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Thinking Worlds

Serious Games Challenge Winners Announced

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. » MORE

Web Portal

TRIO Wins IMS Learning Impact Leadership Award

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). » MORE

Authoring & Publishing

Plateau Expands iContent

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. » MORE

Ranking

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. » MORE

Sustainability

DuPont Develops eLearning Series for Energy Efficiency

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. » MORE

Assessment

New Perception Features Now on Demand

London (UK), June 2010 - Questionmark has announced that the accessibility, security, mobile delivery, and other advantages of its Perception version 5 are now available to users of the company's On-Demand Assessment Management Solutions. » MORE

Competitive Advantage

Cisco Business Architect Program

Wokingham (UK)/ San Jose, CA (USA), June 2010 - Global Knowledge has announced a training program to help Cisco partners develop the new Business Architect role that was recently announced at the Cisco Partner Summit by Keith Goodwin, Cisco Senior Vice President. The program teaches Cisco partners to develop scalable and sustainable Cisco architecture practices. » MORE

Tips

Value for Money eLearning Solutions

Hemel Hempstead (UK), June 2010 - Matthew Lloyd, managing director of the eLearning-solutions provider Omniplex contributed to the recent discussion in London on "Value-for-Money eLearning Solutions", organised by eLearning Network (eLN) - a non-profit organisation run by the eLearning community for the eLearning community. Beginning by concentrating on learning management systems (LMSs), Lloyd recalled the times - some ten years and more ago - when an LMS cost seven figures, and implementing one was a major exercise in enterprise-wide IT management. » MORE