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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 12/03/2015 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
Radio Campaign Utilising ICT to Promote Public-Health Messages Berlin (GER), March 2015 - Malawi has developed an innovative and highly successful interactive communications campaign in a quest to solve problems surrounding public health in the country. Through a radio drama programme that has reached over 55% of its target audience, key health issues such as malaria, child health, and family planning are being tackled. The program encourages listeners to interact with the show using SMS and social media. » more Flourish Technology Facilitates One-to-One Student Relationships Telford (UK), March 2015 - Pebble has announced the launch of Flourish, the first personal learning system that addresses the critical one-to-one relationships students have with tutors and supervisors across education, research, and the workplace. » more Open for Business Totara LMS Version 2.7 Released Wellington (NZ), March 2015 - The supported enterprise release of Totara LMS Version 2.7 was released 02 March 2015. As usual, it was the result of a lot of collaboration with customers and partners to offer better value and flexibility for corporate LMS users. » more MOOCs EdX Launches Three New Smithsonian Courses Cambridge, MA (USA) / Washington, DC (USA), March 2015 - EdX, the nonprofit online-learning initiative, will offer three new free MOOCs from the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, founded in 1846. The courses, for students and educators of all ages, will interest fans of superheroes, teachers, and American-history buffs alike. » more Skill Games To Offer Technology to Other Sectors New York, NY (USA), March 2015 - 1to5.com, an interactive video site focused on skill games such as poker, has applied for a patent for its innovative education technology for online learning and will expand its interactive video tool into other areas including economy, finance, business, management, as well as other skill games. » more Advertisement Responsive Solutions IMC AG Extends Compliance Offering Saarbruecken (GER), March 2015 - Regardless of whether companies are dealing with statutory or in-house regulations, they are not only responsible for making sure their employees are compliant, but also for offering them reliable and efficient training. With its Compliance Suite, IMC AG is now able to offer a comprehensive solution that has been especially developed for companies of any size and in any industry to manage their regulatory-compliance-training measures. » more Participate! LPI‘s Annual Learning Survey Is Open Coventry (UK), March 2015 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has launched its Annual Learning Survey – a comprehensive research piece into the most significant trends in workplace learning and development. » more Mediathek New Opportunities for Learning Awarded Friedrichsdorf (GER), March 2015 - A leading German financial-services company with headquarters in Frankfurt is continuously improving its in-house range of qualification offerings. New to this range is the Mediathek, a new type of learning platform that offers customised learning measures for each of its more than 11,000 employees. The concept was so trend setting that the project partner and M.I.T e-Solutions GmbH have received the eLearning Journal Award 2015, awarded at the didacta 2015 in Hannover. » more News in Slow ... Italian for Beginners Language Theatre Cambridge, MA (USA), March 2015 - The makers of News in Slow Italian announce the release of Italian for Beginners Language Theatre, a comprehensive program that teaches Italian grammar, vocabulary, and conversation in the form of theatrical dialog. » more Elearnity Report NetDimensions Strengthens Its Position as "Core Leader" London (UK), March 2015 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has announced today it has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the latest release of the unique European learning and talent-market insight report, Elearnity 9-Grid™ for Learning Management Systems (LMS). » more Advertisement Communication Skills Adecco and Speexx Launch Global Blended-Learning Project Munich (GER), March 2015 – Speexx has signed a global training agreement with leading HR consultancy company Adecco. The project covers sixteen countries and supports potentially hundreds of thousands of Adecco employees in improving their foreign-language and business-communication skills. The courses, which commenced in February this year, are available to all employees via a specifically developed portal. » more Crowdsourcing Photos Pearson Joins Forces with Scoopshot London (UK), March 2015 - With the announcement that Scoopshot, the mobile platform for photo and video crowdsourcing, has partnered with Pearson, technology and learning have linked yet again. The learning company is using Scoopshot to reach out to and engage with millennials, crowdsourcing photos to illustrate its publications. » more EMAC Essentials LEO and NEMA App Enters Major Public App Stores London (UK), March 2015 - LEO and the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) have announced the launch of their app, EMAC Essentials, on the Apple and Android app stores. The app, which was built using the award-winning gomo authoring tool by leading learning-technologies firm and gomo reseller LEO, aims to prepare and inform personnel before or during a deployment through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) - a nationally adopted mutual-aid agreement that facilitates the sharing of personnel and equipment in times of disaster. » more Advertisement Rapid-Learning SlidePresenter Wins bsoco Award Frankfurt a.M. (GER), March 2015 - SlidePresenter, a provider of a cloud-based solution for the fast and easy production and distribution of multimedia training and communication content wins a bsoco award in the Rapid Learning category. » more Webinar The Top Ten Features of an Extended Enterprise Athens, GA (USA), March 2015 – Docebo, makers of the cloud SaaS-based eLearning solutions platform, has revealed the top ten features of an extended enterprise (EE). According to Alessio Artuffo, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Docebo North America, "Organizations are rapidly embracing the concept of training and certifying their audiences – the definition of EE - because, done well, it becomes a significant competitive differentiator." » more Presentations World of Learning Conference Seeking Speakers London (UK), March 2015 - World of Learning 2015 has announced its "call for speakers" for its 2015 Conference in Birmingham this September - traditionally one of Europe's most influential annual L&D events. Speakers are being sought from the across the L&D sector. » more Hands-on Learning Gamification and Learning Lab at The Masie Center Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), March 2015 - The Masie Center has just announced a new, hands-on learning exploration of "Gamification & Learning" with Elliott Masie, taking place this May at The Masie Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. » more RUSC Universities and Knowledge Society Journal Barcelona (E), March 2015 - The RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal is an open-access e-journal jointly published by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, Spain) and the University of New England (UNE, Australia). RUSC has published a call for articles for the forthcoming special issue on "Using e-Assessment to enhance student learning and evidence learning outcomes". » more Shanghai Expo Center 2015 Intelligent Education & Online Class Show Shanghai (CH), March 2015 - The Intelligent Education & Online Class Show has been successfully held for the past three years. This year's event will be held 16-18 September 2015, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center with the theme "Science & Technology can Change Education." The show will focus on domestic information technology in education and online education, leading with intelligence education enterprises and priorities in education informatization. » more

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