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Car Industry Employees Learn with Pub Game
London (UK), August 2007 - Employees at UK car manufacturers now have two interactive learning tools at their fingertips that help them to understand the mathematics behind performance and productivity processes. Researchers from the London Knowledge Lab, UK, collaborated with the training staff of car manufacturers in developing training tools for statistical process control (SPC), a method that is used to monitor performance and productivity processes in the automotive industry. » MORE
New Call for Proposals 2007 Open for Participation
Brussels (BE), August 2007 - The European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General has just published its Call for Proposals for the eContentplus Programme. The deadline for submission is 4 October 2007. » MORE
eLearning in European SMEs
Brussels (BE)/Münster (GER), July 2007 - The ARIEL project, supported within the eLearning initiative of the European Commission, investigated supply-and-demand factors on the eLearning market for small and medium-sized enterprises and described future trends with the scenario method. The proceedings of the ARIEL final conference give a comprehensive overview of the research results. » MORE
A Learning Community around Human Rights
Wageningen (NL), July 2007 - Stoas Learning BV will be delivering an electronic learning environment to the Council of Europe in October. Ultimately, this will bring together 100,000 lawyers from 47 countries for the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights. The company, based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, was deemed the best of the lot after a European tender process. » MORE
DAD - a Digital Aided Guide for Fathers-to-be
Vienna (A), July 2007 - The digital aided guide for fathers-to-be is a free and anonymous online service successfully implemented in the Austrian market. With a financial contribution from the EC's eTEN Programme, the scope of the DAD guide has now been broadened to a European level. A market validation project being coordinated by the Austrian firm Webducation has just started. » MORE
KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE to Improve European Water Quality
Essen (GER), July 2007 - KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE, the innovative European project for sustainable water management, has been launched. Its ambitious intention is to bridge the environmental divide in Europe. Thirteen partners from six European countries joined the project to promote and to improve the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). » MORE
Emerging Technologies in Learning
Vienna (A), June 2007 - The second issue of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning - iJet - has just been published. It focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as on the presentation of practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of technology-enhanced learning. » MORE
Shaping a Learning Society in Europe
Milton Keynes (UK) / Sestri Levante (IT), June 2007 - The European learning industry is repositioning itself. The former eLearning Industry Group (eLIG) has become the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). This is more than a cosmetic change: it reflects a major shift in the marketplace. ELIG will be co-chaired and led by Intel and Giunti Labs. » MORE
Global Campus 21 Interface Now Also in Chinese
Bonn (GER), June 2007 - A Chinese user interface is now available on the Global Campus 21 (GC21). It is another addition to the wide diversity of languages, which already include German, English, French, Russian, Arabic and - on a partner platform - Vietnamese. InWent, the developer, is planning to introduce a Portuguese version soon, too. » MORE
EU Supports Teacher Access to Learning Resources
Brussels (BE), May 2007 - The CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Schools) project brings together eight European Ministries of Education to carry out a multi-level project. The project will last from October 2005 to March 2008. Its key aim is to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools by allowing teachers to access resources in a federation of learning repositories. » MORE
