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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
Expert Webinar with Dr. Patricia Wright
New 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
How MOOCs Are Derailing Open Education
Tianjin (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
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
Benchmark to boost business bottom line
London (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
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
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
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
MEDEA Awards for 2013 Categories Announced
Brussels (BE), May 2013 - The time has come to consider entering this year's MEDEA Awards with the announcement of the categories for 2013 by the MEDEA Awards Secretariat. The aim of this awards scheme is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics and animation) in education. The awards also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources and are particularly open to entries from European practitioners, organisations and production facilities. » MORE
Four Experts Will Take Part in "a Bare-knuckle Fight"
Windhoek (NA) / Berlin (GER), May 2013 - Outspoken Scottish entrepreneur and blogger Donald Clark and Namibian teacher and eLearning expert Maggy Beukes-Amiss will square up to "mobile technology crusaders" Adele Botha and Angelo Gitonga of the ICT for Education Unit of Kenya's Ministry for Education at the annual war of words. They'll be arguing about whether too much attention has been paid to innovation in education and not enough to sustainability. » MORE
