CLO100 is excited to announce its partnership with THRIVE, an innovative digital learning and skills platform designed to provide delegates with an unparalleled experience on the Learning Leaders Programme.
Interview with Matt Donovan, GP Strategies, at Learning Technologies 2023.
Armin Hopp presents Speexx’ new platform at Learning Technologies 2023: combining language and business coaching.
A new report from ILX Group considers the challenges, priorities and opportunities facing organisations in 2023 and says 50% of training programmes are not effective due to budget constraints.
Vyond's enhanced reseller program enables partners to more effectively sell and train with the leading AI-Powered video creation platform for the enterprise. Vyond customers now have faster access to in-country, in-language training, as well as localized sales and support in their own time zones.
Scottish-based Roebuck Global Resourcing has announced the appointment of Helen McAnally and Alex Keay, two senior executives, to its team. McAnally and Keay join RGR while it is experiencing significant growth in the UK, EMEA, APAC and America.
Catherine de Salvo from softskills microlearning training provider, Scott Bradbury, joins Learning News to talk about getting microlearning right and why choosing video with real people, over animation, is important for developing human skills and behaviours.
L&D - Thriving or Surviving: How well-placed is Learning and Development for the tough economic period ahead?
Two thirds of tech leaders are to cut costs in 2023, yet three quarters plan to increase their investment in skills, seeking cost savings elsewhere.
Cornerstone People Research Lab 2023 Trends Report: interview with Mike Bollinger.
1,300 engineers at accounting software company, Sage, are to get access to a new cybersecurity skills development programme.
LMS365 has announced it is to integrate with LinkedIn Learning; the deal will enable learners to access LinkedIn Learning training content directly from the LMS365 platform.
Pay and conditions for learning professionals continues to improve; job satisfaction rises; small decrease in people changing jobs in 2023; decrease in unpaid working hours; Work and Salary Survey for L&D; interview with report author.
Colossyan, an AI-based text-to-video platform, has received a $5M investment to help it expand self-serve video for learning and development.
CoachHub, the leading global digital coaching platform, announces its CoachHub Executive™ programme, which includes a new cohort of executive coaches.
Interview with Nicole Horsman and Sarah Baker following the integration of Virtual College and Netex about what the combined business provides.
Interview with Ryan Austin - CEO, Cognota, the developer of LearnOps® and Charles Jennings - Consultant, Speaker and Coach, one of the people helping L&D teams to implement LearnOps®.
The LPI has launched Learning Relief 2022 in support of the Trussell Trust.
CLO100 has announced the launch of its exclusive CLO100 development programme for Chief Learning Officers, Heads of Learning and aspiring Senior Learning Leaders; Provides the vital skills and knowledge required to create a high-performing organisation.
Vyond, the leader in intelligent video creation software for enterprise companies, today announced the opening of a new Chicago office in the Fulton Market tech hub.
Learning News talks to Henriette Kloots, creator of the World of Learning Map, used to help L&D teams focus on the journey from learning to performance.
A quick insight into Explorance’s leading 360-degree feedback software and how it can help an organization recognize, nourish, and retain its most vital talent.
(ISC)² is aiming to help one million career pursuers globally earn an entry-level cybersecurity certification.
Pluralsight flow also adds sprint movement report; allows engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies to deliver value faster.
Pluralsight One Commits Over $3 Million to Strategic Nonprofit Partners to Expand Access to Technology Skills Around the Globe.
TalkTalk prepares for truly flexible working by rolling out Microsoft Viva.
Say goodbye to fragmented processes and disconnected employees, it’s time to digitise and consumerise employee experience. Announcing Conduit by 3t Transform at Learning Technologies 2022.
Every purchased CodeGym subscription helps two future Ukrainian programmers.
Government approval has been granted for a new Trailblazer apprenticeship standard which is set to benefit employers in the eLearning sector.
Learning leaders are struggling to complete their most important objectives. In particular establishing a learning culture and moving learning into workflows are proving difficult for L&D teams. We'll take a look at the 2022 Learning Performance Benchmark.
Harry Cloke from Growth Engineering discusses his company's recent Learning Impact Gold Award at the Learning Awards.
UK workers and their bosses are reaping the benefits of flexible working, according to new research released by Microsoft.
A funding initiative in support of Ukraine has been set up by a group of leading voices in the learning and development sector; one hour webinar for L&D professionals; proceeds going to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Data, analytics and AI will play a significant role in L&D's ability to get grips with the hugely raised focus on developing skills according to Ben Betts from Learning Pool and Paul Scholey from Sisense. The two join Learning News to explain.
Lisa Johnson from NHS Blood and Transplant was named Gold Learning Leader of the Year at the Learning Awards 2022 and joins Learning News to discuss her work at the NHS.
