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Two Free Places for Cisco CCNA with The Open University |
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Milton Keynes (UK), October 2010 - The UK's largest Cisco Academy, The Open
University, is celebrating its rapidly growing suite of IT-vendor
certifications by offering two free places to study in the Cisco Certified
Network Associate (CCNA) programme starting in February, 2011.
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| European Education |
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Jacques Delors Receives Award |
Cologne (GER), October 2010 - Education plays a key role in Europe’s
efforts to achieve a leadership role in the globalised world, and
companies within the Union in particular have to face up to that task. In
order to promote this point of view, an initiative committee associated
with the HRM Expo in Cologne, Germany, has brought a new award to life
that honors new ideas and ways of making education more productive.
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| Worth It |
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Delivering ROI through eLearning for McDonald’s |
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Brighton (UK), October 2010 – In the past year, Kineo has developed a full
suite of eLearning for McDonald’s UK that led to cost savings of over £1
million for the fast-food giant in the first year.
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| Business Administration |
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Changing the Way the World Learns |
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Stockholm (SE), October 2010 - Att Veta has developed a unique, game-based,
non-instructor-led eLearning program for the Swedish audience. Tata
Interactive Systems was commissioned to help design the gaming environment
for the course.
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| Open Source LMS |
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Online Learning and Training - OLAT 7 Released |
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Zurich (CH), October 2010 - OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is a
web-based learning-management system. The latest major release - OLAT 7.0
- is now available. Some of the new features are a course element
supporting IMS Basic LTI interoperability, a wizard simplifying the
creation of OLAT courses, a pluggable QTI 2.1 test engine, and many
improved features and components.
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| Sales |
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New Director Appointed as Brightwave Expands |
Brighton (UK), October 2010 - Highly experienced training-technology
expert Ashley Wheaton has joined Brightwave as group sales director
following new contract wins from Pfizer, The Body Shop, the BBC, and AAT.
The eLearning-development company of the year, Brightwave, welcomes Ashley
Wheaton to its management team as group sales director.
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| Rapid eLearning |
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Atlantic Link SaaS Now Offered in Europe |
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Reading (UK), October 2010 - Kaplan IT Learning, a provider of
collaborative eLearning solutions, has announces a new
software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for their recently acquired Atlantic
Link software, a rapid eLearning development solution.
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| Towards the Future |
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New Partnership between Syntra West and U&I Learning |
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Brugge (BE), October 2010 - To further align Syntra West’s pedagogic class
offer with students’ demands in this ever-evolving digital era, Syntra
West and U&I Learning have decided to enter into a strategic partnership.
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| TrainingEdge |
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OutStart Adds Mobile Development and Delivery |
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Boston, MA (USA), October 2010 – OutStart has introduced the new version of
its corporate learning system, OutStart TrainingEdge.com. It now includes
major capabilities for mobile learning. The company also enhanced benefits
around accessibility, communication and collaboration, content development,
and personalization.
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| Free Webinar |
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Mobile Learning: A 21st-Century Student Perspective |
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Fremont, CA (USA), October 2010 - For Travis Allen, the gift of an iPhone
for Christmas in 2009 quickly became much more than the increasingly
common rite of passage coveted by many younger Americans. It profoundly
changed how he experienced himself as a learner, and as a result, he
formed the iSchool Initiative, a non-profit community that connects
learners and educators around the world.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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Talent management provides competitive edge |
 London
(UK), October 2010 - (by Bob Little) When Irish Life and Permanent,
a banking, fund management and life assurance company, wanted to hone its
competitive edge it looked for a way of integrating retention, employee
satisfaction, training initiatives and regulatory needs into a single
system.
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| Wireless |
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University of Lisbon Upgrades to Xirrus 802.11n Network |
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Lisbon (PT), October 2010 - Xirrus has announced the deployment of Xirrus
high performance 802.11n wi-fi arrays throughout the New University of
Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. NOVA is a large university with seven campuses
catering to nearly 7000 students.
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| On the Go |
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New Interface Optimized for Mobile Browsing |
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Kitchener-Waterloo, ON (USA), October 2010 - Desire2Learn Inc is expanding
the Desire2Learn® 2GO suite of applications. Desire2Learn 2GO Mobile Web
is a new set of mobile browser-optimized pages that enables students and
faculty to take teaching and learning on the road.
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| e-VITA |
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Serious Games about European Life Experiences |
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Milan (IT), October 2010 - e-VITA is a European Commission-supported
project that uses multimedia to tackle serious issues related to European
life experiences in a games-driven approach. Lucia Pannese, from imaginary
srl in Italy and coordinator of this project explains the details of
e-VITA.
