| Literacy App |
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New Technology to Help Young Children's Reading |
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Milton Keynes (UK), June 2011 - Researchers at The Open University have
created a free "app" to help parents teach their children to read. "Our
Story" has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone
or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the
experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading.
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| Mobile Learning |
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A Classroom in Your Pupils’ Pocket |
 Okemos, MI (USA), June
2011 - (by Dave McCollom) Mobile technology is increasingly
commonplace in the classroom, be it pupils’ mobiles or brand-new tablet
devices. Dave McCollom, education specialist of TechSmith, discusses how
schools can take advantage of mobile technology and ensure investment in
mobile ICT is well worth the cost.
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| Unique Opportunity |
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Free Online Screenwriting Course Goes Viral |
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Falmouth (UK), June 2011 - A free online ten-unit screenwriting course from
University College Falmouth’s MA Professional Writing is now viral on the
internet. The video and audio lectures, along with accompanying course
materials, are being featured, shared, re-published, and discussed by
screenwriters and filmmakers around the globe.
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| iEducate |
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ELearning for Vocational Teachers Across Europe |
 Coventry (UK), June 2011
- The purpose of iEducate – a project funded by the EU programme Leonardo
da Vinci - is to educate vocational teachers in a range of eLearning
methods, innovations, and technologies to better prepare them for a
rapidly changing workplace and, hence, to connect them with a new
generation of learners.
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| Social Media |
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet? That is the Question … |
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London (UK), June 2011 - In the latest Charity Learning Consortium blog,
Lawrence Clarke examines some possible reasons behind a lack of enthusiasm
towards social media and explains why understanding your organisation's
values, and aligning social media policy in regard to them, is so
critical.
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| Competence Development |
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Edvantage Client Wins Prestigious Award |
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Oslo (NO), June 2011 - Edvantage group, a provider of cloud-based learning
and performance solutions, has announced that their client, Hydro
Aluminium Høyanger Verk, has won HR Norway's Competence Development Award
2011 (Kompetanseprisen) for competence-development programmes.
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| Recent Addition |
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LMMatters Welcomes New Managing Director |
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London (UK), June 2011 - LMMatters has appointed James Reed as its new
Managing Director. Reed brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of
online leadership and management development with him, having most
recently been Chief Operating Officer of 50 Lessons.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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Stifling learning technologies with vested interests |
 London
(UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Opinion is growing around the
world that the US, Canada and UK dominated "old school elite" of learning
technologists now need to recognise learning technologies’ appeal and
relevance to the whole world - and so allow their colleagues from the rest
of the world to play an equal part in helping to shape the future of this
worldwide industry.
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| International Presence |
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Launch of Imparta South-Eastern Europe |
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London (UK), June 2011 - Imparta Ltd has further expanded its growing
international sales-training capabilities by announcing the launch of
Imparta South-Eastern Europe. The company is independent and licensed to
sell and deliver Imparta's training effectiveness programmes.
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| Award |
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OutStart Wins Gold for Technology Excellence |
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Boston, MA (USA), June 2011 - OutStart has won a coveted Brandon Hall Gold
Award for Technology Excellence in the Learning Content Management
category. The honor recognizes OutStart LCMS’s delivery of personalization
content in a variety of ways to maximize the flow and effectiveness of
knowledge.
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| Open Source LMS |
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New OLAT 7.2.0 Public Release Now Available |
 Zurich (CH), June 2011 -
OLAT 7.2.0 has been released! First planned as a maintenance release
(7.1.1), now all changes (HG-related refactoring and Maven) have been
released together with the 7.1 fixes as 7.2 public. That means that 7.1
was skipped, and 7.2 is being pushed as the next release.
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| Medical Content |
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Learning Impact Awards: NHS Case Study Wins Platinum |
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Atlanta, GA (USA), June 2011 - Exact learning solutions and eLearning for
Healthcare (e-LfH), an established leader in developing and providing
educational content for the overall UK National Health Service (NHS), have
won the prestigious IMS Platinum Award at the Learning Impact 2011
ceremony.
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| Language Learning |
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goFLUENT Helps Improve Employees' English Skills |
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Endicott, NY (USA), June 2011 - The global glassmaking giant O-I has been
working with goFLUENT, a provider of distance English training, to improve
the English communication skills of its worldwide workforce with a unique
blended-learning approach.
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| eLearing Guild Report |
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Mobile Learning: Landscape and Trends |
 Santa Rosa, CA (USA),
June 2011 - Mobile learning is a transformative opportunity both for
learning and the learning organization. Mobile learning means both
augmenting formal learning and moving to performance support, informal,
and social learning.
