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OutStart and Eedo Knowledgeware Merge |
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Boston, MA (USA), July 2008 – OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp.
have combined their operations, making the new company the largest
provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge
through learning and social collaboration. The merged company, conducting
business as OutStart, immediately becomes the dominant vendor of
learning-content-management systems (LCMS).
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| Investment |
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China Distance Education registers for IPO |
 New York, NY (USA), July
2008 - China Distance Education Holdings Ltd., a provider of online
education and test preparation courses, plans an initial public offering
of American Depositary Shares, according to a Securities and Exchange
Commission filing. The Beijing-based company did not disclose the expected
size or price range of its IPO, but indicated that the offering price may
total up to $115 million. China Distance Education noted, however, that
the estimated total offering price may change.
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| SIMPLExity |
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IMC Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner |
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Saarbruecken (GER), July 2008 – IMC AG, a leading European provider of
learning technologies has announced that it has been positioned in the
Visionaries Quadrant of the 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate
Learning Systems (CLS). The Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a
particular market segment according to their completeness of vision and
their ability to execute that vision.
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| Luminosity |
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New eLearning-Creation Platform |
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Gloucestershire (UK), July 2008 - Luminosity, a novel Learning-creation
platform that heralds a new direction in eLearning development, has
recently been launched. The solution is a product of the CM Group,
specialists in learning content and consultancy.
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| Giunti Labs |
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HarvestRoad Hive Eases Content Migration Issues |
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Sestri Levante (I), July 2008 - A software system – HarvestRoad Hive from
learning and mobile content-management-technology provider, Giunti Labs -
is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to
save both time and manpower as they make information more readily
available to users.
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| Experience |
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Establishment of IT Colleges in Kurdistan |
.gif) Graz (A), July 2008 - The
Ministry of Education of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq has
commissioned bit media eLearning solution GmbH with the establishment of
IT colleges in three cities in Kurdistan. The project comprises general
consulting, development of curricula, development and delivery of learning
material, and teacher education. It was started in March 2006 and is
ongoing. This article summarizes impressions of bit media’s experts.
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| Blackboard Connect |
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Communities to Get Improved eLearning Systems |
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Las Vegas, NV (USA), July 2008 - Blackboard Inc., a provider of enterprise
technology, has announced several new agreements with clients that will
bring its eLearning solutions and mass-notification services to a number
of state and system-wide communities.
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| Full-service Offering |
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Best Global Partner by Harvard Business Publishing |
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Basel (CH), July 2008 - BRIDGE2THINK Group, with headquarters in Basel and
activities in Europe, Asia, and Australia, has been named "Best Global
Partner" by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) in Boston for the third time
in a row. In addition, the management-development vendor also received the
award as most successful HBP partner in Europe.
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| Running on iPhone |
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Trainer1 Offers the Latest in Mobile Learning Technology |
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London (UK), July 2008 - Trainer1, the vendor-neutral eLearning specialist
that has become the UK’s only authorised training centre and re-seller for
the authoring tool ToolBook, has revealed that the tool’s producer -
SumTotal Systems – is about to release ToolBook 9.5. Trainer1’s Neil
Lasher explained: "The launch of ToolBook 9 some fourteen months ago saw a
major change in the product. Among other things, it became a 32-bit
product, with an improved user interface."
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| On Demand |
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UK University Lectures via iTunes |
 London (UK)/ Dublin
(IE), July 2008 - University College London, the Open University, and
Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures on to iTunes. Educational
content is already available in the United States through the non-charging
"iTunes U" section of the music-downloading service. But European
universities are now joining, providing video and audio material for
students to use on iPods or computers. The service will include recordings
of lectures from leading academics.
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| The ROI Academy™ |
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National Occupational Standards for Management |
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London (UK), July 2008 - The ROI Academy™ has licensed the National
Occupational Standards for Management to use in conjunction with its
leading-edge training-evaluation tool, the Performance Pound™. The ROI
Academy™'s Performance Pound™ web tool assesses and tracks performance
against a set of up to 36 metrics that form the ideal attributes of a role
or team.
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Barcelona (E), July 2008 - BME Global presents TME 08, the fourth annual
European Talent Management Conference, October 1-2, 2008, in Amsterdam.
TME 08 will dig deep into leading talent-management strategies by
including even more extended international case studies, interactive
sessions, focused workshops, and head-on problem-solving debates than ever
before.
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| ALT-C 2008 |
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"Rethinking the Digital Divide" |
 Yorkshire (UK), July 2008 - Yorkshire and Humberside’s Digital 2010
partnership for improving digital skills is one of the major sponsors of
ALT-C 2008, the UK Association for Learning Technology’s annual
international conference. This year’s conference will be held at the
University of Leeds, Yorkshire from 9-11 September; the conference theme
is "Rethinking the Digital Divide".
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| Call for entries |
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The Prestigious IT Training Awards 2009 |
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Coventry (UK), July 2008 - The Institute of IT Training (IITT) has
announced the call for entries for the IT Training industry's most
prestigious awards event, the IT Training Awards 2009 sponsored by the
British Computer Society (BCS).
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