A new initiative at the University of Leeds to issue smartphones to medical students, supported by progress files and assessment modules built by MyKnowledgeMap, has made the BBC News homepage.

The University of Leeds is issuing smartphones to all fourth and fifth year medical students, giving them access to progress files and assessment modules built by MyKnowledgeMap.

The website of the UK’s leading retail skills educator, The Retail Academy, has been relaunched with new skills programmes designed specifically to help independent convenience stores, newsagents and rural shops.

Assessment and Learning Practice Settings (ALPS) won the award for Leading Practice in Learning Impact for a research paper co-authored by MyKnowledgeMap at the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference 2010.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a new online self-assessment tool for its members, created by MyKnowledgeMap.

Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) has been selected as a finalist in the ICT Initiative of the Year category in the Times Higher Education Awards.

This year's event will feature a brand new seminar hosted by MyKnowledgeMap entitled ‘How to add the personal touch to your off-the-shelf training’.

MyKnowledgeMap has recently received funding from JISC to build LEAP2A import and export functionality into our e-portfolio system Multi-Port.

MySkills is a skills assessment tool which offers managers a quick and easy way to identify their strengths and weaknesses.

The ALPS project has been nominated for the 'Innovation Award' in the Tertiary, FE & HE category at the 2009 Handheld Learning Awards.

MyKnowledgeMap partner with Video Arts to offer world-famous library of training videos in a rapid e-learning tool.

The European Initiative for the Promotion of Informal Learning (EIPIL-PAN) seeks to help employers recognise the value of informal learning in the workplace and develop a framework by which it can be accredited.

MyKnowledgeMap has been selected to supply the tools for Scotland’s National Assessment Resource by Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

MyKnowledgeMap ran a workshop at ePortfolio conference 2009 aimed at discussing how e-portfolios can support large, multi-partner learning programmes delivered nationally.

The ALPS project has won the 'Innovation Award' in the Tertiary, FE & HE category at the 2009 Handheld Learning Awards.

The conference, now in its 7th year, covers ‘Innovation, Creativity and Accountability’.

Dave Waller, MyKnowledgeMap’s Operations Director, and Tom Holland, Communications Director, have had a paper entitled 'Managing skills and knowledge using online tools' published in the most recent Journal of Workplace Learning.

The new members’ area of the National Skills Academy Process Industries website will be launched at the National Skills Conference on 30th April.

We have been shortlisted for the ALPS system, a service platform allowing tutors at five Yorkshire Universities to send assessments and supporting materials to the mobile devices of Health and Social Care students on work-based practice.

MyKnowledgeMap discussed the creation and reusability of resources in repositories at the ‘Open educational repositories: share, improve, reuse’ conference, held in Edinburgh.

MyKnowledgeMap is restructuring as part of a new business strategy to reposition ourselves as a more powerful learning technology company.

The new National Skills Academy for Process Industries (NSAPI) website, designed by MyKnowledgeMap, has been launched. MyKnowledgeMap completely redesigned the site to create a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.

Dr Tom Holland, MyKnowledgeMap's Director of Communications, conducted a popular seminar entitled 'Really Managing e-Learning: Breaking Free of the LMS'.

MyKnowledgeMap is teaming up with the Retail Academy and EIfEL to provide the e-portfolio system for a European initiative seeking to promote informal learning in the workplace.

The MyKnowledgeMap website has been completely redesigned and now offers a much better representation of the broad spectrum of our work.

The new component is called Compendle Author and has been designed to allow tutors, trainers, and anyone with an interest in e-learning to create professional-standard e-learning content quickly and easily.

Rob Arntsen, MyKnowledgeMap’s CEO, provoked a lively debate at this year’s ALT-C about the relevance of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) within modern educational institutions. The debate was a result of Rob’s keynote address entitled ‘Reflections and questions on the changing role of technology in education’.

MyKnowledgeMap has relaunched the Compendle tool with brand new functionality and a new look. It is now easier than ever to gather, manage, organise and publish course materials.

MyKnowledgeMap is delighted to announce achieving ISO 9001:2000.

MyKnowledgeMap has teamed up with The Multimedia City and Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu-National-Louis University to co-found the European Institute for Technology in Education (EITE).

Rob Arntsen, MyKnowledgeMap’s CEO, joined the Chartered Management Institute last week at the launch of their new research report. The research delves into the latest trends in management and leadership training, and Rob was there to present his observations on recent developments.

MyKnowledgeMap are pleased to announce our partnership with leading digital repository provider Intrallect to deliver solutions that make learning resources easier to manage, repurpose, share and distribute across organisations.

MyKnowledgeMap has received a £250,000 investment from YFM Group managed Yorkshire & Humber Equity Fund (YHEF). We plan to utilise the investment for ambitious expansion plans.

We are delighted to announce that our mobile learning and assessment program for ALPS has won the award for Mobility Project of the Year at Techworld 2008. The ALPS system incorporates one of MyKnowledgeMap’s flagship products, Multi-Port Mobile, an innovative personal learning space system.

MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) was delighted to support the launch of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear last week at an event held at the Science Museum, London.

MyKnowledgeMap has recently returned from a successful exhibition at an international networking event in Vienna sponsored by UK Trade Investment (UTI) and the British Commonwealth Office.

Cogent, the Sector Skills Council for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Petroleum and Polymers have commissioned MyKnowledgeMap to produce a Passport and Upskilling Platform that records personal learning and development.