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OPITO’s IMIST Becomes Safety Standard |
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Houston, TX (USA), March 2012 - For the first time, OPITO, in cooperation
with the oil and gas industry, has developed an online global standardized
level of basic safety training that will reach an estimated 1.5 million
people employed in exploration and production activities of oil and gas
worldwide.
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| Increase in 2012 |
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eLearning Barometer: CrossKnowledge Presents the Results |
 London (UK), March 2012
– The results of the first barometer on the use of eLearning in Europe,
conducted by CrossKnowledge and Ipsos, shed light on the place of
eLearning within training strategies, giving a better understanding of its
application. They further confirm the growing use of eLearning in the
countries studied.
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| Code Free |
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Creating Apps with Rich Content |
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Barcelona (ES), March 2012 – The Spanish company Aquafadas has made its
Digital Publishing System compatible with its HTML5 animation-creation
application MotionComposer.
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| ICT in Education |
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UNESCO eLearning Tools |
 Bangkok (TH), March 2012
– The UNESCO office in Bangkok has released a collection of eLearning tools
aimed at high school students, university students, educators, and teacher
trainers as part of UNESCO's ICT in Education Teacher Training Series.
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| Free Reading |
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eBooks Made Simple |
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London (UK), March 2012 - Bookboon.com is turning the US book market upside
down with free eBooks. In 2012, Bookboon.com aims to reach a market share
of over ten percent in the USA.
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| Certification |
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COLF Celebrates Its First Birthday |
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Coventry (UK), March 2012 - Launched in January 2011 by The Learning and
Performance Institute (LPI), the Certified Online Learning Facilitator
(COLF) course has enjoyed unprecedented success, with hundreds of trainers
achieving the certification in the last twelve months.
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| Bring On Video! |
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TechSmith Introduces New Versions of Snagit |
 Okemos, MI (USA), March 2012 –
Packed with the easy-to-use yet powerful screen-capture and recording
functionality, TechSmith has released Snagit 11 for Windows and Snagit 2
for Mac. Both versions provide users with the ability to communicate ideas
faster and more effectively.
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| Results Assessment |
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Evaluation of Leadership Development Programmes |
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Basingstoke (UK), March 2012 - A survey on the evaluation of
leadership-development programmes reveals confusion among
learning-and-development professionals when it comes to the use and value
of evaluation in measuring the impact of people-development initiatives.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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A potential Solution to HR Evaluation Challenges |
 London
(UK), March 2012 - (by Bob Little) Results assessment specialist
Ceres Management – which aims to enable clients to use the evidence of
business results to make sound decisions about ongoing investments in
people development - has launched a new approach to evaluation that:
defines what business success looks like; aligns evaluation goals with
business needs; focuses evaluation around clear performance needs; defines
success indicators, especially for behavioural outcomes, and is easy to
apply and administer.
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| Social Media |
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MindLeaders Launches Online Marketing Training App |
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London (UK), March 2012 - eLearning company MindLeaders has released a new
training app for businesses on Facebook. Developed in cooperation with
Facebook, the app shows how to succeed in building brand awareness through
word-of-mouth marketing on the social network.
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Latest Contributions to ODL Online Debate |
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Oslo (NO) / Paris (FR) - Presentations on the status of open and distance
learning in India and Brazil are the latest contributions to this
ICDE-convened online discussion on the UNESCO/ World Bank Group infoDev
sponsored Educational Technology Debate portal.
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| Online Courses |
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Free Guides for Learning Design |
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Bristol (UK), March 2012 - Developing great online learning is driven by
great design. WillowDNA is currently publishing five free guides to help
learning professionals to plan, develop, and launch online learning in
just five days.
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| Language Learning |
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goFLUENT Enters Mobile Market |
 Geneva (CH), March 2012 - goFLUENT, a provider of
business English via distance learning has launched its Business English
Training iPhone app. This app, which has been approved by Apple and is now
available on Apple’s App Store, is the mobile version of its eLearning
portal for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.
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| Health and Nutrition |
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Virtual College Helps Tackle the Child Obesity Epidemic |
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Ilkley (UK), March 2012 - Virtual College has introduced a brand-new online
course aimed at helping tackle the obesity epidemic among young children.
