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"The Security Oscars" Are Open for Nominations

London (UK), June 2013 - The nomination process for the 2013 Security Excellence Awards - organised by UBM Live - is now open. Celebrating its fifteenth year in 2013, this highly prestigious industry-awards scheme is specifically designed to commend and honour the very best professionals, projects, and processes that the UK and international security sectors have to offer. » MORE

Complementary Approaches

Virtual Coach Further Education

Hamburg (GER), June 2013 - (by Prof. Dr. Harald Geissler) On 13 - 14 May 2013, the KIC (Karlsruhe Institute for Coaching) carried out the foundation module -œVirtual coach further education-œ for the first time. Next implementations of this module are planned for 01 - 02 July 2013. The seminar focused on four distinct but complementary approaches to virtual coaching. » MORE

Free Webinar

Performance Support Works!

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), June 2013 - On 26 June 2013 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, the eLearning Guild is offering a free webinar with four experts: Bob Mosher of Ontuitive, Beth Daniel of Bank of America, Frank Nguyen of American Express, and Molly Petroff of Saint Vincent's Health System. Their topic is performance support. » MORE

Inclusive Practices

Expert Webinar with Dr. Patricia Wright

Dr. Patricia WrightNew York, NY (USA), June 2013 - Following the release of its new inclusion curriculum last month, Rethink, an educational-technology company headquartered in New York City, has announced an upcoming Expert Access webinar with Dr. Patricia Wright from Easter Seals. Dr. Wright is an educator and longstanding member of Rethink's distinguished Scientific Advisory Board. » MORE

ICDE World Conference

How MOOCs Are Derailing Open Education

TianjinTianjin (CH), June 2013 - A pioneer of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), George Siemens of Athabasca University, Canada, is one of the impressive list of keynote speakers confirmed for ICDE's World Conference to be hosted by Tianjin Open University, China, 16-18 October 2013. Siemens contends that the most prominent MOOCs are failing the ideals of the Open Education movement. » MORE

Access to Quality

Hillary Clinton to Keynote Learning 2013

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), June 2013 - The MASIE Center and Learning CONSORTIUM are pleased to announce that former Secretary of State, the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be the keynote speaker at Elliott Masie's Learning 2013 conference on 04 November in Orlando, Florida. » MORE

Towards Maturity

Benchmark to boost business bottom line

Laura OvertonLondon (UK), June 2013 - Organisations can't afford to stand still - and neither can the L&D managers who support them. Acclaimed learning technologies expert Laura Overton will be explaining why benchmarking is so critical to Learning innovation, and ultimately business success, in a webinar on 14 June. » MORE

Educational Sessions

To Identify and Monitor Compliance Risks

Minneapolis, MN (USA), May 2013 - The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) has announced the twelfth Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute Risk Track, being held 06-09 October 2013 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. Since a key aspect of a compliance and ethics professional's work is to identify, assess, and monitor compliance risks, each year the Institute offers specific "risk-related" educational sessions in its program. » MORE

Possibilities

Learning Pool Live on Tour

London (UK), May 2013 - ELearning supplier Learning Pool has announced that Denise Hudson-Lawson, Head of Online Services for Parliamentary ICT, and Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University, will headline the agenda at each of the three Learning Pool Live events in October. » MORE

Ed-app Development

Consortium Launch the LTI App Bounty

San Diego, CA (USA), May 2013 - Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, announced at the IMS Global Conference that it is partnering with Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and the IMS Global Learning Consortium to encourage development of new LTI® apps for education. As part of the "LTI App Bounty," Instructure is offering a $250 reward for each qualifying LTI app submitted by 10 June, plus an additional $1,000 for the best apps selected by an expert panel of judges from Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Remote-Learner, IMS Global, Brown University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Hack Education. » MORE