We are pleased to announce Dan Braunm, our New Senior Vice President, North American Sales. Dan is focused on bring high quality and innovative learning solutions to our customers.  Experienced at both start-ups and large enterprises, Dan is an entrepreneurial and award-winning executive with over 20 years of experience in global education services. His breadth of knowledge, which encompasses the sale, delivery, development and innovation of education for high tech markets, also includes management of marketing, operations (both financial and technical), and P&Ls.

Dan successfully leverages the power of blending formal learning with social collaborative and mobile application environments to develop innovative learning programs that can help drive product adoption, increase customer satisfaction, and create competitive differentiators.

Prior to joining PulseLearning, Dan has held VP of Education positions as CA Technologies, Oracle, and Siebel. He graduated from Miami University with a BS in Business Administration.

In keeping with our model of global vision and local engagement, we are pleased to introduce our new Director of Learning & Operations, Brenden Carter. Based in Melbourne, Australia he will support our clients and development team as we continue to grow.

Some history

Brenden has a diverse background in commercial eLearning and corporate management of learning solutions. He offers both a vendor’s perspective, but also a client’s. His most recent role being with Sensis as the Learning Technology Manager, overseeing the internal design and development of eLearning, vendor management and LMS administration functions. Brenden has overseen the delivery of hundreds of learning solutions for some of Australia’s largest companies, in both design and production manager roles.

Within PulseLearning, Brenden will lead the Australian design and development teams and oversee our program management. He will also be actively involved in our solution design and learning product development offerings.

PulseLearning will be launching its eCommerce site this month for the UK market. Customers will now be able to purchase eLearning solutions from PulseLearning online.

These courses will offer compliance training for the Care, Retail and Hospitality sectors. The eLearning courses are aimed at large or small businesses and individuals.

PulseLearning is leveraging its world-class content and sector-specific experts to create hours of engaging and interactive online learning.

Our courses provide a complete education and training solution that overcome the day-to-day barriers to achieving compliance in a regulated environment. These barriers include dispersed workforces, high employee turnover and non-native speakers.

The courses will cover areas such as Food Safety, Health and Safety, Licensing Law Awareness, Award for Personal Licence Holders (APLH) and Common Induction Standards.

For more information, visit www.pulselearning.com

PulseLearning will be at DSEi 2011 (Defence & Security Equipment International) September 13th through 16th in London.

We’ll be demonstrating our new ground-breaking PulseDefense solution. Our PulseDefense solution delivers Maintenance and Operator training, including immersive, simulated 3-D learning solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to competency.

If you would like to meet with PulseLearning during DSEi, please email us at PulseDefense@PulseLearning.com.

A team from PulseLearning will be attending this years ANCC National Magnet Conference taking place on October 4-6, 2011 in Baltimore. At the conference, we will be revealing our new PulseHealth “Information Training” solution for the US Healthcare market. The team is happy to discuss this new solution with you one to one. Please contact us at sales@pulselearning.com with a time that suits you to take a call.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Dorset, United Kingdom) 30 August 2010.

Lifeways selected PulseLearning’s PulseCare solution because of PulseLearning’s expertise in the design, development and delivery of high-quality care-specific training and assessment. Lifeways, known for its innovative and holistic approach to care, has partnered with leading care eLearning provider PulseLearning to create a comprehensive induction assessment.

Lifeways decided to partner with PulseLearning because they are recognized experts in the design, development and production of business-critical compliance training. This, coupled with their understanding of the care industry, makes them an ideal partner for the development of compliance and safety-critical training across our business.

– Tracie Marriner, Workforce Development Manager, Lifeways

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Orlando, Florida) August 3, 2010.

PulseLearning’s Dr. Irene Boland will be presenting at the world’s largest annual Defense industry event – the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). In November of each year, approximately 19,000 industry professionals from more than 60 nations gather in Orlando, Florida, USA to share best practices in the high-stakes learning required by the armed forces.

It’s an honor to be selected as a presenter and to have my paper included in the conference proceedings. The standards are high and the selection process is rigorous. I consider this a great compliment from my highly respected peers.
- Irene Boland

Dr. Boland’s paper and presentation focus on her ground-breaking research on the effectiveness of the immersive 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) Second Life (SL) for learning. Dr. Boland provided the industry’s first empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of learners working alone (cognitive constructivism) or in small groups (social constructivism) within the SL environment. This presentaton about live, virtual, constructive (LVC) training will also include discussions of rich demographic data, learner feedback, and proposed future research that can benefit the industry and learners. Dr. Boland’s presentation and the related exam questions will provide holders of the NTSA Modeling and Simulation Certification with continuing education credits to help them keep their certification current.

About Dr. Boland
Dr. Boland was awarded her Ph.D. in Education (specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning) from Capella University in April 2009. She is a member of Women in Defense (WID) and National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) in Central Florida. She has over 8 years of expert hands-on field experience in the full spectrum of instructional systems design for corporate and military clients. Her end-clients include: the US Veterans Administration, the US State Department, The Boeing Company, Autodesk, CA Technologies, Bank of America, Symantec, UnitedHealth Group, and Harcourt School Publishers. Her concentrated areas of expertise include: immersive virtual worlds, social learning, accessibility, and usability. She is the author of the Practical Applications of Research column at eLearningFuture.com. She translates recent gains in learning research into easily understood and actionable intelligence for use in real world projects. She is also an active advocate of the proper and effective use of social media tools for professional development and learning.

To learn more about I/ITSEC (the world’s largest Modeling, Simulation and Training Conference), please visit: http://www.iitsec.org/Pages/default.aspx