Themen
Corporate eLearning
Protection for eLearning
Ayr (UK), July 2006 - ELearning is as exposed to piracy issues as any other digital content sector. Scotland-based LockLizard Limited has developed a Digital Rights Management (DRM) enforcement product specifically focused on protecting an eLearning company's revenue streams. » MORE
Irish eLearning Research Initiative
Dublin, July 2006 - The Irish Ministry for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has launched a two-million-euro eLearning research project focusing on key research for delivering tangible, commercial progress in the development of next generation eLearning products and services for Irish eLearning companies. The Irish eLearning industry is joining forces in the endeavour. » MORE
IBM Donates Code to Sakai
Armonk, NY (USA), July 2006 - IBM is donating eLearning software code and expertise to the Sakai Project, a group of learning institutions creating and deploying open-source course management, collaboration and online research support tools for higher education. The donation is part of IBM's overall support of open computing in education. » MORE
Developing Media-Rich Content
London, July 2006 - BT Global Services has selected OutStart to provide the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to support the Royal Navy's prestigious Type 45 training content development programme. The tailored courses will bring together contributions from Royal Navy subject matter experts as well as information and media- rich content in the form of simulations and emulations - all delivered via the Defence Learning Portal (DLP). » MORE
MobileMonday Global Peer Awards
Sestri Levante, June 2006 - Giunti Labs' mobile learning solution eXact Mobile received the Silver Prize at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards in Helsinki. The event, sponsored by Nokia and Nexit Ventures, showcased world's best B2B Mobile Solutions. A fifteen-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. » MORE
Overcoming Language Barriers
London / Brisbane, June 2006 - Reuters PLC has renewed its contract and signed a multiyear agreement with the GlobalEnglish Corporation. Reuters has maintained major offices in India and East Asia for over a century but has recently initiated expansions in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, and other locations. For this reason, the company has increased its investment in training employees in its official language, English. » MORE
Becoming Increasingly Mainstream
Midvale/Utah, June 2006 - (by Birgit Gamböck) Social software will play an important role in more and more bottom-up structured and team-oriented enterprises because it offers opportunities to take advantage of informal interaction across groups and to make it purposeful, thereby supporting the performance, growth, and innovation goals of most enterprises. This is the conclusion of the report "Trends in Social Software" conducted by the Burton Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in network and applications infrastructure technologies. CHECKpoint eLearning spoke with analyst Mike Gotta about the benefits, the market trends, and the first integration approaches of IBM and Microsoft. » MORE
New 3D Collaborative Intelligence
Paris, France, June 2006 - Dassault Systèmes (DS), a French provider of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has announced ENOVIA 3D Live beta version, a 3D Collaborative Intelligence solution that exploits DS's V5 SOA architecture for online applications. Via an intuitive user interface, ENOVIA 3D Live enables any individual to instantly search and navigate any PLM information, regardless of location, source or format. » MORE
A Need in a Global eLearning World
Dublin, June 2006 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Transware has been localizing elearning software for ten years now. Today its founder, Kieran McBrien, has to deal with smaller markets and projects, yet he faces an increasing need for content transfer. McBrien does not consider translators as competitors; rather he sees them as part of the process because localization has to take cultures, laws, political correctness, and other important aspects of a target group into account. » MORE
Microsoft Germany and IMC cooperate
Munich / Saarbrücken, June 2006 - Microsoft Deutschland GmbH (Germany) and IMC AG, provider of Learning Management solutions, are working hand in hand towards integration of IMC AG's CLIX Learning Management System (LMS) into Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server. » MORE
