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Themen

Intercultural Issues

Toolbox Strengthens Awareness of Indigenous Culture

Brisbane (AU), July 2009 - Did you know that in my culture, to stare in your eyes is disrespectful? This is one of the messages given to teachers in South Australia as part of the roll-out of the Interactive Ochre Flexible Learning Toolbox (Toolbox), designed to train secondary and primary school teachers about contemporary Indigenous cultural awareness issues. » MORE

Authoring Tools

New Voiceover Function for CourseBuilder

Oslo (NO), July 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and Managed Learning Service provider, has announced the launch of its unique voiceover function for CourseBuilder - a content authoring tool -, CBVoice. The capabilities of CBVoice revolutionise working with sound in eLearning development. » MORE

Learning Environment

e2train Launches Kallidus 8

Cirencester (UK), July 2009 - e2train, a supplier of learning and performance technologies, has launched Kallidus® 8, an enterprise-wide learning and performance environment. The new system offers an easy-to-use 'iGoogle style' web-gadget learner interface, which enables learning professionals to integrate formal and informal learning within a single solution. » MORE

Product Marketing

Learn.com Names New Executive Director

Sunrise, FL (USA), July 2009 - Learn.com, provider of on-demand workforce development and productivity, has announced that David Wilkins, former Senior Director of Product Strategy at Mzinga (formerly KnowledgePlanet) has been named the company's Executive Director of Product Marketing. » MORE

Letter from UK

Elearning: now the yak herders' choice

London (UK), July 2009 - (by Bob Little) The UK eLearning sector has been intrigued to discover that the US-based learning content management system (LCMS) vendor OutStart has merged with Hot Lava Software, a company producing applications for mobile phone subscribers - with the newly combined companies conducting business as OutStart. Massood Zarrabian continues as CEO and president of OutStart, while Bob Sanregret, CEO of Hot Lava Software, becomes vice president of the OutStart Hot Lava Mobile business unit. » MORE

Gaining Speed

Digital Learning in the Middle East

Dubai (UAE), July 2009 - UKS, a learning-solutions enabler in the Middle East and the professional training provider Cegos Group have announced the launch of eLearning Solutions by Cegos (eLS) and Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) to support the long-term performance and growth of commercial and public-sector organisations in the Middle East. » MORE

Open Source

Kineo Supports Moodle's Site-Wide Groups

Brighton (UK), July 2009 - Kineo Open Source has donated $3000 AUS to Moodle, the open source learning management system. This will be put into the development fund run by the Moodle Trust - which contracts programrs to work on Moodle - to help fund the development of the Site-Wide Groups feature in Moodle 2.0, which is due at the end of 2009. » MORE

High-res Animations

ESRI Canada Brings Earth's Treasures to Life

Toronto, ON (CA), June 2009 - As part of an ongoing commitment to actively promote Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education, ESRI Canada has collaborated with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) to enhance one of its most renowned attractions - the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures. » MORE

Benchmarking

UK Top 50 IT Training Providers 2009

London (UK), June 2009 - Pardo Fox, a provider of market intelligence and strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has published its tenth annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers by revenue. » MORE

Search Tool

Finding Learning Resources Made Easy

Brisbane (AU), June 2009 - The Australian national training system's eLearning strategy "Framework", announces the release of an enhanced version of the Vetadata Tool, making it even quicker and easier to create Vetadata for learning resources. » MORE