| Benchmarking |
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UK Top 50 IT Training Providers 2009 |
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London (UK), June 2009 - Pardo Fox, a provider of market intelligence and
strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has published its tenth
annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers by revenue.
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| Multiple Identities |
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Echelon’s CEO Offered 'Fame and Philanthropy' Deal |
 London (UK), June 2009 - Alistair Morrison, CEO
of the organisation development consultancy Echelon Learning, was recently
invited to take part in the fourth series of the reality TV show 'The
Secret Millionaire'. Each programme features a millionaire, who goes
incognito into impoverished communities to give away tens of thousands of
pounds of their own money. Created in 2006 by Stephen Lambert, the
programmes are produced in the UK by RDF Media and are screened on Channel
4.
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| Search Tool |
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Finding Learning Resources Made Easy |
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Brisbane (AU), June 2009 – The Australian national training system’s
eLearning strategy "Framework", announces the release of an enhanced
version of the Vetadata Tool, making it even quicker and easier to create
Vetadata for learning resources.
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| Study Chinese |
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New Course Makes Use of All that Digital Learning Offers |
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New York, NY (USA), June 2009 - The Innovative Language Learning Company
has announced the launch of Chineseclass101.com, an online learning system
that combines audio and video podcasts, mobile apps, digital tools, and
more in order to turn 5000 years of Chinese language into an interactive
experience on PC, iPod, mobile, and social networks.
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| LCMS |
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Single-Source Publishing Platform for a Global Audience |
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Boulder, CO (USA), June 2009 – Xyleme Inc., provider of one hundred percent
XML, SCORM 2004-certified learning-content management solutions has
announced that AchieveGlobal has implemented Xyleme LCMS for EMC
Documentum to deliver personalised, multi-modal learning content to their
worldwide audience.
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| Supplier Management |
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New Priority for Learning Outsourcing |
 Bracknell (UK), June 2009
- The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made 'supplier
management' the current focus area for learning outsourcing, according to
managed-learning specialist KnowledgePool. Their research indicates that
77% of organisations currently outsource some aspects of their learning
provision and 5% outsource all learning activities.
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| Business Cooperation |
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CMEurope Partners with Cobent for Quality Training |
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Guildford (UK), June 2009 - CMEurope is expanding its training services
through a partnership with Cobent Limited. CMEurope is the European
division of the Australian-based HR outsourcing and recruitment company
Chandler Macleod Group. CMEurope's services extend further than its
Australian parent, covering the entire employment lifecycle, from
marketing vacancies and candidates, to recruitment outsourcing and
consultancy around organisational culture and leadership.
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| Letter from UK |
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"Little’s Britain": Conceptualisation |
 London
(UK), June 2009 - (by Bob Little) In his blog, the internationally
known instructional design 'guru' Neil Lasher, of the UK-based
vendor-neutral eLearning specialist Trainer1, has commented recently:
'Despite much research on human learning, little is known about cultural
conceptions of learning… Kolb highlighted conceptualisation in the
learning cycle process, calling the stage Abstract Conceptualisation - the
time where we make sense of what we have heard or read or done, prompting
questions so that we can make even better sense of the material at hand.
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| High-res Animations |
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ESRI Canada Brings Earth's Treasures to Life |
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Toronto, ON (CA), June 2009 - As part of an ongoing commitment to actively
promote Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education, ESRI Canada has
collaborated with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) to enhance one of its most
renowned attractions - the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures.
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| Collaboration |
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Turkish Schoolchildren Experience 21st-Century Learning |
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Ankara (TR), June 2009 - Eighty Turkish schoolchildren aged 11 and 12 from
the Turkish capital Ankara and the village of Beynam have participated in
Turkey's first virtual classroom, sharing a lesson on the theme "Earth,
Sun and Moon" as part of their science and technology curriculum.
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| Skills in Europe |
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Qualifications Are Rising, but Inequalities Persist |
 Thessaloniki (GR), June
2009 - The level of qualifications and skills is rising across Europe,
particularly among younger people – and even more so among women. But
inequalities in the level of education persist among Member States. These
are some of the conclusions of the first pan-European forecast of its kind,
Future skill supply in Europe: medium-term forecast up to 2020, published
by Cedefop.
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| Digital Repository |
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Giunti Labs Presents Solutions for Archiving |
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Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - At the Preservation and Archiving Special
Interest Group (PASIG) meeting organised by Sun Microsystems in St
Julian’s, Malta, from 24 - 26 June, Giunti Labs will present the new
HarvestRoad Hive 4 Digital Repository (DR) platform for digital-content
archiving and preservation initiatives of museums, libraries, and
eGovernment.
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| Blended Learning |
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UKS partners with Cegos Group |
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Dubai (UAE), June 2009 - Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS), a
learning-solutions enabler based in the Middle East, has partnered with
Cegos Group, a professional training provider, in an exclusive
relationship to provide Global Learning by Cegos (GLC) and eLearning
Solutions by Cegos (eLS) to the commercial and public sector organizations
in the Middle East.
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| Stakeholders Forum |
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Agenda for Change in Education and Lifelong Learning |
 Brussels (BE), June 2009
- The Learnovation Open Forum entitled "Removing the barriers to creativity
and innovation? Listening to stakeholders’ voice", was held on 27 May 2009
in Brussels, gathering the main European networks in the field of
innovation and ICT for education and training.
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| Learning on Demand |
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Online Business English for Deutsche Post DHL |
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Brisbane, CA (USA), June 2009 - GlobalEnglish Corporation, a provider of
on-demand learning and support for business English communication, has
announces that it has won Deutsche Post DHL, the world's leading
mail-and-logistics services group, as a customer for its GlobalEnglish
Corporate Learning Service.
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| Workshop |
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Blended Learning - Enhancing Your Practice |
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Hatfield (UK), June 2009 - The Blended Learning Unit of the Learning and
Teaching Institute is holding a one-day workshop event on Thursday 16 July
2009. The event is open to external colleagues who wish to attend.
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| EFQUEL Forum 2009 |
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Fostering Quality through Creative Learnscapes |
 Helsinki (FI), June 2009
- The EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2009 is being held in Helsinki on 24-25
September 2009. It recognises the important role of informal learning for
individual, organisational, and regional learning and focuses on how
creative learnscapes can foster quality and innovation.
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| Lifelong Learning |
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European University Quality Management |
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Valencia (ES), June 2009 - The UNI-QM project aims at creating a model and
tools for quality management in lifelong-learning organisations and
continuing education. The model and tools will be based on the EFQM model
but applied in the field of lifelong learning, thus respecting its
characteristics and needs.
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| Changing Education |
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Twelfth International Conference on Interactive Learning |
 Villach (AT), June 2009
- The International Conference on Interactive Computer-aided Learning
(ICL) 2009 is being held in Villach, Austria. This interdisciplinary
conference focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results
as well as the presentation of practical experience gained while developing
and testing elements of interactive computer-aided learning, especially in
engineering education.
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| Web-based Learning |
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ICWL Conference in Aachen, Germany |
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Aachen (GER), June 2009 - ICWL 2009, the eighth edition of the event, is
being held at the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany from 19-21
August. Aachen is a city with rich culture, innovative high-tech research,
and a truly European spirit.
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| Awards |
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ALT Announces Competitions for Learning Technology |
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Oxford (UK), June 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) has
announced two competitions for people in the education and training
sector. Both closing dates are in July 2009. Awards will be announced in
the context of ALT-C in September 2009.
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