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Red Cross Offering Pandemic Preparedness Course Online |
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Statesville, NC (USA), May 2009 - As reports of cases of swine flu continue
to grow, many people in the US are taking measures to ensure they are
protected. The American Red Cross Greater Carolinas Chapter is offering
online courses in Pandemic Preparedness.
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| Leadership |
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New Director for the European Training Foundation |
Turin (IT), May 2009 - Madlen Serban, Director of the National Centre for
Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Romania, has been
appointed as the next Director of the European Training Foundation.
Following a public recruitment procedure, the ETF’s Governing Board chose
Ms. Serban from a short list of three candidates put forward by the
European Commission.
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| Resource Management |
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Swiss Hospital Chooses IMC AG's LIVECONTEXT |
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Saarbrücken (GER)/Wallisellen (CH), May 2009 – The Swiss Hospital
Bruderholz (KSB) is to take advantage of the benefits provided by
LIVECONTEXT for its future delivery and resource management. IMC AG’s
"Electronic Performance Support System" will be implemented for the
production and administration of patient schedules.
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| EU-Funded Research |
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Immersed in Real-time Learning |
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Sestri Levante (IT), May 2009 - Leading-edge research under the 36-month,
12.9m euro project awarded by the European Commission to a consortium of
thirteen leading European organisations is close to being able to use grid
and cloud computing to provide the computing resources to bring learners
together in both the real and virtual worlds.
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| Travel Safety |
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Edvantage Group Cooperates with Planet Wise |
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Brighton (UK), May 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and
managed- learning service provider, has been awarded the contract to
provide travel-safety experts Planet Wise with four bespoke eLearning
modules focussing on UK travel safety, international travel safety, data
security, and car safety.
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| Spanish Cuisine |
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ELearning: Professional Chef Discovery Series |
 New York (NY), Sigüenza
(ES), May 2009 – The Culinary Institute of America is collaborating with
the Instituto Español de Gastronimía (IEG) to offer online courses on
Spanish and Mediterranean cuisine. On "Worlds of Flavor Spain", the best
of Spanish food, wine, and cooking can now be explored. Through
broadcast-quality digital streaming video and digital still photography,
food lovers can delve deeply inside top restaurant kitchens, wineries,
agriculture and food production, markets, festivals, and more.
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| New Vice President |
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OutStart Appoints Matthias Schulz for European Sales |
 Boston, MA (USA)/ Berlin
(GER), May 2009 - OutStart Inc. has promoted Matthias Schulz to vice
president of European Sales, a newly created position. In addition to
leading European Sales, Mr. Schulz will continue as the managing director
of Berlin-based OutStart GmbH.
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| Housing Sector |
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Tenant Training eLearning Partnership Breaks New Ground |
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Ilkley (UK), May 2009 - The Housing e-Academy, part of online training
provider Virtual College, is driving forward the adoption of eLearning
within the UK housing sector and is celebrating the success of a flagship
tenant training pilot project in Lancashire.
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| Stay Up to Date |
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ALT and eLearning Network Announce Lunchtime Webinars |
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Oxford (UK), May 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology and the
eLearning Network are running a series of free ninety-minute lunchtime
webinars. The first webinar in the series, Using Webinars for Real-Time
Learning, on 01 May had over ninety bookings.
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| New Chair |
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Jim Davidson Hands the FLAG to Rod Arthur |
 Brisbane (AU), May 2009 - Jim Davidson recently stepped down
as Chair of the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG), which manages the
national training system's eLearning strategy, the Australian Flexible
Learning Framework (Framework). He had been at the helm more than six
years.
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| Advanced Qualification |
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Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Publishing |
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London (UK), May 2009 - Internet research and training experts Econsultancy
have announced the launch of their Postgraduate Diploma in Digital
Publishing, a new specialist professional qualification that covers every
aspect of digital publishing.
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| Blended Learning |
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Engaging Students in the Curriculum |
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Hatfield (UK), May 2009 - Registration is now open for the Fourth
International Blended Learning Conference: "Engaging Students in the
Curriculum" on 17 and 18 June. The Conference is run by the University of
Hertfordshire’s Blended Learning Unit in partnership with the Higher
Education Academy and in association with the University of Calgary and
the University of Queensland.
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| Partners Wanted |
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Benchmarking eLearning Courses in Higher Education |
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Helsinki (FI), May 2009 – A benchmarking project from the University of
Applied Sciences in Helsinki is looking for international partners. The
objective of the 2009 project is to support teachers of Universities of
Applied Sciences in the development of more authentic online teaching and
learning and to consider elements of authentic learning from a
multi-cultural perspective.
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| Forum New Media |
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Peter Scott: Opening New Channels for Learners |
 Vienna (AT), May 2009 –
The Forum New Media Austria (fnm) will take place in Vienna on 30 June and
01 July 2009. As a preview, here are excerpts from the keynote by Peter
Scott below (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University): "The online
world for both learners and teachers is now a very rich and complex place.
Some powerful learning resources are proprietary, whilst others are free
and open.
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| Professional Development |
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Project-based Learning in Romanian Schools |
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Bucharest (RO), April 2009 – (by Elena Lita) Oracle Education
Foundation (OEF) welcomed over 100 teachers to its first Project Learning
Institute in Romania. The training event, also a first in Europe, was held
at Mihai Viteazul National College, Bucharest from 13-16 April 2009.
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| Higher Education |
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Call for Participation - Podcast University 2009 |
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Osnabrück (GER), May 2009 – The Podcast University 2009 takes place 02-03
September in Osnabrück, Germany. The conference is being held in English
for the first time and offers lectures and workshops on pedagogical and
technical issues.
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| Designs on eLearning |
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International Conference on Teaching with Technology |
 London (UK), May 2009 -
Following on the success of previous Designs on eLearning international
conferences since 2005 in the use of technology for teaching and learning
in Art, Design and Communication, Designs on eLearning 2009 will be held
at the University of the Arts, London, 02-04 September 2009.
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| Call For Papers |
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ELearning Excellence in the Middle East 2010 |
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Dubai (UAE), May 2009 - The Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University has announced
the third Annual Forum on eLearning Excellence in the Middle East from
01-04 February 2010. The title is "Bringing Global Quality to a Local
Context". Experts engaged in the implementation of excellence in eLearning
are invited to share their experiences and practices.
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