15th October – MyKnowledgeMap speak at Online Educa, Berlin 2007
On the 29th November MyKnowledgeMap will be attending Online Educa Berlin 2007—the key event for the international technology-supported learning and training industry—to speak about our recent involvement in the Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS), the UK's most ambitious mobile learning and assessment project to date. Read on...
8th October 2007 – MyKnowledgeMap to launch new e-portfolio system at first human capital technology summit in Maastricht
From the 17th-19th October 2007, MyKnowledgeMap will be at the 5th annual international ePortfolio conference in Maastricht, part of the first Human Capital and Social Innovation Technology Summit (HCSIT), to launch our new e-portfolio system, 'Multi-Port'. Read on...
14th September 2007 – MyKnowledgeMap shortlisted for two e-Learning Awards
MyKnowledgeMap shortlisted for two national e-learning awards, recognising our excellence in the field of e-learning. Read on...
15th August 2007 – Open University to use Audio Recording Tool developed by MKM
The Open University will soon be able to conduct thousands of language students’ oral assessments online using an Audio Recording Tool, developed by MyKnowledgeMap. Read on...
31st July 2007 – MyKnowledgeMap double size of offices on Micklegate
MyKnowledgeMap are delighted with our newly expanded head office on Micklegate, one of York’s most historic streets. Read on...
2nd July 2007 – MyKnowledgeMap welcome experienced new members of staff
MyKnowledgeMap is proud to announce the arrival of a number of new faces to the company this month. Two key new additions to the team are our new business development directors Colin Tait and Paul Wren. Read on...
28th June 2007 - Praise for MyKnowledgeMap’s online portal for the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink Manufacturing
MyKnowledgeMap’s online portal for the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink Manufacturing received an excellent response from attendees at the official launch of the National Skills Academy for Food & Drink Manufacturing (NSA) last week. Read on...
30th April 2007 - Tesco pilot Foundation Degree in Retail developed by MKM, the Retail Academy, MMU and The University of the Arts
The government agency for Foundation Degrees, Foundation Degree Forward, has awarded MyKnowledgeMap, the Retail Academy, Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of the Arts the contract to develop a Foundation Degree in Retail to be piloted by Tesco. Read on...
24th April 2007 - MKM join forces with Yorkshire universities and T-Mobile in ground-breaking mobile learning development
MyKnowledgeMap, working with T-Mobile and mobile software specialists Ecommnet, are providing the online infrastructure to support the UK's most ambitious mobile learning and assessment project to date. Read on...
5th April 2007 - MKM launch delivery platform to roll out Professional Certificate in Marketing course worldwide
Learners worldwide are currently working towards a ‘Professional Certificate in Marketing’ qualification using an innovative delivery platform provided by MyKnowledgeMap. Read on...
16th March 2007 - Leading convenience organisation uses MKM’s virtual academy framework to give members new and improved Retail Detail
Retail Detail, the popular retail training system we developed for the Retail Academy, has just got even better. Read on...
15th March 2007 - MyKnowledgeMap put social responsibility principle into practice with charity film for A-CET
A new film narrated by acclaimed broadcaster and journalist Martha Kearney and written and produced by MyKnowledgeMap is all set to raise awareness on the life-changing work carried out by A-CET, the charity we support. Read on...
9th March 2007 - MyKnowledgeMap launch new learning academy for stress management consultancy ABChoices
MyKnowledgeMap have launched a new online learning academy to help reduce stress and improve health, wellbeing and performance for individuals and organisations throughout the UK. Read on...
28th February 2007 - MyKnowledgeMap’s Community Challenge e-learning all set to engage and motivate learners at local colleges
The interactive CD-Roms that MyKnowledgeMap have designed as part of a Community Challenge project led by Yorkshire Coast College are all set to engage and motivate potential learners across North Yorkshire. Read on...
26th January 2007 - MKM join forces with Martha Kearney to produce film for charity A-CET
MyKnowledgeMap was delighted to be joined by Martha Kearney this week, to record a voiceover on behalf of A-CET, the charity both MKM and Martha support. Read on...
15th January 2007 - MyKnowledgeMap develop Diabetes Diagnostic Tool as part of LEAP project
MyKnowledgeMap was delighted to be able to assist with the important LEAP project by supplying the technical capability needed to produce an innovative Diabetes Diagnostic Tool. Read on...
