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Safeguarding Children Moves to Adult Training
Leeds (UK), March 2010 - The Safeguarding Children e-Academy has extended its remit to incorporate adult social-care training for the first time. The academy, an operating division of online-training pioneer Virtual College, of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, is specialised in the delivery of interactive online learning for the children's workforce. » MORE
Training to Teach about Bloodborne Pathogens in Schools
Virginia Beach, VA (USA), February 2010 - Coastal Training Technologies has announced the release of Bloodborne Pathogens in Schools: The Fundamentals, a training program that explains how school staff members can stop the spread of bloodborne pathogens. » MORE
Input for New eLearning Modules Wanted
Pallini Attikis (GR), February 2010 - The EU project COSMOS is funded under the eContentplus programme and creates eLearning modules on Astronomy, offering a large collection through one portal. The needs of teachers and students are currently assessed via an online questionnaire. » MORE
Stone Group Supplies Laptops to Low-Income Families
London (UK), February 2010 - Stone Group has been appointed as one of Becta's provisional "approved suppliers" for the Home Access programme. The government-funded programme underpins the government's vision for more children to have access to technology at home to support learning. » MORE
Online Health and Safety Training for Schools
London (UK), February 2010 - Cobent Limited has announced the launch of "HeadSafe", a new eLearning resource for schools developed by risk-management consultancy Three Spires Safety. The HeadSafe programme has been developed to provide head teachers, school bursars, school governors, and other school managers with a practical online-training resource covering health and safety in schools. » MORE
Elluminate's Fire and Ice Project Wins Award
Calgary, AB (CA), December 2009 - Elluminate, Inc., a provider of web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that support 21st-century teaching, learning, and collaboration, has announced that its Fire and Ice initiative has been awarded iNACOL's Best and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice award. » MORE
Global Non-Profit Reaches 1.5 Million Children
Ardmore, PA (USA), November 2009 - E-Learning for Kids (EFK) was launched in 2005 by a small, all-volunteer and virtual team of business and education professionals with a dozen courses and a few hundred online users. In 2009 alone, EFK has reached more than 1.5 million children in 192 countries, who have taken more than 5 million courses. » MORE
Building the Next Generation of Online Courses
Austin, TX (USA), November 2009 - Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a developer and provider of virtual K-12 education solutions, has announced strategic partnership with Giunti Labs, a provider of learning content management and digital repository solutions, to create a state-of-the-art Learning Content Management System (LCMS). » MORE
Using Technology to Keep Parents Informed
Coventry (UK), November 2009 - The report, Schools and parents: A new partnership, part of Becta's 'Next Generation Learning' campaign is now available for download. It suggests that simple technologies such as online reporting can support a new, more effective partnership between parents and schools. » MORE
ELearning Needs Tutoring - Tutoring Needs Competence
Vienna (AT), November 2009 - In cooperation with the Austrian teacher-training institute "e-LISA Academy" and the Danube University Krems, common sense eLearning & training consultants GmbH has developed a practice-oriented education-training program for online tutors. The first run was successful and had a high number of attendees. The alumni gave positive feedback and felt confident in handling the learning platform - in this case Moodle -, moderating, and giving feedback during an eLearning course. » MORE
