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(August 27, 2014) The new social learning platform - altoconnect - from the learning technology provider Commelius Solutions, has launched today. For the occasion, the learning and development experts from Commelius are organising a live webinar, during which they will discuss how to use social learning technology to inspire, connect and engage learners, and make the informal learning a better experience for them.

Desire2Learn Incorporated (D2L)—the EdTech company that created Brightspace, the world’s first truly integrated learning platform (ILP)—announced that its parent company, D2L Inc., has closed an $85 million Series B financing round led by a large institutional asset manager with participation from Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Graham Holdings, Four Rivers Group, Aurion Capital and existing investors New Enterprise Associates and OMERS Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank also provided debt financing in this round. The investment brings the company’s total funds raised to $165 million.

Next generation learning expert Brightwave has launched a new website dedicated to their award-winning total learning system, tessello. The new tessello site showcases why some of the largest learning organisations in the world are using the system to deliver their in-house learning needs.

(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.

At an event which attracted the UK’s top suppliers of online-delivered learning content, held at the end of July in the Australian High Commission in The Strand, London, Graeme Coomber, CEO of EdTrIn explained his organisation’s aim of managing a lifetime of learning for large numbers of the world’s population – beginning with those living in the Asia-Pacific, Indian sub-Continent and MENA regions.

Carson-Dellosa Publishing, the leading supplementary educational solutions provider for both teachers and parents in the United States, has chosen eXact learning solutions’ learning content management system (LCMS) to be the foundation of its digital content infrastructure, providing digital asset management and educational content authoring and deployment.