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WebCT Founder Launches Brainify |
Vancouver, British Columbia (CA), January 2009 - Murray Goldberg, founder
of WebCT, has announced the beta launch of Brainify.com – an academic
community for university and college students and their instructors
centred on academic social bookmarking. In addition to bookmarking,
Brainify includes the ability to create groups of common academic
interest, to pose academic questions to the student community, and to
follow the collections, comments, and questions of other respected
community members closely.
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| British Army |
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Operation Numerika - Numeracy Skills via Nintendo DS |
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Brighton (UK), January 2009 - Epic has been commissioned to design a basic
skills numeracy programme entitled 'Operation Numerika' to support the
training of entry recruits in the British Army. 'Operation Numerika' is
delivered on Nintendo DS and is closely evaluated to monitor the process
of its users.
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| Letter from UK |
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'Little’s Britain': Mobile revelations |
 London
(UK), January 2009 - (by Bob Little) Kris Swanson, of Merrill
Lynch, has revealed that the company has some 60,000 employees and, of
these, some 21,000 have BlackBerry mobile devices. Of these, some 6,000
have been given access to mobile learning materials and, to date, there
are some 2,000 regular users of this mobile learning material. That means
that some 9.5 per cent of those with access to the delivery technology for
mobile learning are using it.
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| MBA Ranking |
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Quacquarelli Symonds Publishes Latest Survey Results |
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London (UK), January 2009 - QS Quacquarelli Symonds has announced the
publishing of the results of their eighteenth annual MBA employer survey
"QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009: The Employers’ Choice". The research
demonstrates that MBA employers around the world are increasingly targeting
a broader selection of regionally strong business schools from which to
hire MBA graduates.
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| Teaching Tools |
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Virtual Science Lab Launched at BETT 2009 |
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Bucharest (RO), January 2009 - (by Elena Lita) SIVECO Romania, a
major eLearning content provider, and SANAKO, leaders in live learning
technology, have partnered to launch a digital science lab that provides
practical approaches for teaching most natural sciences including Biology,
Chemistry, Math, and Physics.
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| Content Management |
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learn eXact Enterprise Unveiled at Learning Technologies |
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Richmond-upon-Thames (UK), January 2009 - At this year’s Learning
Technologies exhibition, Giunti Labs will be offering previews of learn
eXact Enterprise, the latest version of its learning-content-management
system (LCMS). Visitors to Giunti Labs’ stand can 'test drive' this
state-of-the-art LCMS while enjoying guidance from its developers.
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| Awards |
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Call for Nominations for Honorary Life Membership at ALT |
 Oxford (UK), January
2009 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) announces the 2009
Call for Nominations for Honorary Life Membership of ALT, the UK-based
professional and scholarly association that brings together people who
share an interest in the use of learning technology.
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| Email Charter |
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You’ve Got Mail…on Average 2,769 Emails in Your Inbox |
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London (UK), January 2009 - New research indicates that a lack of email
protocol fuels employee email stress and wastes up to one hour per day.
Expert Messaging reacted to this with an Email Charter that serves as a
useful tool to professionalize online communication.
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| Next Generation |
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ELearning for Kids in Spanish, French and Portuguese |
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Ardmore, PA (USA), January 2009 - ELearning for Kids, a global non-profit
foundation dedicated to providing free online learning for children 5-12,
announces the addition of 72 new basic skills courses in 3 new languages -
Spanish, French and Portuguese. Additional courses and languages are in
progress.
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| Professional Development |
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National Launch of the eCPD Programme in the UK |
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London (UK), January 2009 - The national launch conference for the Learning
and Skills Improvement Service's (LSIS) eCPD Programme will be held on
Thursday, 5 February 2009. The conference will build on the outstandingly
successful eLearning practitioner conferences held in 2005 and 2007, which
were organised by QIA and ALT and supported by partners including Becta,
JISC, NIACE, LSN, and CEL.
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| eAssessment |
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BTL Breakfast Briefings 2009 |
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Shipley (UK), January 2009 – BTL learning & assessment Ltd. invites
colleagues, partners, and interested individuals to join them for BTL's
breakfast briefings in the UK. The events include user case studies by the
Scottish Qualifications Authority, EMTA Awards Limited, and the Association
of Accounting Technicians.
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| Proposals in Demand |
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Interactive Computer-Aided Learning 2009 |
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Villach (AT), January 2009 – ICL 2009 will be held from 23 – 25 September
2009 in Villach, Austria. This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the
exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the
presentation of practical experience in interactive computer-aided
learning, especially in engineering education.
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| ALT-C 2009 |
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Conference Theme Announced: In Dreams Begins Responsibility |
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Oxford (UK), January 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology has
announced the theme for its 2009 conference. The event will focus on "In
dreams begins responsibility: choices, evidence, and change" and will take
place at University Place, University of Manchester, UK from 8-10 September
2009.
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| Focus on Asia |
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Invitation to Attend Worlddidac India |
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New Delhi (IN), January 2009 - Worlddidac India is the first and only event
in the region for educational material, training, and technology-based
solutions for all levels and sectors of the Indian education industry. It
addresses the growing demand for these products and solutions in the
Indian Subcontinent and is scheduled from 24 - 26 September 2009 at
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India.
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