Assuring eLearning Quality with epprobate
Brussels (BE), January 2012 - Today computers, tablets, and smartphones have become an everyday part of the learning process. However, this technology often fails to live up to the expectations people have for it. The lack of quality of the courseware has been one of the key reasons of this failure. Now a worldwide consortium of experts is addressing this gap by developing an international quality label for eLearning resources – the "epprobate".

Atlas Wins Over £3.6 Million of Export Orders
Aberdeen (UK), January 2012 – Atlas has reported a period of international growth over the last twelve months, winning over £3.6 million of new eLearning contracts. These focussed on safety, skills and competency training in the oil and gas sector, and produced a resultant eighty percent increase in new jobs within the UK.

Cameras Roll on Collaborative Video Learning Project
Stroud (UK), January 2012 - Members of The Charity Learning Consortium are busy filming for a huge collaborative video learning project. All members have been offered a free flip camera to create short pieces of video learning to share with other members of the community.

Chelsea FC launch Footee for Young Fans
London (UK), January 2012 - Chelsea FC has announced the launch of Chelsea Footee, an online educational football-themed entertainment zone for children that links to the National Curriculum. It has been developed in partnership with UK eLearning specialist MotivatEd.

Deadline for Business Division Is 01 March
New York, NY (USA), January 2012 - Submissions are open for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards - Business Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA). The entry-submission page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2012.

EU Language Project "aPLanet"
Istanbul (TR), January 2012 – The Autonomous "Personal Learning Networks" for Language Teachers is a European Union-funded project to help language educators who are not yet using social networks to understand what social networks for language educators are, why they should use them, and how they can get involved.

European Children’s Travelling Language Library
London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children’s Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success.

IMC AG Announces New Expert Interview
Saarbrücken (GER), January 2012 – IMC AG has announced an interview on data protection in the series titled "Ten Questions About". The author of imc's data-protection blog, Christina Meiers, offers her point of view on this timely subject. Below, she kindly answers three of the ten questions.

Digital Literacy Advocates Make Plans for Maghreb
Algiers (DZ), January 2012 - The prospects for large-scale implementation of government and public-sector International Computer Driving License (ICDL) programmes in the Arab world recently came under the spotlight at a conference in the Hilton Hotel in Algiers.

Kineo eLearning Helps Tesco Deliver with Totara LMS
Brighton (UK), January 2012 - Kineo eLearning has published a new case study showing how Tesco is delivering learning with Totara LMS. The new learning platform was implemented this summer and is being rolled out in phases to more than 400,000 staff.

LPI Launches the Learning Survey 2012
Coventry (UK), January 2012 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has launched the Learning Survey 2012 – a comprehensive review of the workplace-learning sector, which is shaped by Institute members and backed by hundreds of Institute-accredited organisations.

New Solution to Evaluation Challenges
Hants (UK), January 2012 - Ceres Management has launched an approach to evaluation that aligns assessment goals with business needs, focuses the process around clear performance needs, defines success indicators, especially for behavioural outcomes, and is easy to apply and administer.

Omniplex Distributes New Learning Management System
Hemel Hempstead (UK)/Montreal (CA), January 2012 - This new approach to managing and monitoring learning activities, known as Absorb SmartLab and produced by the Canada-based Blatant Media Corporation, aims to encourage people to learn because they want to, not because they have to.

Open Source Innovation for the Teaching Community
Paris (FR), January 2012 – The goal of the Sankoré programme is to make the digital education revolution available for everybody and to enhance teachers’ creativity by the potentials of working digitally and with the internet. The Sankoré Portal offers open and free access to excellent teaching contents and new resources produced with the Open-Sankoré IWB Open Source software.

Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning
St. Albans (UK), January 2012 – Xirrus, a provider of high-performance wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200 eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility.

SEVAQ+ Launches Version 3.0 of Quality Tool
Nancy (FR), January 2012 - SEVAQ+ now offers a range of products and services to meet the needs of different types of users from different educational sectors, including higher education and vocational education and training. The offerings also address a variety of levels, including executive managers, training managers, tutors and teachers, as well as IT and administration.

Tablets, Smartphones, and New Business Skills
London (UK), January 2012 - With all of the ups and down across the business and political world during the last year, what can we expect for 2012? These are some of the learning predictions for the coming year of top executives and trainers from ILX Group, which declares 2012 to be the year for digital learning.

The Fall and Rise of the Corporate Academy
London (UK), January 2011 - L&D market analyst David Wilson and Nuffield Health’s Group L&D manager Harvey M Seale will review the infrastructure of corporate learning at Learning Technologies Conference, held 25 and 26 January 2012 in London. Donald Taylor will ask, "What are the right systems to support learning in organisations?"

Top Ten eLearning Movers and Shakers
St. Albans (UK), January 2012 - The dawn of a New Year means that, once again – based on nothing more than experience and prejudice – it’s time to publish lists of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate eLearning sector, in the world, Europe, and the UK. CHECK.point eLearning is Number 3 on the European List!

eLearning Programme for Users with Learning Disabilities
Belfast (UK), January 2012 - Aurion Learning has been working with the Family Planning Association (FPA) to develop a new and improved sex and sexuality eLearning programme for people with learning disabilities.