2nd January 2007 - New photo version of Storywriter Toolkit ready to showcase at BETT 2007
Newly-approved by BECTA, the Government agency supporting all four UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments, Storywriter Toolkit is an easy-to-use program that enables users to create comic-strip stories with multiple outcomes, and decision points requiring student engagement. Read on...
2nd January 2007 - MKM all set to launch Compendle Professional at Learning Technologies 2007
We are looking forward to launching a brand new version of our e-learning course planning system Compendle for companies and professionals on Stand 81 at Learning Technologies 2007 this January. Europe's premier learning and skills event, covering every aspect of organisational learning and performance improvement technology, Learning Technologies takes place at London Olympia 2 from Wednesday January 31 to Thursday February 1st. Read on...
4th December 2006 - MKM launch new website for the Retail Academy
The brand new website MyKnowledgeMap have built for the Retail Academy is now live and ready to be explored. Read on...
1st December 2006 - MyKnowledgeMap become a registered Curriculum Online content provider and retailer
MyKnowledgeMap were delighted to hear that, on the strength of our innovative Storywriter Toolkit we have been approved by BECTA as a Curriculum Online content provider. . This makes it even easier for schools to buy toolkit is now available for schools to purchase through Curriculum Online using Government-funded e-learning credits. Read on...
29th November 2006 - MyKnowledgeMap working at the heart of Europe's lifelong learning
MyKnowledgeMap will present a case study at Online Educa Berlin's pre-conference forum on November 29th focusing on "Lifelong Learning - Policy and Practice in the UK". They will be joined by other UK learning providers, including Microsoft UK and the Open Learning Centre International. Read on...
24-26th October 2006 - MyKnowledgeMap at the CIPD Annual Conference
MyKnowledgeMap will be launching their brand-new virtual training system, Company Academy, at this year's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conference in Harrogate. Read on...
22nd September 2006 - MKM announce joint venture with Multi-ed on chronic healthcare learning portal
MKM are pleased to announce an exciting joint venture with Multi-ed Medical Limited – a Leeds based company specialising in healthcare related e-learning, to create a chronic healthcare learning portal. Read on...
15th September 2006 - Compendle Professional makes its debut
This month, MKM launched Compendle Professional, our brand new course planning system. Visitors to MKM’s stand at the Association for Learning Technology Conference in Edinburgh were the first to see the finished program in action. Read on...
5-7th September 2006 - ALT-C Conference, Edinburgh
We are looking forward to setting out our stall at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C) conference this September. Read on...
September 2006 - MKM assist competency mapping for medical students
A consortium of leading university medical schools in the UK have contracted MKM to assist in the construction of competency mapping in core skills for medical students. Students across 16 professions ranging from nursing to social care will be involved in the study led by the University of Leeds Medical School. The project forms part of a 5 year government programme of investment into skills mapping. Read on...
August 2006 - Malaysia's Prime Minister meets MyKnowledgeMap
At the recent IFTDO conference in Malaysia, Dawn Ritchie, MyKnowledgeMap's Business Development Manager, was delighted to demonstrate our cutting-edge eAcademy development work to an international audience of delegates, and Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's Prime Minister. Read on...
August 2006 - MyKnowledgeMap at the IFTDO conference, Kuala Lumpur
MyKnowledgeMap was represented at the 35 th International Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) conference on Education and Training Harmonised by our Business Development Manager, Dawn Ritchie. The conference was hosted by IFTDO partner, the Universiti Teknologi MARA, with delegates attending from all sides of the globe. Read on...
15th July 2006 - Keystrokes launch national Fiz-Assist service for IT skills diagnostic based on MKM’s popular skills diagnostic technology
Keystrokes specialise in business-specific bespoke systems, capability alignment, e-learning and blended learning. Since the company was founded in 1993, Keystrokes has provided solutions for a wide range of customers across a variety of different industries, including large corporate, public sector and local government clients. Read on...
27th June 2006 - NIACE Award Update—and a video
As reported last month, the innovative work that MyKnowledgeMap has done for the Retail Academy has won a prestigious Opening Doors to Adult Learners Award. The awarding body made a video about the Retail Academy learning. Watch it here...
24th May 2006 - The Retail Academy wins NIACE Award
As a core partner of the Retail Academy consortium, MyKnowledgeMap is delighted to learn that the Academy has been awarded the ‘Opening Doors to Adult Learners’ award by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). Read on...
20th May 2006 - Stress management course set to go
MyKnowledgeMap together with Rosemary Anderson, a leading expert in the field of stress management, have combined their expertise to produce “It Can Happen to Anyone: Personal Stress Management and Wellbeing” - a comprehensive course focussed on improving the wellbeing of people at work. Read on...
