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Cybrary, the world's first and only nocost cybersecurity MOOC (massive open
online course) provider, announced
a partnership with the Information
Technology Disaster Resource Center
(ITDRC) to help train ITDRC's IT and
communication technical support staff
on critical cybersecurity skills. ITDRC
provides communities with the necessary
technology resources to continue
operations and recover from disaster.
Career Step, LLC, a Denver-based
private equity firm, has completed
the acquisition of Medic-CE.com, LLC.
The acquisition combines Medic-CE's
robust LMS, over 200 hours of online
continuing education and record
management with Career Step's live
online, instructor-led training. This
combination of tools enables EMS and
firefighting professionals to meet all of
their continuing education requirements
in one place.

NIIT, a global leader in skills and talent
development, has acquired the business
of Bangalore-based start-up Perceptron
Learning Solutions Private Limited. The
strategic acquisition will bring together
complementary technology platforms
and capabilities of NIIT and Perceptron,
enabling NIIT to further accelerate its
digital transformation initiatives.
GP Strategies Corporation announced
that it has completed its acquisition of
Maverick Solutions, a leading provider
of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
product training services. Maverick
will operate as part of GP Strategies'
Performance
Readiness
Solutions
segment effective as of October 1,
2016. This acquisition will extend GP
Strategies' ability to deliver ERP systems
training and user adoption services to its
healthcare customer base and expand
into the higher education sector.

Caveo Learning, a consulting firm
providing learning strategies and solutions
to leading organizations, announces
the acquisition of Ellegro, a preeminent
developer of custom e-learning. The Ellegro
acquisition expands Caveo's e-learning,
creative, and technical development
capabilities, augmenting Caveo's core areas
of focus-learning strategy, instructional
design, metrics and measurement, and
performance improvement.
BizLibrary announces WILL Interactive
as a new content producer partner. The
micro video-based content to be added
to The BizLibrary Collection will initially
include over 75 segments from WILL
Interactive's Cinario series, adding a new
style of interactivity to the collection.
This allows training programs the ability
to further engage employees and create
the development and behavior change
that organizations are seeking through
online training.

IN D USTRY NE WS
NEW APP BRINGS
REAL-TIME FEEDBACK
TO EXECUTIVE COACHING
A new app designed to deliver
behavioral reminders and coaching
feedback to executives, in real-time,
was announced by WJM Associates. The
app allows organizations to quantify
the effectiveness of coaching over time
by aggregating and measuring the
progress of all executives being coached.
This enables companies to measure the
impact of coaching.
53% OF UK POKEMON GO
GAMERS PLAY AT WORK
Qualtrics surveyed 500 British Pokemon
Go players, revealing 53 percent of
employees who play Pokemon Go

admit do so during working hours.
Consumer technology may have a
significant role to play in workplace
L&D. Pokemon Go can be said to have
merit in using a sense of fun with
which to introduce the concept of
augmented and virtual reality.
VIRTUAL REALITY SOLUTION
TO ADDRESS IMPLICIT BIAS
Virtual reality startup SPACES Inc. has
created an implicit bias VR program
that can be used by both scientific
researchers, corporate trainers and
law-enforcement organizations. VR
enables us to understand how implicit
bias - measurable, objective attitudes
and stereotypes that everyone carries
- affects our views of the world and the
way we work and interact with others.

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GUIDES TO SUCCESSFUL
ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING
AND DEVELOPMENT
Eagle's Flight announced it is
publishing two guides aimed at helping
companies build enthusiasm for
training initiatives that change behavior
and drive organizational growth.
The new guides offer tips on how to
implement
organizational
training
and development initiatives that are
embraced by all employees and result in
long-term behavior change.

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