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| Advance Offer |
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CERTPOINTVLS 7.1 Ready for Release |
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Roslyn, NY (USA), June 2011 – In advance of the July CERTPOINT VLS™ 7.1
release, CERTPOINT Systems offers free implementations to applicants who
sign an agreement with CERTPOINT before 30 June 2011.
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| Free Book |
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A Guide to Collaborative Learning |
 London (UK), June 2011 –
"The Little Book of the Future" is a free guide to the future of training
and development. It provides a vision of the future of learning at work
and practical ways for everyone to learn everything for free.
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| Makeover |
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EDEN Website with New Design and User-friendly Features |
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Budapest (HU), June 2011 – The website of EDEN – the European Distance and
ELearning Network – has undergone a facelift. The portal reflects the
Association’s commitment to openness and user friendliness for enhanced
networking.
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| European Workshop |
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Mainstreaming eLearning in Education and Training |
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Brussels (BE), June 2011 - The purpose of the workshop held in Brussels on
16 June from 10:00 – 13:00 is to mobilise key stakeholders and Member
States' representatives to support the mainstreaming of eLearning in
national policies as an agent for modernization of education, for all
subjects and skills.
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| eLearning Africa |
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Growing Commitment to ICT-supported Education |
 Dar es Salaam (TZ), June 2011 – eLearning Africa
2011 saw the celebration of the Technology in Government Awards (TIGA) in
the "ICT in Education" category and has demonstrated that African
countries are increasingly engaging in the development of ICT-based
solutions for education and training. Over 1,400 participants from about
eighty countries attended the recent sixth International Conference on ICT
for Development, Education and Training.
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| Webinar |
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Are You an Authority on Talent? |
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Arlington, VA (USA), June 2011 - Just as the CFO is the authority on
finance and CIO the authority on IT, HR leaders are emerging as the
authority on their organizations’ greatest variable expense - its people.
Plateau invites participants to a webinar on the "Authority on Talent".
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| Certify the Future?! |
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EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2011 |
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Oeiras (PT), June 2011 - The sixth EFQUEL Innovation Forum held 14-16
September 2011 in Oeiras, Portugal, focuses on accreditation,
certification, and internationalisation. It invites participants to debate
the value of certifications, to examine good practice examples, and to
shape a future vision of how certifications can evolve to become
instruments to certify the future.
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| Upcoming Event |
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Lord Robert Winston to Speak at LEARNING LIVE |
 Birmingham (UK), June 2011 – Truly a "Renaissance Man", Lord Robert
Winston is an educator, doctor, scientist, politician, and television
presenter. He will be delivering a keynote presentation at LEARNING LIVE
on 14 September, focusing on the science behind learning, drawing on his
many areas of expertise and inspirational life experiences.
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| Annual Seminar |
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Leadership & Management Development |
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London (UK), June 2011 - Tim Drewitt, eLearning specialist, will explain
why an innovative and blended approach to leadership development is
critical at the law firm Eversheds when he presents a case study at
LMMatters annual seminar and showcase at BMA House in London on 15 June.
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| Day Conference |
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Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in eLearning |
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Hertfordshire (UK), June 2011 - A free one-day conference on 14 June 2011
at the University of Hertfordshire UK explores challenges facing the
sector in assuring quality whilst also enabling innovation through
technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The theme of the event is "Unsolved
Problems and Unknown Issues".
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| Education |
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Media & Learning Conference 2011 |
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Brussels (BE), June 2011 – The Media & Learning Conference takes place in
Brussels on 24-25 November, including the annual awards ceremony for the
MEDEA Awards as well as presentations and inputs from all finalists in the
2011 competition.
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| International Forum |
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Security and Defence Learning 2011 |
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Berlin (GER), June 2011 - The seventh International Forum on
Technology-Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and
Emergency Services will be held on 30 November 2011 as an official
pre-Conference forum to Online Educa Berlin (OEB).
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| EquNet Campaign |
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Inclusive Higher Education for All! |
 Brussels (BE), June 2011
- Share good or bad practices in the realm of equity in higher education
with EquNet and win participation to the EquNet Conference 2011.
Contributions (in the video and writings categories) are invited from
organisations actively working on the field of equity in higher education
and willing to share their good and/or bad practice with the public.
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| Networking |
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Questionmark European Users’ Conference |
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Brussels (BE), June 2011 - Questionmark users are invited to join two days
of learning, fun, and networking in the historic Belgian city of Brussels
on 09-11 October. The Conference is a unique opportunity to meet with
fellow learning and assessment professionals to discuss best practices and
increase skills with using online surveys, quizzes, tests, and exams.
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| Free Masterclass |
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Aurion Learning on Learning Technologies in Dublin |
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Dublin (IE), June 2011 - Aurion Learning is set to host a masterclass in
learning technologies in Dublin. This free event is designed for health
and pharmaceutical professionals whose responsibility includes learning
and development or continuing professional development within their
organisation.
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