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Juniper Research

Mobile Devices to Be Worth 19 Billion USD by 2018

Hampshire (UK), October 2013 - New findings from leading hi-tech analysts Juniper Research has revealed that the retail revenue from smart wearable devices, including smart watches and glasses, will reach nineteen billion US dollars by 2018 compared with 1.4 billion USD this year. Revenues will be driven by high price points for these devices allied to their anticipated strong market demand. » more

Innovation Gap

Innovator's Accelerator® as Online Leadership Training

San Francisco, CA (USA), October 2013 - Apollo Group has announced that more than a dozen companies, including Cisco Systems and Kimberly-Clark, have signed on to accelerate innovation within their organizations with its Innovator's Accelerator® leadership development experience. » more

The Time Is Now

Open-Source Learning-Management Systems for Enterprise

Paris (F), October 2013 - (by Sally Ann Moore) Open-source software is the term used to describe free software whose source code is made freely available through license, allowing its use, modification, and distribution. The concept of free software and code sharing has long been established, but "open source" as a term and a development model came into its own with the growth of the Internet, gaining prominence towards the late 1990s. The Open Source Initiative was established in 1998. » more

Community Site

Adapt Open-Source eLearning Project

London (UK), October 2013 - Adapt is an open-source framework for multi-device, mobile learning created originally by City & Guilds Kineo. It enables the development of a single piece of eLearning in HTML5 that will run on multiple devices, including desktops, smartphones, and tablets. This solves a major challenge in eLearning design, removing the need for multiple versions for different devices. Adapt creates a single version that reduces costs, increases access, and conforms with SCORM conformant LMS. » more

Easy to Use

Video Specialist Panopto Announces New Integration

Bristol (UK), October 2013 - The video management software provider Panopto has announced a new partnership with the eLearning company WillowDNA. The agreement between the two companies will bring the power of Panopto’s searchable video recording and management solution to WillowDNA’s Pathway platform. » more

Latest Content

DDLS launches Managing by Project training courses

Sydney (AU), October 2013 – Dimension Data Learning Solutions (DDLS), Australia’s largest training provider of technical IT certification, process management, and professional development, has announced the launch of a series of new training courses aimed at helping organisations turn business strategy into project reality. » more

Skills Improvement

insynergi Launches Change Academy

London (UK), October 2013 – insynergi, a bespoke coaching, mentoring, and training company, has announced a new range of development programmes. Called the insynergi Change Academy, it will help meet the demands of today’s businesses as they prepare for the economic upturn. This new style of support aims to displace traditional training courses. » more

Open Admissions

New President of the Open University of Israel

Raanana (IL), October 2013 - Professor Jacob (Kobi) Metzer is the new President of the Open University of Israel. Prof. Metzer received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, in the United States. He is Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History, Department of Economics at the Hebrew University, Israel, where he has had much of his academic career. » more

Blackboard Labs

Blackboard Launches Dedicated Innovation Initiative

Washington, DC (USA), October 2013 - Blackboard has announced the creation of Blackboard Labs, an initiative dedicated solely to innovation and experimentation with education technology to help shape the future of the industry. The first offering to come out of the initiative is Polls by Blackboard, a free classroom-response tool that enables live, in-class surveys directly from mobile devices. » more

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Saba Customer

Gold for Excellence in Social Learning

Redwood Shores, CA (USA), October 2013 - Saba, a global provider in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, has announced that its customer, Kaspersky Lab, was presented with a Gold Learning In Practice Award in the Excellence in Social Learning category. » more

Social Network Style

Docebo Releases Its New LMS

Naples (I), October 2013 - Docebo has announced the release of its new learning management system, which comes with a disruptive interface that’s designed to bring the Facebook single-page approach and its simplicity into an LMS. » more

Personnel Growth

Learning Nexus Expands with New Marketing Department

Stroud (UK), October 2013 - The summer saw lots of exciting changes for eLearning provider Learning Nexus. Not only did they acquire Safety4Business, a leading health-and-safety- training company, but the workforce also expanded, with new employees in Marketing and a new Learning & Development manager. This now takes the number of employees up to twenty five. The new positions will enable the company to deliver even more quality eLearning products and services in the UK and overseas. » more

Explosive Learning

Lean Six Sigma Accredited by APMG

Harwell/ Oxfordshire (UK), October 2013 - ELS Business Training has announced it has become the first Accredited Training Organisation to become accredited for APMG’s new Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. Cath Convery, CEO of ELS said, "There are very few academic certifications that recognise Lean Six Sigma to national standards. We were delighted when APMG developed this course, as we believe Lean principles are becoming very popular and relevant to all kinds of organisations.” » more

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Open Competition

IMS Global Announces Challenge for Learning Apps

Lake Mary, FL (USA), October 2013 – Today’s faculty, students, and parents have access to a growing number of digital apps, platforms, tools, and resources. The challenge is that these educational apps, tools, and platforms are not easy to connect into the software systems that are central to teaching and learning, typically a learning-management or instructional-management system, or to each other. As a result, faculty and students are forced to innovate “outside” of the institutional enterprise. Furthermore, the number of innovative apps, tools, and content that can be connected into the academic enterprise is severely limited with the available IT support resources. » more

Forum

Belgrade International Conference on Education 2013

Belgrade (RS), October 2013 - The second annual Belgrade International Conference on Education will take place 14-16 November 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia. The Conference is organized by Tomorrow People Organization - an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Belgrade. The official language of the conference is English. Attendance by over 100 delegates from more than forty countries is expected. » more

Take Part!

Sixth Survey of Learning-Industry Pay Launched

Stoke Prior (UK), October 2013 - Blue Eskimo, a specialist recruitment company in the learning industry, has just launched its annual work and salary survey. The survey, now in its sixth year, is the most comprehensive study of its kind and provides the learning industry with its sole dedicated benchmark for salary and work statistics. » more

Media & Learning

Keynote Speakers to Bring Passion and Expertise

Brussels (BE), October 2013 - The impact of film, video, and media on teaching and learning at all levels is at the core of a packed agenda for this year’s Media & Learning Conference taking place on 12-13 December. At the heart of the Conference will be a line-up of expert speakers from the fields of education, media production, and research who will drive the discussion forward in response to the core question at the heart of this event: “What does it take to equip learners for open creative learning futures?” » more

International Winners

ICDE Prizes for Innovation and Best Practice Awarded

Tianjin (CN), October 2013 - These ICDE prizes, which aim to stimulate innovation and best practice in open, distance, flexible, online, and eLearning, were awarded in Tianjin. Nine papers were selected by the Editorial Board of Open Praxis on the themes of open educational resources and intercultural aspects, learning analytics, mobile learning, impact, teaching quality, and leadership. » more

Call for Papers

Eleventh Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation

Porto (PZ), October 2013 - REV 2014 is the eleventh in a series of annual events dealing with remote engineering and virtual instrumentation; it will be held 26 - 28 February in Porto, Portugal. The REV gatherings are the annual conferences of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE). » more

Under Debate

UOC Co-organizes EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2013

Barcelona (E), October 2013 - Ensuring the quality of online university teaching at a time when the supply is expanding globally and with phenomena like massive open online courses (MOOC) was one of the central issues debated at the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) Innovation Forum 2013. The event brought international experts together in Barcelona on 26- 27 September. » more