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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 25/04/2013 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
High Growth, High Margin McGraw-Hill Education Sold for $2.4 Billion New York, NY (USA), April 2013 – The McGraw-Hill Companies has completed the sale of the McGraw-Hill Education business to investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC. As previously disclosed, the purchase price was $2.4 billion in cash. Going forward, the new company, a business serving the global capital and commodity markets, will be renamed McGraw Hill Financial, subject to shareholder approval, in the second quarter of this year. » more Global Demand Automated Translation Leads Language Technology Trends Washington, DC (USA), April 2013 – According to Hans Fenstermacher, CEO of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), advancements in automated translation technology are increasing global demand for professional language services. The head of the world's leading language association observed that automated machine translation, i.e. translation by a computer without human intervention, is now becoming a mainstream tool for communication. » more Compliance Straining Stud Towards Maturity and SAI Global Collaborate London (UK), April 2013 - SAI Global, a supplier of ethics and compliance training, is sponsoring a new independent benchmark study exploring methodologies and practices for improving the impact of compliance training. The study has been produced in collaboration with Towards Maturity, a not-for-profit benchmarking organisation committed to sharing and promoting best practice in the use of learning technologies. The results of the study will be shared through a new report to be issued in July 2013. » more eLearning Marketplace New Website Links eLearning Buyers and Sellers London (UK), April 2013 - A new website, elearningmarketplace.co.uk, which brings buyers and sellers of eLearning resources together, was launched at the Voice of Apprenticeships conference in London to a wide range of organisations, including employers, colleges, and training providers. » more MAGICAL Making Games in Collaboration for Learning Rome (I), April 2013 - MAGICAL is a European project that’s exploring collaborative design of educational games by primary and lower-secondary students. It’s a European project co-funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme (KA3) that’s proposing this collaborative effort as an innovative learning-by-doing approach. Led by the Institute for Educational Technology, CNR (Italy), the consortium comprises partners from Belgium, Italy, Finland, and the UK who are particularly interested in how collaborative game making impacts on learners’ key transversal skills, like creativity, problem solving, and digital literacy. » more Advertisement Global Reach NetDimensions Enters Australian Market Sydney (AU), April 2013 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced that is has recently established NetDimensions (Australia) Pty Ltd in Sydney. » more Now Available Digital Library of 400 books on Sustainability Sheffield (UK), April 2013 - Greenleaf Publishing and GSE Research, specialist publishers and partners of The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), have launched a new online collection of books and journals on sustainability, CSR, corporate governance, ethics, environmental policy and management, and related fields. » more Insight Report Mobile Learning Growth in North America Seattle, WA (USA), April 2013 - The revenues for mobile-learning products in North America reached an imposing $1.4 billion in 2012. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is 7.6%, and revenues will climb to $2.1 billion by 2017, according to a new Ambient Insight report called, "The 2012-2017 North America Mobile Learning Market." » more Little’s Britain Ten tips to build eLearning materials’ interactivity London (UK), April 2013 - (by Bob Little) Interactivity is a key component in the learning process. While it’s relatively easy for a teacher in a classroom to interact with the learners and, by ‘reading’ the situation, involve them in the learning process in the most effective ways, it’s much harder for those producing online learning materials. For one thing, they can only make educated guesses at their learners’ needs, state of mind, attitude to and preferences for learning and so on.» more eLearning Ecosystem Docebo Now Integrates Adobe Connect and BigBlueButton Naples (I), April 2013 - Docebo has released two free apps to integrate its Docebo Learning Management System with the Adobe Connect and BigBlueButton videoconferencing tools. By leveraging these integrations, organizations from across the globe are now able to plan videoconferencing sessions with Docebo and are also enable the single sign on (SSO) between their LMS and these external applications. » more Advertisement Worldwide App Vonage Mobile® Adds Video Calling Holmdel, NJ (USA) April 2013 - Vonage has announced that its mobile suite has become even sweeter with the addition of video calling to its free, high-definition