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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 24/04/2014 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
Takeover City & Guilds Acquires Mindset Limited Business London (UK), April 2014 - The City & Guilds Group has announced its acquisition of Mindset Limited, a digital-learning company that provides services to colleges and employers in the UK. Mindset has developed a leading platform known as Profiler to manage and deliver functional skills. The core capabilities include initial and diagnostic testing and the assessment of maths, English, and ICT. This acquisition will further enhance the City & Guilds functional-skills offer in the UK. » more Face ID Joint Solution Pairs Advanced Biometrics with LMS Biel / Martigny (CH), April 2014 - KeyLemon SA, pioneering developer of biometric ID and motion-analysis technologies, have announced their partnership with Swissteach AG to bring face recognition to Swissteach's Global Teach(r) online learning-management system (LMS). Demonstrated using a Bosch Rexroth LMS installation for presentation purposes, this joint effort highlights the security, ease of use, and other benefits of supplementing or replacing legacy LMS access control with the latest in biometric ID-verification technology. » more Project in Jordan UOC Extends Its eLearning Model to the Middle East Barcelona (E), April 2014 - The UOC, together with other European universities, will be leading a three-year project that has the support of the Jordanian government and institutions to develop quality standards in eLearning initiatives that will be applied in blended onsite and distance- learning courses. » more Watch the Video The Future of Universities, Discussed by Mike Feerick Galway (IR), April 2014 - Amongst the challenges facing universities that are discussed by Mike Feerick, Founder and CEO of Alison, commoditization of content is a key issue. As more material is distributed freely online, students are less likely to pay high fees in favour of free, self-paced education on topics that really interest them. Free online learning will force universities to develop new business models and new teaching methods to keep up with these technological innovations. » more Independent Testers Agree Survey Confirms IMC Content Studio Is a Great Success Graz (A) / Saarbrücken (GER), April 2014 - Almost ninety percent of those questioned agree that they will, in future, use the modern authoring solution IMC Content Studio in their daily work. This was the outcome of an independent quality survey amongst twenty Content Studio users and interested parties undertaken as part of this year's LEARNTEC trade fair in Karlsruhe, Germany. » more Advertisement Unified Training tesa Oartners with NetDimensions to Steer Innovation Neu-Isenburg (GER), April 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has recently announced that tesa has selected NetDimensions Learning as their new centralised global learning-management system (LMS) for the company’s 3,900 employees in more than fifty countries around the world. » more Totara Seedlings Free Community Version of Popular LMS Wellington (NZ), April 2014 - Totara Learning Solutions has announced a significant change in its open-source distribution strategy. Since its launch in 2011, TotaraLMS has been offered as a distribution of the popular education platform, Moodle. For a low-cost subscription fee, customers receive the benefit of code support and maintenance, security updates, error correction, patch updates, and a continuing stream of new innovations supported by Totara Learning Solutions. Now, in addition to its enterprise offering, Totara Learning will also offer Totara Seedlings, an unsupported version of the popular software. » more Industry Leaders EdTech Europe Launches High-Profile Advisory Board London (UK), April 2014 - Edxus Group and IBIS Capital, founders of EdTech Europe, an exclusive one-day eLearning summit, have named a number of high-profile experts from across the education, technology, media, and financial markets as founding members of the EdTech Europe Advisory Board. Designed to encourage innovation and investment in the European eLearning market, board members will work closely with the EdTech Europe founders on the event itself, as well as the launch of the search for Europe's fastest-growing and most-innovative eLearning companies, the 2014 EdTech 20. » more International Projects European Success for the UOC's First Spinoff Company Barcelona (E), April 2014 - In its first few months, Open Evidence, the first spinoff company to emanate from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), has been commissioned to undertake major projects by prestigious organizations and institutions such as the European Commission, the government of Italy, and the Jaume Bofill Foundation. » more Speex Selected Language Training for Spain's Construction Sector Munich (GER), April 2014 - Speexx has been selected as the preferred language-training provider for Spain's Labour Foundation for Construction. In this project, Speexx will help to build the Foundation's new online language-learning platform. » more Digital Learning Tribal and eXact Learning Solutions Bristol (UK)/Genoa (I), March 2014 - Tribal is delighted