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Epic combat Age Discrimination at work with eLearning |
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Brighton (UK), May 2008 - Age discrimination affects the aspiration of both
young and old, and prevents organisations from reaping the benefits of an
age-diverse workforce. Therefore Epic are supporting the Campaign for
Learning’s National Work day by making it’s Age Awareness eLearning
programme available free until June 5th. The programme is an engaging
60-minutes piece of online training.
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Knowledge Modules to be taken as quickly as pills |
London (UK), May 2008 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Knowledge Pills are
15-minute bits of eLearning that help employees to improve their soft
skills like leadership, time management, public speaking or web research.
They consist of text, photos, diagrams, illustrations and animations. It
is a stand-alone product, but the user behavior can be tracked by learning
platforms via AICC and SCORM. Companies pay 10 Euro per pill and user, but
a maximum of 1500 Euro per element. CHECK.point eLearning spoke
with Daniel Purlich about this business model.
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| Knowledge Management |
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U&I Learning wins contract with Infrabel |
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Ghent (BE), May 2008 - U&I Learning, the knowledge transfer company with
branches in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, has won an important
government contract with Infrabel. Infrabel is responsible for the daily
exploitation and the infrastructure of the Belgian railways. U&I Learning
will introduce an information standard and the technology to rewrite in a
consistent way thousands of documents about regulations. This will improve
the internal knowledge transfer at Infrabel.
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Weybridge (UK), May 2008 - The refrigeration industry is facing big
challenges! Not only is it under the spotlight to address environmental
issues such as refrigerant phase-out, containment and recycling, it is
also addressing the issue of severe skills shortages in a growing market
and that is a challenging problem! So REDTRAY helped Star Refrigeration to
lead the market through their innovative eLearning solution.
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As much as necessary, as little as possible! |
 Saarbruecken (GER)/London (UK), May 2008 - IMC AG
has released a considerably improved version of its learning management
system CLIX. "We put special emphasis on the improvement of event
management", says Frank Milius, board member at IMC responsible for
product development. "Learners benefit from clearer navigation whilst
administrators benefit from additional settings that accelerate and
simplify business processes."
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| Academic-Centric |
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Wimba Unveils Pronto in Europe |
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New York (USA)/ Manchester (UK), May 2008 – WimbaÒ, the education
technology company that helps people teach people, unveiled the new Wimba
Pronto™ to an international audience, at Blackboard’s annual European
Users Conference. Wimba Pronto is an academic-centric, instant messaging
platform designed specifically to advance and promote learning through a
unique set of tools. Featuring pre-populated classmates tab, online
tutoring and office-hours mode, and rich communications tools, Wimba
Pronto is different from other basic messenger platforms.
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Editorial Note |
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 Whitepaper:
Second Life as an eLearning
Platform
CHECK.point eLearning has analyzed the virtual world in regard to its
suitability for training and eLearning companies.
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| PRME initiative |
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Global Forum for Responsible Management Education |
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New York (USA), May 2008 – The Principles for Responsible Management
Education (PRME), a UN-backed global initiative developed to promote
corporate responsibility and sustainability in business education, has now
been endorsed by more than 100 business schools and universities from
around the world.
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| Fundamentals |
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Providing Learners with Feedback |
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London (UK), May 2008 - Giving learners feedback when they take assessments
is a valuable way to help them make cognitive connections and retrieve
correct information in the future. But how can feedback be used most
effectively? A new research paper licensed by Questionmark and published
by Dr. Will Thalheimer of Work-Learning Research examines this topic in
detail.
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| Conference on Fathering |
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Presentation of the DAD project on 5th June in Vienna |
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Vienna (A), May 2008 - Webducation has extended an open invitation to the
international conference on "How fathers-to-be discover parenting" and the
presentation of the DAD project to be made there. Speakers from Austria,
the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Sweden will give an international
perspective on topics such as motivating fathers to engage in baby care and
the influence and acceptance of paternity leave.
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European Training & Development Summit in Prague |
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Barcelona (E), May 2008 - Following the success of the HR Directors Summit
in Amsterdam in March this year, BME Global presents now ETD.08, European
Training & Development Summit from June 18th to 20th in Prague Congress
Centre. The aim of the Summit is to provide a platform to learn and to
teach your employees how to further develop and build on their skill sets
and to expand their Transnational relationships.
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| EFQUEL |
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Lisbon Forum on Quality and Innovation in Learning |
 Duisburg (GER)/Oeiras
(PT), May 2008 - The first EFQUEL Forum on Quality and Innovation in
Learning is organized together with INA, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
and Universidade Aberta, on 16-17 June 2008 in Oeiras, Portugal in the
facilities of INA. The main venue of the Forum is the Palace of the
Marquises of Pombal surrounded by beautiful gardens. This unique venue
provides an excellent environment for this Forum.
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| European competition |
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MEDEA Award 2008 Announces Prize Sponsorship |
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Roosbeek (BE), May 2008 - The MEDEA Award recognising excellence in the use
of media in education was launched during Online Educa Berlin 2007. This
unique new European competition aims to encourage, recognise and promote
innovation and good practice in the use of media in education.
Professionals and amateurs of all levels in education are invited to
participate. The closing date for submissions is 30 September 2008.
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| For small groups |
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Trainer1 launches practical eLearning courses |
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London (UK), May 2008 - Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading independent
eLearning specialists, has added four 'entry level' one-day training
courses to its portfolio of successful eLearning and instructional design
(ID) related courses.
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