| European eLearning Summit |
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A programme to promote the corporate eLearning sector
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Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - Delegates at the European eLearning Summit,
organised by Learning Light with support from learndirect and
Creativesheffield and held in Sheffield (17th to 19th November) have
agreed to pursue dialogue with national governments to establish a single,
independent and impartial body representing the corporate eLearning
sector.
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| Letter from UK |
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'Little’s Britain': eLN election campaign hots up
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 London
(UK), November 2010 - (by Bob Little) Elections have been in the
news recently. There has been the recent General Election in Burma, which
has prompted some misgivings among the international community. In the UK,
its former immigration minister and Labour MP, Phil Woolas, has recently
lost his seat in Parliament for making false statements against his
opponent during theGeneral Election campaign of earlier this year.
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| Business Standards |
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PSL debates Collaborative Working with Government |
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London (UK), November 2010 - Having undergone a quality revolution in the
1980s and a productivity revolution in the 1990s, business practice in the
UK is about to undergo another revolution in the second decade of the
twenty-first century: that of innovation through collaboration. This is
the view of John Hill, the Chief Executive of PERA Innovation Network. Mr.
Hill was one of the speakers at "Collaborative Working with Government",
the latest PSL (Partnership Sourcing Limited) Executive Partnering
Knowledge Network conference.
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| Funding |
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Almost Three Million Dollars Awarded for eLearning |
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Brisbane (AU), November 2010 - More than eighty projects have been awarded
a share of $2.65 million to develop innovative eLearning training
solutions across Australia in 2011.
The funding, provided by the national training system's eLearning
strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), supports
the Australian vocational education and training (VET) system to embed
eLearning and tailor training to meet learners’ needs.
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| Second User |
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Access to Low-cost PCs for Educational Institutions |
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Stafford (UK), November 2010 - Stone, a privately owned UK
computer-hardware manufacturer, has announced the launch of its "Encore"
scheme. Based upon refurbished PCs that include genuine Microsoft
operating-system licenses, "Encore" is a programme designed to help
educational institutions, such as primary schools, provide their pupils
with access to technology without the significant financial investment
traditionally required for new systems.
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| International Development |
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The Commonwealth of Learning in Action |
 Vancouver, BC (CA),
November 2010 – Some of the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) latest news
includes experimentation with digital photo frames that have been
developed into affordable mini-laptops and distributed to primary school
children in the Maldives, as well as a new toolkit for quality assurance
in open schools.
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| White Paper |
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More Students Engaged in Unique Ways of Learning |
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Boston, MA (USA), November 2010 – The United States Distance Learning
Association (USDLA) recently released a white paper entitled "Enabled By
Broadband, Education Enters A New Frontier." The paper highlights the
successes and growth of distance learning and suggests policy measures to
ensure that barriers to continued growth are removed.
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| Game-based Learning |
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ENGAGE Quality Award Nominees to Be Presented at OEB |
 Graz (AT), November 2010
– With the ENGAGE Quality awards, ENGAGE (the European Network for Growing
Activity in Game-based learning in Education) recognises excellent
contributions from teachers, educational practitioners, game developers,
and producers to the quality of game-based learning. The award nominees
will be presented at Online Educa in Berlin (OEB), 01-03 December.
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| Survey |
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European Workforce Mobility on the Rise |
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Framingham, MA (USA), November 2010 – The analyst firm International Data
Corporation (IDC) has announced the Western European results from its 2010
EMEA Enterprise Mobility Survey, which questioned 1,240 end users in
thirteen countries across EMEA on the latest workforce mobility trends
within their organizations. Interviews were conducted in July-August 2010
across seven countries in the Western European region of the survey,
including ten company-size categories and industry verticals.
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| Branching Out |
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Kineo eLearning Expands Global Presence |
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Brighton (UK)/Wellington (NZ), November 2010 - Kineo has announced that
Flexible Learning Network, a privately owned eLearning company in New
Zealand, has joined the Kineo group and become Kineo Pacific.
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| British Auto Maker |
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LINE Helps Pilot iPhone and iPod App for Ford |
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London (UK), November 2010 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning
and communications, is helping Ford of Britain to pilot an innovative
application for iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives
explain some of the features on the C-MAX and Grand C-MAX.
