The surprise success of The Artist at this year’s Academy Awards shows that it is possible to buck the trend and still excel. The idea that a foreign film, a black and white film, a silent film could win 5 Oscars, including the coveted Best Film award would have been laughable a year ago and yet The Artist has done just that.

Now re-released in France with posters proclaiming “The film that enchanted America”, The Artist portrays a romantic view of 1920s Hollywood. Even given that Tinseltown loves movies about itself (think The Player, Get Shorty), this is the first silent movie to win the Best Picture Academy Award since the original ceremony in 1929.

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Is your learning infrastructure right for a rapidly changing world?

Join CERTPOINT and learning thought leader Charles Jennings to examine this issue in the latest in our series of complimentary webinars on 28 February at 10.00 am UK / 11.00 am CET. (Click to register)

Charles will explore the latest thinking on how to get learning infrastructure right in an increasingly borderless world; facilitating will be the UK’s top influencer in e-learning, Donald H Taylor.

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What’s driving the e-learning market in France? CERTPOINT’s European General Manager Maria van Vlodrop recently aired her views at the i-Learning Forum in Paris.

Interviewed during this e-leading conference and exhibition, Maria identified three key trends for 2012 which will dominate the French market for technology-based learning.

What are they?

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Leading analyst Josh Bersin has declared the LMS market “very hot” and highlights CERTPOINT as one of a handful of vendors showing continued strong growth in his recent review of current market trends.

In a recent blog posting, Bersin highlights two areas likely to fuel this continued growth. The first is extended enterprise training – an area of strength for CERTPOINT with clients such as Toyota Motor Europe using CERTPOINTVLS to train over 80,000 members of their dealership network across 48 European countries in 30 different languages. The second is the demand for dynamic, highly personalized electronic content available on mobile devices. CERTPOINT has long been a leader in the field of mobile delivery – one reason the company was positioned by Gartner in the ‘visionary’ quadrant of their Corporate Learning Systems report.

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