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Sunrise, FL (USA), September 2009 - Learn.com has announced that the
company has re-launched its Conversion Allowance Program (CAP) to assist
concerned SumTotal customers. SumTotal Systems was recently delisted from
the NASDAQ stock market after its acquisition by a private equity
organization.
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A Concept of Commercial Open Source |
 Oslo (NR), September 2009 - Open source learning management
systems (LMS) are not necessarily cheaper than commercial ones. For
CHECK.point eLearning, Kirsten Seegmüller spoke with Roger Larsen,
founder of Fronter, which is a combination of both. Fronter’s clients have
access to the source code, but they are willing to pay for full service,
including server space, high availability, and immediate support.
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| Savings |
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Schwarzenegger’s Demand for Free Student Textbooks |
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Frederiksberg (DK), September 2009 - Arnold Schwarzenegger has demanded
that California cut costs on textbooks. Bookboon.com is obeying the
"Govenator" and is now launching a 100% free online textbook service for
college and university students in the USA. BookBoon.com is a Danish
book-publishing house that has specialized in free textbooks for students
since 2005 and counts more than twenty million downloaded books a year.
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Atlantic Link and Blackboard Partner on Content Delivery |
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Nottingham (UK), September 2009 - Atlantic Link has announced new
cooperation with Blackboard Inc. Through this unique partnership, Atlantic
Link becomes a Blackboard Premier Partner™ to bring enhanced content
delivery to Blackboard Learn™ clients worldwide. Under the terms of the
three-year agreement, Atlantic Link and Blackboard will work together to
improve content delivery in a way that meets industry standards and
enables institutions to leverage a content delivery solution that ensures
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| Interactive Training |
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South Africa's oldest University selects Kaplan |
 Cape Town (ZA),
September 2009 - Kaplan IT Learning has announced that The University of
Cape Town are using eLearning lessons created using STT Trainer to train
staff on a multitude of systems. Originally introduced for a PeopleSoft
system implementation three years ago, STT Trainer is now used for many
systems and within many different departments.
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| Best Results |
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"Momentum is in Cornerstone’s Favor" |
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Santa Monica, CA (USA), September 2009 – Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a
provider of on-demand learning and talent management software and
services, has proclaimed that despite the current economic climate, the
company has performed at record levels for the third straight quarter.
New client bookings for the first half of 2009 were up by more than 100
percent from the previous year, led by the addition of more than 742,000
new users.
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| eAssessments |
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To Develop and Deliver High-stakes Examinations |
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Shipley (UK), September 2009 - BTL Group Ltd has announced that during the
summer of 2009, WJEC - the Cardiff-based awarding body - successfully
delivered the first-ever on-screen A-Level examinations in England and
Wales, using BTL’s Surpass eAssessment solution. WJEC is amongst a number
of leading UK examination boards who use BTL’s Surpass to develop and
deliver high-stakes examinations such as A-Levels, GCSEs, and NVQs.
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"Technologies for Selling Your Tests" |
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London (UK), September 2009 - Professional associations, textbook
companies, awarding bodies, and other test publishers can streamline
individual and bulk sales of online quizzes and tests using a new solution
from Questionmark, a provider of assessment technologies and services.
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The Full Breadth of Blended Learning Solutions |
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London (UK), September 2009 - REDTRAY, a European training outsourcing
provider, has purchased the business of PPi Learning Services Ltd. The
deal adds authorised Microsoft training provision to REDTRAY’s expanding
portfolio whilst extending the range of services PPi delivers to clients.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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| Online Educa Berlin 2009 |
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Innovative eLearning at Your Fingertips |
 Berlin (GER), September 2009 -
Through the deployment of innovative conference formats, this year’s
Online Educa Berlin - the fifteenth edition - will have a strong focus on
interaction. The largest global eLearning conference for the corporate,
education, and public service sectors takes place 02-04 December 2009 at
the Hotel InterContinental Berlin. Lord David Puttnam, Chancellor of The
Open University, Britain’s largest distance learning institute and Zenna
Atkins, Chair of Ofsted, will open the conference.
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| InfoEducatie 2009 |
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IT Learning for the Romanian Educational System |
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Bucharest (RO), August 2009 – (by Elena Lita) The local branch of
the German ITC services and consultancy provider MATERNA Information &
Communications was a partner of the Romanian national web and software
development contest InfoEducatie 2009. This year’s event, the sixteenth
edition, was organized in Galaciuc, Vrancea by the School Inspectorate of
Vrancea County with the support of the Romanian Ministry of Education,
Development and Innovation (MECI).
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EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2009 |
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Brussels (BE)/ Helsinki (FI), September 2009 – The EFQUEL Innovation Forum
2009 is going to take place this September in Helsinki, Finland. From 23rd
to the 25th of September, international delegates, and eLearning and change
experts have the chance to exchange and discuss challenges, visions and
developments. The Forum is organised by the European Foundation for
Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) which is based in Brussels, Belgium and the
TKK Dipoli in Espoo, Finland.
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ECEL 2009 - Eighth European Conference on eLearning |
 Bari (I), September 2009
- The European Conference on eLearning (ECEL), being held 29 - 30 October
2009 at the University of Bari, Italy, has become a major event in its
field over the last few years. Traditionally, it brings together both
researchers and practitioners whose aim is to explore, advance, and
improve eLearning.
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| ICCE 2009 |
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The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education |
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Hong Kong (HK), September 2009 - The seventeenth International Conference
on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009, will be held at the Hong Kong
Institute of Education (HKIEd). ICCE 2009 will be a meta-conference for
researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to connect with international
research communities for the worldwide dissemination and sharing of ideas
for research in the field of computers in education.
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