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The UK’s Top 50 IT Training Providers of 2007 |
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London (UK), July 2007 – IT Skills Research, which offers pooled research
to subscribing members and publishes industry news, has recently published
its annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers. QA-IQ leads the
field by a wide distance - gauged in terms of revenue - followed by
Learning Tree International and SAP in place three.
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| Project Continues |
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DAD - a Digital Aided Guide for Fathers-to-be |
 Vienna (A),
July 2007 - The digital aided guide for fathers-to-be is a free and
anonymous online service successfully implemented in the Austrian market.
With a financial contribution from the EC’s eTEN Programme, the scope of
the DAD guide has now been broadened to a European level. A market
validation project being coordinated by the Austrian firm Webducation has
just started.
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| Testing |
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ETS to Acquire Thomson Prometric |
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Princeton, NJ (USA), July 2007 - Educational Testing Service (ETS), the
world's largest educational assessment and research organization, is
acquiring Thomson Prometric, the global leader in technology-enabled
testing and assessment services. Prometric is part of The Thomson
Corporation. ETS is Prometric’s largest customer for technology-based
delivery of tests and assessments.
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| Bird Flu |
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Training for Better Surveillance |
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Paris/Montpellier (F), July 2007 - Veterinary epidemiology has really taken
off in recent years. Diseases that can be transmitted from animals to man
are changing and spreading to world regions that had previously been
spared. CIRAD, which has a mandate for training and surveillance in France
and overseas, organizes animal health teaching workshops and develops
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| UK Perspective |
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Diana Laurillard Opens Campus Innovation Conference |
 Hamburg (GER)/London (UK), July 2007 – (by Claudia
Musekamp) Professor Diana Laurillard, Director of eLearning in the
British government’s Department for Education and Skills, will open the
Campus Innovation Conference, 12-14 September 2007 at the Hamburg
University. In an interview with the conference organizers, she spoke
about the British Education System, the net-generation, new teaching
methods, and the university as a learning organisation.
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| Motor Industry |
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Successful Management of Online Assessments |
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London (UK), July 2007 - The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is the
UK’s leading qualification-awarding body for the retail motor industry:
approximately 18,000 candidates sit five to six examinations every year.
With the implementation of Questionmark Perception, the IMI was able to
increase its market share and now has greater control over the item bank,
giving the testing process the flexibility it needs:
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| European Project |
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KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE to Improve European Water Quality |
 Essen (GER), July 2007 – KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE, the innovative European
project for sustainable water management, has been launched. Its ambitious
intention is to bridge the environmental divide in Europe. Thirteen
partners from six European countries joined the project to promote and to
improve the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive
(WFD).
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| Support Solution |
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RWD Technologies Releases uPerform™ in Europe |
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Baltimore, MD (USA), July 2007 - RWD Technologies, Inc. (RWD), a company
that develops, implements, and supports products and services in the areas
of training, consulting, and organisational performance improvement, has
announced the release of RWD uPerform™ to markets in Europe and the United
Kingdom. RWD uPerform is a comprehensive human performance support tool kit
for businesses seeking to improve business results and return on investment
(ROI) from their enterprise solutions, including enterprise resource
planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and sales force
training programs.
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| Mobile Connection |
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Distance eLearning for African Countries |
 Stockholm (SE),
July 2007 - Ericsson announced at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in
Geneva (05-06 July) that it is collaborating with Stanford University to
explore the innovative use of mobile technologies in distance eLearning.
Ericsson will work with Stanford University's International Outreach
Program to bring distance learning to countries in Africa.
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forum for experts from the fields of science, business, and administration
for modern training and technology-based learning.
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| EFQUEL Meeting |
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General Assembly and Open Seminar on Quality Innovation |
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Brussels (B), July 2007 – The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning
EFQUEL organized an open seminar entitled "Quality Innovation: from
Inspection to Inspiration", which was held in Naples on 13 June. The
seminar presented the progress of the Foundation’s activities, the
establishment of a European Quality Mark for eLearning, and some of the
finalists of the EFQUEL eQuality Award applications. On the same day, the
General Assembly took place and a new board of directors was elected.
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| Open Source |
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ILIAS Conference Shows Ways to Successful eLearning |
 Cologna (GER)/ Bolzano (I), July 2007 – An attractive mixture
of current trends like Web 2.0 and topics such as quality assurance and
eLearning strategies characterize the programme of this year’s ILIAS
conference, which will be held on October 4th and 5th in Bolzano.
Interested parties and users of the open source learning management system
are meeting in Italy for the first time in Italy to exchange their
experiences.
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| Closing Event |
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Incorporating Mobile Learning Project |
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Dublin (IR), July 2007 – On September 7, 2007, the Taking Learning Mobile
Conference takes place at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology,
Dublin. The event will discuss the resources, technologies, and challenges
facing the incorporation of mobile learning into mainstream education and
training. The conference is the closing event of Mobile Learning -
Incorporating Mobile Learning into Mainstream Education and Training
project.
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| Conference |
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eLearning in Medical Education |
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Manchester (UK), July 2007 – Organized by 123Doc, a medical publisher
specialised in online and blended learning, the second conference on
eLearning in Medical Education in the National Health Service (NHS) will
take place in Manchester on September 22, 2007. The conference is aimed at
healthcare professionals and individuals who are interested in the
opportunities and development of eLearning for improving healthcare
learning and training.
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