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Washington, August 2006 – The case is delicate and uncertainty abounds. On July 26, US provider Blackboard announced that it has been granted a U.S. patent for technology used in internet-based education support systems and tools. Because the patent, Nr. 6,988,138, covers core technology used in most of the Learning Management Systems (LMS) and because Blackboard has filed a lawsuit against the Canadian company Desire2Learn for patent infringement, the whole eLearning industry is alarmed. While patent experts and lawyers are sounding all-clear signals, the open source community in particular is furious. [more...]

New York, August 2006 – (by Elliott Masie) I frequently get asked how best to handle Learning Management System (LMS) usage fees for organizations with a high level of turnover or temporary employees. The problem: Not tracking training for these employees in an LMS because per-user pricing makes it too costly to enter so many high turnover employees. As a result, some organizations are using a time-intensive manual tracking system for a very large employee population. [more...]

Neu Delhi / Rochester / Seattle, August 2006 – For many companies, eLearning is still not a business with comfortable profits. While US provider Element K agreed to be bought by Indian IT training giant NIIT, Intrepid Learning Solutions raised US$ 11.7 million venture capital for financing further growth. [more...]

Stockholm, August 2006 – BTS Group AB, a business simulation training and consulting company, has signed a letter of intent regarding the possible acquisition of the businesses of the Advantage Performance Group (APG) and the Real Learning Company (RLC), two privately held US-based training and consulting organizations. [more...]

The Bundeswehr’s Distance Training Convention Connects Everyone...

... from September 19th to 21st 2006 in Hamburg, the German Army’s 3rd Distance Training Conference and trade fair invites you to take part in an international dialogue between science and practice. The forum will focus on current topics in technology-based education for the scientific and business communities, public service, and the armed forces ...
More details: www.fernausbildung.org

London / Zurich, August 2006 – The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has developed a series of industry-specific knowledge-sharing and collaboration communities known as Knowledge Transfer Networks, incorporating Interwise Connect as its integrated conferencing platform. Global reinsurer Swiss Re has chosen Interwise Connect for its corporate-wide web conferencing technology. [more...]

Indianapolis, August 2006 – The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) chose the solution developed by Giunti Labs, Cisco Systems, and MIT as demonstrating the highest impact application of learning technology standards at the alt-i-lab 2006 conference held June in Indianapolis. The top honoured "Medical Content from Distributed Repositories" demonstrator will be shown again between September 13-15 in Italy at SMILE 2006. [more...]

Redwood Shores, August 2006 – Oracle has entered into a strategic alliance with Unicon, Inc., a provider of enterprise portal, collaboration, learning, and integration technology for higher education institutions, in connection with the delivery and support of a next-generation academic enterprise environment for the higher education and K-12 markets worldwide. This new solution will create a comprehensive environment by leveraging the Sakai open source code. [more...]

Oxford, August 2006 – More than three quarters of all of UK Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) institutions consider open source options when engaging in IT procurement exercises. The survey organized by the JISC-funded OSS Watch service also found that 56% of FE institutions use Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment. [more...]

Oslo, August 2006 – Following the BBC’s recent selection of Mohive's eLearning Publishing System (eLPS), the Norwegian company has won more customers. The German “Do-It-Yourself” retail chain HORNBACH and the Orion Pharma GmbH, a division of Finland’s Orion Group, joined the international list of organizations that have enhanced their eLearning by using Mohive’s System. [more...]

Nottingham, August 2006 – The latest release of the eLearning authoring software from Atlantic Link has taken the application into the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) arena. Global replacement of all media elements and content point learning objects allows courses to be re-branded, restyled, and repurposed in a matter of minutes, the company promises. [more...]

London, August 2006 – Aviation Training International Limited (ATIL) has signed up for the British Learning Association's prestigious Quality Mark for 'Providing Learning Solutions'. At the outset, ATIL employed instructors and subscribed to the Ministry of Defence training quality parameters. It became clear to them that they would need to stand alone if they were to develop as a training solutions provider, and that they would need to benchmark against industry standards. [more...]

Graz, August 2006 – bit media solutions find demand in Central Asia: The eLearning-experts from Graz, Austria, are cooperating in a joint project to introduce consistent vocational education guidelines and certifications in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. [more...]

JOBYC is an innovative online skills-profiling system that sets new standards in eRecruiting. Besides including personal data and qualifications, the candidates’ profiles focus on their core skills, personal and social skills, management and leadership abilities, experience, and development potential. By evaluating business-relevant, behavioral skills, JOBYC can guarantee that a position is filled by exactly the right person. JOBYC – your career coach

Brighton, August 2006 – Summer may be winding down, but the temperature remains high on the Kineo website this month with a new ‘elearning bugbears’ podcast in which industry experts from Brighton to Berkeley explain what drives them crazy about eLearning and training. [more...]

Salford (UK) / Zirl (Austria), August 2006 – Bridging the gap between the currently available educational software and the more dynamic games software market is the goal of a project called CRIMCITY. Supported by funding by the SOCRATES-MINERVA action line of the European Commission, CRIMCITY tests the benefits and effectiveness of learning by means of VE and related technology and incorporates the strengths offered by the media. [more...]

Brussels, August 2006 – Elearningeuropa.info, the European Commission’s information portal for the use of multimedia technologies and Internet in the service of education and training, initiated a search for educators’ "favourite eLearning resource". The contest requested teachers to suggest useful and popular tools that were evaluated by a jury and examined for content and information, technical solutions, usability, and interactivity. The winner is a language training community called Shared Talk. [more...]

Addis Ababa, August 2006 – Engineering universities and technical vocational education centers (TVET) are to be fully connected to an eLearning system in the next three years, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Capacity Building has disclosed. The news was given at a two-day eLearning strategic workshop organized by a German Engineering Capacity Building Program (ECBP) in Addis Ababa two months after the eLearning Africa conference. [more...]

Accra, August 2006 – 2Ti Solutions and BusyInternet have launched the learning portal www.elearningghana.com to offer affordable eLearning courses for IT and business skills topics. The 2.400 courses from leading online training and education providers are dedicated to small and mid-sized business clients. Officials say that over 1,000 users are visiting the centre every day. [more...]

Berlin, August 2006 – The world of social networks, blogs, wikis, podcasts and rss feeds, often subsumed under the buzzword web 2.0, has experienced an amazing boom over the last few years. At this year’s ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, taking place from November 29 – December 1, experts will explore developments in this burgeoning sector. [more...]

Crete (Greece), August 2006 – Technology-enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning for individuals and organizations independent of time, place, and pace. From 1-4 October 2006, the First European Technology-Enhanced Learning Conference will be held at the Knossos Royal Village Conference Center, Limon Hersonissou, Crete. [more...]

Sestri Levante, August 2006 – SMILE 2006, the first international workshop on Medical eLearning will take place in Sestri Levante, Italy, on September 14-15. It is organized by AMEE (the Association for Medical Education in Europe), an international association operating in the medical education field that has members in over 70 countries, together with Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading eLearning company. [more...]

Baden-Baden, August 2006 – The "German eScience Conference 2007" (GES2007) - organised by Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and German Rectors' Conference (HRK) and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) – will bring together experts from four eScience areas: Grid Computing, Knowledge Networking, eLearning, and Open Access. [more...]

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