Last week’s MERIT Summit in Vienna gathered top-notch international speakers, executive education experts, and innovators from the fields of L&D and Talent Management. Thanks to MERIT’s active audience, we were glad to give out three special awards to the speakers whose presentations received the highest vote throughout the event.
Sheffield Hallam University has developed visualization plug-in software, ‘Ensuring the Quality and Usability of Spreadsheets’. EQUS aims to enhance the accessibility and understanding of almost all spreadsheet formulae and the data with which they work and is being distributed by VeryViz - a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and the online learning and training consultancy, Learning Light.
The upcoming MERIT Summit in Vienna, 16-17 January 2019, will offer HR leaders a variety of company case studies exploring best practices and lessons learned at global L&D departments. One of the case studies will be presented by Jeff Turner, International Director of Learning and Development at Facebook. In a recent video interview exclusively for MERIT, Jeff shared a sneak peek into his topic “Building High Performing Teams: The Facebook Approach”.
According to a 2017 Capgemini study, 29% of employees believe their skillset is redundant now, or will be in the next one to two years. That figure goes up to 38% for those who believe their skills will be obsolete in the next five years.
What is the value of academic knowledge and executive education for Learning & Development in the corporate world? How can L&D leaders bridge academic knowledge and business in practice and build a routine of learning in their organisations? MERIT Summit in Vienna, 16-17 January 2019, will bring together corporate and executive education professionals for debates and collaborative exploration on this topic, among many others.
MERIT Summit Speaker Catalina Schveninger, Global Head of Learning at Vodafone, discusses the future of work from the perspective of the global telecommunications company.
MERIT Summit Speaker Anders Richtnér, Associate Professor and CEO of Stockholm School of Economics, gives his views based on his extensive experience from both an academic and a commercial perspective.
MERIT Summit speaker, Natasa Prodanovic, awarded Silver Talent Management Award at the 2018 Learning In Practice awards, Fall CLO Symposium, Houston, Texas.
The Australian company, maker of the most used learning platform in the world, will be attending the OEB Global conference on December 5 - 7 in Berlin.
Learn Appeal, the e-learning industry charity, has announced the inaugural winner of the new Learn Appeal Award at the 2018 Learning Technologies gala event. Accepted on behalf of the winner, the e-learning content and tools provider, Appitierre, by co-founder Wes Atkinson, the introduction of this award was welcomed across the industry.
Collaboration and creativity are the solar energy that fuels excellence. Learning organisations are the ones that will inherit the future. These are two sound reasons for the innovative MERIT Summit to bring together for the third time corporate and higher education leaders for an inspirational networking and learning event dedicated to “Co-creating Learning Organisations” and hosted in Vienna on 16-17 January 2019.
An article on e-learning supplier Engage in Learning’s website argues that successful leaders are ‘business chameleons’. In other words, says the article, they should be able to take on the role of directors, facilitators or motivators depending on the particular challenges that they are facing at the time.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) recently chose TopClass LMS by WBT Systems to deliver professional development and training to approximately 10,000 learners per year, from over 2,400 member companies. TopClass LMS will provide MBA with connected learning experiences for their member organizations, flexible functionality, and comprehensive support for delivery and management of their professional development programs.
QA, the UK's leading learning and training skills provider, is recognised as providing the highest quality of service and customer experience in a new report by the Learning and Performance Institute.
Learn Appeal is delighted to help power the innovative project which contributed to Dr Ebony Escalona of Brooke receiving one of the first Inspiration Awards from the RCVS (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons). The offline learning experience available provided by the Learn Appeal Capsule not only provides training to those who need it the most, it also improves the welfare of working animals.
Learn Appeal and Appitierre are delighted to run its inaugural schools workshop at Villiers, a High School in Southall, London Borough of Ealing. Running as part of its Career Day, the session focused on the exciting – but often little known - career development opportunities in e-learning Instructional Design which continue to grow rapidly.
Education review site EDUopinions has found that Universities in Germany have the highest proportion of 5 star reviews in Europe.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 13, 2018 – DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released two new human resources training programs, Sexual Harassment: The Untold Story and It’s About Respect II, that alert employees to the different kinds of harassment and help employers promote a culture of respect in the workplace.
One of Africa’s most inspirational and successful women will top the bill at this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Kigali, Rwanda. A medical doctor, an academic and a businesswoman, Dr Mamphela Ramphele is also the former leader of South Africa’s Agang SA political party and a founder, with her former partner Steve Biko, of the Black Consciousness movement. She heads an exciting list of keynote speakers in a fascinating programme of discussions, workshops and debates under the overall theme of ‘Uniting Africa.’
Learn Appeal, the e-learning charity, announces the pilot of its revolutionary offline e-learning initiative in rural Kenya. The launch of the Learn Appeal Capsule in Nyamira, Kenya last month underscores the charity's mission to build skills and empower local disconnected communities who either do not have access to the internet or lack the required purchasing power – common challenges in Kenya and around the world.
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