| Big Deal |
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Skillsoft Buys NETg from Thompson |
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Stamford (CT, USA), November 2006 - The Thomson Corporation has realigned
its operations to sharpen its strategic focus on providing electronic
workflow solutions to business and professional markets and better
position the company for future growth.
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| Expansion |
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imc AG Goes to Britain |
 Saarbruecken (Germany) / Birmingham
(UK), November 2006 - imc AG of Germany (Saarbruecken) officially founded
a subsidiary, imc (UK) Learning Ltd., on October 25th 2006 in Birmingham.
The company will launch its products and services in the UK at the
"Learning Technologies 2007" exhibition and conference at Olympia 2 in
London from 31 Jan - 01 Feb 2007.
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| Caucasus |
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Cisco Networking Academy Opened |
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Baku (Azerbaijan), November 2006 – A CISCO Networking Academy was recently
opened at Baku State University with the support of the Azerbaijani
Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies (ICT), UNDP, and
AzRENA.
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LearnCenter® to Be Sold in Portugal |
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Sunrise (FL, USA), November 2006 - Florida-based Learn.com®, producer of
on-demand workforce productivity, will sell the LearnCenter® platform in
Portugal through Conhecer Mais Ti, a Portuguese information technology
provider, to increase its share of Portugal's growing higher education and
training market.
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| Signs of Understanding |
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UKS Agreement with UAE Ministry |
 United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 2006 - Universal
Knowledge Solutions (UKS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
the UAE Ministry of Labor (MOL) to build essential competency development
programs.
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| Getting Serious |
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Trade Body for Serious Games Launched |
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Worthing (UK), November 2006 - The Alliance for New Generation Interactive
Leisure and Simulations – ANGILS - has officially launched, with a line-up
of support from leading experts and commissioners of serious games. It is
the first trade body representing the business of serious games.
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Bonn (Germany), November 2006 - "The eUser project represents the first
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| New Ways |
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Fifty Lessons/BRIDGE2THINK Have Distribution Agreement |
 Basel (CH)/London (UK), November
2006 – Digital business library creator Fifty Lessons has won BRIDGE2THINK
to distribute its content to clients in the corporate learning market, thus
fulfilling a growing need for short-format, high-quality digital content
with an emphasis on first-person experience and practical applications
featuring leading business people.
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| Inadequate Support |
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New Study: Managers Are Vital for Knowledge Transfer |
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Bracknell (UK), November 2006 - A quarter of all training is wasted
because delegates do not get the chance to apply their learning and they
are not adequately supported by their line manager, according to a new
Kirkpatrick Level 3 benchmark study from KnowledgePool, the managed
learning services company.
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| Teaching Improved |
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Self-Assessment for Educational and Training Organisations |
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Lichtenstein (FL), November 2006 – How can quality and transparency in
vocational training be improved? This question is central to the EU's
efforts to instil more trust, transparency, and mobility within the
European workforce.
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| Door Opener |
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Open University Launches OpenLearn |
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Milton Keynes (UK), November 2006 – The British Open University (OU) has
stepped up its commitment to broadening access to education by launching
"OpenLearn" , a new open-content website.
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| It's a Game! |
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Partnership Develops New eLearning Game |
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Ottawa (CAN), November 2006 - I Squared Learning, a provider of interactive
and intuitive automated eLearning platforms, has teamed with The National
Quality Institute (NQI) to develop an eLearning game called "All About
Excellence".
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| Skin Deep |
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Cardiff University Teaches Doctors via the Internet |
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Cardiff (UK), November - A Cardiff University course that helps doctors
internationally to improve patient care from their computers is the
runner-up in this year's education awards by the Times Higher Education
Supplement.
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| Health Services |
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Successful Blood Transfusion Training |
London (UK) , November 2006 - ELearning service provider Course-Source has
won a coveted 2006 National Training Award in recognition of its
exceptional achievements in training medics to use an alternative method
of blood transfusion.
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| Take Note(book) |
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Qaddafi’s Computer Kids |
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Tripoli (Libya), November 2006 -The government of Libya has signed a
memorandum of understanding (MOU) with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a
nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive educational laptop
computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan
schoolchildren by June 2008.
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| Major Input |
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Government's eLearning Project to Enhance Education |
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Kingston (JAMAICA), November 2006 – According to a report by the Jamaica
Observer, the country’s government’s US$50 million investment in an
eLearning project, launched earlier this year, is expected to enhance the
quality of secondary teaching and learning significantly. The program is
scheduled for three years.
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| Shaken but Not Stirred |
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ELearn 2006...Magnitude 6.5 |
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Honolulu (HI, USA), November 2006 (by Birgit Gaiser) – Nine hundred
registered participants gathered in Honolulu for the eLearn 2006 from
October 13-17, 2006 to attend the International Forum for Researchers,
Developers, and Practitioners in eLearning.
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| I Learn, You Learn |
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iLearn Paris Forum 2007 |
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Paris (FR), November 2006 - iLearn Forum Ltd, the organisers of iLearn
Paris 2006 and eLearnExpo, have formed a strategic partnership with the
European Institute for eLearning - EifEL - for the next iLearn Paris 2007,
to take place on 30 and 31 January 2007 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris.
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| Africa Calls |
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eLearning Africa 2007 – Call for Papers and Proposals |
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Nairobi (Kenya), November 2006 - The second International Conference on ICT
for Development, Education and Training, eLearning Africa, will take place
from May 28 to 30, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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