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EU Study Visits Programme |
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Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Would you like to explore education and
training issues with your peers in other European countries? Are you
interested in expanding your professional network? Do you wish to learn
more about education and training policy and practice across Europe? Then
perhaps it’s time to participate in the EU’s Study Visits Programme.
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| Standardization |
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Successful Year for eLearning in Europe |
 Essen (GER), February 2010 - The year 2009 was a very successful year
for European eLearning standardization. Three new standardization projects
were started, and as the highlight, the first European de-jure standard was
published. "We are very pleased that the first official European Norm (EN)
for eLearning was approved in consensus last year!", explains Christian M.
Stracke, Vice-Chair of the European eLearning standardization body CEN/TC
353.
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| IT Skills |
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Innovative Experiential-Learning Solutions |
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London (UK)/Pleasanton, CA (USA), February 2010 – gtslearning and Toolwire
have announced a new training solution for the CompTIA A+ 2009 Edition. It
combines the strength of gtslearning content and the hands-on power of
Toolwire LiveLabs and "Day-in-the-Life" interactive scenarios.
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| Assessment |
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Questionmark Releases Perception Version 5 |
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London (UK), February 2010 - The ability to deliver a single assessment to
different types of devices and in multiple languages and contexts - plus
improved accessibility and scalability - are among the improvements
introduced in version 5 of the Questionmark™ Perception™
assessment-management system.
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| Professional Development |
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Mediapharm Teams up with Edvantage |
 Brighton (UK), February 2010 –
Pharmacy-education company Mediapharm has entered into an exclusive
partnership with leading managed-learning specialist Edvantage group to
offer pharmaceutical companies a simple way of delivering training and
communications directly to pharmacists through a new online portal, CPD
Easy.
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| LCMS |
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Netherlands Railways Makes High-Speed Move to XML |
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Boulder, CO (USA), February 2010 - Xyleme® Inc., a provider of 100% XML,
open and standards-based learning-content-management solutions has
announced that the Netherlands Railways (NS) has selected Xyleme LCMS for
development and delivery of rolling-stock operating manuals and training
materials.
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| HeadSafe |
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Online Health and Safety Training for Schools |
 London (UK), February
2010 - Cobent Limited has announced the launch of "HeadSafe", a new
eLearning resource for schools developed by risk-management consultancy
Three Spires Safety. The HeadSafe programme has been developed to provide
head teachers, school bursars, school governors, and other school managers
with a practical online-training resource covering health and safety in
schools.
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| Staff Training |
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XOR Delivers Safeguarding Children Course |
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London (UK), February 2010 - XOR LTD has developed a Safeguarding Children
Course for David Lloyd Leisure (DLL). The program helps ensure that
children and vulnerable people are protected while with company team
members and volunteers.
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| New Appointments |
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Aurion Learning Beats Recession |
 Belfast (Northern Ireland/UK), February 2010 – Aurion
Learning has not only managed to survive the recession but also to grow
its business. Barry Kelly has been appointed as Research Development
Manager and Noleen Turner is Aurion's new Marketing Officer.
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| Letter from UK |
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ELearning’s movers and shakers |
 London
(UK), February 2010 - (by Bob Little) Traditionally, this is the
time of year for awards and accolades – think of the New Year’s Honours
List in the UK, as well as the USA’s Golden Globes and the Academy Awards
(Oscars). Recently, a list of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the
corporate e-learning sector emerged. There were three lists covering the
world, Europe and the UK. Such a list is bound to be controversial but, in
the interests of information and informed debate, here are some of the
highlights.
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| Course Creation |
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Mohive Webcast - Introducing Interactivity |
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London (UK), February 2010 – Mohive is offering a free webcast to unlock
the secrets that suppliers use to create interactive eLearning courses.
The goal is to work towards the ability to create in-house courses of the
highest standard and that have maximum impact.
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| User Conference |
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Elliott Masie to Give Keynote Address |
Sunrise, FL (USA), February 2010 - Learn.com has announced that Elliott
Masie, President of the MASIE Center, a think tank focused on how
organizations can support learning and knowledge, will give the keynote
address at the company's fifth annual users conference, Empowerment 2010.
The Empowerment conference will be held 15-17 March 2010 at the W Hotel in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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| Call for Proposals |
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Alt Conference: Into Something Rich and Strange |
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Oxford (UK), February 2010 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
is the UK’s leading independent organisation in the learning-technology
domain. The seventeenth annual conference has the title "Into something
rich and strange – making sense of the sea change" and will take place at
the University of Nottingham, UK from 07-09 September 2010.
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| Easy Access |
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New Web Portal for Vocational Education and Training |
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Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Cedefop, the European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training, has brought its redesigned and updated
Web pages under a new roof. The new Web portal has been conceived primarily
with the needs of policy-makers, researchers, and social partners in mind.
It also aims to serve practitioners and interested European citizens.
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| scil Congress 2010 |
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Creating Values in Times of Change |
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St. Gallen (CH), February 2010 - The fourth International Congress of the
Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning (scil) on 07-08 October 2010 will
focus on creating values - strategic, economic, leadership, pedagogic, and
cultural - through professional learning.
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| Worlddidac 2010 |
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Check out India’s Education and Training Industry |
 Mumbai (IN), February
2010 - After the success of the WORLDDIDAC INDIA 2009, the second edition
of the exhibition and conference is scheduled from 23-25 September 2010 at
the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, India.
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| Networking |
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Forum on eLearning Excellence in the Middle-East |
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Dubai (UAE), February 2010 - The third annual Forum on eLearning Excellence
in the Middle East took place at Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University Dubai
from 01–03 February 2010. Bringing Global Quality to Local Context was the
theme chosen for this year’s event.
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| Join In |
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Call for Papers for I-KNOW 2010 |
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Graz (AT), February 2010 – The 2010 edition of I-KNOW, Europe’s premier
conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies, is being
held 01-03 September in Graz, Austria. Now in its tenth year, I-KNOW has a
tradition of bringing together Europe’s leading knowledge-management
researchers and practitioners.
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