| Knowledge on Demand |
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Analysis of the Merger of OutStart and EEDO |
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Oakland, CA (USA), September 2008 - Chris Howard, Principal Analyst of
Bersin & Associates, writes about the evolution of the LCMS Market toward
Learning On-Demand in Merger of OutStart and EEDO: Learning Content
Management Comes of Age in Bersin & Associates Research Bulletin Vol. 3,
No. 19, 2008. CHECK.point eLearning is providing here an excerpt of
the article; the full version is available through Bersin.com (membership
required).
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| Business News |
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Echelon Appoints Alistair Morrison as CEO |
 London (UK), September 2008 - The consultancy-led publishing house
Echelon Learning has appointed Alistair Morrison as its CEO. David Hill,
who has headed up Echelon Learning since its inception in 1986, will
becomes the company’s Chairman, while retaining the role of Services
Director to support key clients. Jenny Hill continues to lead the
company’s consultancy division.
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| Case Study |
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Swiss Computing Certificate Switches to Online Testing |
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Glattbrugg (CH), September 2008 - The Swiss Computing Certificate (SIZ),
established in 1991, examines professional information and communication
technology (ICT) skills in three languages. With around 150,000 diplomas
and more than half a million module examinations, the SIZ diploma has
become established among employers as a recognized certificate of
qualification.
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| Magazine to Grant Awards |
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ELearning Awards 2008 Shortlist Announced |
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Berkshire (UK), September 2008 - The shortlist for E-Learning Awards 2008
has just been announced by E.learning age - the UK's online magazine
focusing on learning, development, and technology issues. Well over fifty
organisations are now shortlisted in thirteen categories. It has been an
impressive year for entries, with more organisations than ever entering
the eLearning Awards.
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| Award |
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ALT Announces 2008 Winners |
 Oxford (UK), September 2008 - The Association for Learning
Technology announced the winners of the annual Learning Technologist (ALT)
of the Year Awards at its prestigious annual conference. The awards were
presented by David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per
Child. The two winning and three commended entries shared prizes totalling
£3,800.
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| Best Practice |
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Deadline for EureleA 2009: 20th October, 2008 |
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Karlsruhe (GER), September 2008 - The European eLearning Award is a
competition that is advertised all over Europe. Since 2004, outstanding
examples of teaching and learning with digital media have received
recognition. In the first five years of its existence, more than 400
projects from 21 countries were assessed, with the jury choosing six prize
winners each year.
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| Knowledge Management |
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A New Application for Collaborative Learning |
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Paris (FR), September 2008 – Momindum launches Momindum K-base 2.0, a
knowledge-management application based on "deep-tagging" technology. It
manages rich-media learning resources and facilitates collaborative
knowledge sharing between presenters and audience.
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| Education |
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ELearning Applications Introduced to Schools in Romania |
 Bucharest (RO), September
2008 - Over ninety primary and secondary schools all over the country were
provided with Myria Educational computers in the first part of 2008. This
was done through an extensive program sponsored by ALTEX, one of the
leading Romanian retailers of household electrical appliances,
electronics, ICT, and multimedia. Elena Lita of CHECK.point
eLearning writes about this large, nationwide programme to introduce
PCs and eLearning applications in Romania.
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| SeniorLearning |
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European eLearning platform for Senior Citizens (55+) |
 Barcelona (ES), September
2008 - A simple and easy-to-use eLearning platform recently went online
that is specifically designed for senior citizens (55+). The project
SeniorLearning is supported by the European Commission under the Lifelong
Learning Grundtvig Programme. It offers free access to practical,
structured, and easy-to-follow online courses that enable senior citizens
to learn how to use the Internet and benefit from its services.
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| Professional Development |
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Project on Strategic Competencies Successfully Completed |
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Kaunas (LT), September 2008 – The European Project "Development of
Strategic Individual Competencies" was recently successfully completed. It
resulted in a cross-nationally and cross-organizationally applicable
catalogue of strategic individual competencies, a methodology of strategic
individual competencies development, and an interactive self-assessment
tool. All are now available online in six different languages.
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| Bizzsupport project |
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Industry Round Tables on Corporate eLearning at OEB |
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Berlin (GER), September 2008 - How can a company add value to its business
with eLearning? This question will be handled from very different angles
by the presenters of this year's Industry Round Tables at OEB 2008. The
innovative applications that will be presented in this context are
designed for employee programmes, institutional education, as well as
customer retention.
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| DECOM Seminar 2008 |
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DECOM/ELIG Seminar at Giunti Lab User Group Event |
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Sestri Levante (IT), September 2008 – The DECOM 2008 Seminar on "Digital
Educational Publishing" is being organized by ELIG in partnership with its
member Giunti Labs and will be held at the latter’s headquarters in Sestri
Levante, Italy on October 23rd 2008. The event will comprise a set of
Keynote introductions followed by a set of ten thematic discussion tables
addressing the ten "Hottest Topics" facing educational publishing at the
beginning of the new millennium.
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| Event in China |
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First Enterprise Learning in China – November 2008 |
Shanghai (CN), September 2008 - Enterprise Learning China 2008 is the
first international exhibition and conference dedicated to employee
training and development solutions for Chinese businesses. It will be held
in Shanghai at the Pudong Expo on November 11th and 12th and focuses on
multinational and large national corporations based in China, especially
Shanghai.
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| Market Trends |
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UKS Showcase for its eContent Builders Model |
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Dubai (UAE), September, 2008 – UKS, the Middle East’s leading learning
solutions enabler showcased its eContent Builders Model for professional
development at the Plateau Annual User Conference - Insights 2008, held in
Phoenix, Arizona from September 14 - 17, 2008.
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| Academics |
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Rethinking the Digital Divide – ALT-C Conference Report |
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Leeds (UK), September 2008 - This year's ALT-C conference recently came to
a close. More than 700 delegates from fifteen countries gathered in Leeds
to discuss the topic of "Rethinking the Digital Divide". Simon Davis,
Learning Technologist from the University of Leeds, writes about his
personal insights into the conference and gives an overview of the keynote
contents.
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