| EU Forecast |
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What Skills Will Europeans Need in the Years to Come? |
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Thessaloniki (GR), March 2008 - CEDEFOP, the European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training, presents its first forecast of skill
needs up to the year 2015. The study "Future skill needs in Europe:
medium-term forecast" concludes that demand for skills and qualifications
is being driven upwards in most occupations, including in so-called
elementary jobs, by the continuing rise of the service sector and sweeping
technological and organisational changes.
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| European Support |
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Small Enterprises Accessing the Open Labour Market |
 Chemnitz (GER), March
2008 - The project SOLE is a Leonardo Transfer-of-Innovations-funded
project that brings placement support to new EU member states and is
targeted towards SMEs and job seekers in foreign countries. The Project’s
aim is to help employers who take on workers, trainees, and students from
other European countries. From October 2007 until October 2009, the three
partners, Interminds LLC, Bulgaria, ROC Midden, the Netherlands, and
Community4you GmbH, Germany will carry out the project.
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| Project Findings |
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Public and Private Funding in Higher Education |
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Hannover (GER), March 2008 –In the past, reports have indicated that social
and financial barriers to participation in higher education exist. The
project "Public / private funding of higher education: a social balance",
co-funded by the European Commission under the Socrates programme,
explored such barriers by examining various approaches to sharing the
teaching-related costs for higher education between the state and
households.
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| IDOL Platform |
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Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden |
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Cambridge (UK) / San Francisco, CA (USA), March 2008 - Autonomy Corporation
plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, has
announced that the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, has selected
its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part of the Swedish
government's initiative to promote research, eLearning, and collaboration
within Sweden's education system.
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| Rapid eLearning |
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Trinity Mirror Deploys Tools from Atlantic Link |
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Nottingham (UK), March 2008 - Rapid eLearning continues to push into new
industry sectors. Atlantic Link, a provider of advanced rapid-eLearning
tools has announced that the Trinity Mirror is the latest organisation to
purchase its Content Point authoring tools, with a view to expanding the
use of eLearning across the company. Trinity Mirror publishes more than
200 regional newspapers, five national titles, and operates more than 300
online brands.
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| Oil and Gas |
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Coastal Training’s Skills Curricula Certified |
 Virginia Beach, VA
(USA), March 2008 - The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only
national trade association that represents all aspects of America’s oil
and natural gas industry. The Institute’s Training Provider Certification
Program provides third-party certification for a variety of oil-and-gas
industry training courses, further ensuring that any training provided
meets industry needs.
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| Australian Reports |
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New eLearning Research Debunks "eMyths" |
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Brisbane, QLB (AUS), March 2008 - The national training system's eLearning
strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework has published three
new reports with some unexpected findings. The research has revealed
"eMyths" about mature-aged workers and technology; the uptake of eLearning
in registered training organisations (RTOs); and why employers are
"eSmitten" with flexible learning.
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| Big Russian Consultant |
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New Acquisition Expands IBS Product Portfolio |
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Moscow (RU), March 2008 - IBS, Russia’s leader in the IT and consulting
market, has announced the purchase of 51 per cent of Learnware Company
Limited, one of Russia’s major developers of systems for distance learning
and the producer of the HyperMethod brand of software and services. This
deal is a logical step forward based on the relationship between the two
companies in a number of projects that involve building distance-learning
systems for Russian higher education institutions. The new acquisition
complements the IBS product portfolio by adding state-of-the-art eLearning
systems.
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| Sixteen Themes |
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Building eLearning Capacities in Africa |
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Accra (GH)/Berlin (GER), March 2008 - eLearning Africa 2008, the third
Pan-African Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training,
will take place from May 28 - 30, 2008 in Accra, Ghana. The conference and
accompanying exhibition are under the patronage of the Ghanaian Minister
for Education, Science and Sports, the Hon. Prof. Dominic K. Fobih. More
than 380 proposals have been received in response to the call for
proposals.
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| First Bremen eLearning Fo |
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Preparing Universities for the Ne(x)t Generation |
 Bremen (GER), March 2008
- The first Bremen eLearning Forum will neither be a conference nor a
convention, but a day-and-a-half occasion for discussing and exploring the
issues faced by European universities in meeting the needs and expectations
of the "Net generation" as well as those of the next generation of
students. The Bremen Forum will take place on April 17th and 18th as part
of the eLene-Teaching and Learning Centre’s activities.
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| New Features |
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San Antonio, TX (USA), March 2008 – From 13 – 16 April 2008, Questionmark
Perception users will gather in San Antonio, Texas to learn the latest
techniques, gain insights, and become familiar with best practices for
developing and delivering surveys, quizzes, tests, and exams. The
Conference will offer thought-provoking keynotes, the latest information
on Perception, best practice sessions, product training sessions, and
experts talking about assessment.
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| Estonian Conference |
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ELearning is Here: Where are You? |
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Tallinn (EE), March 2008 – The Estonian eLearning Development Centre team
invites you to attend its conference, which will take place 3 – 4 April,
2008 in the Estonian Information Technology College conference centre. The
conference is sponsored by the European Social Funds. Part of the
conference is the celebration of the fifth birthday of the Estonian
eUniversity consortium.
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| DIVERSE 2008 |
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Convergence of Video and Online Technologies |
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Haarlem (NL), March 2008 – DIVERSE, Developing Innovative Visual Resources
for Students Everywhere, is the leading conference regarding all aspects
of video and videoconferencing in education, including the convergence of
these technologies with online technologies. Other topics to be covered
are the emergence of new possibilities such as presence production for
learning, interactive television, virtual reality, computer games
techniques, and handheld access to moving images.
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| Call for Papers |
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Second European Conference on Games Based Learning |
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Barcelona (E), March 2008 – Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen of IT University in
Copenhagen, Denmark, is the keynote speaker at the European Conference on
Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2008), which invites researchers, academics,
and professionals from games and education to come together to listen,
discuss, and present their research, points of view, and knowledge. This
is the Conference’s second edition, and it is being hosted by the
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona. Abstracts for papers
need to be received by 27 March 2008.
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