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International Content Integration by Blackboard & Pearson |
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Washington, DC (US), December 2012 - Blackboard Inc. and Pearson have
expanded the availability of an integration for Pearson's leading learning
solution – MyLab & Mastering – with Blackboard Learn™, the market-leading
learning-management system (LMS). Previously available in North America,
the integration is now available in most markets worldwide, the companies
announced.
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| Educase Study |
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The Increasing Relevance of Learning Analytics |
 Washington D.C. (US),
December 2012 - (by Prem Lata Gupta) Learning Analytics is a
growing trend, particularly at American universities. This is supported by
the results of the 2012 Educause study "Analytics in Higher Education."
Jacqueline Bichsel, EDUCAUSE Senior Research Analyst and principal author
of the report, explains that the advantages benefit the university and
students alike. She also contends that Learning Analytics means a cultural
change at the decision-making level, away from intuition-based approaches
toward decisions based on data.
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| New Services |
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IBM Expands the Power of Social Business with New Cloud |
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Armonk, NY (US), December 2012 - IBM has announced new social-business
software to help enterprise clients collaborate easily and securely in the
cloud using the broadest range of mobile devices. The new IBM SmartCloud
services include new social-networking features and the release of IBM
SmartCloud Docs, a cloud-based office-productivity suite that allows users
to simultaneously collaborate on word processing, spreadsheet, and
presentation documents.
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| Access at Anytime |
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How Totara Preserves Jurys Inn's Precious Talent |
 London (UK), December
2012 - Jurys Inn faced the challenge of engaging with over 1,900
employees, working in a busy 24/7 environment in 35 locations across the
UK and Ireland. Using Totara from Learning Pool ensures that a
comprehensive and consistent learning and development experience is
delivered.
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| Enabling Project |
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Robert Bosch on the Way to Enterprise 2.0 |
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Stuttgart (GER), December 2012 - Robert Bosch GmbH has launched a new
worldwide project that will transform it into an Enterprise 2.0 company.
This change is being implemented by using social- business methods
internally as well as externally. For this purpose, Robert Bosch GmbH
purchased IBM Connect as its social-business software.
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 London
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| Changing the Face |
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Fujitsu Chooses QA to Help Transform Learning |
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London (UK), December 2012 - Fujitsu, one of the world's leading providers
of information-technology solutions, has appointed QA as its principal
training provider in the UK. QA will provide a multi-channel learning and
development (L&D) service underpinned by automated training
administration.
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| Authoring Software |
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Per Rocket to an eLearning Course |
 New York, NY (US),
December 2012 - iSpring Solutions, Inc. has announced the launch of
eLearning Rocket, an effective one-pack eLearning solution. This product
was devised for rapid course creation and easy online sharing. It aims to
offer more flexibility to its customers, maintaining the industry standard
of robustness in eLearning authoring software development.
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| TeachCast with Oxford |
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An Innovative Online English-language Teaching Service |
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New York, NY (US), December 2012 - Oxford University Press is extending its
language-teaching solutions through a partnership with Eleutian Technology.
Oxford University Press and Eleutian have announced the release of
TeachCast™ with Oxford, a jointly developed, innovative online
English-language teaching service that opens up the opportunity for
students around the world to learn English.
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| COSHH eLearning |
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New Course Released by EssentialSkillz |
 Milton Keynes (UK),
December 2012 - EssentialSkillz has launched a newly updated and enhanced
version of its popular COSHH eLearning course. EssentialSkillz is a
leading provider of online safety training and risk-assessment software
and has added the newly updated course to their comprehensive range of
eLearning solutions. According to EssentialSkillz, the COSHH eLearning
course uses rich graphics and interactions to engage employees and ensure
the important information contained in the course is retained.
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| Around the World |
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British Council expands Microsoft partnership |
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London (UK), December 2012 - The British Council has signed two new
agreements with Microsoft that aim to improve educational opportunities
and digital access for millions of teachers and learners in developing
economies around the world.
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Geneva (CH), December 2012 - As the business world becomes increasingly
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global language for their work. According to goFLUENT - a leading provider
of Business English training – some ninety per cent of the world’s
business-related language skills training budget is devoted to English.
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| Learning Pool |
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One of the Fastest-growing Tech Companies in Ireland |
 Dublin (IR), December
2012 - Learning Pool has announced that it ranked number 24 in the 2012
Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the fifty fastest-growing
technology companies in Ireland. Rankings are based on average percentage
revenue growth over five years.
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| Global Sales Training |
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Richardson Expands Sales Enablement Practice into Europe |
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Philadelphia, PA (US) / London (UK), December 2012 – Richardson, a global
sales- training and strategy-execution company, has appointed Marjan
Visser as Senior Consultant in the Sales Enablement Practice of its global
sales-training and performance-improvement business.
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| Open Apps |
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UOC's Knowledge and Expertise Available for Everyone |
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Barcelona (E), December 2012 - The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
has initiated the Open Apps project, a virtual repository of all the
successful knowledge developed by the University during its nearly twenty
years of expertise in distance higher education. Through its website,
visitors can find more than twenty "open apps": innovative applications
and pedagogical experiences that have been developed and tested within the
UOC for providing solutions to pedagogical and management needs. In
addition, Open Apps also offers apps and experiences that can be
transferred, used and developed by other institutions.
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| Well-thought-out Views |
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E-book Helps Overcome Job-related Challenges |
 London (UK), December
2012 - Wisdom – combined with a touch of wit – gathered from some twenty
years of discussion and discovery in the learning-technologies industry,
particularly as it relates to the corporate learning world, is now
available in e-book form. The e-book Perspectives on Learning Technologies
contains over 200 pages of observations on learning-technologies-related
issues and is intended principally for learning and development
professionals.
[more...] |
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| Global Knowledge |
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Training for New Cisco Data Center Certifications |
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Wokingham (UK), December 2012 - Global Knowledge, Cisco’s Learning Partner
of the Year in the US, and EMEAR have announced the availability of new
and updated courses to support the new Cisco Certified Network Associate
Data Center (CCNA Data Center) and Cisco Certified Network Professional
Data Center (CCNP Data Center) certifications.
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Speexx Exchange 2012 - a Great Success |
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Munich (GER), December 2012 - Four cities, 400 attendees and dozens of
inspiring presentations and discussions. Speexx Exchange 2012 is over for
this year and proved yet another resounding success.
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| ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN |
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An Eclectic Look at Today and Tomorrow |
 Berlin (GER), December 2012 – (by Martin Thoma) This year Online
Educa Berlin (OEB) became eighteen years old. "Now you can drink and are
responsible for you own decisions," joked Shafika Isaacs, a technology
consultant in the fields of education and human development in South
Africa, at the opening of the Opening Plenary of the eighteenth OEB. Very
mature for its eighteen years, OEB not only looked at the present, but
with the slogan "Reaching beyond Tomorrow" gazed far into the future.
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| Call for Proposals |
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International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace |
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New York, NY (US), December 2012 - The Sixth Annual International
Conference on eLearning in the Workplace (ICELW) 2013 will be held 12-14
June 2013, at Columbia University in New York. The Call for Proposals is
still open; the deadline is 19 December 2012.
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