| Aarhus Declaration |
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Action Plan for Universities Developing Talent in Europe |
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Aarhus (DK), May 2011 - The European University Association (EUA) has
announced the publication of a political declaration underlining the
outcomes of its recent annual conference held at Aarhus University
(Denmark), which focused on the role of universities in developing talent
in Europe.
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| Higher Education |
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Unique Online Degree Course for Accountants |
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London/Manchester (UK), May 2011 - Core Learning Services (CLS), a
consultancy providing eLearning-related products and services, is helping
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School provide a unique degree
course for students with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
(CIMA).
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| Strategic Alliance |
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Leading Experts on Management Innovation Join Forces |
Redwood Shores/Woodside CA (USA), May 2011 - Saba, a people cloud
provider, has announced its strategic alliance with the Management
Innovation eXchange (MIX), a community of progressive management
innovators architected by Gary Hamel. The MIX is an open innovation
project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.
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| New Facility |
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Blackboard to Open New Data Centre in Canada |
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Washington D.C. (USA), May 2011 - Blackboard Inc. has announced plans to
open a new data centre in Canada this summer, responding to growing
interest from Canadian institutions for an in-region facility to host and
manage their learning environments. The new data centre will be located in
Calgary, Alberta, and will be the company's seventh production facility.
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| Strategic Partnership |
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Fern / TT Knowledge Force Teams Up with U&I Learning |
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Holsbeek/Ghent (BE)/Heidelberg (GER), May 2011 - U&I Learning has taken the
well-known TT Knowledge Force into their portfolio. This gives U&I Learning
the opportunity to reach top-100 fortune companies, which are already
working with this solution, but also to start new projects in an efficient
way.
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| Oil & Gas Industry |
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Learning Nexus Develops eLearning Solution |
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London/Stroud (UK), May 2011 - Tendeka is a provider of completion and
reservoir-monitoring products and services to the upstream oil and gas
industry. The firm operates across a network of eighteen regional bases
strategically located in key energy hubs including the North Sea, Middle
East, Asia-Pacific, and the USA.
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| Health & Safety |
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Webanywhere Collaborates with British Safety Council |
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Leeds (UK), May 2011 - Webanywhere, the European Moodle and Totara Partner,
has been selected by the British Safety Council, a health, safety, and
environmental charity, to provide a Moodle-based learning platform that
will enable them to realise a number of strategic objectives for managing
and delivering online training courses.
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| Progress Reports |
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The State of Education and Training in Europe |
 Brussels (BE), May 2011 –
Two resources are newly available online – a report on the progress towards
the common European objectives in education and training and online country
presentations on Adult Education and Lifelong Learning.
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| New Rental Model |
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Luminosity Rapid eLearning Platform Available per Author |
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Bristol (UK), May 2011 – Until recently, Luminosity Studio had been
provided only as an enterprise-level system for the largest and most
demanding leading organizations. Firms that wanted the total security and
control a locally installed server can provide installed their own local
Luminosity server behind their firewall on their corporate LAN.
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| Successes |
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Trivantis Expands and Stirs Up the Market with Snap! |
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Cincinnati, OH (USA), May 2011 - Trivantis Corporation has announced the
release of Snap! by Lectora, which - with a price of $99 - redefines
affordable rapid eLearning, leading the market at a fraction of the
competitors’ costs. Lectora Inspire has also just received a 2010 Brandon
Hall Gold Award, and Trivantis is expanding with the recent announcement
to acquire its partner Flypaper Studio.
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| National Health Service |
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Major eLearning Programme Successful on CLIX |
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Sevenoaks (UK), May 2011 - CLIX and IMC’s team of consultants have helped
eLearning for Healthcare (e-LfH) to deliver one of the most ambitious LMS
projects seen in the UK in recent years. The project’s aim is to deliver
6,000 hours of eLearning materials to healthcare professionals across the
National Health Service (NHS).
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| Personal Learning Space |
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PebblePad Keeps Invaluable Portfolios Secure |
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Telford (UK), May 2011 - The focus in public and private-sector
organizations today is on increasing efficiency whilst reducing costs.
Customer research shows that universities using award-winning online
learning space PebblePad are saving staff and student time and money in
areas such as travel, photocopying, and postage. PebblePad allows higher
education students and those pursuing continuing professional development
to collect, provide evidence, and reflect on their studies in a secure
online space and to receive online feedback and marks from tutors and
peers in the same space.
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| Open Source |
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International Contact at Moodlerooms |
Brussels (BE), May 2011 – Moodlerooms has introduced Bas ten Holter, the
new Executive Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at
Moodlerooms, Inc. Currently based in Brussels, he has been working in the
education industry for over fifteen years.
