| Security Directives |
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SaaS Platform with European Data Centre |
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London (UK), November 2012 - Questionmark OnDemand is tailored to meet
European security directives. The OnDemand assessment-management platform
is expanding its reach with the opening of a European data centre to serve
a growing number of customers around the globe.
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| The World of Tablets |
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Ten Questions about Mobile Learning
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 Saarbrücken (GER), November 2012 - Dr Volker Zimmermann is
co-founder and board member at IMC AG. He is responsible for new business
(research, innovations, and new business), HR, and the media-publishing
company of IMC. He is persuaded that "… end users will increasingly move
over to tablet PCs or at least to touchscreen PCs." With ten answers he
explains his point of view on this development.
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| ELIGs Top Ten |
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Results: Stories of Learning Using Technology |
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London (UK), November 2012 - ELIG, the European Learning Industry Group,
has initiated a project to enable the workplace-learning industry to share
its success stories of learning using technology. The aim of the project is
to help change the way Europe learns by highlighting the powerful evidence
hidden within individual stories and bringing them together as a
collection of micro-stories to be shared to inspire others. Stories are
from organisations that have measured the impact of their blended learning
projects.
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| To Go for Growth |
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New Office Launch of eComScotland |
 Dunfermline (UK),
November 2012 - eCom staff accompanied by clients have celebrated the
company’s new office launch at Dickson Street. Clive Shepherd, a
well-known learning technologist, was the guest speaker for the afternoon
and provided thought-provoking insight into the future of learning and
collaboration.
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| Partnership |
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Cegos Opens up to the Brazilian Market |
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Paris (F), November 2012 – Cegos has continued its international expansion
by concluding a new distribution partnership for its range of
off-the-shelf eLearning solutions. The contract signed with Affero, one of
South America's biggest blended-learning organisations, gives Cegos a
foothold in the Brazilian market.
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| How to Enable Learning |
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Bridging the Gaps between HR Goals and Results |
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Unterföhring (GER), November 2012 - Growth and development are natural
processes. However, several conditions must be met for these processes to
happen at an optimal pace and time. A seed needs water, food, and light to
grow into a tree. Which factors influence a person’s development into a
valued professional and how can this growth be enabled best?
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| Product Launch |
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Redsource Set to Revolutionise Workforce Mobilisation |
 Leamington Spa (UK),
November 2012 - At the World of Learning and Apps World conferences,
Redware, a provider of learning and mobile solutions, launched its
Redsource mobile application management platform. Its mission is to help
organisations take workforce mobilisation to the next level.
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| Multisided |
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Mpro Mobile Apps Increase Efficiency of Care |
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Kent (UK), November 2012 - A new breed of mobile healthcare apps for
nursing and self-care of patients with chronic conditions promises to
improve efficiency, patient safety, and disease management. mpro is used
to schedule home visits by community nurses and allows nurses to report a
range of patient checks and treatment via mobile devices, reducing form
filling and giving managers and clinicians a complete view of nurse
activity and patient information.
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| 'Little's Britain' |
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No laughing matter |
 London
(UK), November 2012 - (by Bob Little) Online learning materials
developers may shy away from injecting humour into their programmes
because one person’s humour may be deeply offensive to others. What starts
as an attempt at humour can breach the bounds of political correctness and,
far from achieving its learning objective, produces unlooked for adverse
consequences for both the programme’s producer and its buyer.
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| Auction |
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Interactive Telemedicine Communication System for Sale |
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San Francisco, CA (US), November 2012 - ICAP Patent Brokerage has announced
an auction for a telemedicine consultation system from Medcom Technology
Associates, Inc. This interactive, remote medical-services solution covers
consultation components including patient identification, communication,
and payment. This lot will be included in the seventeenth ICAP Ocean Tomo
IP Auction on 29 November 2012, at The Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, CA.
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| LIDAS |
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Virtual College Releases "Choose to Stop" App |
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Ilkley (UK), November 2012 - Virtual College, a leading provider of
eLearning in the UK worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services
(LIDAS) to produce and release the "Choose to Stop" app.
