

New e-learning provision unlocks people potential at AVEVA
Edvantage group, an e-learning company, has launched a Managed Learning Services e-learning progr...

Learning Tree Presented with 'Learning in Practice" Award
Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NGM: LTRE) was awarded a CLO Magazine Learning in Practice aw...

Bellinger's Blog: Hot Technologies – Hot Courses
If only we could be the first to jump on to the bandwagon of a new technology it would be great f...

2009 Top 20 IT Training - World
CompaniesTrainingIndustry.com continuously monitors the IT training marketplace looking for the b...

Atlantic Link selected as Best of Elearning! 2009, receiving 3 Excellence Honours
Atlantic Link has won 3 Excellence Honours for their collaborative rapid e-learning tools – ‘Cont...

Government to scrap 'appalling' IT GCSE following employers' complaints
The government is to scrap the ICT GCSE in an effort to stop children turning away from the subje...

Happy's Henry Stewart rated as 'A Thinker Shaping the Future'
The list of the world's 50 most influential business gurus is published today at the Thinkers 50 ...

A blueprint for planning learning
Jay Bahlis (bahlis@bnhexpertsoft.com) has outlined a six-step process for aligning training with ...

E-learning academic warns businesses they need to move with the times
Organisations risk widening the gap between how their staff want to learn and the training being ...

Employees would take pay cut to work from home
According to a study from Citrix, one-fifth of employees would sacrifice five percent of their sa...

Companies turn to mentoring as training budgets dry up
More companies are combining outside training courses with internal efforts as their resources ti...

New appointment reinforces QA's ITIL credentials
Jeff Payne, Director of Professional Best Practice at QA, has been nominated by ISEB as the repre...

Trainer1 delivers first Social Environment Learning Connector
The vendor neutral e-learning specialist, Trainer1, has launched its latest version of the CSL de...

The future of e-learning and social learning
Social learning is here, and working in some of the world's leading organizations including HP. T...

BCS Launch Rebrand at IITT’s Training 2009 Conference and Exhibition
A packed audience of almost 200 training professionals attended the IITT's annual conference and ...

Kineo publishes new Compliance E-Learning Guide
Compliance training is a critical issue for today's organizations. In an increasingly regulated w...


Research & Analysis:


Economic Impact on Training Investments
A recent survey of chief learning executives reveals the impact of the recession on budgets and f...

Executives must rebuild trust to lead companies out of recession, survey finds
In order to lead their companies out of the recession, top-level executives will first need to re...

New study reveals what CEOs want to know about training
Executives from the ROI Institute conducted a study of Fortune 500 CEOs to gain insight into the ...

Discover learning survey results
During the summer, e2train partnered with the Learning and Skills Group to conduct the Workplace ...

What Your Execs Need to Beat the Recession
What will your CEO and executive board have to do to see your company through what remains of the...

Executives opt for low tech training tools
Despite the alleged popularity of electronic performance support systems (EPSS) software among th...

New Research shows corporate training budgets misaligned
Bersin & Associates has published a new study on high-impact learning practices. The study found ...

Virtual learning as effective as ILT, survey says
A new study by SkillSoft shows that the vast majority of learners consider SkillSoft’s Live Learn...

Executives balk at Facebook for work
Thinking about "friending" your boss on Facebook? You may want to reconsider. According to a ...


Reference Library:


Resourceful Learning Strategies at LPL Financial
Andi Campbell, Director of Education & Consulting for LPL Financial, embraces the reality of chal...

Tackling today's learning challenges
This paper addresses these challenges and requirements. Firstly we will seek to identify the key ...

A Blueprint for Planning Learning
Jay Bahlis (bahlis@bnhexpertsoft.com) has outlined a six-step process for aligning training with ...

Kineo published e-Learning compliance guide
Kineo share their insights and experience about what makes for effective compliance e-learning, i...


MARKET INTELLIGENCE:


LDN - IT Training Market Barometer Q3 2009
This is the latest quarterly report into the state of the IT training market produced exclusively...

LDN - Training Buyers's Perceptions 2009
The latest research carried out by LDN/Pardo Fox on training buyers' perceptions of training prov...

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