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CrossKnowledge, one of the world's leading distance learning providers, has just been re-elected as a "preferred supplier" by energy management specialist Schneider Electric.

The multinational selected only 300 suppliers out of a total of 50,000. CrossKnowledge, the only company selected in the training category, has received this award for the quality of its training solutions and its e-learning content integration services.

Izzui and Globalearning Center announce commercial partnership targeting the growing social media market in Indonesia with customized elearning content accessible directly from Facebook through the Izzui learning app.

Indonesia is the third largest Facebook global market by number of users and a leading adopter of online learning solutions.

“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.

Allen Interactions, an innovative custom learning design, development, and strategic consulting firm received three Davey awards from The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) for excellence in interactive multimedia.

This is the eighth year in a row that Allen Interactions has been presented with an IAVA Davey Award.

The new version of Wormhole Classroom App for mobiles is now available. Besides joining classes from your smartphone or tablet and participating through chat, now you can also broadcast live audio and video. Teachers can allow students to broadcast and thus participate with video or audio.

Students will also be able to see videos on the whiteboard and shared desktops, enhancing even further the participation of students from mobiles and tablets.

Speexx, the award-winning leader in online corporate language training, has released a free whitepaper for HR and L&D professionals of global organisations. Entitled ‘Empowering Communication – What’s in it for the Bottom Line?’, the whitepaper examines current e-learning and talent management trends and gives practical advice for reaping the full benefits offered by technology.