May 2006 - MKM assist SkillsActive government bid
MKM have been contracted to provide consultancy support for the sector skills council SkillsActive to assist in the construction of their proposal to the government for a National Skills Academy in Sports and Leisure. Read on...
25th March 2006 - Launch of the Library of Retail e-Learning
The launch of the Library of Retail e-Learning in March 2006 makes available in a single package a vast resource of retail-specific e-Learning together with MKM’s Custom Learning Studio. Read on...
1st March 2006 - MKM wins Improve contract
Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, has awarded MKM the contract to provide the electronic support and infrastructure for their new skills Academy. Read on...
25th February 2006 - Becta applauds the Retail Academy
As a core partner of the Retail Academy consortium, MyKnowledgeMap is delighted with the glowing case study recently published by Becta. Read on...
20th February 2006 - MKM achieves "Investors in People" status
As an innovative e-Learning company MyKnowledgeMap is already committed to new ways of learning and development. So investing in our own people has always been a vital part of our project. Read on...
20th December 2005 - De-mystifying this e-learning stuff – 2006 workshops
MKM is sponsoring a series of workshops for college tutors through the spring, to be led by e-learning expert, David Sugden. The first of these will take place at The Learning Shop in Bluewater, Kent, on 12 th January. Read on...
1st December, 2005 - A-CET – our chosen charity
MKM has recently decided on the African Children’s Educational Trust (A-CET) as our chosen charity. Read on...
5th November 2005 - Launch of MKM’s Custom Course and Teaching4 series of IT tools
One of MyKnowledgeMap’s two stands at the Becta Post-16 Conference in Manchester was the focus of keen attention this November, as MKM used the conference to launch two new and exciting products as part of their e-learning platform. Read on...
2nd November 2005 - Becta post-16 e-learning conference, Manchester
With two stands at the conference, MKM presented the Retail Academy from one of them as an active and fast-growing example of a sector-specific and cross-organisation workforce development project, innovative in its use of technologies and approach to consortium-building. Read on...
26-28 October 2005 - E-portfolio 2005, Cambridge
Run by ElfEL (the European Institute for e-learning), the conference was preceded by a plugfest and it was good to see the progress that has been made in getting systems to inter-operate together. Read on...
13th October 2005 - ALT / LSDA conference, London
In the first of a busy autumn conference season, MKM’s workshop presentation about the Retail Academy was well attended. Read on...
3rd November 2005 - Retail Academy launch Retail Detail
MKM has developed Retail Detail, a new online business support system for retailers, for the Retail Academy. The site has been created in close consultation with the Retail Academy to ensure that it meets retailers’ specialist pressures and demands. Read on...
1st August 2005 - Manchester City Council e-Learning venture
MKM is working with Manchester City Council (MCC) to create an online interactive training course for its staff in the Council’s Corporate Values. Read on...
3rd June 2005 - Launched – EMPOWER: multi-partner project management
Launched this spring, MKM’s new EMPOWER System has been designed to make multiple partner project management easy. And it is already arousing great interest. Read on...
23rd May 2005 - West Lothian Council putting its customers on the map
Working with West Lothian Council, MKM is developing a new system that will interface seamlessly with the existing MKM Skills Gap System. Read on...
22nd May 2005 - STEP into the Summer
MKM is taking in a clutch of bright students this summer. In collaboration with the University of York’s STEP programme in North Yorkshire, MKM will be taking in anywhere between four to six students for July and August. Read on...
17th December 2004 - Leeds City Council Over the Moon with e-learning
MKM have partnered with Keystrokes in the creation and implementation of a new e-learning system and content for Leeds City Council. This has been executed with outstanding results in a record time of 6 weeks from brief to implementation. Read on...
16th December 2004 - The British Council's Skill Gap system to be piloted outside of UK
In early usage the British Council have received highly positive feedback on the bespoke Skills Gap Analysis system developed for them by MyKnowledgeMap. Read on...
8th December 2004 - Prudential and Novartis first to use CIM's Marketing Doctor
The Chartered Institute of marketing have received great feedback following the launch of their new marketing skills analysis system; Marketing Doctor, designed and created by MyKnowledgeMap. Read on...
6th December 2004 - EQUAL e-Employability ‘Technical Breakthrough’
MyKnowledgeMap is working in partnership with The MRS Consultancy Limited and the FE Federation on its ‘Technical Breakthrough’ project. Read on...
