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A Learning Community around Human Rights |
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Wageningen (NL), July 2007 – Stoas Learning BV will be delivering an
electronic learning environment to the Council of Europe in October.
Ultimately, this will bring together 100,000 lawyers from 47 countries for
the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The company, based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, was deemed the best of
the lot after a European tender process.
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Aviva Hosts City Launch of Global Diversity Toolkit |
 London (UK), July 2007 - Aviva plc, the international
savings, investments, and insurance group, has launched its global
diversity learning resource, the "Respect Diversity Toolkit", at an event
attended by HR professionals from FTSE 100 employers including Barclays,
Goldman Sachs, UBS, BT, HSBC, and Shell. The launch, which took place at
Aviva's London headquarters, was held in association with Diverse Culture
and NB Global Diversity Practice, who worked with Aviva to produce the
toolkit.
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| MyKnowledgeMap |
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The UK's Biggest Mobile-learning Project |
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York (UK), July 2007 – The UK's largest-scale exercise in mobile education
to date is helping 9,000 students throughout Yorkshire to assess their own
competencies via their phones and related handheld devices. The Assessment
and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS) aims to ensure that the
graduates, studying sixteen different subjects from a wide range of health
and social care courses, have the skills needed to be effective in the
workplace.
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| Survey |
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Competence in Classroom Training and Distance Learning |
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Birmingham (UK), July 2007 – Dropping the "e" in eLearning is currently a
hot topic. The discussion implies that the training world no longer needs
to point out the "e" because technology-enhanced learning is a regular and
necessary part of the learning mix. But does a hot topic in the media and
the community really reflect a hot topic in your daily business?
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| SIVECO Cup 2007 |
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Prestigious Competition for the Pre-university Education |
 Bucharest (RO), July 2007 - (by Elena Lita) Bucharest recently
hosted the fifth edition of the national SIVECO Cup contest organized by
SIVECO Romania in partnership with the Romanian Ministry of Education,
Research and Youth and with PC Magazine Romania. The SIVECO Cup is a
prestigious competition for the pre-university education, awarding
excellence in developing educational software.
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| UK Expansion |
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CrossKnowledge Collaborates with the Open University |
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London (UK), July 2007 – CrossKnowledge, a European leader in web-based
management training with more than one million users worldwide, has
introduced the first in a series of distance learning management
programmes developed with the Open University. The launch of the course on
effective project management follows CrossKnowledge's recent expansion to
the UK and the opening of its London headquarters, aimed at serving the
second-largest eLearning market in the world.
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| Collaboration |
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University Network Chooses HarvestRoad Hive |
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Perth (AU), July 2007 – Technology company HarvestRoad has announced that
oncampus GmbH has chosen HarvestRoad Hive® and IBM systems as its future
digital marketplace Learning Object Repository infrastructure solution.
oncampus GmbH is made up of 25 German and Baltic Universities that provide
eLearning courses for their International University Network, which
represents thousands of distant-education-program students from around the
world.
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| Hole in the Wall |
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Access to Education for Unprivileged Children |
 Berlin (GER), July 2007 – A keynote
speech by Professor Sugata Mitra will be among the highlights at Online
Educa 2007, the world's largest international conference on
technology-supported learning and training, taking place from November, 28
to 30 in Berlin's Hotel InterContinental. Professor Mitra, an
internationally renowned software specialist and visionary, will present
some if his latest findings concerning self-organizing learning systems in
primary education.
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| Partnership |
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QA-IQ Expands International Delivery |
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Slough (UK), July 2007 - QA-IQ, an English IT-Training company, has
launched a global partnership programme to provide its customers with
access to technical, professional skills, management, and
personal-development training across a wide range of international
locations.
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| Conference Proceedings |
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eLearning in European SMEs |
 Brussels
(BE)/Münster (GER), July 2007 - The ARIEL project, supported within the
eLearning initiative of the European Commission, investigated
supply-and-demand factors on the eLearning market for small and
medium-sized enterprises and described future trends with the scenario
method. The proceedings of the ARIEL final conference give a comprehensive
overview of the research results. Outstanding guest authors complement with
new concepts for possible market trends.
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| Podcasting |
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A Teaching-with-Technology White Paper |
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Pittsburgh PA (USA), July 2007 – Podcasts are a relatively new tool in
teaching at universities. The Office of Technology for Education and
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University has
recently published a white paper on Podcasting.
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| Global Scale |
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Second Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning |
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Crete (GR), July 2007 – From 17 – 20 September 2007, the EC-TEL 2007 -
Second European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning takes place on
Crete, Greece. The conference theme is "Creating new learning experiences
on a global scale". Keynote speakers are Bruce Sterling, professor at the
European Graduate School and "visionary in residence" at the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, California and Hermann Maurer, professor of
computer science at the Technical University Graz, Austria.
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| Twentieth Anniversary |
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European Conference of Distance Teaching Universities |
 Heerlen (NL)/Lisbon (P), July 2007 – "Virtual Erasmus and a new
generation of Open Educational Resources for a European and global
outreach" is the theme under which the twentieth Anniversary Conference of
the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) is
organized. Hosted by the Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal, and
organised under the Portuguese EU Presidency 2007, the event takes place
from 8-9 November 2007.
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| KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE |
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Sustainable Water Management in Europe |
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Essen (GER)/ Vilnius (LT), July 2007 – KNOWLEDGE BRIDGE is a European
Leonardo da Vinci Project for innovative online vocational training
solutions to support the implementation of sustainable water management
and the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). As part of the project,
European water managers and online training experts are invited to take
part in a European Conference for Sustainable Water Management being held
in to Vilnius, Lithuania, September 4-5, 2007.
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