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| Stakeholders Forum |
| Agenda for Change in Education and Lifelong Learning |
 Brussels (BE), June 2009 - The Learnovation Open Forum entitled "Removing the barriers to creativity and innovation? Listening to stakeholders’ voice", was held on 27 May 2009 in Brussels, gathering the main European networks in the field of innovation and ICT for education and training. [more...] |
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| 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...] |
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| Skills in Europe |
| Qualifications Are Rising, but Inequalities Persist |
 Thessaloniki (GR), June 2009 - The level of qualifications and skills is rising across Europe, particularly among younger people – and even more so among women. But inequalities in the level of education persist among Member States. These are some of the conclusions of the first pan-European forecast of its kind, Future skill supply in Europe: medium-term forecast up to 2020, published by Cedefop. [more...] |
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| Multiple Identities |
| Echelon’s CEO Offered 'Fame and Philanthropy' Deal |
 London (UK), June 2009 - Alistair Morrison, CEO of the organisation development consultancy Echelon Learning, was recently invited to take part in the fourth series of the reality TV show 'The Secret Millionaire'. Each programme features a millionaire, who goes incognito into impoverished communities to give away tens of thousands of pounds of their own money. Created in 2006 by Stephen Lambert, the programmes are produced in the UK by RDF Media and are screened on Channel 4. [more...] |
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| 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...] |
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| Study Chinese |
| New Course Makes Use of All that Digital Learning Offers |
| New York, NY (USA), June 2009 - The Innovative Language Learning Company has announced the launch of Chineseclass101.com, an online learning system that combines audio and video podcasts, mobile apps, digital tools, and more in order to turn 5000 years of Chinese language into an interactive experience on PC, iPod, mobile, and social networks. [more...] |
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| 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...] |
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| 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...] |
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| 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...] |
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| 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...] |
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| Collaboration |
| Turkish Schoolchildren Experience 21st-Century Learning |
| Ankara (TR), June 2009 - Eighty Turkish schoolchildren aged 11 and 12 from the Turkish capital Ankara and the village of Beynam have participated in Turkey's first virtual classroom, sharing a lesson on the theme "Earth, Sun and Moon" as part of their science and technology curriculum. [more...] |
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| 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...] |
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| Radical Change |
| President Outlines Vision for African Education
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 Dakar (SN), June 2009 - The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, outlined his vision for radical change in African education and criticised European governments for restricting access for African students. In a wide-ranging and controversial speech at "eLearning Africa", the continent's major conference on online education, the 85-year old President said that technology now allowed African students unlimited access to the best universities in the world. [more...] |
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| Lifelong Learning |
| European University Quality Management |
| Valencia (ES), June 2009 - The UNI-QM project aims at creating a model and tools for quality management in lifelong-learning organisations and continuing education. The model and tools will be based on the EFQM model but applied in the field of lifelong learning, thus respecting its characteristics and needs. [more...] |
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| Changing Education |
| Twelfth International Conference on Interactive Learning |
 Villach (AT), June 2009 - The International Conference on Interactive Computer-aided Learning (ICL) 2009 is being held in Villach, Austria. This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer-aided learning, especially in engineering education. [more...] |
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