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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Last week our CEO, Ara Ohanian, delivered a keynote speech at Europe’s leading 2012 Learning and Technologies Conference revealing key characteristics of a new generation workforce “The Millennials”. He said that to remain competitive organizations need to transform training for this new demographic.

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Learning and development will change in 2012. This will be more than an incremental change. It will be a qualitative shift to a new approach.

That new approach can be summed up in one word: performance.

For too long, Learning and Development has focused on its own efficiency. How many courses could the department deliver, to how many people, over what period? And far too often the department physically separated itself from the rest of the organization – in the basement, or even in a separate building.

This will change in 2012, but strangely the shift will only bring us back to the most natural way of learning: from each other, at work.

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Here at CERTPONT we’ve seen more and more that a new approach to learning in the workplace can have a huge impact on the success of training initiatives. Guiding learners toward the independent discovery of knowledge as opposed to marching them through prescribed training can pay dividends in user engagement, the creation of new knowledge and the identification of untapped subject matter experts in a workforce.

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This morning, CERTPOINT CEO Ara Ohanian issued an internal memo to all CERTPOINT staff, expressing both his sense of loss and his feeling of gratitude following the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs. The text of that memo follows:

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In our last blog entry, we polled readers to find out what they can’t live and learn without. The votes are in. What tools were the leaders?

Search engines and mobile devices lead the pack, suggesting that people want to be able to look up information on demand, and they want to be able to do it whenever, wherever.

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Here at CERTPOINT we’ve started thinking about how individuals differ in their preferred methods of learning. We’ve compiled a list of categories into which learning tools can be classified and would like to know which ones reflect your ideal approach to learning.

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