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Ensuring Educators have Skills for Digital Age Instruction |
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Washington D.C. (USA), June 2011 - Representing a broad cross section of
the U.S. education and business communities, eleven leading associations
have applauded the introduction of the Achievement Through Technology and
Innovation Act (ATTAIN) in the U.S. Senate.
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| Mobile Strategy |
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Ixonos Designs Boutique App Store for Intel |
 Helsinki (FI), June 2011 - Ixonos,
creator of wireless technologies, mobile devices, services, and software,
has delivered a mobile AppUp Store to Intel. The comprehensive project
entails the creation of a full UX strategy for mobiles as well as concept
creation, delivery of detailed designs, a working demo and UX design
guidelines.
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| Updating Skills |
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Businesses Struggle to Capitalise on Economic Recovery |
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London (UK), June 2011 - The majority of senior management agree on a
pressing need to educate their employees for future growth. Yet many
companies are failing to deliver the right training as a result of budget
cuts and lacking resources. As a solution to these challenges, blended
learning provider Redtray has created ALTO Online.
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| Tools |
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Zapping up Manufacturing Training |
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Brisbane (AU), June 2011 - Thanks to the use of stop-motion video
technology and a bunch of very entertaining LEGO characters, a "dry and
boring" training subject has been turned into an action- packed and
hilarious eLearning tool.
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| Mass Notification Service |
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Blackboard Supports Preparation for Hurricane Season |
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Washington D.C., (USA), June 2011 – With the beginning of the hurricane
season, Blackboard Inc. is helping local governments, K-12 schools, and
college campuses prepare for managing communications during severe storms.
To get ready, education and government leaders are using Blackboard's
trusted mass-notification services.
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| Quality Check |
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Towards Maturity’s Benchmarking Study 2011 Launched |
 London (UK), June 2011 -
The 2011 Towards Maturity Benchmark Study has been launched with
outstanding support from the wider learning-and-development industry. This
includes the Cambridge-based firm Information Transfer, which has announced
that it will join the Ambassador Programme to support the Benchmark Study
in order to ensure that independent research is freely available to all.
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| White Paper on LMS |
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Certpoint Addresses "Intangibles" |
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Roslyn, NY (USA), June 2011 - Certpoint Systems™ has released a white paper
that highlights commonly overlooked issues vital for the process of
selecting an LMS. Among these are the availability and cost of strategic
support from vendors post-purchase and how much time is required for
system administration.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; porn, and poker |
 London
(UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Speaking at a conference for
members of Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and
Leadership (GIL), held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in north London in
May, Andrew Lamb, a Director of Appropedia (a wiki which focuses on sustainability issues), argued
that 'web 2.0' has encouraged new forms of social interaction and
collaboration. He added that firms have learned to exploit social media by
using fun or viral notions to take advantage of people's innate desire to
gather and interact with each other and pass along interesting bits of
information.
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| Accelerating Growth |
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Upside Learning Announces New Partnership Programme |
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Pune (IN), June 2011 - Upside Learning has announced its new comprehensive
partnership programme intended to accelerate partner growth and
profitability for its Learning Management System - UpsideLMS and its
platform for mobile learning - Upside2Go.
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| Teachers TV |
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Promethean Planet Provides Access to Educational Archive |
 Blackburn (UK), June 2011
- Promethean, a global education-technology company, in agreement with the
UK's Department for Education, is making the Teacher's TV archive of over
3,500 programmes designed to support teaching and learning in the
classroom available for educators worldwide.
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| Market Appraisal |
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Are Smartphones Useful For Vocabulary Learning? |
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Hong Kong (HK), June 2011 - Hong Kong is at the leading edge of smartphone
penetration: 58% ownership compared to North America’s 41%, according to
recent reports. Neil Ballantyne is based in Hong Kong, where he is the
Mobile Learning Manager for the British Council. The following are some of
his insights regarding Hong Kong’s learning market.
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| Professional Development |
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Transforming Pharmacy eLearning with Webanywhere |
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Leeds (UK), June 2011 - Mediapharm, a UK pharmacy-education company, has
selected Webanywhere to deliver an open-source Totara LMS technology
transformation for CPDEasy.com, its web-based managed learning service for
pharmacy training, development, and product knowledge.
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| Wireless Sensor |
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Applying New Technology in Art Work Preservation |
 New York, NY (USA), June
2011 - IBM and The Metropolitan Museum of Art have announced the successful
installation of a new wireless environmental sensor network at the Museum
called Low-Power Mote. The system will help preserve the works of art in
its world-renowned, encyclopedic collection.
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| Support of the Disabled |
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SkillSoft Wins ARPCT Business Partner Award |
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Nashua, NH (USA), June 2011 - SkillSoft, a SaaS provider of eLearning and
performance-support solutions for business, government, and education has
announced its recognition as the 2011 Outstanding Business Partner Award
by the Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Computer Technology
(ARPCT).