communications app Vonage Mobile® for iPhone® and Android™ devices. With this new upgrade, Vonage Mobile continues to bring together the most popular features of mobile communications into one simple, holistic, and multi-functional app. Users can now make free video calls over 3G/4G1 and Wi-Fi, with easy-to-navigate, face-to-face interaction with anyone else who has the app – wherever and whenever they choose. » more EURODL Digital Resilience in Higher Education Budapest (HR), April 2013 - The European Journal of Open, Distance and eLearning (EURODL) presents scholarly work and solid information about open leaning, distance learning, and eLearning. Since 1995 it has provided a home for the introduction of new dimensions of technology-enhanced learning and has made a meaningful contribution to the open content movement. In the most recent edition, Martin Weller from the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK) and Terry Anderson of the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada, published an absorbing article entitled "Digital Resilience in Higher Education". » more Human Rights Challenging Attitudes toward Mental Health London (UK) / Dublin (IE), April 2013 - Prejudice against those experiencing mental-health problems is rife. In one study, 58 per cent of the respondents felt unfairly treated by mental- health staff. Yet one in four people will experience significant mental distress at some point in their lives. Now Saffron Interactive is helping Amnesty International Ireland produce a remarkable eLearning course to change things for the better. » more 17th Annual WebAward Best Education Websites of 2013 wanted Hartford, CT (USA), April 2013 - The Web Marketing Association is looking for the best education websites in the world as part of their seventeenth annual international WebAward Competition for website development at www.webaward.org. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets benchmarks for 96 industries, including education, school, and university websites, based on the seven criteria of a successful website. The deadline for education websites to enter is 31 May 2013. » more IMBASE First Joint Master’s Oriented toward Social Entrepreneurs Barcelona (E), April 2013 – The International MBA Social Entrepreneurship Project (IMBASE) aims to link future entrepreneurs with the creation of sustainable social value. The IMBASE Project is the first effort co-funded by the European Commission and the Australian Government that promotes a joint degree between European and Australian universities. » more Two Billion Facts Reflex Usage Accelerates Strongly Charlottesville, VA (USA), April 2013 - ExploreLearning®, a business unit of Cambium Learning Group, Inc., has announced that students have now solved more than two billion addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts using Reflex®. ExploreLearning Reflex is a research-based program that uses the allure of challenging and exciting games to get students engaged and working at peak performance in developing instant recall of math facts. » more Advertisement eLearning Africa ICT for Education Solutions: in Africa by Africans Windhoek (NA) / Berlin (GER), April 2013 - Africa is experiencing a technological surge, and it is having a dramatic effect on education throughout the Continent. Tech hubs are blossoming, new mobile devices and apps are being designed and produced in Africa by Africans, and Africa's eLearning market is now the fastest growing in the world. » more CICE Visitors Look forward to Extensive Pedagogical Know-How Toronto (CA), April 2013 - The Canada International Conference on Education (CICE) convenes 24 - 26 June 2013 at the University of Toronto. The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and education professionals. » more ICCCM 2013 Conference on Computer Communication & Management Copenhagen (DK), April 2013 – The third International Conference on Computer Communication and Management (ICCCM 2013) is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of computer communication and management. The Conference, which takes place 19 - 20 May in Copenhagen, Denmark, will bring together leading researchers, engineers, and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. » more ECGBL 2013 Seventh European Conference on Games-based Learning Porto (PT), April 2013 - Over the last ten years, the way in which education and training is delivered has changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. One such new technology that holds considerable promise for helping to engage learners is games-based learning (GBL). The Conference from 03 - 04 October 2013 in Porto, Portugal, offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to GBL to share their thinking and research findings. » more Highly Interactive Workshop on Articulate Storyline in Edinburgh Edinburgh (UK) April 2013 - The online-learning-and-development company Aurion Learning will deliver a one-day training workshop on Articulate Storyline in partnership with the Scottish eLearning Alliance on 16 May 2013 in Edinburgh. » more

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