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1,500 Teachers Will Learn to Create Educational Software |
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Bucharest (RO), October 2009 - (by Elena Lita) The Romanian Ministry
of Education and Research has launched the "The Teacher - Educational
Software Developer" strategic project that is to be implemented between
September 2009 - September 2011 (24 months). The target of the project is
three million pupils around the country.
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| UK Pilot |
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First Nationwide Visualiser-Seeding Project |
 London (UK), October
2009 - Elmo UK is piloting the first nationwide visualiser- seeding
project in the UK. Over three hundred schools are currently testing Elmo
Visualisers in their classrooms for a ten-week period to see how it aids
teaching primary and secondary-school children in a range of subjects.
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| Awards |
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Rapid eLearning Tools Honored in Three Categories |
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Corona, CA (USA), October 2009 - Elearning! and Government Elearning!
magazines, the industry voices of the eLearning market have announced the
finalists of the Best of Elearning! Awards. Readers and professionals from
both the private and public sector cast ballots for the best eLearning
solutions providers across sixteen product categories.
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| Acknowledgement |
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Honorary Life Membership of ALT Awarded |
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Oxford (UK), October 2009 – Professor David Hawkridge of The Open
University and University of Leicester has been awarded an Honorary Life
Membership in the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) for his
outstanding contributions to the field of learning technology.
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| Client Managers |
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LINE Pilots "Flying Classrooms" for Swiss Re |
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Zurich (CH), October 2009 - LINE, provider of learning and communications
solutions, has announced the global roll-out of a new programme of sales
refresher training developed for client managers at Swiss Re following
successful pilots in Switzerland and Hong Kong.
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| Mobile Learning |
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Boosting the Quality of Education in Nigeria and Ghana |
 Boston, MA (USA),
October 2009 - A technology triumvirate consisting of ABJAD, a
Jordan-based mobile-information publisher; AD-CONNECT, a Nigerian
high-tech consultancy; and OutStart Inc., maker of Hot Lava Mobile
software, will launch a pilot project to turn the mobile devices carried
by 150,000 Ghanaian and Nigerian students into a platform for publishing,
delivering, and tracking multimedia learning content.
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| Regional Initiative |
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Giunti Labs Takes the Lead with TRIO |
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Sestri Levante (IT), October 2009 - Giunti Labs, a vendor of
learning-content-management solutions and digital-repository platforms, is
leading a consortium of companies appointed to re-engineer the
learning-content production and delivery infrastructure of Training
Research Innovation and (job) Orientation (TRIO), the web learning system
of Italy’s Tuscany region.
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| Ovum Comment |
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Cisco Sets its Sights on Tanberg |
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London (UK), October 2009 - "Cisco is offering approximately $3 billion for
Tandberg stock, an eleven percent premium on the latest trading price and a
three times multiple of revenues." Richard Mahony and David Molony wrote
this commentary at the advisory and consulting firm Ovum.
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| Labour Market |
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Blue Eskimo’s 2009 Salary and Work Survey |
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Bromsgrove (UK), October 2009 - Blue Eskimo, a recruitment company for the
training and eLearning industries, has just launched its annual salary and
work survey. The survey is run in conjunction with the eLearning
publication e.learning age magazine.
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| Letter from UK |
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Grasping at equality |
 London
(UK), October 2009 - (by Bob Little) SkillSoft PLC has announced the
results of a survey of some 1,800 learners which shows that some 70 per
cent of them consider SkillSoft’s Live Learning virtual instructor-led
training (virtual ILT) to be just as effective as conventional ILT.
SkillSoft added that, in support of this belief, 91 per cent of
respondents who participated in Live Learning and later took a
certification exam, passed on their first attempt.
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| Reseller Programme |
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Upside Learning Amplifies its Network |
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Pune (IN), October 2009 - Upside Learning has announced the launch of its
reseller programme for UpsideLMS, the company’s learning-management system
and related services. Upside Learning invites independent organizations and
individual professionals to join to the programme.
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| Compliance Training |
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Kineo Publishes New eLearning Guide |
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Chicago, IL (USA), October 2009 - Compliance training is a critical issue
for today’s organizations. In an increasingly regulated world, designing,
delivering, and tracking compliance training is a key task. To support
organizations in this task, Kineo has published a new guide providing
practical advice on the design of compliance eLearning.
