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Submission

Call for the International eLearning Awards 2011

New York, NY (USA), December 2010 - The International eLearning Association (IELA) has announced that submissions are now open for the 2011 International eLearning Awards - Business Division. The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2011. » MORE

Further Education

Live Training Sessions in Leipzig in January 2011

Coventry (UK)/Leipzig (GER), December 2010 - After the second round of live training workshops offered to VETPROS in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, iEducate is preparing for the next workshop session - to be held in January 2011 in Leipzig, Germany. This time the thematic areas "Disabilities and Special Needs" and "Self-employment and Entrepreneurship" will be covered. » MORE

MEDEA Awards 2010

BBC News School Report the Overall Winner

Roosbeek/Brussels (BE), December 2010 - The BBC's highly engaging project School Report, which gives eleven-to-fourteen-year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience, was a popular overall winner of this year's MEDEA Awards. Announcing the winner of this year's MEDEA Awards, Kathy Lindekens (VRT) talked about the high quality of the entries and the value of networking amongst all those involved. » MORE

OER

Call for Submissions: Fostering Creativity

Budapest (HU), December 2010 - The European Journal of Open, Distance, and ELearning has announced a special issue for the summer of 2011 entitled "Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources". In this special issue, the editors are interested in exploring the nature of creativity in more depth and how this might be understood and used to better harness the potential of OER. » MORE

Middle East

Being at the Leading Edge

Dubai (UAE), November 2010 - Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University has announced its Annual Congress 2011 from 31 January- 03 February under the theme "Being at the Leading Edge - How to Give 'Quest for Excellence' a New Meaning". The Congress presents an international platform for three conferences on eLearning excellence, health and environment, and quality. » MORE

Funding

Almost Three Million Dollars Awarded for eLearning

Brisbane (AU), November 2010 - More than eighty projects have been awarded a share of $2.65 million to develop innovative eLearning training solutions across Australia in 2011. The funding, provided by the national training system's eLearning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), supports the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system to embed eLearning and tailor training to meet learners' needs. » MORE

Case Studies Wanted

Excellence in Practice Award 2011

Brussels (BE), November 2010 - The European Foundation in Management Development (EFMD) is inviting case studies that describe effective and impacting leadership and development intervention to enter its Excellence in Practice Award. The programmes can be deployed by an organisation (company, public sector, charity, etc.) either together with their in house L&D organisation or with an external L&D provider. » MORE

250 Speakers

Going Global 2011: Registration Now Open

Hong Kong (CN), November 2010 - Registration for the fifth Going Global conference is now open, and delegates who register before 10 December 2010 are eligible for an early-bird discount. Full details are available online, along with information about booking travel and accommodation. Last year's conference sold out, so booking early is advised. » MORE

Broadband

Network Evolution and Market Growth

Paris (FR), November 2010 - The Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in October 2010, secured its highest-ever visitor numbers and stimulated widespread discussion on the requirements for the next phase of growth in the broadband market, calling for regeneration of current networks to better handle the increased traffic and the challenges placed on them. » MORE

European eLearning Summit

A programme to promote the corporate eLearning sector

Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - Delegates at the European eLearning Summit, organised by Learning Light with support from learndirect and Creativesheffield and held in Sheffield (17th to 19th November) have agreed to pursue dialogue with national governments to establish a single, independent and impartial body representing the corporate eLearning sector. » MORE