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Open Study

Nine-Minute Survey on Learning Trends and Shifts

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), March 2014 - Learning professionals and corporate colleagues are invited to participate in a nine-minute open survey on how workplace learning is trending and shifting. It is part of an open study by Elliott Masie’s Learning Consortium. » more

Exchanges

HEC Paris Joins Global Network for Advanced Management

Jouy en Josas (F), March 2014 - HEC Paris has joined the Global Network for Advanced Management, whose primary aim is to develop innovative projects in the field of global business studies. This MBA and academic-cooperation platform, established by the YALE School of Management with founding members INSEAD and NUS Business School, counts 25 leading institutions on five continents. » more

Major Report

The State of the World’s eLearning Market

Naples (I), March 2014 - Docebo has published the results of its research into the current worldwide eLearning market. Entitled "eLearning Market Trends & Forecast 2014 - 2016", the report aims to help any decision maker needing facts and figures, statements, and arguments to prove the added value of eLearning initiatives to stakeholders. » more

HBX

Harvard Business School Launches Online Offering

Boston, MA (USA), March 2014 - Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School's reach and deepening its impact. In HBX the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings, including HBX CORe, a primer on the fundamentals of business. » more

Distance Learning

USDLA Members Benefit from the Citrix Suite

Boston, MA (USA), March 2014 – The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), a global provider supporting and developing all applications of distance learning including all technologies and remote-work best practices, has announced Citrix as a vendor sponsor of the USDLA. » more

Network

New MOOC on openHPI

Potsdam (GER), March 2014 - A comprehensive look at the complex world of Internet technology is given in the free online course offered on the international learning platform of Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). Starting 31 March, Institute director, Prof. Christoph Meinel will be instructing the course in English on the technical foundations of the "network of networks." » more

Premium Service

Totara announces strategic partnership in Germany

London (UK), March 2014 - Totara Learning Management Solutions, a groundbreaking custom enterprise distribution of the popular academic-based eLearning platform Moodle, has announced a strategic partnership with Arrabiata in Germany as part of its mission to spread the benefits of open-source learning-management systems. » more

For SAARC Nations

Distribution Agreement in a Trans-Oceanic Partnership

Genoa (I), March 2014 - The learning-content-management-solutions provider eXact learning solutions has signed a distribution agreement with Renaissance eServices Pvt Ltd. The eXact learning LCMS is designed to support the creation and management of digital learning resources while increasing authors’ productivity, saving time and money and protecting the investment already made in existing learning materials. » more

The Need for Data

Apex Learning Tutorials Empower Teachers

Seattle, TX (USA), March 2014 - The Round Rock Independent School District in Texas was looking for a solution to empower teachers with the data they needed to provide students with relevant and timely remediation to boost student achievement. The district partnered with Apex Learning, a provider of blended and virtual learning solutions to American schools, to implement the company’s Tutorials in six high schools and four middle schools as a component of its math and English language-arts remediation program. » more

Safety4Business

New Health and Safety Qualifications Planned

London (UK), March 2014 - Learning Nexus Safety4Business, the Health & Safety division of eLearning provider Learning Nexus, has appointed Gemma Winnett as its Qualifications Coordinator ahead of several new qualifications planned for release. » more

Using Saba Cloud

Lecturio Joins the Global Saba Content

Bracknell (UK)/ Leipzig (GER), March 2014 – Saba recently announced that Lecturio GmbH has joined its Global Content Partner Program to provide content for companies based in Germany. Lecturio GmbH provides online and mobile video learning for business, software, law, and medicine. » more

University of Utah

Kaltura Releases Video App for Canvas

New York, NY (USA), March 2014 – Kaltura, the open-source video platform, has announced the release of its new Canvas Video App. Kaltura’s extension combines the company’s market-leading platform for educational video with Instructure’s learning-management system. The result is a seamless user experience that leverages video to dramatically improve teaching and learning, as well as engagement and collaboration between faculty and students. » more

New Alliance

Saba and AXES Pro Cooperating in Russia

Bracknell (UK), March, 2014 – Saba, a global provider of next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, has announced its choice of AXES Pro as a solution provider and reseller in Russia. Founded in 2004, AXES Pro provides a portfolio of services for the optimisation, automation, and integration of HR processes for leading organisations in Russia, including Rusal, Moscow Exchange, and Sibur & Rosatom State Atomic Energy. » more

New Survey

Professional Qualifications Are Not Enough

London (UK), March 2014 - Insynergi, a coaching, mentoring, and training company, has released findings from a survey that highlights the key reasons for project or programme failures. The audit also presents key areas that CIOs and senior IT managers believe are their biggest challenges in 2014 when managing complex projects. » more

A Turning Point

Building a Prosperous Future at eLa 2014

Berlin (GER) / Kampala (UG), March 2014 - More than ever before, Africans are turning to ICT-supported learning to grow their economies. In 2013, the eLearning Africa Report found that 40% of African technology-assisted learning professionals were using ICTs specifically for skills training, up from 18% the previous year. The benefit of ICT-supported learning is that it allows employers to provide vocational training to a great number of workers for little cost. This year’s eLearning Africa, 28-30 May in Kampala, Uganda, will explore how technology is revolutionising learning and training across the Continent under the theme "Opening Frontiers to the Future". » more

MESI

ICDE International Conference in Moscow

Moscow (RU), March 2014 - Early-bird registration remains open, and paper submissions and poster proposals are welcome for the ICDE International Conference hosted by Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) in Moscow, Russia, 25-26 September 2014. » more

Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia 2014 in Orlando

Orlando, FL (USA) / Darmstadt (GER), March 2014 - Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. At ACM Multimedia 2014, which will take place 03-07 November 2014, the organizers will celebrate its twenty-second iteration with an extensive palette of assemblies. » more

Proposals Sought

Themes Announced for Media & Learning

Brussels (BE), March 2014 - The main theme for this year’s edition of the Media & Learning conference, taking place at the Flemish Ministry of Education Headquarters in Brussels, 20-21 November, is "from passive to active use of media in teaching and learning". The idea of active engagement with media is aimed at policy makers, service providers, and practitioners and will be at the heart of the fifth annual event. » more

Debate

Have We Lost the Social in Social Media?

San Diego, CA (USA), March 2014 - The largest conference dedicated to social media marketing, Social Media Marketing World, plans to open the floor to three top experts for the debate. The Conference, a three-day education and networking event hosted by Social Media Examiner, will happen 26-28 March in San Diego and showcases influencers at the forefront of social media. » more

EISTA/IMSCI

Conference on Education and Information Systems

Orlando, FL (USA), March 2014 - EISTA 2014, being organized in the context of the eighth International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics: IMSCI 2014, will be held July 15 - 18 July, 2014, in Orlando, Florida, USA. The submissions deadline for the third call for papers is 24 April. Other deadlines can be found on the respective conference web sites. » more