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| Virtual Classroom |
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Raytheon Offers BTEC Apprenticeship Programme |
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Milton Keynes (UK), May 2011 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a
subsidiary of Raytheon Company, is the first provider in the U.K. to
launch a recognised Business and Administration Apprenticeship programme
delivered in a virtual classroom environment with a collaborative learning
approach.
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| elearningeuropa.info |
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Launch of a New User-Oriented Platform |
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Brussels (BE), May 2011 - elearningeuropa.info, the European reference
portal on education and technology, has launched its new platform. It is
designed and built to be user centered and contains participatory tools to
communicate, share, and discuss.
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| Latin America |
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Regional Development of Higher Education |
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Bogota (CO), May 2011 – A consortium of 23 national and international
university associations from across Latin America and Europe have joined
forces to launch a major three-year project designed to improve mechanisms
for modernisation, reform, and harmonisation of education systems in Latin
America and to enhance Europe-Latin America university partnership.
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| Research Participants |
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Technology-Led Leadership Development |
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Stroud (UK), May 2011 - Laura Overton, the MD of the independent
not-for-profit research organization Towards Maturity, is asking for those
responsible for leadership and management development to give fifteen
minutes of their time to contribute to groundbreaking benchmarking
research.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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ELearning for training at prestige motor manufacturer |
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(UK), May 2011 - (by Bob Little) News has emerged that Rolls-Royce
Motor Cars (R-RMC) is using the Absorb learning management system (LMS),
supplied by Omniplex – and which recently won a further two Brandon Hall
Excellence awards in Learning Technology - to facilitate its global
dealership training.
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| Skills Academy |
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Core Learning Services Active in Sport & Leisure |
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London (UK), May 2011 - The eLearning-related solutions and services
consultancy, Core Learning Services (CLS), is working with the UK’s
National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure (NSA) to provide a
wide and growing range of eLearning materials to over 2,000 workers in
this sector.
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| Learning and Development |
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E-Portfolio 2011 Trials Underway |
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Brisbane (AU), May 2011 - Two trials investigating how e-portfolios support
workforce development and lifelong learning are currently underway. A grant
of AU$ 18,000 seed funding from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework
(Framework) supports the research.
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| Enter Soon! |
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Closing date of the MEDEA Awards 2011 in September |
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Roosbeek (BE), May 2011 – The deadline for receipt of entries for the
fourth annual MEDEA Awards is 16 September 2011. This year there will be
two main awards: the MEDEA Award for User-Generated Educational Media 2011
and the MEDEA Award for Professionally Produced Educational Media 2011.
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| Conference in Poland |
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Multimedia Computing and Information Technology |
 Warsaw (PL), May 2011 - The International Conference on
Multimedia Computing and Information Technology (ICMCIT 2011), held July
24-25 in Warsaw, brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners
interested in multimedia computing and information technologies and their
current applications.
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| International Forum |
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Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies |
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Barcelona (ES), May 2011 - EDULEARN11, the third annual International
Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in
Barcelona, Spain, on 04-06 July 2011. EDULEARN is an international forum
to present projects and discuss the latest innovations in the field of new
technologies in education, eLearning, and methodologies applied to
education and research.
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| Last Call for Papers |
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Mobile Learning, E-Society, and E-Management |
 Prague (CZ), May 2011 -
The Open Learning Society (OLS) is holding ICMLEM 2011 – the international
conference on Mobile Learning, e-Society, and e-Management on 06-07
September in Prague. Abstracts are invited until 30 May, and conference
registration has recently opened.
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| eLearning 2.0 Conference |
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The Future of Learning Today |
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London (UK), May 2011 - The third eLearning 2.0 conference will explore
technology-enhanced learning in the context of Web 2.0 and social media,
including Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis, and YouTube. It will be held in
London on 06-07 July 2011.
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| Next Generation |
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What Would a Ted Speaker Say to Ten Year Olds? |
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Brussels (BE), May 2011 - You can find out next month at a new kind of TEDx
event called TEDxKIDS@Brussels on 01 June. The organisers have invited a
team of extraordinary experts (many of them former TED speakers) for a day
in Waterloo, Belgium.
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| BILD Annual Conference |
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Performance Improvement Through Learning |
 Milton Keynes (UK), May
2011 - Learning professionals are under increasing pressure to demonstrate
strategic value to their organizations by effectively engaging learners in
a way that boosts individual and organization performance. The purpose of
this conference is to examine some of the tools, strategies and emerging
trends available to achieve maximum performance from learning and
development.
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| Online Forum |
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Building Real Engagement into Your eLearning |
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Santa Rosa, CA (USA), May 2011 - Join Gerry Wasiluk, Alicia Sanchez, and
other interactivity experts for Advanced Interactions in an Online Forum
and discover how to build engagement into your eLearning using
simulations, games, 3-D, sophisticated feedback, and more.
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