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Giving UK Communities a Say over Learning |
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London (UK), May 2012 – The British Government has announced a pilot scheme
that will give people a say in decisions about their local adult-learning
courses and bring better value for money for taxpayers. The Government is
planning to select between ten and fifteen Community Learning Trust pilots
that will begin work in August 2012.
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| Free Assessment Trial |
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Balance Learning Demonstrates the ez in ez360 |
 Stroud (UK), May 2012 -
Balance Learning Ltd. is offering a free trial of its assessment tool
ez360 that allows organisations to test its effectiveness with up to five
candidates. The ez360 assessment tool is used by organisations to provide
employees with targeted feedback generally based on organisational
competencies that helps them with performance improvement.
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| Skills Development |
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Free eLearning for National Learning at Work Day |
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Stroud (UK), May 2012 - The Corporate eLearning Consortium is supporting
National Learning at Work Day on 17 May by making its entire eLearning
suite of more than 180 courses complimentary for the week. The day is part
of the UK’s Adult Learners’ Week.
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| 'Little’s Britain' |
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Assessing learning technology predictions |
 London
(UK), May 2012 - (by Bob Little) Making predictions is fun because
you can do so in the fairly safe knowledge that no one will remember them.
So you can say what you like because you’ll never be held to account for
them. So I was delighted to discover that, about this time six years ago,
Mark Harrison – formerly of Epic and now of Kineo – offered his
predictions for learning technologies in 2012. He was speaking at a
meeting of the eLearning Network – now known by the acronym, 'eLN'.
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| New Position |
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e2train Welcomes Head of Marketing |
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Cirencester (UK), May 2012 - e2train, the UK leader in learning and
talent-management software solutions has appointed Dave Iles as Head of
Marketing. Dave is a Chartered Marketer and committee member for the
Gloucestershire Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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| Videoconferencing |
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LOTOS Capital Group Speeds Up Decision Making |
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Warsaw (PL), May 2012 - Polycom, Inc, a provider of open standards-based
unified communications (UC), has been selected by LOTOS Group, a producer
and supplier of oil products across Poland and abroad, to provide a
unified communications solution to better connect its 5,000 employees
through video collaboration.
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| Safety Training DVD |
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DuPont Fights Hearing Loss of Employees |
 Virginia Beach, VA
(USA), May 2012 - DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Hearing
Conservation: Noise Under Control, a new safety-training program that
helps employees learn how to protect their hearing and manage occupational
noise exposure.
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| Asset Management |
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New Compliance-Training Suite by Eukleia and IMS Group |
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London (UK), May 2012 - Eukleia Training has entered into a joint venture
with IMS Group, a regulatory-compliance consulting specialist, to deliver
a full suite of compliance-training courses tailored for the alternative
asset-management sector.
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| Entrepreneur Programme |
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Essential Skills for Small and Medium Businesses |
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Wokingham (UK), May 2012 - Global Knowledge, provider of IT and business
training, has announced that can now deliver the complete Cisco
Entrepreneur Programme portfolio, making Global Knowledge the first Cisco
Learning Partner in Europe capable of delivering this training.
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| Housing Legislation |
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Virtual College Offers eLearning for Scottish Landlords |
 Ilkley (UK), May 2012 –
Both the Scottish Social Housing Charter and the new regulatory framework
from the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) are currently coming into
effect. In response to this new legislation, Virtual College is gearing up
to help Scottish landlords comply.
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| Taking the Step |
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LIVECONTEXT Makes Upgrading Easy |
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Saarbrücken (GER), May 2012 - Upgrading to a new operating system or the
latest version of MS Office can be a headache for many a business as it
can cause staff to lose precious time from their day-to-day work.
LIVECONTEXT for Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 provides users with
learning sequences that ease acclimatising to a new working environment.
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| Information Security |
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eLearning Programme for Scottish Water by Aurion |
 Belfast/Dunfermline
(UK), May 2012 - Aurion Learning has been working closely with Scottish
Water to design and develop a new eLearning programme on information
security. The programme has been developed for all staff at Scottish Water
and is designed to help them get to grips with Scottish Water’s information
security policy practices.
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| Growing Market |
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Positive Attitudes on Mobile Learning |
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London (UK), May 2012 - Attitudes of senior learning-and-development
leaders towards mobile learning have changed, with many now having had
positive experiences and harbouring enthusiasm for this method of
delivery. This is a significant turnaround from prior attitudes, which
named problems with technology as a crucial barrier to implementation.
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| Supporting Change |
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CrossKnowledge Eases Major IT Systems Migration |
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London (UK)/Paris (FR), May 2012 - BEL, a world leader in household brands
of cheese, has migrated its entire IT system to the latest versions of
Windows and Office. BEL chose CrossKnowledge to accompany this training
component, which was rolled out to more than 4,000 employees in thirty
countries.