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| Appointment |
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Sam Herring Named Chair-Elect to ASTD Board of Directors |
Seattle, WA (USA), October 2009 - Sam Herring, Co-Founder and Executive
Vice President of Intrepid Learning Solutions, has been selected to serve
as the 2010 chair-elect on the board of directors for the American Society
for Training & Development (ASTD). Mr. Herring joined ASTD’s board in 2008
as a director and will serve for two more years, becoming chair of the
board in 2011.
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| Showcase |
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ELearning: a Key Strategy for Fast-Growing Aviation |
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Melbourne (AU), October 2009 - New funding will help the aviation industry
address workforce development issues arising from its unique position as
being a high-growth, yet operationally driven and highly regulated,
industry. To meet these challenges, the sector has identified the need for
a whole-of-industry quality approach to learning that aligns with
nationally accredited qualifications and provides much-needed flexibility
for an operationally driven workforce.
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| BalticStudyNet |
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Promoting Baltic Sea Region Higher Education Worldwide |
 Riga (LV), October 2009
– From 12 – 14 November 2009, an international conference is being held at
the University of Latvia in Riga as the closing event of the Erasmus
Mundus-project BalticStudyNet. The gathering will evaluate the project’s
promotional and informational measures.
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| Cedefop |
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Reports from Two Recent Conferences |
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Thessaloniki (GR), October 2009 – Cedefop, the European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training, has reported the results of two recent
conferences – one on "Qualifications for lifelong learning and
employability" (05-06 October 2009) and the other - in the form of a
publication - on "Sharing the costs of training in the newer EU Member
States" (15-16 October 2009).
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| Restoration Sector |
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News from the European eLearning project RESELTAM |
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Istanbul (TR), October 2009 - The outcomes of RESELTAM will be presented at
the International Arts and Restoration Fair of Florence, 29 – 31 October,
2009. The conclusions will be shared at the Final Dissemination Conference
"RESELTAM: eLearning for Craftsmen in the Restoration, Conservation and
Building Sector", 30 October 2009, from 4:30 - 6:30 pm.
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| Debate |
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Can New Learning Technologies Boost Renewal? |
 Paris (FR), October 2009
- The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) is bringing the debate on the
role of knowledge and learning solutions in ensuring sustainable economic
recovery to Online Educa Berlin in the form of a pre-conference workshop
entitled "Moving beyond the crisis powered by knowledge and learning
solutions - what is the NEXT practice". Management of change and
innovation will eventually lead us out of the crisis; knowledge and
learning technology have the potential to provide the engine for
accelerating and enhancing this process.
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| Competence |
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Professional Training Facts Conference 2009 |
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Stuttgart (GER), October 2009 - Turbulent markets make it necessary for
companies to adapt to new demands in a rapid way. Intelligent
organisational and personnel development play a central role in coping
with this strategic management task. Professional Training Facts 2009 is
being held at Fraunhofer IZS in Stuttgart, 17 - 18 November 2009.
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| Contribute |
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eLearning Africa 2010 – Call for Papers Now Open |
 Lusaka (ZM), October
2009 - eLearning Africa has announced that next year’s conference, the
fifth in the series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in the
Zambian capital, Lusaka. The Continent’s largest annual assembly of
eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene
26–28 May 2010.
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| Digital Identity |
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Personal Data it’s Ours! |
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London (UK), October 2009 - The challenging statement "Personal data it’s
ours!" will be discussed 20 – 22 January 2010 at the next Mobility,
Individualisation, Socialisation, Connectivity (MISC) Conference. It will
be explored how digitised personal data records now play a central role in
everyday life, from the record of a birth at a hospital to the delivery of
a death certificate at the registrar.
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| Networking |
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EXPOELEARNING 2010 in Madrid and Lima |
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Madrid (ES), October 2009 – The ninth edition of EXPOELEARNING will take
place on 24 - 25 February 2010 in IFEMA of Madrid, one of Europe’s most
important fair centres. EXPOELEARNING will have a conferences programme of
high educational value that will deal with the new applications of and
viewpoints toward eLearning.
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