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| Education |
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Video-Based Services in Dutch Schools |
 Zoetermeer (NL), October 2010 - Kennisnet is a public
knowledge centre in information and communication technologies (ICT) and
education in the Netherlands and supports Dutch schools in lots of
different ways. Kennisnet has a particular interest in the use of video,
and in the following piece, Eveline Daems, responsible in Kennisnet for
video-related activities, shares her insights on the use of video in Dutch
schools.
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| Leadership |
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Accredited Qualifications in a Virtual Environment |
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Milton Keynes (UK), October 2010 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC
(RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has launched accredited
qualifications that are delivered via virtual classroom training and a
collaborative learning approach.
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| Skills and Techniques |
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New Certification for Live Online Event Facilitators |
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Coventry (UK), October 2010 - The IITT has launched a brand-new
certification programme for everyone who will be delivering live online
learning events, meetings, and webinars. "Today's learning and development
professionals are being asked to deliver learning to more people with less
budget, and provide learning events that will save money but deliver
increased business performance", explains IITT Chief Executive and
architect of the programme, Colin Steed.
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| Mobile Learning |
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Changes Coming up in the iPad Tablet Era |
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Orlando, FL (USA)/Sestri Levante (IT), October 2010 - eXact learning
solutions will launch its new mobile-learning content-management suite at
Learning 2010. The event takes place 24-27 October at Disney's Coronado
Springs Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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| Case Studies Wanted |
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EFMD Excellence in Practice Webinars and 2011 Award |
 Brussels (BE), October
2010 - The EFMD Excellence in Practice Award invites case studies
describing an effective and impactful learning and development (L&D)
partnership. The specific field of the learning and development
intervention might be leadership, professional talent, or organization
development. Submission deadline is 01 May 2011.
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| OER |
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Join Open Ed 2010 in Barcelona |
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Barcelona (ES), October 2010 – From 2-4 November, 2010, the seventh annual
Open Education Conference moves to Barcelona for its first convening
outside of North America! The 2010 conference venue is CosmoCaixa,
designated Europe’s best science museum in 2006.
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| Call for Presentations |
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Share Your Knowledge in Maui |
 Lahaina, HI (USA),
October 2010 – The Clute Institute invites participants to attend its
International College Teaching & Learning Conference (ICTL) from 03-05
January 2011 in Lehaina, Maui, Hawaii. ICTL provides a forum for faculty
and administrators to share proven and innovative methods in teaching and
learning at the college level.
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| eLearning Africa 2011 |
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Spotlight on Youth, Skills and Employability
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Berlin (GER)/Dar es Salaam (TZ), October 2010 - The eLearning Africa
Conference in 2011 will focus on young adults in Africa. With the
spotlight on Youth, Skills and Employability, Africa's leading conference
on ICT for development, education and training will explore and discuss
the vast reservoir of talent, skills and opportunity among Africa's youth,
also looking into the challenges they face on the job market.
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| Top Scores |
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MEDEA Awards Finalists Announced |
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Roosbeek (BE), October 2010 – The MEDEA Awards Organizing Committee has
announced nine finalists for the MEDEA Awards 2010. The overall winner
will be announced during the MEDEA Awards Ceremony on Thursday, 25
November, during the Media & Learning conference in Brussels. The
competition attracted 140 entries from 31 countries.
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| International Forum |
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Participate in the Advancement of eLearning in Iran |
 Tehran (IR), October 2010
- Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) has announced the fifth National
and second International Conference on E-learning and E-teaching
(ICELET2010), to be held 1-2 December 2010 in Tehran, Iran. ICELET is the
premier conference in Iran for presentation of advances in all aspects of
eLearning and e-teaching.
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| Platform |
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Share Your Research with Colleagues in the Middle East |
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Cairo (EG), October 2010 – The International Conference on Education and
Management Technology (ICEMT 2010) will be held in Cairo, Egypt, 2-4
November 2010. Its aim is to provide a platform for researchers,
engineers, academicians, as well as industrial professionals from all over
the world to present research results and development activities in
education and management technology.
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| Research Application |
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Education Technology and Training (ETT 2010) Conference |
 Wuhan (CN), October 2010
- ETT 2010 is focused on applied research results in the fields of
education and training. The event takes place 27–28 November 2010 in
Wuhan, China. The Conference brings together researchers and developers
from academia, industry, and government to advance the science,
engineering, and technology in education technology and training.
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