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Official Launch of the European Qualifications Framework |
 Brussels (BE),
December 2007 - The new European Qualifications Framework (EQF) will act
as a translation device between national qualifications systems in Europe.
This will help employers and educational establishments across the
Continent compare and better understand the qualifications presented by
individuals. The core of the EQF system is its eight reference levels,
covering the span from basic to the highest-level qualifications.
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"Education Can Be Open" |
Barcelona (Spain) / Cambridge, MA (USA), December 2007 – (by Manuel
Aineto) Vijay Kumar is working on the interface between technology and
education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is
Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology. He attended the recent
University Campus Workshop in Barcelona, where the future of open content
universities was debated, and in the following, Mr. Kumar shares his
vision on how students, researchers, and teachers can take advantage of
the new initiatives in relation to digital technologies. Descended from
several generations of musicians, he explains passionately the way
technology will assist other fields such as transportation, medicine, or
communications in the future.
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| Release 5.0 |
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Mohive Celebrates Its eLearning Publishing System |
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Oslo (N), December 2007 – Mohive has just released the latest version of
its enterprise rapid eLearning solution Mohive 5.0 eLearning Publishing
System. During a road show series in London, Oslo, and Munich, Mohive
demonstrated the enhanced workflow features and other capabilities
designed to increase functionality and usability as more people become
involved in the process of course development.
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| Doctoral Programme |
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E-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning |
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Lancaster (UK), December 2007 - In January 2008, the Centre for Studies in
Advanced Learning Technology, Department of Educational Research,
Lancaster University, UK, launches a new structured, part-time Doctoral
Programme in E-Research and Technology- Enhanced Learning. This innovative
programme combines a limited number of face-to-face residential meetings
with considerable online learning and will be available to anyone in the
world wishing to develop eLearning research and practice.
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| Feel the Difference |
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LINE Helps Ford Communicate Brand Strategy |
 London (UK),
December 2007 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and
communications solutions, has announced its delivery of media-rich
interactive eLearning program to Ford to communicate the company’s new
brand strategy to 20,000 European internal staff members. The ‘Feel the
difference’ brand strategy is central to Ford’s future in Europe, and they
wanted to ensure the program communicated this message in a credible but
engaging way to a diverse and multi-lingual audience.
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| Student Registration |
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Iona Technologies Connects Belgian Schools
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Dublin (IE), December 2007 - More than 3,000 schools throughout Belgium
will be using Irish software firm Iona’s open source technology to deploy
a centralised student-registration system after being chosen by the
Belgian Ministry for Education. Iona will be providing distributed
service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure in the form of its FUSE
ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), which will be integrated with various
applications and databases to provide real-time registration for over one
million students.
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Second Life as an eLearning
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Sony Ericsson Deploys Eedo's LCMS |
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Nashua, NH (USA), December 2007 – ForceTen™, Eedo's learning content
management system (LCMS) has been chosen by Sony Ericsson to develop and
disseminate learning content to thousands of employees, customers, call
centers, and repair centers worldwide. ForceTen is used to transfer
knowledge to stakeholders in more than forty languages for improved
employee productivity and customer satisfaction.
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| World of Learning |
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Auralog Offers Blended Solution of the Year |
 Birmingham
(UK)/Montigny-le-Bretonneux(F), December 2007 - Auralog-TELL ME MORE® has
further strengthened their reputation as a leader in innovative eLearning
solutions. The TELL ME MORE® corporate portal has been awarded the Blended
Solution of the Year Award as part of the World of Learning Conference and
Exhibition 2007.
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| Project Report |
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eLearning-Quality for SMEs |
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Lisbon (PT), December 2007 – (by Vanda Vieira, CECOA) During the
last two years, seven European organisations have been working on the
quality of eLearning targeted to SMEs. Under the coordination of CECOA,
the Portuguese Vocational Training Centre for the Trade and Service
Industry, the partnership developed products targeted at European SME
entrepreneurs, training providers, training consultants, and social
partners. In a final conference in Lisbon, the project findings were
published and discussed.
