Two Learning Impact Awards for Giunti Labs
Sestri Levante (IT), June 2009 - Giunti Labs has won a 'Gold' and a 'Best in category' award at the IMS Learning Impact Awards (LIAs), the world's annual competition for the high-impact use of technology to support and enhance learning. Organised by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), the LIAs recognise use of technology to improve learning across all education segments and in all regions of the world.
Giunti Labs won the Gold Award for building a Dynamic Management Skills Catalogue - using its learn eXact learning-content-management system (LCMS) - for the French-based international leader in learning and development, Cegos.
A French-based project also won the 'Best Rich Media Solution' category LIA for Giunti Labs. This time it was for the use of Giunti Labs' HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR) in developing 'the Vet Tube', a digital marketplace for video lectures for veterinary education.
In 2007, Cegos selected Giunti Labs and its LCMS, learn eXact, to help it port Cegos product offerings into a new-generation blended catalogue, combining classroom training, eLearning, and pre- and post-training evaluation in a modular and customizable way for end-user organisations.
Today Cegos' eLearning catalogue comprises 200 highly modular learning experiences. These are available in ten languages and are dynamically configurable via Giunti Labs' learn eXact LCMS, to create personalized learning-objects playlists that can be linked to any third-party learning-management system (LMS).
In spring 2007, the Lyon Vet School selected HarvestRoad Hive DR technology to design a multi-access digital marketplace for educational resources. This applied both to formal educational systems in the Lyon University network and new 'web 2-like' informal and innovative learning services, such as the 'Vet Tube' - a 'You Tube for Education' service that provides access to educational video lectures and resources harvested from within the school's repository and a federation of third-party repositories federated via OKI OSIDs interfaces.
The Vet Tube DM is now not only accessible to Lyon University students but also to students abroad, covering all French-speaking countries including the faculties in Montreal (Canada), Rabat (Morocco) and Dakar (Senegal).
Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs' CEO, commented: "Naturally, we're delighted that our work is being recognized with international awards in this way. In the case of both Cegos and the Lyon Vet School, our products are helping to improve both accessibility to, and the effectiveness of, learning materials. Of course technology does not stand still, and we are now extending our learn eXact LCMS and HarvestRoad Hive DR solutions into higher degrees of personalization."
The LIAs finalists were evaluated by an expert panel of judges. According to the IMS GLC, the LIA awards are unique in that they recognise the use of technology in context. Nominations include not only information about the technology but how it is used by an education provider.