Ashley Sinclair from MAAS Marketing, winner of the Start-up gold award at the Learning Awards 2022, explains why marketing is a critical skill in learning and development.
Interview with Federico Presicci, winner of the Rising Star gold award at the Learning Awards 2022.
'Potential Leader' position demonstrates growing recognition of Thought Industries approach and leadership within emerging customer learning management category.
Over 1,000 new courses including customer success and service, human resources, diversity and inclusion, sales and marketing, and professional development, have been added to Articulate's creator platform for workplace learning.
The L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2022 results are out. They show how Covid-19 continues to affect learning and development world-wide.
A new report suggests business leaders are leaning on the learning function to help deliver business transformation. Learning News asks the report's co-author, Matt Donovan from GP Strategies, how the learning function is changing.
Vimeo integration enables users to include Vimeo videos in their kahoot sessions, creating more dynamic and visually compelling learning experiences.
What might 2022 hold for the learning sector? Learning News puts this question to Andy Moss, Managing Director of City & Guilds Corporate Learning which includes the Kineo digital learning business.
Education technology funds and edtech entrepreneurs have invested $8M in FourthRev; New university partnership established with King’s College London.
Research by Udacity and Ipsos shows that digital transformation is stalling due to lack of job-ready digital talent and that there is a significant disconnect between the views of L&D professionals and employees over how successful they think L&D’s programmes are.
With increased pressure on businesses to be flexible, resilient, increase efficiency and to meet sustainability goals there is an unprecedented need for new skills in the workforce. In order to thrive during periods of change WMG has launched the Skills Centre, offering an ever changing and growing range of courses to meet current and future industry and business needs. The Centre is launching with seven new courses in innovative technologies ranging from energy systems, intelligent vehicles, digital and manufacturing.
The UK learning sector has seen an increase in acquisitions and investment activity: Looop, Virtual College and Walkgrove are amongst those acquired since the start of 2022 and Learning Pool has acquired True Office, an adaptive learning tech provider.
A new report out this week has the game-based learning market growing at 22% over the next four years to reach almost $30 billion.
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped bring frontline workers closer together but has exposed deep divides with leaders, according to research from Microsoft.
eLearning Brothers has announced the acquisition of a video-based practice and coaching platform, Rehearsal.
360Learning, which recently announced a $200M investment for growth and acquisitions, has announced it has acquired the UK LMS vendor Looop; the business aims to build an era of collaborative learning focused on L&D automation and leadership.
1 in 10 UK workers, over 3 million people, want to start their own business in 2022 according to research by Intuit Quickbooks.
Virtual College has completed a series of reports into the views of 2,000 of its learner community on how workplace learning is evolving. Learning News spoke to the series authors.
Interview with Nahdia Khan from Mind Tools for Business on the early findings from the Learning Performance Benchmark 2022.
Legal & General and Hive Learning win the Gold Award for 'Best use of social and collaborative learning technologies' at the 2021 Learning Technologies Awards,
Kineo's Andy Costello and Rory Lawson join Learning News to share their insights into compliance training following an in-depth study into this essential area of L&D.
Learning News at the Learning Technologies Awards 2021: Winners’ reactions and comments.
Kallidus has a new CEO in Stephen Read, who joins with a background in cloud HR and talent management software.
St. James’s Place has become what might be the first financial services provider to roll out virtual reality technology for training and role-playing across the business.
Interview with Ann Allcock, head of Diversity at Marshall, on leading equality, diversity and inclusion..
5App in partnership with All Of Us recently launched a new diversity and inclusion engagement hub; interview with creators Duncan Barrett and Andrew Phillips.
Research reveals positive attitudes towards EdTech and digital transformation across UK higher education.
Recent reports have highlighted a gap between how men and women feel about their careers as a result of the pandemic amidst a boost for post-graduate education and professional certification.
Coaching and mentoring are making a strong return to learning and development as go to strategies for building skills. Learning News asks the coaching specialist, Laura Walker, for her views on how modern coaching is evolving.
Brent Council is to provide its residents with a new digital training platform to support critical digital and employability skills and help people to enter sustainable employment.
A report from Pearson has revealed that nine out of ten women will take steps in the next 12 months to shift their careers and improve their job prospects.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Great Minds on Learning; Learning in the workflow; LPI Learning Performance Accelerator; Acquisitions and investments; Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards; LearningLive.
A report from Valuates has the Learning Management System market growing to USD $3.6 billion by 2027 at 20.76% CAGR.
A new Financial Analytics Programme from the ACCA and Fourthrev launches today to deliver the critical financial analytics and consulting capabilities sought after by modern finance functions and accountancy firms.