to announce a distribution agreement with eXact learning solutions. The agreement will see Tribal supply eXact learning’s learning-content-management system (LCMS) and digital authoring tools to UK customers. » more Advertisement TU Delft Blended-Learning Course Based on T3eLearning LCMS Delft (NL) / Hamburg (GER), April 2014 - Essentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course for people who want to support the research community by storing, managing, archiving, and sharing their research data. It has been designed as a blended-learning course: face-to-face meetings complement the online component of the course. » more Academic Division The 2014 International eLearning Awards New York, NY (USA), April 2014 - Submissions for the 2014 International E-Learning Awards - Academic Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA), are now being accepted! The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 15 July 2014. Submissions for the Business categories are closed for 2014, but will be accepted for the next event beginning in March 2015. IELA is currently accepting only entries in the Academic Division. » more ALIGN Platform Free Mini-MOOC on Academic Skills Bloomington, IL (USA), April 2014 - Align Degree Services (ALIGN) has announced the launching of a MOOC Sampler at Mini-MOOC.com that offers participants free access to university-level courses. The three-week online experience will introduce them to segments of three six-week courses that are typically part of first-year study at US universities. ALIGN courses are designed for online learners and are recognized as credit bearing by the American Council on Education (ACE). » more EDEN Keynote The Challenges of a Contemporary Educator Athabasca (CA), April 2014 - (by Steve Wheeler (Plymouth University, UK) Professor Terry Anderson, who is based at Athabasca University in Canada, is one of the famous figures of contemporary education, and his list of achievements is lengthy. He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and is Editor Emeritus of the influential open-access online journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), retiring after ten years as editor. Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year's European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN) Conference in Zagreb in June. » more Euronews Campus Compostela Group of Universities & Euronews Team Up Santiago (E), April 2014 - The international media group Euronews and the international association of higher-education institutions Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) have signed an agreement foreseeing a set of strategic joint actions aimed at providing better training opportunities for students and fostering online education. » more Advertisement Preconference Workshops The Video Experience Conference New York, NY (USA), April 2014 - Kaltura Connect 2014, the Video Experience Conference, is just around the corner, and the organisers want to highlight the Preconference Workshops Day. One day prior to Kaltura Connect, 16 June 2014, Kaltura will meet in New York City for practical, interactive learning. » more Direct Feedback Community Growth Marks EMEA Customer Program Bracknell (UK), April 2014 - Saba, a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, has announced the details of its next series of EMEA c ustomer user groups. Saba customers can attend meetings in London, Munich, Johannesburg, Warsaw, and Paris. Keynote speakers at some of the events include Randolph Barr, Saba Chief Security Officer and Amar Dhaliwal, Saba Chief Evangelist. » more EMPLOY:ED 2014 Unconference: MOOCs in the Workplace Saarbruecken (GER) / London (UK), April 2014 - Human-resource directors, talent managers, as well as learning-and-development specialists are invited to discover the latest trends, the most innovative solutions, and state-of-the-art products, as well as to exchange their views and ideas concerning upcoming trends in the area of corporate MOOC solutions at this upcoming event. » more Preconference Workshop LINQ and EIF 2014 to Host Open Discovery Space Crete (GR), April 2014 - The LINQ and EIF Conference Committee will host a preconference workshop regarding the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project's astonishing efforts in school modernization throughout Europe. The ODS Project Consortium will address teachers, school authorities, and policy makers in a series of interactive sessions to facilitate discussion concerning new methods of teaching and learning. The workshop in Crete will be opened by Athanassios Kyriazis, the General Secretary of the Greek Ministry of Education, at 10:30 on 07 May 2014, one day before the official start of LINQ and EIF 2014. » more GAPMIL European Media Literacy Forum 2014 Paris (F), April 2014 - The first European Media Literacy Forum will be held 27-28 May at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This conference is co-organised by UNESCO within the frame of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL). It will bring together experts, teachers, media professionals, industry, audiovisual authorities, researchers, NPOs, and foundations with the aim of re-launching MIL policies at a European level. » more

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