"Right from the Start with HENRY" has been developed to provide parents
and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their
family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.
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| Serious Games |
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Military Training with Virtual Technology |
 London (UK), March 2012
- A NATO-commissioned serious game is the first of its kind to be
scheduled for large-scale deployment on Android and iOS mobile devices. It
will be used by military personnel in operational areas throughout the
world.
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| Higher Education |
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UK College Chooses Enterprise Study |
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Cheltenham (UK), March 2012 - Leeds City College, the third-largest
further-education college in the UK, is now using Enterprise Study eLMS.
The college has implemented Enterprise Study eLMS to better manage their
learning and development programme for approximately 1,700 internal staff.
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| Enter History |
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Put the Past in the Palm of Your Hand |
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Paris (FR), March 2012 – Time travel on your iPhone or iPod touch with the
murderers, gravediggers, and celebrity photographers of Time Traveler
Tours. These tours combine the traditional power of storytelling with the
latest in mobile technology to bring history and culture to life.
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eLearning Africa 2012: First Keynote Speakers Confirmed |
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Cotonou (BEN), March 2012 -The world-famous "hole-in-the-wall" experiment
conducted in a New Delhi Slum in 1999 showed the value of minimally
invasive education. The man behind the research, Sugata Mitra, will be a
keynote speaker at eLearning Africa 2012, which will be held 23-25 May in
Cotonou, Benin.
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| Learning Generations |
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Closing the Gap from "Generation Y" to Mature Learners |
 Porto (PT), March 2012 –
This year’s annual conference of EDEN is taking place 06-09 June in Porto,
Portugal. It approaches key questions of learning methodology and
technology by focusing on the "open-learning generations", the contexts of
socially significant target groups: junior and senior eLearners.
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| New Media |
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Join an International Conference on the Bosporus |
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Istanbul (TR), March 2012 – The international New Media Conference (INMC
2012) is being held in Istanbul from 16–18 May 2012. The main goal of this
conference is to present and discuss new trends in science and technology.
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| Swiss Networking |
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Smart Wave - Social Trends in Learning |
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Zurich (CH), March 2012 – eduhub invites participants to the next national
meeting of the Swiss eLearning Community of universities and institutions
of higher education in Switzerland. The meeting, the fourth, takes place
in Murten on 02-03 April.
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| USDLA Conference |
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25 Years - From the Margin to the Mainstream |
 St. Louis, MO (USA), March 2012 - The United
States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) 2012 National Conference
promises an action-packed agenda that brings together distance- learning
practitioners from across the country. This year’s event, being held 29
April-02 May 02 in St. Louis, Missouri, celebrates the organizations 25th
anniversary.
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| Lectora Networking |
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Events in the Heart of Downtown Chicago |
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Cincinnati, OH / Chicago, IL (USA), March 2012 – The 2012 Lectora® User
Conference will host two exclusive networking events at the upcoming
annual eLearning conference, 22-25 May. In Chicago, the Conference Welcome
and Closing Receptions will gather attendees for two exceptional nights of
networking, cocktails, food, and fun surrounding the Conference.
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| Tools |
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International ePortfolio and Identity Conference 2012 |
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London (UK), March 2012 - Should everybody have an ePortfolio? ePIC 2012 is
being held 09–11 July in London; the event will host the ePortfolio World
Summit and celebrate the tenth anniversary of the International ePortfolio
& Identity Conference.
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| International Conference |
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ICT in Natural Science Education |
 Siauliai (LT), March
2012 - Participants are warmly invited to the international scientific
conference "Information & Communication Technology in Natural Science
Education" taking place 07-11 November 2012 in the conference centre of
Siauliai University in Siauliai, Lithuania.
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| Webinar |
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Telltale Signs You Have Outgrown Your LMS |
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Roslyn Heights, NY / Delray Beach, FL (USA), March 2012 - The Brandon Hall
Group and Certpoint present a collective webinar on 15 March 2012 1:00 PM
- 2:00 PM EDT with Scot Lake, Senior Analyst of the Brandon Hall Group.
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