Elearning News & Articles

ECM and BPM giant OpenText will now be able to offer learning and training tools to customers via its latest deal to acquire a fellow Canadian firm.

As companies grow and mobile workforces expand, opportunities for training and professional development can be challenging to coordinate and provide, not to mention tedious. Thanks to Knoodle, learning activities can be both accessible and social.

The development team for Edvance360 must have been busy. With all the new features in version 6.0, this Learning Management System (LMS) makes learning a truly enjoyable and useful experience.

Bitrix (news, site) aims to shake up the website management market with a new push in usability and ergonomics to create a simpler way to work.

Though we are already 10 years into the new millennium, many educators are still only talking about 21 century teaching. Years spent discussing the merits of social media, interactive learning and collaborative instruction have slowly developed schools and technologies dedicated to delivering platforms that integrate and enhance the educational experience.

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal, which combines educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features, all aimed at helping teachers, librarians and students.

What’s up with Flash content management in 2010? According to Flypaper Studios (news, site), it’s all about doing right by the e-Learning customer base.

The third version of the company’s Flash CMS platform was released this week, and includes features like an overhauled data base (for speed!), learning management system (LMS) bookmarking, and a new scoring display component.

What is it in business that brings out the worst of people when the subject of mergers and acquisitions raises its head? Initial reactions generally speaking tend to be negative and dominated by ‘bigger is badder’ prognostics that may or may not be accurate.

Such is the case this month with the announcement that Blackboard, a provider of Learning Management Suites (LMS) is to take over its (smaller) rival ANGEL Learning.

To date, much of the reaction to the US$ 95 million deal has been at best skeptical and at worst just plain bad. However, Nicole Engelbert, lead analyst of public sector technology at Datamonitor, the data analytic and forecasting provider for the tech sector, says the real issue here -- and possibly the one that could make this the ‘deal of the year’ - is how competitors react to the news.
 

CM Group, a provider of e-learning software and services, has recently announced a new component to Luminosity Content Server that will allow for integration into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

This integration will give enterprises more personalized options for educating employees with virtual learning material.

A new connector has been launched which brings the Elluminate Live! virtual classroom to Moodle Web CMS.

Elluminate Bridge allows Moodle users to access real-time Elluminate Live! sessions, which incorporate the following dazzling features:

eCollege, a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced it is collaborating with Microsoft Corp. and HP in the development of an industry-leading content management system specifically designed to support enterprise-wide eLearning programs both online and on campus.

The eCollege Content Manager will be fully integrated into the eCollege platform to help institutions centrally manage, standardize and reuse content across multiple programs, courses, sections, and other applications.