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“Moodle 2.6 is now finally available for download (download site http://download.moodle.org/)! It's been a long six months - time to take a breath and look at all the things that our community has produced! Over 120 developers worldwide (and about 20 in Moodle HQ) have coding credits in this release”, Martin Dougiamas announced from the Moodle Majlis in Muscat, where he just had several days of Moodle community goodnes.

Following the success of its recent webinar showing how a learning content management system (LCMS) can be used to save time and money in creating and managing digital learning resources, Tribal, the global provider of products and services to the international education, training and learning markets, is staging another webinar in July aimed at learning and development managers in large organisations.

(Hong Kong and Seattle, WA; February 2014) NetDimensions (AIM: NETD; OTCQX: NETDY), a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning management systems, and LINGOs, a global non-profit consortium of leading humanitarian relief and development organizations, announced today that NetDimensions has donated NetDimensions Learning to LINGOs to deliver a wide range of professional development experiences to the staff of its member organizations and others working to improve lives in the developing world.

Docebo has announced a strategic partnership with Ideo Factory that enhances its position in North Africa and other key growing markets.

The new partnership is expected to spark new opportunities in the e-learning market by combining the solutions offered by Docebo with the competencies, skills and knowledge of Ideo Factory in North Africa, while driving volume and efficiency in the partners’ respective business objectives.

The Zurich-based travel retailer, Nuance, is using the Docebo Cloud SaaS-based e-learning solutions platform to centralize knowledge within the company and make it available as and when it’s required.

Emerging technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to have a big impact on education and are already being used worldwide as an effective tool to enhance the learning experience. AI expert Toby Walsh, a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales, says developments in this field have already proven that “it’s not difficult to replace a teacher with a machine.”