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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 26/03/2015 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
Marketing Bubble The Traps of eLearning Trends Brühl (GER), March 2015 – (by Pascal Balancier, AWT and Rolf Reinhardt, LANETO e.V.) Predicting eLearning trends can be tricky – not just for self-proclaimed eLearning experts, but even for highly respected committees such as the New Media Consortium (NMC), which publishes the "Horizon Report". In one of his latest blog posts, Stephen Downes claims that the predictions of the NMC would not be based on "deep knowledge", but would, in fact, be influenced by "popular press and marketing campaigns". » more Educational Shot Tutoring Marketplace Preply Is Going back to the US Market Brighton, MA (USA), March 2015 – The American-Ukrainian startup Preply.com is going back to the US market with an updated product marketplace for local and online language tutoring. Back in October 2012, Preply launched their marketplace in Boston for online tutoring only. Backed by famous Semyon Dukach, currently director of TechStars Boston, and a group of business angels, Preply was looking for a business model for six months. The team experienced huge competition from mature players. That's why the young co-founders decided to build their product and gain a critical mass of clients in the much smaller, but growing, Eastern Europe market. » more Dictionary Publisher Britannica Announce Free English-Learning App Springfield, MA (USA), March 2015 - Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Inc., America's leading dictionary publisher, have announced the launch of "Nglish", a free English-language learning app and site designed especially for Spanish speakers. In addition to full bilingual text translation, "Nglish" offers a unique and tailored learning experience that allows users to learn the words they want to learn on their own schedule. » more Xyleme Leslie Farinella: Vice President of Customer Success Boulder, CO (USA), March 2015 - Xyleme, the leading content-management system for learning and development, has announced the naming of Leslie Farinella as Vice President of Customer Success. With her deep-rooted training-industry experience and extensive knowledge of content strategy, Farinella will oversee the customer-success teams and lead the new customer-success program for Xyleme, as they continue on a fast-paced growth trajectory. » more Global User Reach Jenison Acquires ManagersPitStop.com Southampton (UK), March 2015 - Jenison, the UK publisher of high-quality off-the-shelf online-learning resources, learning-management tools, and rapid content authoring, has acquired the online management-development resource ManagersPitStop.com. » more Advertisement Microlearning Exaltive Partners with Media Learning International Fremont, CA (USA), March 2015 - Silicon Valley-based Exaltive, Inc. has announced a partnering with West Des Moines, Iowa-based Media Learning, International (MLI) to create clickable interactive video versions of MLI’s "Management Coach", a breakthrough high-production-value microlearning video-performance support tool for HR, managers, and supervisors. » more Adapt Builder A Revolutionary Tool for Responsive eLearning Derry (UK), March 2015 - Learning Pool has just released a game-changing tool that allows users to effortlessly build, edit, and customise responsive content that’s been built on the Adapt Learning framework. Adapt Builder is the product of more than twelve months’ development work and intensive beta trials with hundreds of Learning Pool customers across the UK; it makes eLearning development easy for even non-technical learning professionals. » more Cloud Expertise IMC Awarded Microsoft Silver Cloud Platform Competency Saarbruecken (GER), March 2015 - From little fluffy clouds to blanket cloud cover: more and more companies are coming to appreciate the benefits of cloud computing. » more Docebo Whitepaper The Added Value of Extended Enterprise Athens, GA (USA) March 2015 – Docebo, makers of a cloud SaaS-based eLearning-solutions platform, has published a whitepaper on extended-enterprise (EE) learning. EE learning is any training, knowledge, certification, or performance support provided to your non-employees such as channel distribution partners, resellers, dealers, franchises, members, customers, and end-users of your products and services. » more Innovative Options Jam Pan Learning Marketplace Attracts Digital Creatives London (UK), March 2015 - Jam Pan, a new learning marketplace launched in late 2014, has announced that over 200 creative digital-production agencies have signed up to bid for learning and workplace performance projects. » more Advertisement EMMA MOOCs Business Intelligence and More Barcelona (E), March 2015 - The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) offers a free massive open online course (MOOC) on Business Intelligence through the new European Multiple MOOC Aggregator (EMMA), a project that brings together leading university partners providing online, easy-to-access multilingual learning opportunities that are open to all learners. The Business Intelligence course starts 06 April. » more The Future of Learning Accelerating the Shift to Modernity Berlin (GER), March 2015 - ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN (OEB), Europe’s leading conference on digital education, will discuss the potential for a new age of global learning and creativity in which "everything is possible". Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of the conference organisers, ICWE GmbH, has confirmed that the focus of this year’s event, which will be held 02-04 December, will be on modernity and how people, organisations, and societies can use technology-assisted education to secure the rewards of "a new era of fundamental change". » more Transformation Education Special Report on Curriculum of the Future Seattle, WA (USA), March 2015 - Apex Learning, a provider of blended and virtual-learning solutions to the nation's schools, recently contributed to the Education Special Report on Curriculum of the Future released by the Center for Digital Education. Apex Learning CEO, Cheryl Vedoe, provided insight into how rigorous digital curriculum is transforming the landscape in schools and districts. » more Customisable Interface First Anti-Doping eLearning Course and LMS Fyshwick Act (AU), March 2015 - The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), the nation's driving force behind pure performance in sport, has just launched a new multi-device anti-doping eLearning course and learning-management system. Conceived for the Australian sporting community, it was created by leading industry experts in learning technologies and solutions, Kineo Pacific. » more Advertisement Open Format First Moodle DevCamp in Vienna Vienna (A), March 2015 - From 30 June to 01 July 2015 the Academic Moodle Cooperation (AMC) and the world's largest Moodle partner Moodlerooms will stage the first Moodle DevCamp Vienna hosted by the University of Vienna. We would like to invite all software developers and interested people who are improving and developing the Moodle platform on a daily basis to take part in this event. » more Open to the Public Immersive Education (iED) Conference 2015 Boston, MA (USA) / Paris (F), March 2015 - The Immersive Education Initiative has announced that Paris-Sorbonne University ("the Sorbonne") will be the official host of IMMERSION 2015. The prestigious university, located in the heart of Paris, France, will host the international conference and exhibition 07-10 September. The event, which is open to the public, will take place in the famous lecture halls of the historic Sorbonne building. » more Call for Papers Fostering "Inter-Disciplinary Dommunications" Orlando, FL (USA), March 2015 - The thirteenth International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2015 will be held jointly with the ninth International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2015. The two events will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, 12-15 July 2015. The submission deadline of abstracts or paper drafts is 03 April 2015. » more Call for Proposals Mobile Communication, Technologies, and Learning Thessaloniki (GR), March 2015 - The ninth International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, IMCL2015, is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering worldwide. It will be held 19-20 November 2015 in the Mediterranean Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece. The topics are: "Issues, Infrastructures and Applications". » more Webinar eXact learning: Leading-Edge Authoring Technology Genoa (I), March 2015 -Technology now exists that can "ingest" learning content in any format, allow all the authors to edit it, re-purpose and format it for different delivery methods, and then deliver that learning. The technology is designed for fast-paced organizations needing to produce high-volume, professional, and consistent learning output. The aim is to produce high-quality, error-free learning content rapidly, thus producing cost savings as well as achieving the organization’s learning objectives. » more Webinar Upside Learning Announces "Multi-Device Learning" Pune (IN), March 2015 - On 26 March 2015 at 10:00 GMT (3:30PM IST), Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning, will discuss some time-tested ways to develop multi-device learning in an interactive webinar, titled "Smart Ways to do Multi-Device Learning" for the Learning and Skills Group. » more Multi-Topic Conference Tesco eLearning Campaign Highlighted Plymouth (UK), March 2015 - An award-winning compliance campaign for Tesco created by eLearning company Sponge UK will be highlighted at an international compliance conference and exhibition this month. » more

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