Themen

Educational Value

Worlddidac Quality Charter Accreditation for Digital Publishing

Munich (GER)/Bern (CH) - August, 2007 - digital publishing, a leading producer of interactive learning software, has received certification under the Worlddidac Quality Charter (WQC). This prestigious designation was presented by the Worlddidac Foundation, an independent, international trade association for the education market with members in nearly fifty countries. The Worlddidac Quality Charter is a quality certification for companies who participate in educational projects worldwide. » MORE

Interactivity Builder

New Release 4.5 Makes Raptivity More Flexible

Redmond, WA (USA), August 2007 - Harbinger Knowledge Products has announced a major update of Raptivity - release 4.5. The significant highlights are the increased ease and flexibility of deployment in a multi-user corporate environment and more convenient integration with other tools. This release also comes with a Spell Checker add-on and a learning interaction guide. » MORE

Partnerships

Assima Goes for Growth in the Far East

London (UK), August 2007 - Assima Plc has taken a major step into the training market in the Asia-Pacific region with the signing of partnership deals with two leading training organisations based in China and Singapore. The partnerships with eLearn Consult Ltd (ELC) and Knowledge Platform (KP) will enable the companies to market and resell Assima products and services. » MORE

Partnership

QA-IQ Expands International Delivery

Slough (UK), July 2007 - QA-IQ, an English IT-Training company, has launched a global partnership programme to provide its customers with access to technical, professional skills, management, and personal-development training across a wide range of international locations. » MORE

Survey

Competence in Classroom Training and Distance Learning

Birmingham (UK), July 2007 - Dropping the "e" in eLearning is currently a hot topic. The discussion implies that the training world no longer needs to point out the "e" because technology-enhanced learning is a regular and necessary part of the learning mix. But does a hot topic in the media and the community really reflect a hot topic in your daily business? » MORE

Collaboration

University Network Chooses HarvestRoad Hive

Perth (AU), July 2007 - Technology company HarvestRoad has announced that oncampus GmbH has chosen HarvestRoad Hive® and IBM systems as its future digital marketplace Learning Object Repository infrastructure solution. oncampus GmbH is made up of 25 German and Baltic Universities that provide eLearning courses for their International University Network, which represents thousands of distant-education-program students from around the world. » MORE

MyKnowledgeMap

The UK's Biggest Mobile-learning Project

York (UK), July 2007 - The UK's largest-scale exercise in mobile education to date is helping 9,000 students throughout Yorkshire to assess their own competencies via their phones and related handheld devices. The Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS) aims to ensure that the graduates, studying sixteen different subjects from a wide range of health and social care courses, have the skills needed to be effective in the workplace. » MORE

UK Expansion

CrossKnowledge Collaborates with the Open University

London (UK), July 2007 - CrossKnowledge, a European leader in web-based management training with more than one million users worldwide, has introduced the first in a series of distance learning management programmes developed with the Open University. The launch of the course on effective project management follows CrossKnowledge's recent expansion to the UK and the opening of its London headquarters, aimed at serving the second-largest eLearning market in the world. » MORE

Support Solution

RWD Technologies Releases uPerform™ in Europe

Baltimore, MD (USA), July 2007 - RWD Technologies, Inc. (RWD), a company that develops, implements, and supports products and services in the areas of training, consulting, and organisational performance improvement, has announced the release of RWD uPerform™ to markets in Europe and the United Kingdom. RWD uPerform is a comprehensive human performance support tool kit for businesses seeking to improve business results and return on investment (ROI) from their enterprise solutions, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and sales force training programs. » MORE

Bird Flu

Training for Better Surveillance

Paris/Montpellier (F), July 2007 - Veterinary epidemiology has really taken off in recent years. Diseases that can be transmitted from animals to man are changing and spreading to world regions that had previously been spared. CIRAD, which has a mandate for training and surveillance in France and overseas, organizes animal health teaching workshops and develops suitable IT tools. » MORE