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ELearning from NASA |
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Washington, DC (USA), November 2008 - The American Space Agency is making a
free, web-based educational product available across the country to
learners of all ages. NASA eClips consists of more than 55 short, 5-10
minute video segments that are available on-demand via the Internet. NASA
eClips features many of the Agency's missions and engages learners in the
excitement of science and engineering.
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| Award |
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Gold for Excellence in Customer Service |
 Chantilly, VA (USA) -
November, 2008 - The Chief Learning Officer magazine has awarded Meridian
Knowledge Solutions, LLC its Gold "Excellence in Customer Service Award"
at the publication's recently held Fall Symposium in Coronado, CA. The
prestigious award was the top honor in one of fifteen categories presented
by the magazine to "recognize transformational and visionary leaders in
enterprise education".
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| Staff Training |
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Starwood Hotels Partners with Cornerstone OnDemand |
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Santa Monica, CA (USA), November 2008 - Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a
provider of on-demand, integrated talent management software and services,
has announced that Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., one of the
world’s largest hotel and leisure companies, will use Cornerstone’s
learning and development platform, Cornerstone Learning, to train and
develop its employees around the globe.
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| ELearning Tips |
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Epic Thinking Posts Ten Tips on Being a Good eLearner |
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Brighton (UK), November 2008 – Epic Thinking, a British provider of
eLearning, blended learning, and knowledge solutions, offers some
considerations for making eLearning more effective. The company has
developed a list of ten tips for fun eLearning experiences that leave a
lasting, positive effect.
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| EuNeON |
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Online Teaching and Learning in Europe |
 Brussels (BE), November 2008 – EuNeON has been launched as a means to
support the Lisbon strategy and to contribute to the exploration and the
full use of both the economic and the pedagogic potential of online
teaching and learning in Europe. Partners in this undertaking are the
Estonian Virtual University, the Finnish Online University of Applied
Sciences, the Finnish Virtual University, the Swedish Agency for Networks
and Cooperation in Higher Education, and the Bavarian Virtual University.
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| In-house Training |
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Driving Down the Cost of Training |
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Ware (UK), November 2008 - Staff motivation is more important than ever
during difficult times. But while costs need to be kept down and
productivity increased, this is not an easy challenge. The Complete
Trainer offers solutions that make in-house training easier and more
effective.
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| Business Merger |
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Premier IT Group Acquires Major Training Ltd |
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London (UK), November 2008 - Premier IT Group, a
workforce-performance-improvement specialist has announced the acquisition
of Major Training, a London-based company providing IT training for the
creative sector. After a number of years of cooperation, the two companies
are now joining forces permanently.
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| Automotive Sector |
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Raytheon Opens New Training Centre in Samara, Russia |
 Rüsselsheim (GER), November 2008 -
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon
Company, has opened a training centre in Samara, Russia, to provide basic
and advanced technical and sales training for automotive dealerships. The
200-square-meter centre will employ training and administrative personnel
to provide services in Russian.
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| Business Training |
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Global Knowledge as a Google Certified Training Partner |
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Wokingham (UK), November 2008 - Global Knowledge, a provider of IT and
Business training, has announced that it is joining the Google Enterprise
Partner programme and will specialize in delivering instructor-led Google
Search Appliance Training in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
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| Multimedia Portability |
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Nokia Getting on Top of Handset Media Portability |
 London
(UK), November 2008 - Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum, writes about
problems of multimedia portability. He classifies the latest edition of
Nokia's S60 as a good example with only minor shortcomings. Nokia has
greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth
edition of its S60 platform for the Symbian OS in an effort to overcome
the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation.
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| eLearning Supplier |
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IKEA Selects Giunti Labs as a Preferred Supplier |
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Lund (SE), November 2008 - Giunti Labs, a learning and
mobile-content-management solution provider and bespoke content producer,
has been chosen as one of the limited number of official providers for
eLearning content production services for the next two years to the
Scandinavia-based home-furnishing-products retailer, IKEA.
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| Forum |
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Technology-Assisted Learning and Training for Defence |
 Berlin (GER), November
2008 – The fourth International Forum on Technology-Assisted Learning and
Training for Defence, Security, and Emergency Services takes place on
December 3 in conjunction with ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN and is hosted by the
New Security Foundation. The Forum brings together leading figures from
government, business, security, and academia.
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| Long-Term Planning |
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Eighth Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2009 |
 Aachen (GER), November
2008 - From the 19th-21st of August, 2009, the eighth ICWL 2009 will be
held at the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, a city with rich
culture, high-tech research, and a truly European spirit. ICWL is an
annual international conference on web-based learning. The call for papers
is now open.
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| Standardization |
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Co-operation between SC36/WG5 and Online Educa Berlin |
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Essen/Berlin (GER), November 2008 - The standardization committee SC36/WG5
and the conference organizers of Online Educa Berlin have established
close co-operation with a long-term perspective. The session "Improving
eLearning Quality and Implementation" at the upcoming Online Educa Berlin
2008 is being realized in collaboration and is the first step towards an
annual track about quality standardization.
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