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| High Standards |
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Brightwave Wins Double Gold at eLearning Awards 2010 |
 Brighton (UK), November
2010 - Brighton-based eLearning specialists Brightwave scooped up two gold
awards at the annual prestigious ELearning Awards. This follows the
company’s holding the coveted ELearning Development Company of the Year
accolade over the past year.
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| SCORM |
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Leadership in eLearning Content Standards |
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London (UK), November 2010 - Plateau Systems has announced that it has
become the first major talent management provider to achieve Sharable
Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 4th Edition conformance,
marking its longstanding commitment to and leadership in eLearning content
standards.
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| Classroom Energy |
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Learning Software Introduces Training Games |
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Redmond, WA (USA), November 2010 - Harbinger Knowledge Products has
announced a new library of training game interactions for YawnBuster, its
software for adding group activities to PowerPoint. The group activities
that YawnBuster brings include audience polls, competitive games, and
group exercises.
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Olympic eLearning by Kineo and League Football Education |
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Brighton (UK), November 2010 – Kineo, working with League Football
Education and Sportiv8, is producing a set of ground-breaking, reusable
eLearning resources on functional skills for apprentices and learners
within traditional school and college programmes. In a new case study,
Kineo shares a preview of the programme and insights into their approach.
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| Quality Assurance |
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The Safety Train Gains NCFE Accreditation |
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Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - The Safety Train, a company that operates
an eLearning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health and
safety training, has been granted a bespoke quality license from the
Northern Council for Further Education (NCFE) – making it one of the UK’s
first eLearning providers to be accredited in this way.
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| Middle East |
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Being at the Leading Edge |
 Dubai (UAE), November
2010 – Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University has announced its Annual Congress
2011 from 31 January- 03 February under the theme "Being at the Leading
Edge – How to Give 'Quest for Excellence' a New Meaning". The Congress
presents an international platform for three conferences on eLearning
excellence, health and environment, and quality.
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| Broadband |
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Network Evolution and Market Growth |
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Paris (FR), November 2010 – The Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in October
2010, secured its highest-ever visitor numbers and stimulated widespread
discussion on the requirements for the next phase of growth in the
broadband market, calling for regeneration of current networks to better
handle the increased traffic and the challenges placed on them.
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| 250 Speakers |
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Going Global 2011: Registration Now Open |
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Hong Kong (CN), November 2010 - Registration for the fifth Going Global
conference is now open, and delegates who register before 10 December 2010
are eligible for an early-bird discount. Full details are available online,
along with information about booking travel and accommodation. Last year's
conference sold out, so booking early is advised.
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| Case Studies Wanted |
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Excellence in Practice Award 2011 |
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Brussels (BE), November 2010 – The European Foundation in Management
Development (EFMD) is inviting case studies that describe effective and
impacting leadership and development intervention to enter its Excellence
in Practice Award. The programmes can be deployed by an organisation
(company, public sector, charity, etc.) either together with their in
house L&D organisation or with an external L&D provider.
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| Registration Open |
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Learning Technologies 2011 and Learning and Skills 2011 |
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London (UK), November 2010 - Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills
are taking place at London's Olympia 2 on 26-27 January 2011. Over 4,000
L&D professionals are expected to attend, and visitors are encouraged to
register in advance online to avoid queues on the day.
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| New Report |
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i3 Forum Issues "Voice Over IPX" |
 Paris (FR), November
2010 – The i3 Forum, which is comprised of more than 37 telecommunication
providers representing a combined retail base in excess of 1.5 billion
customers in over 100 countries, has announced the release of the official
document outlining the technical and commercial specifications for Voice
over IPX.
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| Innovations for the Water |
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Innovations for the Water Sector |
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Essen (GER)/Bucharest (RO), November 2010 - The third European Workshop
"Innovations in the Water Sector: Competence Models, eLearning and Social
Communities" took place at the end of September, 2010 in Bucharest. WACOM
provides a short report for those who were not able to be there.
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| Swiss Conference |
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Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society |
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Lugano/Ascona (CH), June 2010 - The New Media in Education Laboratory
(NewMinE Lab) of the University of Lugano (USI) invites participants to
the international conference entitled "Rethinking Education in the
Knowledge Society" (RED) organised in collaboration with the Ecole
Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the University of Sankt Gallen. The
event will take place at Centro Stefano Franscini, situated at Monte
Verità, Switzerland, from 07-10 March 2011.
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