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Logical Operations today announced a new partnership with SONIC Performance Support that provides training organizations worldwide access to engaging tutorial videos directly from Logical Operations’ CHOICE instructor-led training digital platform. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 Logical Operations today announced a new partnership with SONIC Performance Support that provides training organizations worldwide access to engaging tutorial videos directly from Logical Operations’...

Showcasing the Benefits of Game-Based Learning in its Newly Remodeled PlayMaker Adventure Room, GameDesk Connects Core Curriculum with an Interactive Learning Experience Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 At the recent PlayMaker Ribbon Cutting Event students, parents, teachers, and community members explored the transformed PlayMaker learning spaces and participated in digital learning games and maker activities. The Adventure Rom, a high tech learning space packed with plasma flat...

Founder Mariah Bruehl offers unique techniques to help children decrease anxiety, stress and fear. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 Playful Learning, the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal award-winning online learning website for kids, today announced the release of its newest Ecademy class titled Stress Management: Help Your Child Find Peace Inside & Out. In this new online class, founder Mariah Bruehl offers families a positive and productive approach to stress management for kids by...

GoSignMeUp’s class management software now integrates with GoToWebinar. (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 GoSignMeUp, a leading provider of online class registration and student management software, announces integration with GoToWebinar. This integration enables training organizations to accept registrations and payments, send automated and custom emails, and track attendance for webinars offered using GoToWebinar. GoSignMeUp helps training organizations get students to attend a class (whether it...

Open2Study completion rates four times higher than global industry standard MELBOURNE, Australia, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's Open2Study announces completion rates above 25 per cent - almost four times higher than the industry average - despite research suggesting average MOOCs completion rates below seven per cent. The major challenge for MOOCs and free online education is that despite attracting mass volumes of students, most people fail to complete the course and...

Steady growth for the Alliance-based e-Learning Management & Software firm Amvonet is strengthened by the announcement of two new hires and grand opening of satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. Alliance, Ohio (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Steady growth for the Alliance-based e-Learning Management & Software firm Amvonet is strengthened by the announcement of two new hires. AMVONET is an active participant in the e-learning market, delivering services to K-12, university, healthcare and...

Company Expands General Education Curriculum Roadmap, Creating Opportunities for Institutions to Improve Scalability and Learning Outcomes Rochester, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 College and university students around the country can now have access to Adapt Courseware’s new Introduction to Sociology offering, which presents curriculum in an adaptive framework that responds based on each student’s behavior, knowledge, and aptitude. Adapt Courseware, the provider of comprehensive adaptive...

Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, today announced that Globe University, a comprehensive system of career colleges, universities and training centers that includes Broadview University and Minnesota School of Business, has selected its VitalSource Bookshelf® platform to launch e-learning solutions to educators and students throughout the Globe University system. Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group...

Executives Selected 85 Products Across Expanded 25 Categories for Excellence. Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, the industry voices of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, announced today the Best of Elearning! Awards 2013 honorees. Readers and professionals from both the private and public sector cast 3,862 nominations for the best-in-class solutions across 25 product categories. Winners of each category will be...

Educators Across the Country Gain Insight Into What It Really Means to Implement the New Common Core State Standards Camden, NJ (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Beginning in January 2013, Camden NJ-based Catapult Learning has been presenting introductory Common Core workshops specifically designed for principals and school leaders across the country. As a nationwide provider of professional development and instructional services, Catapult Learning has held 10 workshops—and counting—from New...