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Following the immense success of the Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum (TLDF) last year, Tata Interactive Systems (http://www.tatainteractive.com) is hosting the second annual TLDF - a unique global symposium on learning disabilities (LD).

A record number of hospitality employees are downloading training in an online initiative by industry membership body, the Institute of Hospitality and learning provider, Echelon Publishing.

Tata Interactive Systems discusses the latest trends in training and education during the latest in its worldwide series of ‘Tata Interactive Learning Forums’ in Chicago (October 29) and in Boston (November 1).

Independent e-learning specialists Trainer1 have brought the concept of ‘take away’ pricing to learning with their à la carte and set menus for teaching the use of the popular e-learning authoring tool, Lectora.

The key findings from a lengthy study of e-learning implementation within the corporate learning sector by independent e-learning specialists Trainer1 have prompted a series of one-day workshops, called 'Cracking e-learning'.

Neil Lasher is facilitating two International two-day Masterclasses on a modern approach to instructional design.

Alistair Morrison who, as managing director of learning content producer Skillchange Systems, was one of the leaders of the UK’s e-learning industry in the 1990s, has joined the consultancy-led publishing house, Echelon as a non-executive director.

Tata Interactive Systems has participated in an online (‘in-world’) symposium on ‘Creativity in Second Life’ organised by the New Media Consortium.

A ground-breaking initiative is featured on the Echelon Learning stand (A80) at the Customer: Strategy and Management exhibition and conference at the NEC, Birmingham, 26th - 27th September 2007.

Members of America's eLearning Guild have learnt the value of storytelling in e-learning, in an online forum conducted by Tata Interactive Systems' Jon Revelos.

Free guitar tricks video series makes sweet music easy.

The latest information on flooding and how to reduce its risk can be downloaded free-of-charge at the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) web site at www.planningmatters.co.uk

The global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has launched Learning Planet™, an enterprise learning content management system (LCMS).

Now in his 60th year, David Hill, managing director of learningmatters.com publisher, Echelon, is to return to his old school to compete in a 10km run to raise funds for Cancer Research.

The global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has won the APEX 2007 Award of Excellence for its game-based learning programme developed for ICICI Bank.

360 degree feedback has been added to the first development centre for head teachers and education leaders within UK urban areas.

As part of his organisation’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy, David Lusty, Principal Consultant with survey research specialists Quantify has enrolled as a blood platelet donor.

This month’s (June 2007) update of the web’s foremost Virtual Learning Centre (VLC) for business and management content - www.learningmatters.com – sees the self-learning section republished in a more interactive format for online use.

Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading learning consultancies, has introduced differential pricing for its 'More than Instructional Design’ course.

Training solutions provider Training Synergy says courses need to reflect how a user engages with, and exploits that, technology to the best of her/his ability, rather than trying to change the user’s process to match the technology.

Training solutions provider, Training Synergy, is offering a course for homeworkers which delivers PC and networking basic skills and allies these to the homeworker’s organisation’s best practice processes and procedures.

Small and medium sized enterprises in North West of England now have access to free learning materials to help develop business-related competencies, thanks to the EU-funded ‘Into Enterprise Project’, St Martin’s College and Echelon.

Echelon has won a contract to help select customer service staff for High Speed 1 (previously known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) - at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.

The TOPSIM range of management simulations was launched in the UK, at the Tanaka Business School at Imperial College, London, on 17th May, to acclaim by senior managers and academics.

An invited audience of senior business managers and human capital management specialists from the UK’s top companies are being given a special preview of Tata Interactive’s suite of business simulations – TOPSIM.

A ground-breaking partnership between Partnership for Young London, BT, Tata Interactive Systems and the youth services of the London boroughs of Croydon, Richmond, Tower Hamlets and Westminster is helping to protect children at risk.

Working with Imperial College London (ICL)’s Medical School, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has developed a series of software learning applications chiefly for use among the Medical School’s students.