Ilkley (SCT), March 2023 - How do you roll out digital training during a turbulent landscape? Organisations are facing a difficult period where budgets are being cut and are experiencing challenges to retain their staff. Understaffed departments mean training is required to upskill employees and encourage career development. So how do you do this?

Hildesheim (GER), March 2023 - The eLearning course "Mould and Records", developed by Friederike Johanna Nithack in collaboration with Hannah Emmerich of the Hornemann Institute at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen in Hildesheim, was met with great interest: A total of 38 colleagues from archives, libraries, and independent conservators booked it the first time around in October 2022. They unanimously evaluated it positively, which is why Hannah Emmerich is currently translating the German course into English without any content changes.

East Utah, UT (USA), February 2023 - The Game Agency, a division of ELB Learning, won a Gold Learning Technologies Award for Best Learning Game. The game-based course, sponsored by the NHL, taps into students' interests, specifically video games and sports, in order to teach STEM skills.

London (UK), February 2023 - Bodyswaps, together with Meta Immersive Learning, has announced the final list of higher and further education institutions to participate in their Immersive Learning Pilot Programme.

Zurich (CH), December 2022 - Videos used to train local surgeons at the University Hospital Zurich have been viewed on YouTube by over 600,000 people. This huge success has now led to the establishment of the Global School of Surgery online platform, which will offer an international audience free access to the surgical curriculum from 2023. The aim is to improve the education and training of young surgeons, especially in structurally weak countries.

New York, NY (USA), October 2022 - The International E-Learning Awards recognize the best uses of technology to improve learning and job performance within companies or through individual professional development. Please join us in congratulating the deserving winners of the 2022 International eLearning Awards in the Academic Division, who were honored recently at ICL2022, the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, in Vienna, Austria.

Los Angeles, CA (USA) / Cambridge (UK), July 2022 - GigXR, Inc., a global provider of holographic healthcare training, recently announced the release of a new mixed reality application called HoloScenarios. The first module, created in partnership with the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust, will provide hyper-realistic holographic scenarios for common respiratory conditions and emergencies.

Washington, DC (USA), July 2022 - Class Technologies Inc., a leader in synchronous virtual learning, has announced its closing on the acquisition of Blackboard Collaborate. Prior to the acquisition by Class, Blackboard Collaborate was part of the Anthology product suite, following Anthology's merger with Blackboard last year.

Mont-Saint-Aignan (F), April 2022 - NEOMA Business School has announced a new approach to teaching, incorporating three main factors: personalisation, scripting, and interaction. Following the school's recent NEOPEDAGOGIE survey, these elements were identified as the cornerstones of student and faculty expectations when it comes to building a course.

Lisbon (PT), March 2022 - The Universidade Aberta of Portugal has recently introduced in its pedagogical offerings the "Microcredential in Distance and Digital Education", whose main objective is to foster the development of pedagogical skills in distance education. This is the first of 24 microcredentials that Universidade Aberta intends to develop.