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Making the Most of a Tight Training Budget |
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Bath (UK), July 2010 - Following the cuts, the job losses, and the pay
freezes, the public sector is faced with having to continue to provide the
same service with considerably less to offer staff. However there is
something the public sector can do in order to keep staff motivated and
better prepared to handle what lies ahead: Training.
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| Five Point Plan |
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Economic Competitiveness through Worker Competency |
 Florence (IT), July 2010 - Fabrizio Cardinali,
CEO of Giunti Labs and chair of the European Learning Industry Group
(ELIG), presented a five-point plan to ensure economic competitiveness
through worker competency at the recent Training Transformation Symposium,
held at the Royal School of Mechanical Engineering (RSME) in Chatham, Kent.
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| Sharing Knowledge |
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The Commonwealth of Learning in Action |
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Vancouver, BC (CA), July 2010 - Participants at a Virtual University for
Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) training workshop in Maldives
developed course materials for a Diploma in Sustainable Agriculture for
Small States. This is VUSSC’s first diploma-level programme.
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| Appointment |
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New Chief Learning Officer at Certpoint |
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Roslyn Heights, NY (USA), July 2010, Certpoint Systems, a provider of
integrated enterprise learning solutions, has announced the appointment of
Denis Finnegan as the company’s Chief Learning Officer. Denis will oversee
the effective implementation of Certpoint Systems’ learning platform
across its client base.
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| Language Learning |
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EF Englishtown Wins Prestigious Education Award |
 Hong Kong (HK), July 2010
- The online English language school EF Englishtown has received a
Comenius-EduMedia Award recognizing excellence in educational multimedia
services. The awards are given out by Germany’s Society of Pedagogy and
Information and are recognized throughout Europe for spotlighting
outstanding products in the field of high-tech educational media.
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| Cooperation |
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Business College Signs Contract with Fronter |
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Oslo (NO)/Copenhagen (DK), July 2010 - Fronter has announced that Niels
Brock Business College has just signed a three-year contract with the
company. Niels Brock had an older solution but realized that their demands
and expectations of a modern learning platform were not being met.
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| Workplace |
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White Paper on Rules of Engagement |
Coventry (UK), July 2010 - Employee engagement in the UK remains low
because employers are focusing on the wrong things, claims a white paper
produced by the Training Foundation. It offers thought-provoking insights
to employers that are worth considering in the light of their current
engagement strategies.
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| Toolkit |
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Free Compliance Question Bank from Saffron |
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London (UK), July 2010 - As instructional designers know, writing effective
test questions is one of the most difficult parts of their job. To provide
assistance with this tricky task, Saffron Interactive has released a bank
of questions that can be used to support compliance training courses.
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| Assessment |
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Questionmark adds Multilingual Interfaces |
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Norwalk, CT (USA), July 2010 – Assessment-software provider Questionmark
has announced the latest version of the Questionmark™ Perception™
assessment- management system, which features new multilingual
administrative, scheduling, browser-based authoring, and reporting
interfaces available in English, German and Dutch.
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| Guidance |
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Aurion Learning Celebrates Launch of Informing Families |
 Belfast (Northern
Ireland), July 2010 - Informing families that their child has a disability
is never an easy task, but now some help is at hand. The National
Federation of Voluntary Bodies and Equality, Disability, and Mental Health
Minister John Moloney have launched the Informing Families Project, which
has culminated in the development and launch of a range of tools and
materials designed to support best practice at the time of a child's
diagnosis with a disability.
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| Serious Games |
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CrossKnowledge Launches Third Generation |
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London (UK), July 2010 – CrossKnowledge argues that learning is at its best
when linked to having fun. In this vein, they have announced the launching
of unique third-generation serious games from September 2010 onwards.
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| Higher Education |
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Luminosity eLearning Software Available to Universities |
 Bristol (UK), July 2010
- CM Group has announced that it is making Luminosity, the distance
learning authoring software, available to the university and
higher-education sector. Following its success in the private sector,
universities and colleges can now benefit from the product to experience
significant increases in the scale and scope of their use of eLearning.
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| Upgrade |
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Improved Communication with Parents, Students, and Staff |
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Washington, DC (USA), July 2010 - Blackboard has announced several
enhancements to its AlertNow and Blackboard Connect mass notification
services for K-12 districts and schools. The Blackboard Connect platform
has added significant feature enhancements, including rich-text HTML
e-mail that enables users to create and send e-mails with formatted text,
embedded images, and hyperlinks using an intuitive interface.
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| EFQUEL Forum |
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Opening Education: Inclusive - Innovative - Excellent |
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Brussels (BE), July 2010 – The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning
(EFQUEL) is holding its fourth Innovation Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, from
08-10 September. The venue, the Palace of the former Marquises of Pombal,
in Oeiras, Lisbon, is surrounded by beautiful gardens. The event is being
convened in collaboration with the Catholic University of Portugal and the
Portuguese National Institute for Public Administration.
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| Keynote |
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David Patterson Speaks at IADIS International |
 Sheffield (UK), July 2010 - David Patterson of
Learning Light is a keynote speaker at the IADIS International 'Conference
eLearning 2010' being held in Freiburg, Germany, 26-29 July. His talk is
entitled "eLearning: Regeneration, Research, and Innovation". In his
speech, Patterson will be detailing the "Story of Learning Light" - a
company that focuses on promoting the use of eLearning and learning
technologies. Launched in March 2006, Learning Light, based in Sheffield,
is a centre of excellence in the use of eLearning and learning
technologies in the workplace.
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| AGBELEKAWE 2010 |
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Open Distance Learning in the Developing World |
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Ibadan (NG), July 2010 – The University of Ibadan is presenting an
international conference on Open Distance Learning (AGBELEKAWE 2010) from
07-11 September 2010. There is an additional pre-conference workshop 05–07
September.
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| Next Generation |
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Baltic Young PhD Conference on Learning in Networks |
 Kaunas (LT), July 2010 -
BaSoTI is a Baltic Summer School Series in Technical Computer Science.
BaSoTI 2010 will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania from 13-28 August 2010 at
the Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics.
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| Knowledge Management |
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Call for Participation in I-KNOW 2010 |
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Graz (AT), July 2010 - I-KNOW '10, the tenth International Conference on
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies will take place 01-03
September 2010 in Graz, Austria. I-KNOW brings together international
researchers (English-speaking scientific part) and practitioners
(German-speaking industry part, Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge
management and knowledge technologies.
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| Competition |
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Medea Awards Deadline Coming Up! |
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Roosbeek (BE), July 2010 - The closing date for the MEDEA awards is coming
up soon, and all producers of media resources are invited to submit their
entries by 31 July. Entry to the MEDEA Awards is free. This year there are
two main MEDEA Awards: the MEDEA Overall Award and the European
Collaboration Award.
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| Forum |
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From Innovation to Learning and Practice |
 Barcelona (ES), July
2010 – The fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning,
Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), takes place in Barcelona 28
September-01 October 2010. The Conference will explore how the synergy of
multiple disciplines, including Computer Science, Education, Psychology,
Cognitive Science, and Social Science, can provide new, more effective and
especially more sustainable technology-enhanced solutions to learning
problems.
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| Peter Drucker Society |
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Managing in the Next Society |
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Vienna (AT), July 2010 - The Austrian Peter Drucker Society holds its
second global Peter Drucker Management Forum in Vienna from November 18th
- 19th. World class speakers address a range of highly topical subjects at
this year's congress.
Under the overall theme "Managing in the Next Society" the Forum will
focus on the future challenges for Management and Society.
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