Florence (IT), June 2010 - Giunti Labs has been given a "Learning Impact Leadership Award" at this year's IMS Learning Impact Awards. Giunti Labs, along with Italy's Region of Tuscany, received the award for "Building Europe's largest lifelong learning for employment initiative". The project - known as the Training Innovation Research and (job) Orientation (TRIO) - uses the Moodle LMS and the HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR).
Giunti Labs leads a consortium of companies running the work-related eLearning regional initiative, TRIO - Tuscany's web portal learning system. This web portal offers a wide range of learning products with a catalogue of some 1,500 work-skills related eLearning courses - the most popular of which are IT, language, and business-related learning materials.
To date, some 542,000 courses have been delivered to some 150,000 users since TRIO's inception in 2002. There are currently at least 70,000 active learners on the system, downloading 40,000 training hours per month. Moreover, surveys show that five out of six users go on to take another TRIO-delivered course, and the system has a 95% satisfaction rating with users.
According to Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs, "The TRIO project consortium, under Giunti Labs' leadership, has introduced an extended implementation of Moodle to be the core of the new TRIO platform. This is integrated with HarvestRoad Hive, a federated digital repository system developed by Giunti Labs that manages any form of content such as SCORM/AICC courseware, learning objects, digital assets, e-books, and podcasts."
In the TRIO architecture, Moodle functionality is complemented by information services (KCMF), virtual classroom services (DimDim), and collaborative social networking services for sharing knowledge and experiences (Elgg), as well as by experimental mobile services via mobile learning modules offered by the HarvestRoad Hive DR add-on.