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Brainvisa Launches RapideL-i |
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Jersey City, NJ (USA), December 2007 - RapideL-i is an internet-based,
rapid eLearning content authoring platform that allows true server-based
collaborative development at anytime and from anywhere. Multiple users can
now log on together and work simultaneously to create engaging eLearning at
the speed of business. The new version is set to deliver an intuitive
end-user experience coupled with a global support plan.
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| Launch |
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HALO – a Ubiquitous Desktop Learning Widget |
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Fremont, CA (USA), December 2007 - Emantras, a digital education and
performance- enhancement company specializing in content creation and
delivery technologies, has announced the launch of its latest innovation –
HALO Highly Accessible Learning Objects. It is a new enterprise
learning-enablement approach that drives training materials and critical
corporate messaging directly to employees’ desktops.
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| Vivid Discussions |
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Thirteenth Online Educa Conference: Wrap-up Report |
 Berlin (GER), December 2007 – "Online Educa continues to go
from strength to strength" pointed out Dr. Harold Elletson of the New
Security Foundation, UK when he was opening the conference. Web 2.0
technologies have changed the world of learning but the question remains
whether it is a blessing or a threat. Comments by speakers and
participants alike made it is clear that the new technologies open
unprecedented opportunities. However an issue that generated heated debate
throughout the conference was how to manage the flood of information and
content web 2.0 has brought us.
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| Open Source |
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First OLAT Users & Developers Conference |
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Zurich (CH), December 2007 – The call for papers is now open for the first
OLAT Online Learning and Training conference which takes place 26 – 28
March 2008 at the University of Zurich. OLAT is a web-based open source
Learning Management System (LMS) based on Java and is completely free of
charge. The aim of the first OLAT Users & Developers Conference is to
bring together all current OLAT users, developers, and translators to
present best-practice use cases, exchange experience, and discuss current
issues.
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Course and Seminar Evaluation with EvaSys 3.1 |
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Lüneburg (GER), December 2007 - Electric Paper has just presented the new
version 3.1 of its evaluation system EvaSys. It is based on highly
developed data-acquisition techniques and internet technology and enables
fast and effective course evaluations. The software solution supports all
phases of evaluation: from the design of the questionnaires, the mass
generation of paper or online surveys, and the scanning process to the
direct feedback.
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| Free Resources |
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Romanian Schools Join Think.com Community |
 Bucharest (RO), December 2007 – (by
Elena Lita) Oracle has implemented Rumania’s first nation-wide
educational programme dedicated to students aged between nine and eighteen
years. Think.com is a free web-based environment for primary and secondary
students and teachers and is designed to assist schools with the
implementation and use of state-of-the-art technology for educational
purposes. At the end of November, 1,600 teachers across the country,
including all areas of specialization, attended training courses on using
the Think.com programme.
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| Learning Environment |
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Meeting in Real and Virtual Worlds |
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Coventry (UK), December 2007 - Coventry University has collaborated with
Cisco® and Giunti Labs to create a highly innovative learning environment
that blends mobile learning and virtual-learning-worlds technologies. The
University wanted to help give its Serious Games Institute (SGI) a
technology platform on which to build a digital model of the campus
building so that students’ movements in both the real building and its
virtual reconstruction trigger location-based access to learning content
and experiences. This means that content can be pushed to students by the
most suitable method for their location and the device they are using.
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| Basic Skills |
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Closing the Digital Divide with E-Learning |
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Lustmühle (CH), December 2007 - While eLearning has become a standard in
language and professional training, much of its potential for the delivery
of Basic Skills remains yet to be unlocked. The Swiss eLearning specialist
Avallain has started an open source initiative to create Basic Skills
content and technology for the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project and is
inviting interested parties to participate in the effort.
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