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(Bob Little) When New Market Partners (NMP), a USA-based program services company focusing on the financial services sector, realized that increases in demand for its training programs meant that it had to deliver those programs online, it chose the Docebo E-Learning Platform to help it do so.

Telecoms giant, Telefónica, has standardised its technology-delivered learning materials thanks to eXact learning solutions’ learning content management system (LCMS).

Early in 2014, Telefónica UK’s learning and development professionals realised that all the company’s learning materials’ authors were creating content using a variety of authoring tools. As Asi DeGani, Head of Digital Learning at Telefónica UK, commented, “We were getting an interesting collection of content that was highly ‘creative’ but there was no consistency - or brand guidelines - about these materials.

The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) announces the following opportunity for an international camp of Robotics+English with additional content of excursions to the cities of New York, Washington and Philadelphia, where participants will be able to learn about the culture, politics and history of The United States.

Date: June 22 – July 11, 2014

An event held at Australia House, in The Strand, London, to mark the start of ‘London Learning Week’ saw – among other things – the official launch of an international think-tank dedicated to analyzing issues and trends in the corporate online learning technologies industry.

OEB 2015, Europe’s leading conference on digital education, will discuss the potential for a new age of global learning and creativity in which “everything is possible”.

Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of conference organisers ICWE GmbH, has confirmed that the focus of this year’s conference, which will be held in Berlin on 2 - 4 December, will be on modernity and how people, organisations and societies can use technology-assisted education to secure the rewards of “a new era of fundamental change.”

The University of Bath has begun offering its female undergraduates access to a special skills development programme. The programme, called ‘Sprint’, helps participants to develop skills related to assertiveness, leadership, managing conflict and ‘networking with purpose’.