| The Netherlands |
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Blackboard Signs Nationwide Agreement |
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Amsterdam (NL), January 2008 - Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of
enterprise technology to the education community, has announced that it
has signed a major three- year nationwide eLearning expansion agreement
with SURFdiensten and SLBdiensten in the Netherlands. SURFdiensten
facilitates the use of ICT in higher education and research, while
SLBdiensten provides licenses for vocational, secondary, and adult
education. Over a million students in the Netherlands and Belgium
currently access Blackboard’s software.
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| Neighborhood Watch |
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Steven Johnson's View on Digital Culture |
 Boston, MA (USA), January 2008 – (by Manuel Aineto) Steven
Johnson is one of the fundamental analysts of digital culture of the last
decade. Essay writer, popular science divulgator, and also Internet
enterprising, he comments here on outside.in, his last initiative on the
Web to provide users with information about what happens around their own
neighbourhoods.
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| Vendor Innovation |
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Mohive’s eLPS Among Learning Leaders |
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Oakland, CA (USA)/Oslo (N), January 2008 - ELearning business Mohive
announced that it has been awarded Learning Leader status by the leading
independent research and advisory firm Bersin & Associates. Bersin &
Associates’ researchers recognized Mohive’s eLearning Publishing System in
the Learning Leaders’ inaugural "Vendor Innovation" category.
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| eGovernment |
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The French Finance Ministry Introduces eTraining |
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Nantes (F), January 2008 - As part of its strategy to becoming a true
eTraining institute, the Institute for Public Management and Economic
Development (IGPDE - Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement
Economique), a training organisation for the French economic and budgetary
ministries, has set up a monitored eTraining system based on the MEDIAplus
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IMC (UK) Learning Ltd Wins Major Tender |
 Sevenoaks
(UK), January 2008 - IMC’s learning management system CLIX overcame
intense competition from a number of established players in the UK to win
the Fire Service College tender for the implementation of a new Managed
Learning System. Alongside CLIX, IMC’s rapid authoring tool LECTURNITY
will be used to enhance the creation and delivery of learning and
communications content for the Fire Service College. Implementation of the
CLIX system, hosted initially by IMC, is starting immediately with an
initial 24-month contract.
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| ConWeaver |
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Intelligent Searches in Enterprise Enviromnments |
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Darmstadt (GER), January 2008 - Structured corporate knowledge has many
advantages: An effective search for information enables the staff to cope
better with tasks, to realize new ideas in a shorter time, and to direct
decisions more precisely. However, the preparation, structuring, and
evaluation of the information compiled in the enterprise takes a lot of
time and effort, and the retrieval of relevant data is also difficult. A
new application called ConWeaver enables firms to fight their way through
the information jungle and has already been successfully used in many
real-worlds scenarios.
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| Romania |
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What do Banks Look for in an eLearning Solution? |
 Bucharest (RO), January 2008 – (by Elena Lita) ING
Bank Romania has taken a step further in addressing its training needs.
Now the bank is training its employees with the INTUITEXT solutions.
Laura-Elena Duta, INTUITEXT’s Corporate eLearning Product Manager, was
kind enough to speak to us about this project within the dynamic context
of the Romanian banking sector, which is growing continuously.
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| Rollout |
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Lectora 2008 Expands eLearning Authoring Potential |
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Cincinnati, OH (USA), January 2008 - Trivantis Corporation, specialising in
eLearning authoring and publishing tools, has announced the rollout of the
new Lectora 2008 line of software, which includes new capabilities to meet
the needs of both novice and highly-experienced eLearning content
developers. Lectora Publisher, Lectora Professional Publishing Suite, and
special language versions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German have
been widely adopted around the world because of their ease of use and
reliability coupled with their ability to produce complex, interactive
multimedia content.
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| Growing Business |
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Kineo Appoints Operations Director |
 Brighton (UK), January 2008 - Rapid eLearning provider Kineo has
announced the appointment of Nick Reed as the company’s new Director of
Operations. Nick’s appointment follows Kineo’s strong growth throughout
2007 and further expansion plans for 2008.
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| eLearning Suite |
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Launch of "What’s new in Office 2007" |
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Brussels (BE), January 2008 – Instruxion, a Brussels-based firm that
specializes in computer-based training has launched a new suite of
quick-start modules about Microsoft Office 2007. These short, animated
modules have been developed for users and organizations who migrate from
earlier versions of Office to the new 2007 version. This voice-over guided
and animated eLearning is available in English, French and Dutch and has
been developed in collaboration with the ICT training organization Xylos.