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| Higher Education |
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Swedish University Selects Blackboard Learn 9.1 |
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Amsterdam (NL), May 2012 – After a formal evaluation, Halmstad University
in Sweden has chosen Blackboard Learn™ 9.1 as its new learning-management
system (LMS) over three regional competitors. The school’s goal is to
provide eLearning solutions with the flexibility to support a wide range
of learning activities.
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| New Report |
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Survey on Most Effective Online Marketing Tools |
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New York, NY (USA), May 2012 – "Ditch Digital Dabbling: How Small
Businesses and Nonprofits Can Master Online Marketing", reveals the "magic
number" of hours required to make social-media marketing a success.
According to the report, it takes a minimum of 25 hours per week to see
worthwhile results from social-media efforts.
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| Making a Difference |
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Literacy-Skills Website Wins Award |
 Natick, MA (USA), May
2012 - The ComputED Gazette recently named Kurzweil 3000®-firefly by
Kurzweil Educational Systems® a winner in their eighteenth annual Best
Educational Software Awards (BESSIE) program. Kurzweil 3000-firefly won in
the "Teacher Tools: Literacy-Skills Website" category.
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| Stay Healthy |
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New Videonovela on Diabetes Treatment in Spanish |
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Rockville, MD (USA), May 2012 - A new Spanish-language videonovela entitled
"Aprende a vivir" (Learn to Live) helps diabetes patients compare their
treatment options to find a regimen that works best for them. It tells the
story of Don Felipe, who has type-2 diabetes, in episodes of five to seven
minutes each.
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| Hands-on Learning |
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Education.com Introduces Wonder... in a Box! |
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Redwood City, CA (USA), May 2012 - Created by Education.com's team of
experts and with an emphasis on unplugged play, each Wonder Box helps
children develop the skills kindergarten teachers consider most essential,
including letter recognition, number sense, and fine motor skills.
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| Interoperability |
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Open Webinars and Workshops in DITA XML Standard |
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Sestri Levante (IT), May 2012 - eXact learning solutions is running a
series of open webinars and workshops at venues throughout Europe and the
USA to explain the new learning and training documentation standard from
the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) group at OASIS. The
effort is driving XML content formats convergence in technical training
and documentation fields.
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| E-LEARN 2012 |
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Multi-Disciplinary Forum Organized in Montréal |
 Montréal, QC (CA), May
2012 - The world conference on eLearning in corporate, government,
healthcare, and higher education "eLearn" will take place 09 – 12 October
2012 and is organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing
in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by the International Journal on
Learning.
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| Meet in Rome |
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International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies |
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Rome (IT), May 2012 - This annual international conference on advanced
learning technologies and technology-enhanced learning is organized by
IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.
This year’s edition will be held in Rome 04-06 July.
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| Programming |
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European Conference on Pattern Languages |
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Kloster Irsee (GER), May 2012 - EuroPLoP™ is a European conference on
pattern languages. The Conference offers a variety of workshops to learn
about patterns, to receive feedback, and to discuss patterns with fellow
enthusiasts. It will be held at Kloster Irsee in Germany, 11-15 July 2012.
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| International Forum |
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Digital Environments and Language Learning |
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Barcelona (ES), May 2012 – "Digitalingua" is the first international
conference on digital environments and language learning in Spain,
bringing together professionals and institutions involved in language
teaching. It takes place between 14–19 May 2012, both online and in
Barcelona.
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| Participation Invited |
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European Conference on Learning Innovations |
 Essen (GER)/Brussels
(BE), May 2012 - The European conference "Learning Innovations and
Quality" (LINQ 2012) has launched its call for papers. Experts from
learning, education, and training (LET) are invited to present their
professional or academic efforts at the event in Brussels on 23 October
2012.
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| Call for Papers |
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Third Conference on New Horizons in Education |
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Prague (CZ), May 2012 – This conference - abbreviated "INTE 2012" - is an
international forum for academics, teachers, and educators that diffuses
knowledge and research and also leads new developments in educational
sciences. This year’s edition is being held at the Dorint Hotel Don
Giovanni, Prague, Czech Republic, 05-07 June.
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| In-Depth Exchange |
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i-KNOW: Meet Leading Researchers from Europe and the US |
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Graz (AT), May 2012 – i-KNOW is a conference series on knowledge management
and knowledge technologies. It is being held 05-07 September 2012 at the
Messe Congress Graz, Austria. Founded in 2001, it annually attracts over
500 international attendees.
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| Networking in East Asia |
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Educational-Technology Conference in Taiwan |
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Taoyuan (TW), February 2012 – The International Educational Technology
Conference (IETC) series is an international event for academics,
teachers, and educators. In 2012 it is being held from 11-13 July at the
National Central University in Taoyuan, Taiwan, aiming to diffuse
knowledge and research in educational and instructional technologies.
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