2nd November 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap provides remedy for CIM’s Marketing Doctor
MyKnowledgeMap recently won the contract with The Chartered Institute of Marketing for a marketing skills analysis system called Marketing Doctor. Read on...
16th October 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap Brings Targeted Learning to BTEC
A new, feature-packed implementation of MyKnowledgeMap’s Skill Gap Analysis system has been helping to guide learners training with Edexcel towards appropriate management knowledge. Read on...
15th October 2004 - Strategy Blueprint shortlisted for World of Learning Awards 2004
Strategy Blueprint, a Strategy Planning Tool, jointly developed by MyKnowledgeMap Ltd. And EBL Consultancy,for SMEs in the Engineering Sector, has been shortlisted for this year’s World of Learning Awards in the Category of "Generic Solution of the year". Read on...
27th September 2004 - Council staff 1st to graduate from e-learning management course
Staff at Coventry Social Services are the first students in the country to graduate with a BTEC Certificate in Management Studies (CMS), gained through the use of new e-learning material produced by awarding body Edexcel, in partnership with MyKnowledgeMap and Adval KeyKnowledge. Read on...
17th September 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap steams ahead in Yorkshire’s growing IT sector
It is only four years old, yet one of York’s most exciting digital technology companies has already outgrown premises and had to move twice. The most recent move to a larger office in York city centre was as a result of continued expansion - MyKnowledgeMap now employs 20 people and continues to grow to meet the needs of an ever-growing client base. Read on...
16th August 2004 - Launch of national Retail Academy e-learning programme with national LSC support
Launched this spring, MKM’s new EMPOWER System has been designed to make multiple partner project management easy. And it is already arousing great interest. Read on...
8th August 2004 - Smart Content-Managed Site for Skillsmart retail
MyKnowledgeMap are proud to announce that we have won a prestigious contract to completely rewrite the Skillsmart website, adding powerful new functionality. Read on...
15th July 2004 - The girls run for Charity
Becky and Dawn took part in the 5km "Race for Life" yesterday and raised over £100 for Cancer Research. Read on...
14th July 2004 - BTEC Academy is a booming success
A new course, new tools and more sign-ups — Edexcel’s online resource provider, BTEC Academy, of which MyKnowledgeMap are a key partner, keeps going from strength to strength. Read on...
23rd June 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap Syrian Success Story
MyKnowledgeMap have added another success to our portfolio of international projects. Read on...
25th May 2004 - Expansion into new premises
We are proud to announce the expansion of MyKnowledgeMap’s offices, which have shifted from our old location in Clifford Street to a much larger site just over the river in Micklegate. Read on...
25th April 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap at the HRD 2004
HRD 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap exhibited at the HRD 2004 conference at Olympia this April, showcasing our complete range of skills mapping and training needs analysis systems. Read on...
10th March 2004 - MyKnowledgeMap go to the HRD
MyKnowledgeMap will be exhibiting upstairs on Stand 1022 at HRD Olympia 20th – 22nd April showcasing a range of systems covering skills and competency mapping and training needs analysis. Read on...
27th February 2004 - New SkillsGap contract for GWINTO
MyKnowledgeMap are delighted to have recently landed the contract to develop a Skills Gap system for Energy and Utility Skills, designed to address the education and learning required for a particular individual to become a gas engineer. Read on...
8th November 2003 - Coventry Social Services adopt CMS
Coventry Social Services adopt the new e-Learning Edexcel BTEC Certificate in Management Studies’ to achieve Care standards. Read on...
31st October 2003 - A European flavour for Strategy Blueprint
With over 850 manufacturing and engineering companies within Yorkshire and the Humber now using the EEF Strategy Blueprint that was jointly developed with MyKnowledgemap and EBL, this successful project is being taken to Europe. A pan-European partnership is launching the Leonardo GEARS project today at MRS Consultancy Ltd’s Head Office at Ainderby Hall, near Northallerton. Read on...
15th October 2003 - The Retail Academy launch
The Retail Academy, one of Europe’s newest, innovative providers of learning for retailers is putting their flagship site online this week, providing a one-stop-shop for retailers all over the country. Read on...
6th April 2003 - Strategy Blueprint Launch
MyKnowledgeMap and EBL release their eagerly awaited Strategy Blueprint product designed to encourage strategic planning in the engineering sector. Read on...
16th November 2002 - Children in Need head and Leg shave
The MyKnowledgeMap team did their bit for "Children in Need" on the 16th of November with a sponsored head-and-leg shave and even got into the local paper. Read on...