About Springest and the world of learning
On Saturday May 18th, the “Financieel Dagblad” (the Dutch Financial Times) published an article about the educational climate in the Netherlands. Ruben Timmerman, founder of Springest, explained the latest trends and developments concerning vocational rehabilitation (retraining), refresher courses and development budgets. The economical crisis has left a footprint in the private education market in the […]
In June 2013 Springest acquired MBA comparison website findyourMBA.com. Springest’s strategy is to build the worlds largest database of learning content covering courses, educational programs, learning tracks, video learning, e-learning and more. FindyourMBA offers Springest users a possibility to browse, review and compare MBA programs in many forms for more than 1500 MBA schools from […]
Reviews of former participants reflect the importance of quality for a course, which is why they play such a big role in the choice selection for courses. Springest donates £1 per submitted review to the EduKans charity in order to demonstrate the importance of reviews amongst the website. Recently, Springest NL reached the milestone of […]
Springest has launched a partnership with its new media partner Eventbrite. This partnership provides an opportunity for both Springest and Eventbrite to help one other in building a platform to promote and organise events in the best way possible.
We have put forth much effort this summer to expand the Springest team. In order to secure future growth, we hired a new COO that will start this coming September. His opening statement:
When you’re a company or entrepreneur, you’re likely to manage so many people or tasks that you’ll need a project management tool. This overload can lead to confusion and delays if you don’t manage or plan your activities well. In recent years, a wide range of project management tools popped up like daisies. The large […]
We’ve recently discovered the Learn! Foundation. Their goal is to create better opportunities for education of children and young adults in developing countries. Of course, we warm heartedly support that goal, similar to our continuing partnership with the Edukans Foundation. That’s why we have donated €600,- to their foundation just after Christmas. We hope others […]
Last night, the LOEY award 2011 was presented at the Taets Art Gallery. Springest founder Ruben Timmerman was nominated for the LOEY Starters Award and…………won! The LOEY award distinguishes the best entrepreneurs of the Dutch online industry. LOEY stands for Leading online Entrepreneur of the Year. Among the nominees for the award were none other […]
For the 19th year, the World of Learning conference & exhibition invites Learning & Development professionals to Birmingham, providing a platform for discussing trends and exchanging best practices for the international L&D industry. More than 100 UK and International business will show and demonstrate their products, services and solutions at the World of Learning exhibition, […]
Background One month ago Springest teamed up with Usabilla.com to investigate the trust perception of Learning & Development provider websites. The test was dispersed through social media networks gathering 33 responses. The motivation for this investigation was to optimise the overall perception of L&D provider websites trustworthiness in order to increase website activity and visitor […]