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| Intel Programme |
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Kenya Launches eLearning in Schools |
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Nairobi (KE), January 2008 - Kenya has become the third African country to
launch eLearning facilities in secondary schools. The programme by Intel,
and whose only other beneficiaries are South Africa and Nigeria, was
launched at Kamiti Secondary School in the outskirts of Nairobi. The
programme enables students to be taught through information communication
technology (ICT) and is a collaboration effort between the Ministry of
Education and several local and multinational ICT companies.
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| ICT in Education |
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Maltese project wins EUN eLearning Awards |
 Brussels (BE), January 2008 - The project 'Rescue
La Vallette: An Adventure in Time' from the Dun Anton Manche school in
Malta won the Young Digital Planet Award for best use of ICT at the 7th
eLearning Awards. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the EMINENT
Conference in Brussels. The Award is organized by European Schoolnet.
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| British Visit |
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Representatives Inspired by Norwegian Schools |
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Oslo (NO), January 2008 - A group of UK education authorities have spent
two days in Oslo observing how their Norwegian colleagues are using ICT
technology in education. Education in the UK is receiving a great deal of
attention, as government policies and initiatives aim to 'Build Schools
for the Future' and equip students with the skills that they will need in
their working life ahead.
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| EFQUEL |
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New Project Involvements and New Secretary General |
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Brussels (BE), January 2008 – The New Year has started with positive news
and changes. Three new EU-funded projects with strong EFQUEL participation
have been approved and have started their work. Furthermore, the EFQUEL
Board has announced the new position of Secretary General.
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| Agreement |
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The Open University UK joins Santander Universities |
 London (UK), January, 2008 - The Open University has signed an agreement
with Abbey, part of the Santander Group, to join Santander Universities, an
international scheme that already supports 575 universities in Spain, the
United States, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom.
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| Knowledge Bridge |
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The Water-Online-Network (WON) Launched Successfully! |
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Essen (GER), January 2008 – The Water-Online-Network (WON) has been
launched to increase the knowledge about sustainable water management and
to facilitate the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD),
especially in the development and dissemination of valuable eLearning
solutions. It is part of the Knowledge Bridge Project funded by the EC.
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| Exhibition and Conference |
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Driving Workforce Performance through Learning |
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London (UK), January 2008 - Learning Technologies, Europe's
organisational-learning event, now in its ninth year, returns on Wednesday
30 and Thursday 31 January 2008 at London Olympia. Over three hundred
learning professionals from many of Europe's largest organisations are
expected to attend the accompanying conference. The theme for this year’s
conference is driving workforce performance through learning and
development and is presented by forty of the learning industry’s leading
experts and visionaries.
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| Award |
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Excellent ICT for Development Project |
 Bonn
(GER)/Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), January 2008 - KhmerOS, a partner of InWEnt
-Capacity Building International, Germany, has won the second prize in the
prestigious international Stockholm Challenge GKP Award in the category
"economic development". The award is given for excellent examples of
implementations of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that
show clear benefits to people and their communities, wide impact, and
sustainable business models. The award was established to stimulate
innovation within multi-stakeholder partnerships in Knowledge for
Development.
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| Update |
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iLearning Forum Paris 2008 |
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Paris (F), January 2008 - The third edition of iLearning Forum Paris, an
exhibition and conference, will take place on Monday and Tuesday, February
4-5, 2008 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. The Forum, organized by
iLearn Forum Ltd and EIfEL, is now the largest international eLearning
event in France and attracts learning and human resources professionals
from all over Europe and worldwide.
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| Review |
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O'Reilly Releases Using Moodle - Second Edition |
 Sebastopol, CA (USA),
January 2008 – "Extending the Chalk-and-Talk Classroom with the Open
Source CMS" is the subtitle of the newly published second edition of Jason
Cole’s and Helen Foster’s Using Moodle, a book published by the O'Reilly
Community Press. The book is written for teachers who use Moodle to teach
or enhance their courses. It covers Moodle 1.8 and is tied to the Moodle
Teacher Certification standards, making it the ideal reference for
teachers interested in the popular eLearning platform.
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