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| University of California |
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How Farming Innovation Can Sustainably Feed the Future |
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La Jolla, CA (US), November 2012 - The global population is expected to hit
nine billion by 2050, and there's an urgent need to reform food production
to meet the rising demand. The new four-part YouTube series "9 Billion
Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming," now available on University of
California's YouTube channel UCTV Prime, examines these challenges and
demonstrates how UC Davis researchers and students are working together.
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| MOOC |
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Open Online Course for Journalists in Arab Countries |
 Bonn
(GER), November 2012 - From now until 16 December, participants in the Open
Media Summit can take part in interactive online training sessions on
topics such as the responsible use of online information sources, the
potential of data-driven journalism, and Internet censorship. The main
language of the course is Arabic, and there is also an English website.
Participation in the Open Media Summit (#OMS 2012) is free and open to
anyone interested from North Africa and other Arab countries.
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| Business Collaboration |
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Ventana Research Technology Innovation Awards |
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Bracknell (UK), November 2012 – Saba, a premier provider of people-centric
enterprise solutions, has announced that its social enterprise platform,
Saba People Cloud, has received the Business Collaboration Award as part
of the first Technology Innovation Awards from Ventana Research. The
awards recognize technology vendors that have introduced innovations in
technology to advance business and information technology (IT).
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| At Online Educa Berlin |
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The Secret to Succeeding in a VUCA World |
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Berlin (GER), November 2012 - The advent of the economic crisis coupled
with innovative technological developments are forcing businesses to
navigate their way through uncertain territory. Technology has enabled us
to connect, to create new models for business, and to exchange knowledge
instantly. However, it has also created new challenges: We are
increasingly vulnerable to sudden incidents outside of our direct control.
How can businesses deliver competitive advantage in a world characterised
by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - a "VUCA" world?
What strategies should businesses employ to ensure the effectiveness of
their workplace-learning strategy? And could the field of behavioural
science hold the key?
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| Sales development |
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Epic to Co-Host New Event on Learning Technologies |
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London (UK), November 2012 - Epic and Pareto will host "The Future of
Driving High Performance Sales Teams", a brand-new event that focuses on
how to leverage learning technologies for effective sales development. The
event will take place on the 05 December 2012 in London.
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| Tenth Anniversary |
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Modern Technologies for Training |
 Moscow (RU), November
2012 - The tenth international exhibition and conference "Modern
Technologies for Training in Companies and Educational Institutions" /
eLearnExpo 2013, a leading event in Russia in the field of application of
new technology in training, will take place 18-19 June 2013 in Moscow at
the All-Russia Exhibition Centre – VVC, pavillion 55.
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| Call for Nominations |
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The 2013 International Distance Learning Awards |
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Boston MA (US), November 2012 - The United States Distance Learning
Association has will present its 2013 International Distance Learning
Awards, the premier awards for the distance-learning industry. These
prestigious awards are presented annually to organizations and
individuals, recognizing four categories of excellence: the 21st Century
Best Practice Award; Best Practice Awards for Distance Learning
Programming; Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching Awards; and
Outstanding Leadership by an Individual Award.
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| Online Panel Discussion |
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Predicting the Future of Work in 2013 and Beyond |
 London
(UK), November 2012 - Is 2013 the "Year of Engagement"? Cornerstone
OnDemand is bringing together the top analysts and thought leaders to
discuss the emerging trends defining the future of work in 2013 and beyond
in a Webinar on 13 December at 10am Pacific Standard Time.
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| LINQ 2012 |
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Conference Success: "Innovations and Quality" |
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Brussels (BE) / Essen (GER), November 2012 - The first European Conference
LINQ 2012 on "Learning Innovations and Quality" took place to great
success in Brussels. The organizers from the University of Duisburg-Essen
in Germany and the Q-Cert-VET project consortium greeted a variety of
international authors, European project representatives, and participants
from over twenty countries who came to take part in the development of a
discussion on the potential points of interaction between innovations and
quality.
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| DemoFest 2012 |
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See the Best eLearning Projects of the Year |
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Las Vegas, NV (US), November 2012 - At DevLearn, 53 conference participants
showed off their latest eLearning projects at the eLearning DemoFest. The
presentations offered fellow attendees the opportunity to see a wide
variety of solutions to common eLearning challenges and to share
information about the tools, technologies and processes used to build
them. Meet several of this year’s winners at the complimentary Best of
DemoFest Webinar on Wednesday, November 28 at 10:00 AM PT.
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