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Paris (FR), March 2007 – The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning
(EFQUEL) has nominated two innovators to be honored with the first
eQuality Awards, for using ICT to improve the quality and organisational
relevance of learning. The prizewinners are the organisations that have
demonstrated the highest quality of innovative use of learning
technologies in support of learning and development.
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| Development Programme |
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Intel® Teach in Romania |
 Bucharest (RO), March
2007 – (by Elena Lita) It is planned to train more than 60,000
Romanian teachers as part of the Intel Teach programme, officially
launched in Romania by the signature of a cooperation protocol between
Intel Corporation and The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. As
this initiative represents an important moment for the Romanian
educational system, it seemed like a good time to chat about it with Mr.
Irinel Burloiu, Intel Business Development Manager in Romania.
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| Strategic Plans |
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Trainer1 Exports eLearning Expertise to Russia |
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London (UK) / Moscow (RU), March 2007 – Trainer1, a UK learning
consultancy, is supplying its eLearning expertise and experience to
Business Training Russia (BTR), one of Russia's short-term business
education and training companies.
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| Partnership |
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Caspian Learning Closes Deal with WiedzaNet |
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Sunderland (UK), March 2007 – Caspian Learning, a global leader in the use
of games and simulations to solve learning issues, has announced a
licensing deal with the Polish company WiedzaNet. As master distributor,
WiedzaNet will be able to use Caspian’s Thinking Worlds™ authoring engine
to develop and promote learning applications for the education and
corporate training sectors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia,
Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia.
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| British Education |
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Demos Publishes Report on School-Aged Learners |
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London (UK), March 2007 – Demos, the UK thinktank for everyday democracy,
published an eighty-page report entitled "Their Space: Education for a
Digital Generation", written by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon. The report,
which focuses on school-aged learners, questions some of the myths that
dominate current thinking about technology and education.
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| Sales Specialist |
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Mike Ramsay Appointed at Rhema Group |
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Rochester (UK), March 2007 – Rhema Group has appointed Mike Ramsay as their
Sales Training Specialist in the area of using leasing products to increase
sales for vendors and their value added resellers (VARs).
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| Practice Firms |
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Virtual Reality for Transport and Logistics Students |
 Melbourne (AU), March
2007 – An Australia-wide network of virtual practice firms is helping
drive more skilled young people toward jobs in the transport and logistics
sector. The TOLL Virtual program, which began in May 2006 and is now
operating in every state and territory, is a joint initiative of the
Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council and TOLL Holdings,
Australia’s largest transport and logistics service provider.
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| T-Learning |
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Giunti Labs Provides Platform for ELU Initiative |
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Sestri Levante (IT), March 2007 - Giunti Labs, an eLearning and mobile
learning content management solutions vendor has been selected as the
overall Learning Content Management platform provider for the ELU
(Enhanced Learning Unlimited) Initiative. ELU is a thirty-month European
project whose target is to develop innovative TV learning solutions for an
international consortium led by Ort France and including more than ten
European universities and broadcasters.
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| Adaptive Learning |
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RapideL Enables Creation of Branching Courses |
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Jersey City, NJ (USA), March 2007 – In mid-March this year, RapideL will
start to provide support for the pedagogically sound adaptive learning
techniques. Instructional designers and course authors will be able to
build simple branching courses to suit learners’ non-linear response to
content.
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| Bridge the Gap |
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ELearning Africa 2007 Launches TVET Summit |
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Nairobi (KE), March 2007 – The first African Technical Vocational Education
and Training (TVET) Summit "Access and Inclusion for TVET in Africa through
New ICT-Based Solutions" will take place in conjunction with this year's
eLearning Africa, the annual pan-African conference on ICT for
Development, Education and Training. The Summit will be held on 28 May
2007 in Nairobi.
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| TEL |
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PROLEARN Summer School 2007 for PhD Students |
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Frejus (FR), March 2007 – The third PROLEARN Summer School is being held
from 27 May to 2 June 2007 in Frejus, France. The target group is PhD
students investigating technology-enhanced learning-related issues and in
progress on their dissertation research.
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| EDEN 2007 |
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Registration for Annual Conference Open |
 Naples (IT),
March 2007 – The European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN) has
announced that online registration for the EDEN 2007 Annual Conference is
open. The Conference will take place in Naples, Italy from 13 to 16 June
2007 under the title "New Learning 2.0?: Emerging Digital Territories –
Developing Continuities – New Divides".
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| Conference Trilogy |
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ePortfolio in the Asia Pacific Region |
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Hong Kong (CN) / Melbourne (AU) / Wellington (NZ), March 2007 – EIfEL and
ePortfolio Australia have announced a trilogy of ePortfolio conferences in
Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Wellington between 19 and 30 March 2007. The tour
builds on the success of previous events held in Melbourne in 2004 and
Auckland in 2005. The events aim to showcase ePortfolio research and
practice in the region and encourage cooperation across continents and
cultures.
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| Call for Papers |
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Second ICQAHEA in Africa |
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Dar es Salaam (TZ), March 2007 - The UNESCO Harare Cluster Office, in
collaboration with the Open University of Tanzania, the Tanzanian National
Commission for UNESCO, and other partners in Africa and abroad, has
announced the Second International Conference on Quality Assurance in
Higher Education in Africa (ICQAHEA). It is scheduled to take place from
4–6 September 2007 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Papers or posters on
conference issues are to be submitted before 31 March 2007.
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