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Top Ten eLearning Movers and Shakers |
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St. Albans (UK), January 2012 - The dawn of a New Year means that, once
again – based on nothing more than experience and prejudice – it’s time to
publish lists of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate
eLearning sector, in the world, Europe, and the UK. CHECK.point eLearning
is Number 3 on the European List!
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| Excellence Rating |
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Assuring eLearning Quality with epprobate |
 Brussels (BE), January 2012 - Today computers,
tablets, and smartphones have become an everyday part of the learning
process. However, this technology often fails to live up to the
expectations people have for it. The lack of quality of the courseware has
been one of the key reasons of this failure. Now a worldwide consortium of
experts is addressing this gap by developing an international quality
label for eLearning resources – the "epprobate".
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| Predictions |
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Tablets, Smartphones, and New Business Skills |
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London (UK), January 2012 - With all of the ups and down across the
business and political world during the last year, what can we expect for
2012? These are some of the learning predictions for the coming year of
top executives and trainers from ILX Group, which declares 2012 to be the
year for digital learning.
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| Trends |
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LPI Launches the Learning Survey 2012 |
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Coventry (UK), January 2012 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI)
has launched the Learning Survey 2012 – a comprehensive review of the
workplace-learning sector, which is shaped by Institute members and backed
by hundreds of Institute-accredited organisations.
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| Make eLearning Fun |
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Omniplex Distributes New Learning Management System |
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Hemel Hempstead (UK)/Montreal (CA), January 2012 - This new approach to
managing and monitoring learning activities, known as Absorb SmartLab and
produced by the Canada-based Blatant Media Corporation, aims to encourage
people to learn because they want to, not because they have to.
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| Data Protection |
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IMC AG Announces New Expert Interview |
 Saarbrücken (GER), January 2012 – IMC AG has announced an
interview on data protection in the series titled "Ten Questions About".
The author of imc's data-protection blog, Christina Meiers, offers her
point of view on this timely subject. Below, she kindly answers three of
the ten questions.
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| Assessment |
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New Solution to Evaluation Challenges |
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Hants (UK), January 2012 - Ceres Management has launched an approach to
evaluation that aligns assessment goals with business needs, focuses the
process around clear performance needs, defines success indicators,
especially for behavioural outcomes, and is easy to apply and administer.
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| Corporate Learning |
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Kineo eLearning Helps Tesco Deliver with Totara LMS |
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Brighton (UK), January 2012 - Kineo eLearning has published a new case
study showing how Tesco is delivering learning with Totara LMS. The new
learning platform was implemented this summer and is being rolled out in
phases to more than 400,000 staff.
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| Social Networks |
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EU Language Project "aPLanet" |
 Istanbul (TR), January
2012 – The Autonomous "Personal Learning Networks" for Language Teachers
is a European Union-funded project to help language educators who are not
yet using social networks to understand what social networks for language
educators are, why they should use them, and how they can get involved.
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| Early Learning |
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European Children’s Travelling Language Library |
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London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children’s Travelling Language
Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is
targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language
and has been used in schools across Europe with great success.
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| Qualification |
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Digital Literacy Advocates Make Plans for Maghreb |
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Algiers (DZ), January 2012 - The prospects for large-scale implementation
of government and public-sector International Computer Driving License
(ICDL) programmes in the Arab world recently came under the spotlight at a
conference in the Hilton Hotel in Algiers.
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| Community Involvement |
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Cameras Roll on Collaborative Video Learning Project |
Stroud (UK), January 2012 - Members of The Charity Learning Consortium are
busy filming for a huge collaborative video learning project. All members
have been offered a free flip camera to create short pieces of video
learning to share with other members of the community.
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| Evaluation |
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SEVAQ+ Launches Version 3.0 of Quality Tool |
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Nancy (FR), January 2012 - SEVAQ+ now offers a range of products and
services to meet the needs of different types of users from different
educational sectors, including higher education and vocational education
and training. The offerings also address a variety of levels, including
executive managers, training managers, tutors and teachers, as well as IT
and administration.
