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Milton Keynes (UK) / Sestri Levante (IT) – The European learning industry
is repositioning itself. The former eLearning Industry Group (eLIG) has
become the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). This is more than a
cosmetic change: it reflects a major shift in the marketplace. ELIG will
be co-chaired and led by Intel and Giunti Labs.
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| One Million Users |
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Fronter for All Schools in London |
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Oslo (NO), June 2007 - The signing of the contract in the British embassy
in Oslo this Tuesday confirmed the decision to implement Fronter as the
official learning platform for the City of London. The contract partner,
London Grid for Learning LGfL, is a consortium of 33 local authorities in
London with the task of providing London’s 2584 schools and their one
million pupils with the best digital content, ICT infrastructure, and
their own Learning platform: London Managed Learning Environment (London
MLE).
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| Comartis AG |
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Reto Schilliger is New Vice President of Marketing & Sales |
 Baar (CH), June 2007 – Reto Schillinger has joined Comartis
AG, a Swiss provider of individual eLearning, eBusiness, and eMarketing
solutions as its new Vice President Marketing & Sales. In this function,
Mr. Schilliger will expand Comartis’ marketing and sales activities in
Europe and the U.S.
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| ManageMentor® 10 |
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New Release within a Media-rich, Interactive Design |
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Cambridge, MA (US), June 2007 - Harvard Business School Publishing has
announced Harvard ManageMentor® 10, the new version of its flagship online
management resource. Presented within a media-rich, interactive design, the
tool can be used both as on-demand help and also as an eLearning program.
Harvard ManageMentor 10 features more than forty modules with practical
advice, downloadable tools, and time-saving tips on key management topics
to build skills quickly for an immediate impact on performance.
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| Collaborative Elements |
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Wimba Announces Integration with Moodle |
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New York, NY (US), June 2007 – Wimba, the education technology company
that helps people teach people, has announced that its collaborative
software for online education now integrates with Moodle, an Open Source
virtual learning environment. Integration with Moodle simplifies
institutional deployment of Wimba’s rich collaborative technologies and
reduces training and support for faculty. Wimba has invested in Moodle
integration to assist its clients drive adoption of education technology.
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| Language Diversity |
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Global Campus 21 Interface Now Also in Chinese |
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Bonn (GER), June 2007 - A Chinese user interface is now available on the
Global Campus 21 (GC21). It is another addition to the wide diversity of
languages, which already include German, English, French, Russian, Arabic
and - on a partner platform - Vietnamese. InWent, the developer, is
planning to introduce a Portuguese version soon, too.
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| Pan-European eLearning |
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Translation Deal Promises to Bring Down Borders |
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Oslo (NO), June 2007 - Europe’s business trainers will be able to deliver
local-language eLearning courses to international staff at the touch of a
button thanks to a new partnership just sealed between enterprise
eLearning software specialists Mohive and translation experts
LanguageWire.
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| Change in Leadership |
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New Chairman of Eurofactor’s Management Board |
 Issy les Moulineaux (FR),
June 2007 – Jean-Pierre Vauzanges has been appointed Chairman of
Eurofactor’s Management Board. Eurofactor, a subsidiary of Crédit
Agricole, is one of France's leading factoring companies and the foremost
integrated factoring network in Europe.
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| Strategic Partnership |
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Business Communications and Culture Training Unite |
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Brisbane, CA (US) / London (UK), June 2007 – GlobalEnglish Corporation and
Transnational Management Associates Limited (TMA) recently announced a
strategic partnership. GlobalEnglish® is one of the leading online English
learning and support service providers for business communication. TMA is a
global leader in training programs and eLearning solutions. It focuses on
the challenges of managing and communicating across borders in the complex
21st-century workplace.
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| Remote Learning |
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ESC Lille Announces Partnership with Crossknowledge |
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Paris (FR), June 2007 – Leading French business school the Lille School of
Management (ESC Lille) has teamed up with one of the European leaders in
eLearning solutions, Crossknowledge, to provide students with a selection
of online, remote distance-learning courses in business and management
fundamentals. The courses will be available to all graduate and
postgraduate students.
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| Virtual Guide |
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Interactive Romania Launched |
 Bucharest (RO), June 2007
– (by Elena Lita) Shortly before the start of the Romanian National
Testing Session, INTUITEXT, the eContent Solutions Division of the
Romanian company SOFTWIN, has launched Geografika - Interactive Romania,
the first virtual Guide of Romania and the easiest way to discover the
country for school children and everyone else. Sorin Guleac, INTUITEXT’s
Educational Commercial Manager, was kind enough to speak to us about their
new product.
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| Student's Demands |
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'E-word' Being Heard by Teachers |
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Brisbane (AU), June 2007 – Teenage students are demanding that education
and training institutes provide them with a choice about what, where,
when, and how they learn. Providing good libraries, canteens, and social
facilities is becoming less important than giving students access to new
technologies such as wikis, blogs, and mobile learning.
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| Sultanate of Oman |
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Concrete Steps towards Modernizing Education |
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Muscat (OM), June 2007 – The Department of Private Schools in the Sultanate
of Oman’s Ministry of Education recently held a seminar at Muscat College
in cooperation with Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS) and Matrix
Information Technology to enhance K-12 education: new educational
technologies. The seminar was divided into Arabic and English sessions.
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Changing the World of Learning |
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London (UK), June 2007 – Since being made available to the public, the
first version of the Kaleidoscope Vision Statement has already had
significant impact in the field of TEL. Currently it is informing input
into a governmental report on "future learning" in the UK. In addition, it
has attracted the attention of the organisers of the 2008 Networked
Learning conference, who are interested in a keynote presentation
concerning the iterative and highly collaborative process the Network
undertook for the Statement’s creation and the challenges it faced.
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| EC-TEL 2007 |
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European Forum on Technology-Enhanced Learning |
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Crete (GR), June 2007 – The second European Conference on
Technology-Enhanced Learning will take place on the Greek island of Crete
from 17-20 September 2007. The conference title is "Creating New Learning
Experiences on a Global Scale".
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| eLearn 2007 |
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International eLearning Summit in Canada |
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Quebec City (CA), June 2007 – The "World Conference on eLearning in
Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education" is an
international event organized by the Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education (AACE). It is co-sponsored by the International
Journal on eLearning. The gathering will take place in Quebec City, Canada
from 15-19 October 2007.
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