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| CHECKPOINT-elearning.com - European eLearning Newsletter Social Software: Integration into key frameworks proceeds
New ways to work, learn and collaborate Graz (Austria), June 2006 – Lifelong Learning has become an essential ingredient for success within the knowledge society. The EU project APOSDLE will enhance knowledge worker productivity by providing learning support within the computational work environment. [more...] Silver Prize for Giunti Labs' mobile learning platform Sestri Levante, June 2006 – Giunti Labs' mobile learning solution eXact Mobile received the Silver Prize at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards in Helsinki. The event, sponsored by Nokia and Nexit Ventures, showcased world's best B2B Mobile Solutions. A fifteen-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. [more...] Advertisement The Bundeswehr’s Distance Training Convention Connects Everyone... The HELIOS Yearly Report 2005/2006 Bologna, June 2006 – Are you tired of the usual overviews? Are you looking for grounded and actual analysis of eLearning evolutions in Europe and their implications on policies and practices for growth and innovation? The HELIOS Report 2005/2006 suggests an original approach to the critical analysis of innovation in learning in Europe! [more...] Content transfer is the new challenge of today
Dassault Systèmes announces ENOVIA 3D Live Paris, France, June 2006 – Dassault Systèmes (DS), a French provider of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has announced ENOVIA 3D Live beta version, a 3D Collaborative Intelligence solution that exploits DS’s V5 SOA architecture for online applications. Via an intuitive user interface, ENOVIA 3D Live enables any individual to instantly search and navigate any PLM information, regardless of location, source or format. [more...] Advertisement
Reuters PLC invests in online English Learning London / Brisbane, June 2006 – Reuters PLC has renewed its contract and signed a multiyear agreement with the GlobalEnglish Corporation. Reuters has maintained major offices in India and East Asia for over a century but has recently initiated expansions in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, and other locations. For this reason, the company has increased its investment in training employees in its official language, English. [more...] CLIX to be integrated into the SharePoint Portal Server Munich / Saarbrücken, June 2006 – Microsoft Deutschland GmbH (Germany) and IMC AG, provider of Learning Management solutions, are working hand in hand towards integration of IMC AG’s CLIX Learning Management System (LMS) into Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server. [more...] Pragmatic help from Kineo and ASTD Brighton, June 2006 – If you build it, will they stay? Much eLearning is built quickly these days, but is it built to last, or does it wither on the vine? Kineo explains how to ensure your learning is sustainable in a free briefing paper released this week. [more...] Advertisement
MELT 2006 award to HumanSoft Learning Solutions Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) HumanSoft Learning Solutions received the "Best eLearning Contribution Award in the Middle East and North Africa" at the Middle East elearning Technologies (MELT) 2006 event, held in Bahrain. The director of MELT 2006, Sally Ann Moore, presented the prize to Nadeem Younis, Senior Vice President of HumanSoft Learning Solutions. [more...] Role-play against mobbing and violence in schools
The first pan-African conference dedicated to eLearning activates and
motivates more than 800 attendees The first pan-African conference dedicated to eLearning exceeded all expectations. More than 800 people from 80 countries participated actively in the ambitious programme, expressing unambiguous enthusiasm for what they had experienced. [more...] International workshop of the eRMIONE Project Madrid, June 2006 – eRMIONE, the eLearning Resource Management (eRM), Internet-based environment Market Validation project, funded by the European Commission within the framework of the eTEN programme, is organising an international workshop in Madrid on 11 July 2006 on the premises of Atos Origin. The main objective of eRMIONE is the validation of a series of services in the cultural heritage domain at a pan-European dimension. [more...] Next generation challenges education to break the mould Oxford, June 2006 – Registration has opened for the 13th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, the UK's largest academic conference on learning technology, to be held in Edinburgh between 5 and 7 September 2005. The conference theme is "The next generation", with ten parallel streams focusing on next generation learners, learning, providers and technology. [more...] Imprint This newsletter has been forwarded to you. Would you like to receive it periodically? Then please register here for the regular editions. You are interested in placing an advertisement? Please ask for our media data here. Even though we did an intensive research for all our information, we do not guarantee the correctness of the information provided. | ||||||||||||
Midvale/Utah, June 2006 – (by Birgit Gamböck) Social software will play an important role in more and more bottom-up structured and team-oriented enterprises because it offers opportunities to take advantage of informal interaction across groups and to make it purposeful, thereby supporting the performance, growth, and innovation goals of most enterprises. This is the conclusion of the report "Trends in Social Software" conducted by the Burton Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in network and applications infrastructure technologies. CHECKpoint eLearning spoke with analyst Mike Gotta about the benefits, the market trends, and the first integration approaches of IBM and Microsoft. 
Dublin, June 2006 – (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Transware has been localizing elearning software for ten years now. Today its founder, Kieran McBrien, has to deal with smaller markets and projects, yet he faces an increasing need for content transfer. McBrien does not consider translators as competitors; rather he sees them as part of the process because localization has to take cultures, laws, political correctness, and other important aspects of a target group into account. 
Bullying is a widespread phenomenon that includes continual harassment and social exclusion by pupils against their fellow pupils. This problem is now addressed by an EU-funded project called e-CIRCUS, which aims at fighting bullying in schools and providing innovative strategies for conflict resolution. The problem occurs across cultures, a concern that is addressed by the project’s international consortium.