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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 05/11/2015 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
IMS Newly Released Caliper Educational Analytics Standard Lake Mary, FL (USA), November 2015 - IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global), a leader in EdTech interoperability and impact, has announced that nine EdTech products have achieved conformance certification to the newly released Caliper Analytics™ standard, the world’s first interoperability standard for educational click stream data. » more Greater Value EDTRIN Signs Global Partnership Agreement Victoria (AU), November 2015 - EDTRIN Group Pty Ltd and Entamico Enterprises have signed an agreement to partner in the delivery of education-and-training services to the Australian, New Zealand, and Asian Pacific markets. » more Teachers’ Unions Focused on Plight of Refugee Children’s Education Brussels (BE), November 2015 - From Europe to the United States, teachers’ unions are urging their governments both to welcome more refugees and to ensure that schools open their doors to make quality education available to refugee children. » more Actual Book Donation to the eLearning For Kids Foundation Ardmore, PA, (USA), November 2015 - Every organization is impacted daily by our VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). We need new mental models to support rapid, adaptive, and flexible responses to disruptive change. The emerging field of positive psychology, now validated by brain research, exposes why our current practices to organize, motivate, manage, and reward performance are actually destructive. » more Virtual Reality Researchers Develop Virtual Training Tool to Help Doctors Glasgow (GB), November 2015 - University of Huddersfield researcher Yeshwanth Pulijala is dedicated to bringing about big improvements in medical training by harnessing the power of virtual reality and 3D technology. Now, he is part of a team that has developed the prototype for an innovative tool that will enable doctors to develop their communication skills – including the breaking of bad news – by conducting a simulated interview with a virtual patient. » more Advertisement APel Speexx Wins Excellence-in-eLearning Award in Innovation Madrid (E) / Munich (GER), November 2015 – Speexx, a global provider of mobile and online language training, has won the APel Association’s Excellence in eLearning Award in the "Most innovative learning solution" category. » more Commendation Docebo Praised for Its Innovation and New Ideas Athens, GA (USA), November 2015 - Docebo, a provider of cloud-based learning solutions for today’s users, has been publicly praised for its product’s "innovation and new ideas". » more Towards Maturity Technology-Enabled Ethics and Compliance Training London (UK), November 2015 - Towards Maturity has announced the findings of a new study sponsored by SAI Global, which found that despite an environment of record regulatory enforcements and personal liability for senior executives, most organisations are still applying a check-box approach to ethics and compliance training and failing to achieve the business goals they set out. This raises serious considerations for companies as they implement their programmes, with ethics and compliance failures continuing to dominate headlines. » more Advertisement Free up your locked investment – Convert Flash-based courses to HTML Are your Flash-based eLearning courses sitting idle, locking your investments to desktop delivery only? Our skilled team, with vast experience and expertise across a wide variety of authoring tools, can unlock your investment by converting your existing Flash courses to HTML5. These HTML5 courses, whether converted as is or with a makeover, can work seamlessly on all devices. Get in touch PATH To Consolidate Learning across Twenty Countries Rocky Hill, CT (USA), November 2015 - PATH, an international nonprofit global health organisation headquartered in Seattle, WA, has selected NetDimensions Learning to manage training of more than 1,300 staff at offices in 44 cities across 20 countries. » more eLearning Ecosystems Corporate Learning Week in Texas Dallas, TX (USA), November 2015 - Dr. David Guralnick will be speaking at Corporate Learning Week, to be held 09-12 November 2015, in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Guralnick will chair a panel discussion with Steven Sitek, Head of Learning Integrity/Compliance, Novartis and David Strainick, Global Head of Learning, NCR Corporation. In this session, they will cover "Really Cool Innovations in eLearning to Drive Business Results". » more Online Training Free SpeakApps MOOC for Language Teachers Barcelona (E), November 2015 - The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) is running a SpeakApps online training MOOC for language teachers from 09 November - 04 December 2015. » more Advertisement Nominations Open Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning London (UK), November 2015 – The prestigious Colin Corder award presented at the 2016 Learning Awards is expected to draw high-calibre candidates. Nominations are now being taken directly online. » more Call for Contributions EDEN 2016 Annual Conference: #EDEN16 Budapest (HU), November 2015 – EDEN, which will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2016, is proud to be a continuously strengthening and developing the European association in the fields of open learning, distance learning, and eLearning, as well as learning modernization and innovation. The jubilee conference in Budapest will take place from 14-17 June 2016. EDEN is now calling for contributions for the event. » more Organized by TELSPain "ELearning 2020: Empresas y Universidades" Conference Barcelona (E), November 2015 - On 14 December 2015, Barcelona will host the third conference of TELSpain, the network of professionals of eLearning in Spain of which the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is member. The title is "eLearning 2020: empresas y universidades". » more Call for Papers ASEE: Abstract Deadline 22 January 2016 New Orleans, LA (USA), November 2015 - The 2016 ASEE International Forum Steering Committee is seeking papers for the fifth Annual ASEE International Forum in New Orleans, LA, 25 June 2016, immediately preceding the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. New for 2016 is that all accepted papers for a paper presentation will be indexed in the new ASEE PEER repository and in SCOPUS. » more British Council "New Technologies in Education" in Belgrade Belgrade (RS), November 2015 - The "New Technologies in Education" fair and conference will take place 26-27 February 2016, in Belgrade, Serbia. It is focused on the use of ICT for educational purposes in Central and Eastern Europe. » more 2016/2017 Call for Grant Applications for UOC Doctoral Programmes Barcelona (E), November 2015 - The call for grant applications for the Information and Knowledge Society Doctoral Programme; Education and ICT (eLearning) Doctoral Programme; and Network and Information Technologies Doctoral Programme is coming soon. The deadline for applications for the doctoral programmes is 31 January 2016. The UOC is offering grants for these three doctoral programmes for the 2016/2017 academic year. To be eligible for the UOC Doctoral Grants Programme students must be full-time and physically present at the University's premises. » more

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