Saarbrücken (GER), September 2010 - Over the last decade, the use of eLearning has become widespread. However, its further development and deployment faces a number of threats. Van Rosmalen's publication "Facilitating the Design and Support of Adaptive eLearning: Models to Assist the Tutor" discusses two models that address these needs.

Coventry (UK), July 2010 - Employee engagement in the UK remains low because employers are focusing on the wrong things, claims a white paper produced by the Training Foundation. It offers thought-provoking insights to employers that are worth considering in the light of their current engagement strategies.

London (UK), July 2010 - The Happy Manifesto, the second book from training company Happy Ltd, has been released in an online beta version. The idea is that, as with software, the book be market tested before publication, with readers suggesting changes and even stories from their own experience.

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), June 2010 -Video is the fastest means currently available to create engaging online learning experiences, especially for the masses. With this in mind, in the following article, Jeremy Vest of Learning Solutions Magazine explains how to best use video as a rapid instructional design and development tool. He provides a step-by-step guide for creating great instructional video design and producing such experiences.

Brighton (UK), March 2010 - Kineo suggests that a little theory doesn't hurt. To practice instructional design with intention, practitioners need to know what instructional strategies to use and why, in order to help maximize the learning. This means knowing a bit about learning theory and instructional-design theory.

Budapest (HU), October 2009 - EDEN Online has announced a new joint publication by ISTE and Wiley, "Distance and eLearning in Transition - Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges". The book is a selection of the strongest EDEN conference papers from the past few years, revisiting research, innovation, and professional practice in distance and eLearning.

Brighton (UK), July 2009 - Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? Kineo explores the ideas of author Chris Anderson's book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and its implications for eLearning. Anderson argues that people are generally suspicious of 'free' and that, generally, they have been right to think this way. Most existing business models have tended to demand that somewhere along the line, somebody has to pay. But this, he says, is set to change. Andersen argues that in the digital world, everybody else can be subsidized by only a very few paying customers.

London (UK), January 2009 - New research indicates that a lack of email protocol fuels employee email stress and wastes up to one hour per day. Expert Messaging reacted to this with an Email Charter that serves as a useful tool to professionalize online communication.

Bristol (UK), October 2008 - A guide on effective practice with e-portfolios has been published by JISC in the UK. It investigates current good practice in the use of e-portfolios as a support to learning and as an aid to progression to the next stage of education or to employment.

Sebastopol, CA (USA), January 2008 - "Extending the Chalk-and-Talk Classroom with the Open Source CMS" is the subtitle of the newly published second edition of Jason Cole's and Helen Foster's Using Moodle, a book published by the O'Reilly Community Press. The book is written for teachers who use Moodle to teach or enhance their courses. It covers Moodle 1.8 and is tied to the Moodle Teacher Certification standards, making it the ideal reference for teachers interested in the popular eLearning platform.

Hilversum (NL), May 2007 - Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer for Deloitte and advisor for Deloitte Consulting, has recently self-published a book called "25 Best Practices for Learning & Talent Development". In the work, Van Dam reveals the transition from a traditional classroom-based training function to a modern, strategy-enabling learning organisation. All royalties from the book will be donated to the non-profit foundation eLearning For Kids.

Sheffield (UK) / Brighton (UK), April 2007 - Getting the best from podcasting - and where and when it can be used to maximum effect - is the focus of a free beginner's guide that can be downloaded from the Internet. It has been published in a joint venture between UK's leading online learning organisations, Ufi and Kineo.

London (UK), April 2007 - The findings of a new study into learning, training, and development based on 58 case studies of learning and development across nineteen countries are published in 'The Changing World of the Trainer - Emerging Good Practice', written by Martyn Sloman.

Hannover (GER), December 2006 - Quality and standardisation in eLearning have become crucial success factors for organisations in learning, education, and training: Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in ELearning Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Jan Martin Pawlowski (Eds.).

Berlin (Germany), October 2006 - "Knowledge is not a product but a process", says George Siemens, the Canadian eLearning expert and keynote speaker at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2006. He invites the attendees to help "build" his conference keynote speech by contributing their ideas and thoughts on a special wiki site.