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UN Institute for Training and Research Joins EFQUEL |
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Brussels (BE)/Geneva (CH), May 2009 - Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Vice-President
of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning, welcomed the first UN
body to join the organization’s Network: "That the United Nations
Institute for Training and Research is now a member of the EFQUEL Network
is a big step for our Foundation."
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| User Proximity |
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At the Center of Attention: User Conferences |
 London (UK), May 2009 - USA, Europe, Asia – Eric
Shepherd is always travelling. As CEO of Questionmark, a provider of
software and services for computer assessment, he attends all user
conferences himself to learn about users’ needs first hand. In an
interview with Kirsten Seegmüller, he explains that the behaviour of user
groups differs mainly due to local restrictions rather than to stereotyped
cultural characteristics.
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| Independent Study |
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How to Embrace Full Potential of eLearning? |
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Saarbrücken (GER)/Sevenoaks (UK), May 2009 – An independent study recently
launched by eLearning and advanced-content-solutions provider IMC (UK)
Learning Ltd revealed that although three quarters (74%) of universities
have virtual learning environments (VLE) to support teaching and learning,
only 14% of lecturers publish their recorded lectures on them.
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| Strategic Partnership |
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Top eLearning Group to Help Industry |
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Paris (F)/Berlin (GER), May 2009 - A powerful group of experts has been
appointed by Europe’s top eLearning advocacy group to help modern industry
develop vital skills. Senior executives from IBM, Elsevier, and Cambridge
University Press are to join colleagues from Blackboard, IMD, PAU
Education, Giunti Labs, and Intel on the Executive Committee of the
European Learning Industry Group (ELIG).
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| Change Undone |
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ADL Continues as "Steward of SCORM" |
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Piscataway, NJ (USA), May 2009 – Rather than transfer stewardship to LETSI
(The International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training
Systems Interoperability), the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning
Initiative (ADL) will continue to develop and maintain SCORM and will
assign certain rights to use SCORM to external organizations on a
non-exclusive basis.
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| Letter from UK |
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'Little’s Britain': People problems |
 London
(UK), May 2009 - (by Bob Little) Originally funded by the UK’s
Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Towards Maturity is an e-skills UK
project aimed at helping organisations improve the impact of learning
technologies at work. Intended to discover how employers are making use of
learning technologies, the project currently supports a community of over
1,000 organisations with research , case studies and contributions of from
an ever increasing virtual advisory network.
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| Story-based Learning |
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Improving Security Consciousness |
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London (UK), May 2009 - Information security is critical to the smooth
functioning of British Airways’ business, and creating employee awareness
about information security is a vital organizational requirement. In a
project for BA, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) used its proprietary
Story-based Learning Objects™ (StoBLs™) approach to create a product that
set the learning in the context of a realistic and pertinent narrative.
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| Benchmarking |
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Atlantic Link Certified as a "Top 20% Performer" |
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Waltham, MA/Atlanta, GA (USA), May 2009 - During the recently awarded
General Services Administration contract (GSA), Atlantic Link has been
certified as a "Top 20% Performer" based on the Past Performance
Evaluation (PPE) survey responses of its reference customers. The
evaluation was performed through the Dunn & Bradstreet Open Ratings
Systems Review.
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| Client Perspective |
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Survey Confirms Echelon's Solutions' 'Value for Money' |
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London (UK), May 2009 - Organisation-development specialist Echelon has
received a strong vote of confidence from its customers via the results of
its recent 'Client Survey', which rated the 'effectiveness' and 'value for
money' of Echelon’s solutions particularly highly.
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| Demographic Change |
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ELearning Platform for Age-Diverse Recruitment |
 Vienna (AT), May 2009 –
Due to the youth-oriented hiring policies of enterprises, mature
jobseekers are frequently being excluded from the recruitment process and
stereotyped as being "too old" to do certain jobs. Mature@eu is an
eLearning platform that aims to enable employers or personnel recruiters
to introduce age-diverse recruitment policies and practice.
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| Web Catalogue |
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IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Sponsors |
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Barcelona (ES)/Sestri Levante (IT), May 2009 - The IMS Global Learning
Consortium (IMS GLC) announced at its annual Learning Impact conference
that several of its member organisations have committed to funding the
development of a shared web catalogue of learning resources.
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| Funded Training |
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A Quarter of "Train to Gain" Learners Don't Finish |
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Coventry (UK), May 2009 - Fiona Hudson-Kelly, co-founder of Funded Training
Made Easy, has had a deluge of calls from customers in the recent past who
have just discovered that they are unable to recruit new learners for
their "Train to Gain" contracts because the scheme has run out of funding
for the current financial year.
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| Primary Curriculum |
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Becta Welcomes the Rose Review |
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Coventry (UK), May 2009 – Effective use of technology complements
traditional core skills such as reading and writing, and it also boosts
children’s interest in what they are learning. These are among the
important results of Sir Jim Rose's report "The Independent Review of the
Primary Curriculum".
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| World Bank Study |
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ELearning in Russia's Schools |
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Moscow (RU), May 2009 - So far, the transition to a new economic system has
brought little tangible benefit to Russia's education system.
Disorganisation, underfunding, and a brain drain have made it difficult to
adapt. In this situation, the authorities have launched a major effort to
improve the employment of ICT to foster reform of Russia's education
system and to help it catch up with standard practices in other countries.
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| Accessibility |
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ELearning for the Visually Impaired |
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Dueren (GER), May 2009 - The Consortium for ELearning Accessibility (C4EA)
is an EC-funded project to improve the accessibility of eLearning services
and products for blind and visually impaired people. The CD ROM with all
project results can now be ordered from one of the project partners.
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| New Markets |
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Sharing the eLearning Experience in Malaysia |
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Kuala Lumpur (MY), May 2009 – To support the development of eLearning in
Asia, the corporate training and development provider Comfori is currently
organizing the Asia eLearning Conference 2009. To be held on 13 and 14 July
2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it provides a platform for public and
private sectors to deliver and share knowledge and experience on issues
pertaining to eLearning.
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| ED-Media Conference |
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Global Perspective on Learning and Technology |
 Honolulu, HI (USA), May
2009 - ED-Media, the World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia and Telecommunications, is an international conference
organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
(AACE). In 2009 it is being hosted by the University of Hawaii and takes
place from 22-26 June.
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| EISTA 2009 |
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Joining Research on Education and ICT |
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Orlando, FL (USA), May 2009 – The seventh International Conference on
Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA)
takes place in the context of the third International Multi-Conference on
Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics (IMSCI 2009) from 10-13 July 2009 in
Orlando, Florida, USA.
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| Keynote |
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Martin Bean to Speak at ALT-C 2009 |
Manchester (UK), May 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology has
announced a third keynote speaker for its 2009 conference. The conference
title is "In Dreams Begins Responsibility - choice, evidence, and change";
it will take place at the University of Manchester, UK from 8-10 September
2009.
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| ePortfolio 2009 |
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Innovation, Creativity, and Accountability |
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London (UK), May 2009 - London will welcome the seventh international
ePortfolio conference from 22-24 June. This event is an opportunity to
explore the progress accomplished towards the "ePortfolio for all" goal -
for which a number of national and regional policies have already started
to emerge - and set the agenda for 2010 and the years to come.
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