Josh Bersin will use a keynote address at the HR Technology Conference this week to explain how HR tech companies need to change their products to appeal to employees and lose the their traditional 'back-office' focus on operational processes.
Learning News in discussion with Ed Monk, CEO of the LPI, following Learning Live, which returned face-to-face in September.
New platform to spur adoption of customer learning, powered by advances in content authoring, embedded learning, curated insights and open architecture.
OpenSesame today announced the addition of Eleventure's microlearning courses to its OpenSesame Plus subscription, adding over fifty courses in communicating, setting goals, managing time, resocialisation after Covid-19, racial equity and more.
A first-of-its-kind cloud computing course has been launched by University of Lincoln and Microsoft to help give students the highly sought-after skills they need to launch their digital careers.
GP Strategies and its clients have won 20 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards at this years' programme.
MindGym has secured two Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards for its blended learning work with Jardine-Matheson and for its management development with Pinterest.
Interview with John Helmer from The Learning Hack Podcast on the new series Great Minds on Learning featuring Donald Clark profiling 100 learning theorists.
Get back to face-to-face learning with Marriott hotels and their new meetings & events initiative, Connect with Confidence. Based on 5 key pillars – Commitment to Clean, Contact Lite Experience, Hybrid Meetings, Physical Distancing and Redesigned Food & Beverage – Marriott is committed to welcoming delegates back safely.
Fuse has acquired predictive performance support business PowerGuides and set up a partnership with intelligent search provider PureInsights. It aims to get company knowledge, often locked away or lost to the past, into workers' workflows.
OfCourseMe is exhibiting at the Learning Live exhibition this week: two exciting days to discuss the evolution of learning strategies, culture change, the future of skills, and how the LnD role is going to change forever.
Learning in the workflow is rising up the list of priorities for L&D. Now at number two in the LPI's latest survey. Are we any nearer to getting on top of this challenge? Do we understand the methods needed? Will AI and intelligent search help to make learning in workflow a reality for more workers?
The LPI has launched a new tool for learning leaders that helps them to build a performance-oriented learning culture and evaluate and compare their performance and strategic approach against others.
Platinum Equity has acquired the educational content and digital platforms business, McGraw Hill.
Global elearning innovator OpenSesame has received $50 Million strategic growth investment from JMI Equity and existing investors; Investment to accelerate OpenSesame’s innovation and global expansion.
There's been a significant rise in the number of workers who didn't receive any training in the last year, up from one in six to one in four, according to the 2021 Learner Survey from Kallidus.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
Hybrid working is about to impact almost every organisation, but how well prepared is business? How will managers and teams adapt to new, more agile ways of working?
Oracle today announced a new solution to help organizations better understand, manage, and grow the skills of their workforce: Oracle Dynamic Skills.
Interview with Cedric Borzee about CrossKnowledge's new diagnostic tool that assesses an organisation's digital learning maturity.
Global Forecasts from 2021 to 2026: Rise of Virtual Reality for Game-Based Learning - new report from ResearchAndMarkets.com.
The Corporate training market in Europe is poised to grow by $14 Billion at a CAGR of over 8% from 2021 to 2025.
A new partnership between Avast and Enterprise Nation aims to deliver key cybersecurity resources and training for more than half a million UK small businesses.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
An extended interview with David Wilson following the publication of Fosway’s 2021 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition and market report.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
New editorial head, Jon Kennard, discusses Debbie Carter’s 20 years as editor at leading L&D title, TJ.
Workers in the UK are happier working from home but also feel more pressure to be always available to bosses, according to research from Microsoft Surface and YouGov.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
The authors of a new e-learning course from Marshall on mental health fatigue join Learning News to discuss mental health fatigue and the course’s aims.
A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month.
Richard Barkey, founder of Imparta, joins Learning News to discuss the challenges of selling online and skills that sales professionals can benefit from working on.
L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2021 report published; Donald H Taylor outlines key shifts in sentiment; re-skilling and up-skilling emerge as top L&D priority; collaborative and social learning increasingly recognised by L&D.
An extended interview with Ed Monk, CEO of the LPI; What happened to learning in 2020 and where will learning go in 2021?
World of Learning Summit is taking place as a virtual event experience on 9, 10 December; event includes conference sessions, interactive workshops, seminars and chat rooms.
Toby Harris, head of solutions at Filtered, the company behind the learning recommendations engine, magpie, explains why developing skills lies at the heart of developing performance.
Will Thalheimer sets out where the learning sector is at with its quest to improve evaluation.
Learning Now tv, the live-streamed monthly TV show on learning in business and Learning News, the learning sector’s newswire, are to collaborate to bring the hottest news, trends and views from the learning sector’s biggest events and conferences.