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Insight into the eLearning Industry |
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Hampshire (UK), June 2007 - Bourne Training, a provider of bespoke
eLearning to the corporate and adult education markets, has published the
results of "To Buy or To Build", an industry-wide survey to help
understand the practitioner's view of eLearning today.
Undertaken over a three-month period, the survey reviewed three areas: How
eLearning is currently being used across a range of organisations; the
relative benefits of outsourcing development and in-house authoring; and
views on eLearning in the future.
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| Innovation in Italy |
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Exploring the Key Themes for Corporate Learning |
 Sestri Levante (I), June 2007 – (by Bob Little)
Serious games, mobile learning, and virtual learning worlds were the key
themes at the 'Training in Action - Innovate to Compete' conference held
in Sestri Levante, Italy. It was hosted by Giunti Labs, Europe's leading
vendor of eLearning and mobile learning content management solutions
(LCMS).
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| Euro Info Centre Network |
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ESN and Epic Team up for EU eLearning |
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Brighton (UK) / Brussels (BE), June 2007 – The EU has actively promoted
eLearning for nearly a decade, but the European Commission itself has so
far made very little use of eLearning. With help from European Service
Network and its British sub-contractor, Epic, the Commission's
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has recently launched the
first in a series of eLearning modules for the 3,000 staff of the EU-wide
Euro Info Centre network.
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| Centre of Excellence |
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Council Wins Awards by Closing Staff Skills Gaps |
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York (UK), June 2007 – The West Lothian Council has been using a tool from
York-based MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) to analyse soft skills. The tool helps to
highlight skills gaps within the organisation as a whole, as well as for
specific departments and individuals. The bespoke, easy-to-use system
developed and provided by MKM contributed greatly to the Council’s being
named a 'Centre of Excellence' by the Institute of Customer Service.
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| Open Journal |
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Emerging Technologies in Learning |
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Vienna (A), June 2007 – The second issue of the International Journal of
Emerging Technologies in Learning - iJet - has just been published. It
focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as
on the presentation of practical experience gained while developing and
testing elements of technology-enhanced learning.
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| Second Conference |
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eLearning Africa Comes to a Successful Conclusion |
 Nairobi (KE)/ Berlin (GER), June 2007 - The second eLearning
Africa conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training came to a
close on 30 May. Experts from 88 countries spanning all continents
gathered during the three conference days in Nairobi, Kenya. The
accompanying first African High-Level Policy Maker and Industry Leader
Round Table and Retreat also proved to be a resounding success.
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| eHealth |
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Belgacom Sets up eLearning at University Clinics |
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Brussels (BE), June 2007 - Personnel of the University Clinics Saint-Luc
are using eLearning as a new tool for training. They are now able to
profit from continuous training in fields as varied as the reception of
new patients, hospital hygiene, and the management of the pain. The
contents of these modules were developed within the institution by
professionals working in these fields.
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| Flexibility |
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RapideL Discover Overcomes Design Challenges |
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Jersey City, NJ (USA), June 2007 – Research done by Brainvisa, a
fast-growing learning solutions company, has revealed that one of the
gravest challenges faced in the use of Rapid eLearning methodologies is
control over the look and feel of the course output. Instructional
Designers and Subject Matter Experts are now able to discover new
flexibility in design with templates that various tools provide.
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| Guinness Trust |
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Using Rapid eLearning to Produce Online Courses |
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Southampton (UK), June 2007 – Guinness Trust is just one of a number of
companies now seeing the benefits of developing their own online training
courses. The Trust is a nationwide housing association originally founded
by the great-great grandfather of the Guinness Brewery to "improve the
condition of the poorer classes of the working population of London".
Being a charity, it is important for the Trust to keep the costs of
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| French Start Up |
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EMOB - More than 400 Computer Training Videos |
 Toulon (F), June 2007 –
EMOB, a very innovative platform for training-on-demand to help
Francophones improve their software skills, has just gone online after two
years of development. Computer users seeking training in Photoshop, Word,
Outlook, Excel, and other applications can find exactly the video they
need.
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| Worthy Initiative |
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Respecting Choices® Chooses Meridian LMS |
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Chantilly, VA (USA), June 2007 - Meridian Knowledge Solutions LLC has
announced that their Learning Management System has been selected by the
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, Inc. to be the technological
backbone of Respecting Choices®, the Foundation’s advance care planning
program, to support program participants on a worldwide basis.
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| Learning Technologist |
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Peter Norvig from Google to Present New Award |
 Oxford (UK), June 2007 - The UK's Association for Learning Technology
(ALT) is organising the inaugural Learning Technologist of the Year Award.
The Award's overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice
and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. The award
will replace the eTutor and eTool of the Year Awards previously run by the
Higher Education Academy.
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| New Office |
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Giunti Labs Expands into Germany |
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Sestri Levante (I), June 2007 - Having recently entered the North American,
South American, and Spanish markets, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor
of eLearning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has
expanded its international presence even further by establishing an office
in Frankfurt, Germany and specifically targeting the German-speaking
markets for LCMSs.
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| Call for Papers |
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Workshop on Open Source and Standardization |
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Duisburg/Essen (GER), June 2007 - At the beginning of November 2007, the
first international workshop on "The Trends and the Future of Open Source,
Open Content and Standardization" will take place in Japan. This new annual
meeting focusing on Open Source and Standardization in eLearning will be
launched as part of the well-established "International Conference on
Computers in Education (ICCE)", which invites participants to its
fifteenth edition, convening in Hiroshima from the 5th until the 9th of
November.
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| Second Life Conference |
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Where Virtual Meets Real Life |
 Berlin (GER), June 2007 – Virtual
will meet real life in Berlin at the first European Second Life
conference. The gathering will take place from September 16 – 18, 2007 and
is being held at the landmark Park Inn Hotel, situated at the German
capital’s famous Alexanderplatz. The event comprises a one-day workshop
and a two-day program.
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| CSSW2007 |
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SABRE Conference on Social Semantic Web |
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Leipzig (GER), June 2007 – The concept of Social Software was coined to
characterize a variety of software and services on the Web that make new
ways of communication possible and exploit social interactions for
creating large content bases from a multitude of user contributions. The
conference on this topics – called CSSW 2007 – is hosted by the University
of Leipzig from 24 to 28 September 2007 in Germany.
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| Call for Papers |
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International Austrian Moodle Conference |
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Graz (A), June 2007 – "Protection of Data Privacy in Moodle" is the theme
of the fourth Austrian Moodle Conference. The event takes place at the
CAMPUS 02 of the University of Applied Science, Graz, from 13th to 14th
September 2007. Submission of papers is possible till the end of June.
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