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One Billion US Dollars for eLearning Possible |
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Washington (DC, USA), October 2006 - A bill now before the United States
Congress could radically transform learning and training in America. If
approved, the DO IT bill could generate as much as one billion dollars to
support technology-based learning in the US.
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| First Steps |
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Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus Successful |
 Saarbrücken (Germany), October 2006 – EU efforts to establish eSocieties
in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have been successful so far. The
current project, called "Development of eSocieties in South Caucasus", is
part the European Commission’s TACIS Regional Cooperation Program 2003 and
will run until May 2007.
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| ICT in Education |
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Kaleidoscope Member Wins International Service Award |
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Laxenburg (Austria), October 2006 - Kaleidoscope member Rosa Maria Bottino
(Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, IT) was recently honoured with the
Outstanding Service Award in Education by the International Federation for
Information Processing (IFIP) for her contributions to ICT in education in
Europe.
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| Employee Benefit |
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Video Channel |
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Brighton (UK), October 2006 - Futuremedia has announced the live launch of
e-life(TM), its online educational video channel and learning community.
The new proprietary software will provide eLearning content and online
education to employees and their families as an employee benefit.
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Dueren (Germany), October 2006 - The EU project eLearning for
Visually-Impaired People (eLearn-ViP) has ended. The project aimed at
improving access to all kinds of eLearning services for the visually
impaired through developing a variety of resources.
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| Rapid eLearning |
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Atlantic Link Wins Contracts |
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Nottingham (UK), 2006 - The list of companies convinced by 'Rapid
eLearning' tools from Atlantic Link continues to grow. The wide
application of the tools is demonstrated by the diversity of the two most
recent contracts to be awarded to Atlantic Link.
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| Prevention |
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Anti-Cybercrime Courses |
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Guildford (UK), October 2006 - The Graz, Austria-based IT training
specialists Bit Group, who also have branches in Germany, Poland, the
Czech Republic, Switzerland and Russia, have become an approved training
centre for delivering SSR-i's Penetration Tester, Ethical Hacker, Security
Analyst, and Forensic Investigator courses.
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| Fulfillment |
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ELearning with a Guarantee |
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Graz (Austria), October 2006 - Hansgrohe AG, one of the world’s largest
producers of sanitary equipment, has choosen Dynamic Media for its
introduction of an in-house eLearning system. Support, individual
creation of content, authoring tools, and Learning Management all are part
of the "Start & Learn" package.
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Getting Well with eLearning |
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Cambridge (UK), October 2006 -The Healthcare Financial Management
Association (HFMA) has partnered with Information Transfer to launch a new
eLearning service aimed at professionals and staff with the National Health
Service (NHS) throughout the UK.
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| Agreement |
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IBM with HarvestRoad Equity |
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Perth (AU), October 2006 - Technology company HarvestRoad recently
announced that it has completed a worldwide market-teaming agreement with
market leader IBM. "Together we will work to recruit and educate global
business partners" HarvestRoad Managing Director Grame Barty commented.
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| Easy-to-use Tool |
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Articulate Releases "Engage" |
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New York (NY, USA) October 2006 - Articulate today announced the launch of
Articulate Engage, an easy-to-use tool that allows anyone to create
compelling learning interaction with stunning visual quality, all without
the need for expensive design or programming.
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| Satisfied |
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Miles & More with ForceTen |
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Nashua (NH, USA), October 2006 - The German-based airline Lufthansa is
satisfied with the results of its deployment of Eedo’s Learning Content
Management System, ForceTen, to improve the training of its Miles & More
customer service staff around the world.
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| Participation |
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New Understanding of Knowledge |
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Berlin (Germany), October 2006 - "Knowledge is not a product but a
process", says George Siemens, the Canadian eLearning expert and keynote
speaker at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2006. He invites the attendees to help
"build" his conference keynote speech by contributing their ideas and
thoughts on a special wiki site.
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| Non-Profit |
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eLearning for Foster Parents |
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Sunrise (FL, USA), October 2006 – More than 5,500 foster parents across the
State of New Jersey will receive online, at-home training with the
LearnCenter Workforce Productivity Suite by Learn.com® as early as next
year.
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| Simulation |
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Award-winning SITCOM |
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Krems (Austria), October 2006 – Have you ever wanted to experience a
typical day in the life of a landscape engineer or network admin? With
SITCOM, it’s easy - for girls.
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| m-ICTE 06 |
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Robotics and Virtual Participation |
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Seville (Spain), October 2006 - The IV International Conference on
Multimedia and ICTs in Education will be held in Seville, Spain from 29
November to 2 December 2006. m-ICTE2006 is an international forum in Spain
whose goal is to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new
technologies applied in learning and teaching from an academic and
corporate point of view.
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UK Lifelong Learning in Berlin |
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Berlin (Germany), October 2006 - ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2006, International
Conference for Technology-Supported Learning and Training, is offering a
pre-conference forum focusing on "Lifelong Learning - Policy and Practice
in the UK" on Wednesday, November 29. The forum will include presentations
from a range of UK agencies influencing lifelong-learning policy and
provision, as well as case studies that detail the practical impact of
these initiatives on important sectors of the economy.
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| Africa and Middle East |
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Part 4 of MEDA-ETE to Giunti |
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Sestri Levante (Italy), October 2006 - Giunti Labs has been assigned
component 4 of the EU Project MEDA-ETE "Education and Training for
Employment" for introducing eLearning into African and Middle East /
Mediterranean countries.
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| EU Project |
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ECTEL ‘06 - Innovative Approaches |
 Crete
(Greece), October 2006 – (by Peter Dolog) ECTEL 2006, The First
European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, brought together
experts in the field of technology-enhanced learning near Heraklion on the
island of Crete from October 1-4, 2006. The conference addressed topics
such as Collaborative Learning, Personalized Learning, Multimedia Content,
Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning, Workplace Learning, Learning
Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning, Experience Reports,
Assessment, and Case Studies.
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| Show and Tell |
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Second Call for Papers |
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Amman (Jordan), October 2006 - The Second International Conference on
"Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning" to be held at Princess
Sumaya University for Technology in Amman, Jordan, 18–20 April 2007, has
issued a second call for papers.
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| UK Highlight |
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World of Learning 2006 on November 14 and 15 |
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Birmingham (UK), October 2006 -World of Learning 2006, the UK’s key
conference and exhibition for business learning, will attract the
country’s top training professionals when it convenes at the NEC,
Birmingham on 14 and 15 November, 2006.
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| Orientation |
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Survey Finds: eLearning Obstacles Can Be High |
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Bonn (Germany), October 2006 - eUser, a Europe-wide survey of citizen needs
and preferences related to lifelong learning and eLearning funded by the EU
has established that two people in three who have done an eLearning course
are satisfied with the experience.
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