| Business Merger |
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Pearson Acquires Fronter and Extends Market Position |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ (USA)/Oslo (NO), February 2009 - Pearson, an
international education and information company, has announced an
agreement to acquire Fronter, a European onlineLearning company, from its
co-founders Roger Larsen and Bjarne Hadland and other private investors,
including employees of the company.
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| High Standards |
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Quality Engineering Management - Made by Adobe |
 Bangalore (IN)/ Karlsruhe (GER), February 2009 - (by
Kirsten Seegmüller) Worldwide quality management needs a cohesive
approach. For this reason, Adobe Systems’ quality managers meet annually
to agree on standards and training. Kirsten Seegmüller spoke with Suresh
Jayaraman, who works as quality manager in Bangalore, India, where he is
responsible for both product quality and an efficient workflow.
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| User Training |
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U&I Learning Signs Framework Contract with the EC |
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Gent (BE), February 2009 - U&I Learning, an eLearning integrator active in
Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, has signed a contract with the
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) for the
delivery of eLearning services. This contract was awarded to U&I Learning
after an open call for tender procedure.
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| Investing in People |
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Cutting back on Training Is False Economy |
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London (UK), February 2009 - In times of financial turmoil, organisations
often look upon training as a soft target, and so it becomes one of the
first budgets to be reduced or even cut completely. Yet this can prove a
false economy, warns the organisation-development consultancy, Echelon.
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| Measuring Impact |
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Half of UK Businesses to Increase eLearning Spending in 2009 |
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Brighton (UK), February 2009 - A Brightwave survey has found that an
increased focus on measuring results will be key as eLearning spending
grows in 2009, whilst traditional training is axed. The survey has
revealed that almost sixty per cent of UK learning and development
professionals are under more pressure to measure the impact of eLearning.
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| Letter from UK |
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'Little’s Britain': True lies and lying truths |
 London
(UK), February 2009 - (by Bob Little) Surveys are ideal for
promoting a product or viewpoint. Among recent surveys published in the
UK: Among recent surveys published in the UK: A study of 1,322 British
workers has found that 82 per cent of people lie on behalf of their
managers daily; more than half have taken blame for a managerial error,
and one in three believes that their boss would be annoyed if they didn't
lie.
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| New Cooperation |
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Giunti Labs Partners with Stoas Learning |
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Sestri Levante (IT), February 2009 - The learning and
mobile-content-management-solution provider Giunti Labs has named Stoas
Learning, a Netherlands-based provider of digital learning solutions, as
one of its 'implementation partners'.
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| Authoring Tool |
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Atlantic Link Launches Content Point '09 |
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Nottingham (UK), February 2009 - The software solutions firm Atlantic Link
launched an exciting new version of its collaborative rapid eLearning
software solution Content Point at Learning Technologies in London. It is
a truly server-based, rapid eLearning tool for collaborative, remote
course authoring.
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| Continuing Training |
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EU Encouragement of Social Dialogue Pays Dividends |
 Thessaloniki (GR),
February 2009 - The recent joint study by Cedefop and Eurofound entitled
Contribution of Collective Bargaining to the Development of Continuing
Training demonstrates that collective agreements have a largely positive
impact on employee training. However, it also shows that training
provision in small and medium enterprises and training offered to workers
over 45, is still lagging behind.
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| Open Source |
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Enterprise Moodle Introduced |
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Baltimore MD/Santa Clara CA (USA), February 2009 – Sun Microsystems and
Moodlerooms are launching an open source eLearning platform with useful
integration features that is free of licensing costs. Enterprise Moodle is
now available as a professional implementation and certified to host up to
one million concurrent users.
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| Health Care |
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Coastal Presents a Free Video-on-Demand Trial |
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Virginia Beach, VA (USA), February 2009 - Coastal HealthTrain is offering a
free course via video-on-demand for the month of February. Infection
Control in Outpatient Facilities is a brief but comprehensive program that
outlines preventive measures against fatal illnesses like hepatitis, AIDS,
MRSA and MDROs.
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| Content |
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Speech Design Provides New WEB 2.0 Service to ICT Partners |
 Germering (GER), February
2009 - Speech Design, a provider of messaging and mobility solutions for
businesses and network operators, has announced the Web 2.0 service Share
for its ICT partners. The service is free of charge. This service provides
IT and TC retailers, system vendors, and distributors with web content for
products and solutions.
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| Personal Safety |
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Satellite-tracked Panic Alarm Launched for Mobile Devices |
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Blisworth (UK), February 2009 - A GPS panic alarm has been launched that
works in an existing mobile device and sends the exact location of a
person in trouble. The panic alarm is a key feature of the personal
tracking software developed by leading GPS tracking company VeriLocation.
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| ALT Events |
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EPortfolios to Support Women Returners to Employment |
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Oxford (UK), February 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
has announced two one-day events to disseminate the work of the
JISC-funded eReturn project. eReturn promotes the use of ePortfolios to
support women returners to employment, ensuring that they have an
electronic record of achievements from the variety of learning
establishments they may have studied at along with reflections,
presentations, and other material that can be used for employment
applications.
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| Best Practice |
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Top Ten Learning Tips from Learning Technologies Visitors |
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London (UK), February 2009 - Visitors at Learning Technologies 2009 gave
their top learning tips to help share best-practice learning and
development with peers. Premier IT asked visitors to provide a top
learning tip as part of their "Growing Great Ideas" themed exhibition
stand. A "Top 10 Learning Tips" list has been created from the most
popular and most creative answers given.
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| Get Connected |
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Learning Impact 2009 in Barcelona, Spain |
 Barcelona (ES), February
2009 - This year's theme of Learning Impact is "Leveraging Web
Applications and Enterprise Integration to Enable Innovation and
Creativity in Teaching and Learning". It takes place in conjunction with
the Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges from 11 - 14 May at the
Fira Palace Hotel in Barcelona.
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| Call for Cases |
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Contribute Your Experience on Transnational Learning |
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Riyadh (SA), February 2009 – The book Cases on Technological Adaptability
and Transnational Learning: Issues and Challenges is currently inviting
contributions. Editors are Dr. Siran Mukerji and Dr. Purnendu Tripathi
from the Arab Open University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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