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Nieuwe contracten voor Vuepoint, Thomson, Ninth House, Pathlore

New York-based Vuepoint Corporation has landed a major contract from Toyota
to train its 88,000 Toyota and Lexus dealers and corporate associates in the
United States. Vuepoint will design and implement an enterprise-wide
e-learning system that Toyota projects will pay for itself within 24 months
and realize an estimated net savings of $11.9 million over five years.
Vuepoint Learning System 3.0 will provide the base training infrastructure
for University of Toyota and allow it to consolidate numerous systems. The
platform integrates LCMS, LMS, authoring, and virtual collaboration.
Consultant Sapient Corporation is partnering on the implementation.

The Thomson Corporation is celebrating a new multi-year contract to provide
e-learning courses to General Motors employees via General Motors
University. Thomson"s Cardean University, which collaborates with leading
business schools, will expand its relationship with GMU to provide an e-MBA
program along with custom courses for GM"s automotive business. GM already
uses some of Cardean"s online executive and management development courses.
The agreement to expand the full suite of Cardean products to global GM
employees follows the successful integration initiated last April of the
GMU/Cardean HR Skills for Success program.

Ceridian Canada, Canada"s leading payroll management company, has selected
San Francisco-based Ninth House to supply online management training for a
performance improvement initiative that will focus on managers and customer
service. Ninth House courses, simulations, and Instant Advice tool are being
rolled out to Ceridian managers throughout the country as part of a program
to strengthen Ceridian"s management team across a dispersed workforce.

Delta Air Lines has selected Pathlore"s LMS to plan, deliver, and manage its
training programs. The initiative debuts in May with an enterprise-wide
simulation workshop on business literacy. Delta also will use Pathlore"s LMS
to deploy blended-learning programs. Other training initiatives will include
skills management, corporate compliance courseware, a content repository,
and professional development.

The first quarter has been good for eKnowledge Group. The Corona, California
provider of interactive multimedia-based training says it has landed
contracts with more than 250 government entities for use of its Public
Sector Training E-Ssentials, a series of e-learning training programs
designed specifically for public sector employees. The list of governments
includes Dallas, Texas, Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, King
County, Washington, among others.