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| White Paper |
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Learning and Assessment on SharePoint |
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Norwalk, CT (USA), June 2011 - With the increasing use of Microsoft
SharePoint to create collaborative web sites, there's tremendous potential
for using it together with assessments to support learning, education,
training, and compliance.
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| Business Book |
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Making the World Work Better |
 Armonk, NY (USA), June 2011 - IBM marks its Centennial with
the release of a new business book entitled "Making the World Work Better:
The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company". The book was written by
award-winning journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O'Brien.
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| Learning English |
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goFLUENT Offers New Resources and Receives Praise |
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Geneva (CH), June 2011 - goFLUENT, a provider of distance Business English
training, now offers New York Times News Syndicate (NYTNS) videos and
Harvard Business Review articles as resources on its eLearning platform.
The firm was named as one of the top online providers of English language-
learning materials by the French website "Pour Se Former".
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| Learning at Work Day |
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LINE Conducts Social Media Debate for British Airways |
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London (UK), June 2011 - LINE Communications has used Twitter to facilitate
a social-media debate at a British Airways internal event celebrating
Campaign for Learning’s "Learning at Work Day". As a long-term supplier to
British Airways, LINE was on hand to see if BA employees felt social media
could have a positive impact on their learning at work.
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| Open Source |
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ILIAS Conference – Are You Ready for the Next Steps? |
 Bern (CH), June 2011 -
The ILIAS conference 2011 is coming to Bern, Switzerland 18–19 August
2011. The two-day conference offers keynotes, presentations, and workshops
on several topics around the open-source LMS ILIAS.
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| Share Your Experience |
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Enhanced and Transformed: Tales from the Digital Age |
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London (UK), June 2011 - The ninth annual technology-enhanced-learning
conference at the University of Greenwich, formerly known as
e-learning@greenwich is being held in London on 06 July 2011.This
conference has been renamed to reflect the all-embracing use of technology
in learning and teaching.
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| Open Source |
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Totara LMS Announces European Conference |
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Wellington (NZ), June 2011 - Totara Learning Solutions is holding a
European Conference for current and potential Totara LMS customers on 28
September 2011 in London. The event will brings together Totara partners,
customers and potential customers to network, interact, and learn from
each other.
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| Early Bird Rate |
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Certify the Future? - EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2011 |
 Oeiras (PT), June 2011 -
The sixth EFQUEL Innovation Forum, to be 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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| Focusing on Inclusivity |
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Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference |
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Cork, Ireland (IE), June 2011 – The year 2011 marks the fifth edition of
the annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Conference. This year
it will take place 08-09 September at Cork Institute of Technology,
located in Cork City in the south of Ireland.
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| International Seminar |
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Higher Education Rankings and eLearning |
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Barcelona (ES), June 2011 - ICDE member institution Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (OUC) will host its first international seminar on Higher
Education Rankings and e-Learning. Taking place in Barcelona, Spain, 22–23
September 2011, the seminar will feature a range of international speakers
including ICDE President Frits Pannekoek.
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| Education Today |
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Eighteenth International Conference on Learning |
Mauritius (MU), June 2011 - In 2011, the Learning Conference will be held
at the University of Mauritius, Mauritius from 05-08 July 2011. The
International Conference on Learning is for any person with an interest
in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and lifelong learning
in any of its sites, from home to school to university to the workplace.
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| ICDE |
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24th World Conference Keynote speaker Duk Hoon Kwak |
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Oslo (NO)/Bali (ID), June 2011 - Opening day two of the 24th International
Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference on Open
and Distance Learning (ODL), Duk Hoon Kwak will speak on "ODL in a
Changing World: Quality and ODL". To be held 02-05 October 2011, on Bali,
Indonesia, the Conference will explore new approaches to open and distance
learning.
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| Networking |
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Distance Education and Teacher Education in Africa |
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Maputo (MZ), June 2011 – Held at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo,
Mozambique from 03- 05 August 2011, DETA 2011 will be the fourth conference
of its kind. Like the previous editions, it will create a unique platform
to share knowledge and deliberate on educational issues.
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| Looking Back |
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ICDE International Conference in Argentina |
 Buenos Aires (AR), June
2011 – The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
member institution Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) recently hosted
an ICDE International Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The
Conference, on technology, quality, equity, and access, counted more than
220 participants and a range of high-profile keynote speakers.
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| Sunshine & Staff Morale |
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CrossKnowledge Presents Summer Campus 2011 |
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London (UK), June 2011 – CrossKnowledge has announced the launch of the
CrossKnowledge Summer Campus 2011, a cost-effective way to revive staff
morale and the ideal opportunity to try out eLearning over the quiet
summer months.
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