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| Safety-Critical Industrie |
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Atlas Wins Over £3.6 Million of Export Orders |
 Aberdeen (UK), January 2012 – Atlas has reported a period of
international growth over the last twelve months, winning over £3.6 million
of new eLearning contracts. These focussed on safety, skills and competency
training in the oil and gas sector, and produced a resultant eighty percent
increase in new jobs within the UK.
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| Game-based Learning |
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Chelsea FC launch Footee for Young Fans |
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London (UK), January 2012 - Chelsea FC has announced the launch of Chelsea
Footee, an online educational football-themed entertainment zone for
children that links to the National Curriculum. It has been developed in
partnership with UK eLearning specialist MotivatEd.
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| Sex Ed |
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eLearning Programme for Users with Learning Disabilities |
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Belfast (UK), January 2012 - Aurion Learning has been working with the
Family Planning Association (FPA) to develop a new and improved sex and
sexuality eLearning programme for people with learning disabilities.
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| Wireless |
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Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning |
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St. Albans (UK), January 2012 – Xirrus, a provider of high-performance
wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays
across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes
Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200
eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility.
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| Free Digital Education |
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Open Source Innovation for the Teaching Community |
 Paris (FR), January 2012
– The goal of the Sankoré programme is to make the digital education
revolution available for everybody and to enhance teachers’ creativity by
the potentials of working digitally and with the internet. The Sankoré
Portal offers open and free access to excellent teaching contents and new
resources produced with the Open-Sankoré IWB Open Source software.
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| Learning & Development |
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The Fall and Rise of the Corporate Academy |
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London (UK), January 2011 - L&D market analyst David Wilson and Nuffield
Health’s Group L&D manager Harvey M Seale will review the infrastructure
of corporate learning at Learning Technologies Conference, held 25 and 26
January 2012 in London. Donald Taylor will ask, "What are the right
systems to support learning in organisations?"
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| Learning Experiences |
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Swiss VBS Sophisticated Educational Campaigns on Show |
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St. Gallen (CH), January 2012 - Swiss VBS is taking part in the upcoming
Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills exhibitions held 25 and 26
January 2012 in London, showcasing its web-centred educational campaigns
used by some of Europe's largest businesses in their change programmes.
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| eLearning Awards |
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Deadline for Business Division Is 01 March |
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New York, NY (USA), January 2012 - Submissions are open for the 2012
International E-Learning Awards - Business Division, presented by the
International E-Learning Association (IELA). The entry-submission page is
posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2012.
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| eLBa Award 2012 |
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Assistance in Everyday Professional Life |
 Rostock (GER), January
2012 - eLearning is not introduced and used as an end in itself, but to
practically support the work routine. Now where does eLearning really help
in everyday working life? How does eLearning have to be shaped to optimally
meet its supporting function? The eLBa Contest 2012 evaluates current
practice solutions based on these criteria.
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| Sneak Preview |
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Programme of Going Global 2012 |
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London (UK), January 2012 – Going Global has extended its conference to
two-and-a-half days and created new and innovative ways for speakers to
share their unique perspectives. Check out a sneak preview of a couple of
the forty+ conference sessions.
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| International Forum |
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Check out Educational Innovations in Valencia |
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Valencia (ES), January 2012 - The organising committee invites participants
to the sixth International Technology, Education and Development Conference
(INTED2012), to be held in Valencia, Spain, from 05-07 March 2012. The aim
of the Conference is to promote international collaboration in education
and research in all educational fields and disciplines.
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| Teacher Education |
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Transforming the Landscape at SITE |
 Austin, TX (USA),
January 2012 - SITE 2012 is the 23rd annual conference of the Society for
Information Technology and Teacher Education. It is being held in Austin,
Texas on 05-09 March 2012. SITE is the only organization that has the
integration of instructional technologies into teacher-education programs
as its sole focus.
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| International Conference |
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ICT in Natural Science Education |
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Siauliai (LT), January 2012 - Participants are warmly invited to the
international scientific conference "Information & Communication
Technology in Natural Science Education", taking place 07-11 November 2012
in the conference centre of Siauliai University in Siauliai, Lithuania.
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