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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

Digital Repository

Giunti Labs Presents Solutions for Archiving

Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - At the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting organised by Sun Microsystems in St Julian's, Malta, from 24 - 26 June, Giunti Labs will present the new HarvestRoad Hive 4 Digital Repository (DR) platform for digital-content archiving and preservation initiatives of museums, libraries, and eGovernment. » MORE

Supplier Management

New Priority for Learning Outsourcing

Bracknell (UK), June 2009 - The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made 'supplier management' the current focus area for learning outsourcing, according to managed-learning specialist KnowledgePool. Their research indicates that 77% of organisations currently outsource some aspects of their learning provision and 5% outsource all learning activities. » MORE

Business Cooperation

CMEurope Partners with Cobent for Quality Training

Guildford (UK), June 2009 - CMEurope is expanding its training services through a partnership with Cobent Limited. CMEurope is the European division of the Australian-based HR outsourcing and recruitment company Chandler Macleod Group. CMEurope's services extend further than its Australian parent, covering the entire employment lifecycle, from marketing vacancies and candidates, to recruitment outsourcing and consultancy around organisational culture and leadership. » MORE

Blended Learning

UKS partners with Cegos Group

Dubai (UAE), June 2009 - Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS), a learning-solutions enabler based in the Middle East, has partnered with Cegos Group, a professional training provider, in an exclusive relationship to provide Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) and eLearning Solutions by Cegos (eLS) to the commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East. » MORE

LCMS

Single-Source Publishing Platform for a Global Audience

Boulder, CO (USA), June 2009 - Xyleme Inc., provider of one hundred percent XML, SCORM 2004-certified learning-content management solutions has announced that AchieveGlobal has implemented Xyleme LCMS for EMC Documentum to deliver personalised, multi-modal learning content to their worldwide audience. » MORE

Letter from UK

"Little's Britain": Conceptualisation

London (UK), June 2009 - (by Bob Little) In his blog, the internationally known instructional design 'guru' Neil Lasher, of the UK-based vendor-neutral eLearning specialist Trainer1, has commented recently: 'Despite much research on human learning, little is known about cultural conceptions of learning… Kolb highlighted conceptualisation in the learning cycle process, calling the stage Abstract Conceptualisation - the time where we make sense of what we have heard or read or done, prompting questions so that we can make even better sense of the material at hand. » MORE

Software-as-a-Service

Trends in the LMS Market

Sussex (UK), June 2009 - Kineo has examined the trends in the LMS market, looking at a significant shift towards Software-as-a-service (SaaS). They argue that the growth of open source solutions combined with SaaS could change the face of learning-management systems as we have come to know them. CHECK.point eLearning provides you with a summary of their findings. » MORE