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Empower European Universities |
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Brussels (BE), July 2010 – Twenty eminent thinkers and practitioners of
higher education cried out in Brussels for urgent change in higher
education. In a manifesto entitled "Empower European Universities", they
plead to let the European garden of higher education and research grow in
accordance with the basic principles of gardening: variety, empowerment
through autonomy, proper nourishment, and internationalization.
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| Research |
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Quality in eLearning in a Cultural Context |
Gothenburg (SE), July 2010 - Since higher education is booming in
developing countries, so is eLearning. In a case study on Iran, a new
doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows how
culture can shape quality in higher education in general and in eLearning
in particular.
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| New Member |
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Adobe Joins European Foundation for Quality in eLearning |
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London (UK), June 2010 - By joining the European Foundation for Quality in
ELearning (EFQUEL), Adobe is providing their support to the academic,
corporate, and government sectors to promote and support the production of
high-quality eLearning content. One of the targets of the EFQUEL is to
develop suitable standards to ensure the creation and the management of
high-quality eLearning content that can be produced with Adobe’s eLearning
Suite.
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| Ranking |
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UK Top 50 IT Training Providers 2010 |
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London (UK), July 2010 - Pardo Fox, specialist provider of market
intelligence and strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has
published its annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers by
revenue.
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| PebblePad |
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Higher Education: ePortfolios Enter a New Era |
 
Telfod (UK), July 2010 - Catherine Dhanjal interviews two users about
their views on the personal learning system PebblePad. In the enquiry, she
explores the way that ePortfolios have evolved from being tools exclusively
for personal development planning to sophisticated interactive portfolios.
Her interview partners are Moira Savage, the University of Worcester’s
Senior Lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Training and Primary
Information and Communication Technology Coordinator and Julie Hughes, a
Principal Lecturer PCE in the School of Education at the University of
Wolverhampton.
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| Real World |
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Action Learning Programme for MBA Students |
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London (UK), July 2010 - Even before receiving their MBA degrees, students
at Hult International Business School must showcase their hard-earned
strategic mettle. Hult’s Action Learning Program (ALP) lets students flex
their management muscle by providing blue-chip corporations with practical
solutions to existing problems.
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| Budget Cuts |
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Facing the Challenge in the Healthcare Sector |
 West Yorkshire (UK), July
2010 - In his first budget statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George
Osborne said that he will control spending in government departments to
"get more for less". The Lean Healthcare Academy sets out to show how.
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| Collaborative Community |
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Sharing Questions and Answers on LearningGuide Manager |
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Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - LearningGuide Solutions has launched an
online collaborative site using the NingTM social-media platform. The site
enables authors using LearningGuide's single-source authoring environment
to participate in a community where they can share ideas, provide product
feedback, and read blogs and forum postings.
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| Training Resource |
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Eden Tree from GoodPractice Launches Toolkit |
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Edinburgh (UK), July 2010 - Eden Tree offers resources to support learning
and development professionals. They include a suite of "instant" training
self-assessments, exercises, case studies, workshops, and handouts.
Compared with their previous experience trawling the internet, Eden Tree
users report a time savings of up to eighty percent.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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Moves to foster partnering and collaboration |
 London
(UK), July 2010 - (by Bob Little) New research suggests that a new
job title is coming to the business world: the human systems director.
According to a study - conducted by the Future Foundation on behalf of
Google - of 3,500 employees, 100 HR managers and 100 IT managers across
the UK, France, Germany, the US and Japan: by 2020, the workplace will be
transformed by the sharing and development of ideas.
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| Health |
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Giunti Labs’ eLearning Helps Women Survive Eclampsia |
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Florence (IT), July 2010 - Giunti Labs is combining its expertise with that
of specialists at the University of Oxford to help to reduce problems
associated with pre-eclampsia in pregnant women in the developing world.
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| Accreditation |
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Omniplex Becomes Bloomfire’s First Certified Partner |
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Hemel Hempstead (UK), July 2010 – Omniplex has signed a reseller agreement
with Bloomfire to become its first certified partner. Bloomfire is a
contemporary social-media tool that provides a way to share knowledge
within an organization or group.
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| Learning Pass |
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CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE Sign Agreement |
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London (UK), July 2010 – SMEs are actively adopting new training solutions
such as online learning, which allows them to efficiently train their
employees without the large productivity drops and travel expenses
associated with traditional instructor-led programmes. Recognising this,
CrossKnowledge and TELL ME MORE have designed LEARNING PASS, which fuses
two solutions into one integrated offering.
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| Change |
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Christian M. Stracke Is the New Chair of CEN TC 353 |
Essen (GER), July 2010 - Mike Collett of Great Britain, Chair of the
European Standardisation Body for eLearning (CEN TC 353), has gone into
retirement. Under his leadership, the standardization committee for
eLearning has produced considerable results in only three years.
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| Case study |
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Center of Excellence in Instructional Design |
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Fremont, CA (USA), July 2010 – The production process of Emantras, a
provider of comprehensive eLearning-related services, involves research
and analysis, brainstorming, development, and reviews. The firm’s output
has proven to be quality learning solutions focused on the learner’s
needs.
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| Quality Video |
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Tixeo Chooses Google's VP8 for HD Web Conferencing |
 Montpellier (FR), July
2010 – In February this year, Google acquired On2 Technologies and its
famous VP8 codec. The search-engine giant has recently released the
source, providing a free alternative to H.264. Many industry leaders such
as Mozilla, Logitech, and Nvidia, have since announced they will soon
support the codec, making it the future standard of Internet video.
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| Mobile Content |
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Xyleme Partners with Chicago Police Department |
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Boulder, CO (USA), July 2010 – Mark Hellinger, Xyleme's President and CEO,
made a presentation with Sgt Joseph Del Pilar of the Chicago Police
Department at the eLearning Guild's mLearnCon conference in San Diego last
month. The talk highlighted a mobile performance solution to deliver
relevant and personalized information to Chicago police officers' mobile
devices at the point of performance.
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| Market Test |
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New Happy Book Released as Beta |
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London (UK), July 2010 - The Happy Manifesto, the second book from training
company Happy Ltd, has been released in an online beta version. The idea is
that, as with software, the book be market tested before publication, with
readers suggesting changes and even stories from their own experience.
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| NECE Conference |
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Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education |
 Trieste (IT), July 2010
- This year's NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education) conference
"Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education in the Context of the
Development of Cities and Urban Spaces" is being held on 29 September–01
October in Trieste, Italy. The focus is the dramatic changes in European
cities in recent decades.
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| Leadership |
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2010 International Forum for Women in eLearning (IFWE) |
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Albuquerque, NM (USA), July 2010 – IFWE is the International Forum for
Women in eLearning; it is organized by the United States Distance Learning
Association (USDLA). Recognizing the role of women leaders, USDLA will hold
the fourth IFWE Conference from 01-03 December, 2010, in Albuquerque, New
Mexico at the Embassy Suites and Spa.
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| British Council |
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World Education: The New Powerhouse |
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Hong Kong (HK), July 2010 - Education is under huge pressure from world
governments to drive economic growth and play a key role in securing their
global position. Hong Kong will host the next Going Global event from 10–12
March 2011, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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