This month’s e-learning news in brief
– Unicorn Training and TATA Interactive Systems have announced a strategic
partnership to provide e-learning and business simulation services to the UK
insurance and financial services industry. Unicorn is providing the sector
knowledge, with 15 years experience of producing learning products and services
for the insurance world, while TATA brings e-learning technical expertise. www.tata.com
www.unitrain.com
– Leading management consultancy firm Deloitte Consulting has signed a $10m
deal with Smartforce to provide e-learning solutions to its 15,000 employees
around the world. It will be deploying a blended programme for the company,
which includes collaboration tools and mobile capabilities. www.smartforce.com
– KPMG is one of the first licensees of the Seminar Learning Centre, an
online system for the creation, delivery and management of e-learning. KPMG’s
compliance unit will be using the learning centre to deliver training to its UK
employees, aimed at combating money laundering. www.seminar4web.com
– Dublin-based Business Management Systems (BMS) has become a distributor
for the NetTutor virtual classroom from Ascot Systems in the Republic of
Ireland. BMS specialises in wireless networking (WI-FI) technology. NetTutor
was launched last year and has users in both the public and private sectors in
the UK, as well as overseas. www.nettutor.co.uk
