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Lausanne (CH), June 2010 – Following its recent launch, the iPad has proven
to be an instant hit for millions of consumers. It has also been a great
success in the classrooms of Swiss Business School IMD. "After having
piloted the iPad in a partnership programme with Allianz Global Investors
at the beginning of May, I am convinced that this device will
revolutionize executive education", states IMD Professor Bettina Büchel.
"The feedback from IMD Faculty, staff, and the participants was
overwhelmingly positive."
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| Dialogue |
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The Potential of Open Educational Practices |
 Brussels (B), June 2010 - Can
increased use of ICT and new media, self-regulated learning, and the
intelligent use of open educational resources drive the creative learning
experience? Roberto Carneiro of the Catholic University of Portugal offers
his perspective on the Spotlight on Open Educational Practices.
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| Sustainability |
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DuPont Develops eLearning Series for Energy Efficiency |
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Wilmington, DE / Virginia Beach, VA (USA), June 2010 - DuPont Training
Solutions powered by Coastal has released the DuPont™ Energy Efficiency
eLearning series. The sixteen online courses are designed to help
industrial facilities around the world improve energy efficiency and
profitability and are now available for free demonstration.
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| Authoring & Publishing |
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Plateau Expands iContent |
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London (UK), June 2010 - Plateau Systems, a provider of SaaS solutions for
talent management, has expanded its iContent solution to include
best-in-class content-authoring and publishing capabilities. Under the
terms of a renewed agreement with Trivantis Corporation, Plateau will
bundle Trivantis’ integrated content-authoring tool, Lectora Online with
Plateau’s iContent Content-as-a-Service (CaaS), offering to provide
customers with an easy way to create and publish content directly to
iContent.
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| Ranking |
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Best Web Conference Solution: Gold Award for Netviewer |
 Ogden, UT (USA) /
Karlsruhe (GER), June 2010 – Following a wide-ranging test comparing
products from different providers, Netviewer Meet 6.0 was presented with
the Gold Award for the best web-conference solution by TopTenREVIEWS. The
website features in-depth technology tests and product comparisons in more
than 350 categories.
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| Thinking Worlds |
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Serious Games Challenge Winners Announced |
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London (UK), June 2010 - Caspian Learning challenged both novice and expert
users alike to create the most innovative serious game in just thirty days.
The entries were whittled down to two finalists whose games were selected
based on how well the entrant used Thinking Worlds innovatively to create
a game with a good storyline and good use of learning interactions.
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| Collective Learning |
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Community ePortfolios for all? |
 London (UK), June 2010 -
While a great deal of effort has been devoted to research on the
individual ePortfolio and its implementation, the idea of a community
ePortfolio has hardly been explored. Delegates to the London ePortfolio
Conference (05-07 July 2010) will have the pleasure of listening to Darren
Cambridge, who will present an "ePortfolio City in Augusta, Arkansas."
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| Web Portal |
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TRIO Wins IMS Learning Impact Leadership Award |
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Florence (IT), June 2010 - Giunti Labs has been given a "Learning Impact
Leadership Award" at this year’s IMS Learning Impact Awards. Giunti Labs,
along with Italy’s Region of Tuscany, received the award for "Building
Europe's largest lifelong learning for employment initiative". The project
– known as the Training Innovation Research and (job) Orientation (TRIO) –
uses the Moodle LMS and the HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR).
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| Financial Sector |
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Edvantage Group Partners with KESDEE |
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Oslo (NO), June 2010 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and Managed
Learning Service provider, has entered into a reseller agreement with
KESDEE, the world's largest financial eLearning company. Together, they
will provide specialised learning resources and on-demand eLearning
content for the financial-services industry.
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| Expansion |
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Learn.com Increases Its Global Distribution Network |
 Sunrise, FL (USA), June
2010 - Learn.com® has announced the signing of several strategic partner
agreements in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America as part of the
company's ongoing expansion to deliver its cloud-based Knowledge Platform
to global markets.
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| Recognition |
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NetDimensions Wins 2010 Technology Company Award |
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Wan Chai, Hong Kong (CN), June 2010 – NetDimensions, a provider of
performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems has won
Computerworld Hong Kong’s coveted 2010 HK Technology Company of the Year
Award.
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| Luminosity |
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Rapid Translation of eLearning Courses |
 Bristol (UK), June 2010 -
CM Luminosity has announced a new rapid- translation-support module. It
fits alongside the Luminosity rapid eLearning authoring software and
allows the automatic output of XLIFF documents that are ready for
translation by the chosen translation method. XLIFF is the industry
standard XML document format for content translation and localisation.
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| eAssessments |
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AAT Phases Out Paper-Based Exams |
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Shipley (UK), June 2010 - The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)
has announced that computer-based assessments will be central to its
revised qualification, due to be launched in July 2010. The AAT has been
using BTL’s Surpass e-Assessment solution to deliver exams for a while
now, whilst also offering the option of a paper-based exam.
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| Career Development |
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Personalised Assessment Centre |
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London (UK), June 2010 – CrossKnowledge has joined forces with eGoPrism®,
launching a solution to help HR departments, temping, and recruitment
agencies - or even job centres - to address the major challenge they face
in terms of accompaniment: implementing the large-scale individualisation
of assessment programmes.
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| Change |
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New President of EDEN |
 Budapest (HU), June 2010 - Morten Flate Paulsen, Professor
of Online Education at NKI Distance Education, Norway, has been elected
the new President of the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). He
will take over from the current President, Alan Tait, Pro-Vice-Chancellor
at the Open University, UK. The announcement was made in June at the EDEN
2010 Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain.
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| Structure & Share |
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Introducing a New Learning Calendar |
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London (UK), June 2010 - With the rise of web 2.0 tools and social media,
teachers are increasingly looking for hi-tech ways of communicating,
collaborating, and saving time. English-language teachers now have a new
way to plan and schedule online resources with the launch of the Learning
Calendar on onestopenglish.com.
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| Opening Education |
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Join the EFQUEL Innovation Forum |
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Lisbon (PT), June 2010 – This year’s EFQUEL Innovation Forum, the fourth in
the series of European gatherings, will take place in Lisbon in
collaboration with the Catholic University of Portugal and the National
Institute for Public Administration of Portugal. The dates are 08-10
September.
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| Networking |
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World of Learning in Birmingham |
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Birmingham (UK), June 2010 - Now in its eighteenth year, the World of
Learning Conference & Exhibition invites learning and development
professionals to the NEC in Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday, 28- 29
September 2010.
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| Long-Term Planning |
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Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society |
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Lugano/Ascona (CH), June 2010 - The New Media in Education Laboratory
(NewMinE Lab) of the University of Lugano (USI) is organizing the
international "red-conference – rethinking education in the knowledge
society" in collaboration with the Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne and the University of Sankt Gallen. It will take place at Centro
Stefano Franscini, situated at Monte Verità, from 07-10 March 2011.
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