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» Newsletter CHECK.point eLearning, European News, 09/07/2015 - www.checkpoint-elearning.com - ISSN 1613-4710
EF Education First Snack-Sized Learning Modules for Mobile Experience London (UK), July 2015 - EF Education First, Corporate Solutions, has made its award-winning English-language school "EF Efekta" available as a dedicated smartphone app. Available now on Apple's iPhone iOS, and coming out later this year for Android devices, the app is designed to make it even easier and more convenient for global professionals to learn and improve their English skills on the go. » more CAMS Atlas Knowledge Lands Dolphin Drilling Contract Aberdeem (UK), July 2015 - Dolphin Drilling has selected learning-technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK and Norway. » more Future Growth Google Apps for Education Seattle, WA (USA), July 2015 - "Assuming the growth rate of 41% from 2010-2015 continues over the next five years, handing in a paper, and handing it back, may become entirely paperless event for over 110 million students and teachers by 2020," said Victor Alhadeff CEO of Boost eLearning. » more Hare Krishna EDTRIN Group Enters Strategic Partnership Victoria (AU), July 2015 - EDTRIN Group has made an agreement with Goloka Education to distribute a wide range of learning content to partners, collaborators, communities, and individuals comprising the Hare Krishna diaspora worldwide. Goloka Education is an Indian-based Hare Krishna educational publisher aiming to enrich and reconnect youth to the Vedic culture, its positive virtues, and its enduring traditions. » more Learning Needs Blackboard Acquires X-Ray Analytics Washington, DC (USA), July 2015 - Blackboard has announced the acquisition of X-Ray Analytics, a research-based, predictive analytics technology that helps instructors and organisations meet the learning needs of their students. The technology will first be integrated into Moodlerooms and Enterprise Moodle, Blackboard’s services and solutions to institutions and organisations that leverage Moodle, one of the most widely used learning-management systems (LMSs) in the world. » more Advertisement AXELOS Crowdsourcing for the Development of ITIL® Practitioner London (UK), July 2015 - AXELOS is using crowdsourcing - gathering ideas, challenges, and advice from IT Service Management (ITSM) professionals from across the world - as part of the development of the new ITIL Practitioner qualification. » more Improving Efficiency IMC Presents New Features for Its eLearning Products Saarbrücken (GER), July 2015 - IMC AG has made a commitment to continuously develop its products and provide its customers with the most innovative and efficient systems available. With the Innovation Pack 5, the full-service provider for digital learning is offering an update for three of its products to the market: the learning-management system "Learning Suite", the eLearning authoring software "Content Studio", and the electronic performance-support system "Process Guide". » more Gamified eLearning Training for Selling Age-Restricted Goods Plymouth (UK), Julay 2015 - The supermarket chain Waitrose is rolling out an innovative eLearning game about the law on selling alcohol, tobacco, and other age-restricted products. It is the first "gamified" training module to be used by Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership, and will be available in July to around 50,000 staff, known as "partners". » more Unique Think Tank The Company of Thought Is Launched London (UK), July 2015 - An event held at Australia House, in The Strand, London, to mark the start of "London Learning Week" saw, among other things, the official launch of an international think tank dedicated to analyzing issues and trends in the corporate online-learning-technologies industry. » more LMS Producer Absorb Technology Opens European Headquarters Calgary (CA), July 2015 - Absorb Technology officially opened the doors to their European Headquarters on 01 July 2015. The demand for a better learning-management system by European businesses has led Absorb Technology, makers of Absorb LMS, to open their first office outside of North America in Dublin, Ireland. » more Advertisement Customers’ Need JZero Solutions Releases JLMS Enterprise 5.2.3 London (UK), July 2015 - JZero Solutions has announced that many new features have been released into the JLMS Enterprise platform, giving customers much more flexibility and functionality. » more LT-Innovate Summit Language Technology Innovation Award for Speexx Munich (GER), July 2015 - Speexx, an international provider of online language training, has won the LT Innovate Award. The award ceremony took place at the annual LT-Innovate Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The LT-Innovate Summit is the annual point of convergence for the language-technology industry to network, discuss strategies, and explore innovation and business opportunities. It consists of a number of workshops, networking forums, and product showcases displaying the latest innovations in the language-technology industry. » more Positive Feedback M.I.T Tutorials for Microsoft Office Friedrichsdorf (GER), July 2015 - The city of Offenbach is counting on eLearning to develop the computer skills of its approximately 1000 administrative staff members. The city has now been using M.I.T's SITOS learning-management system for over five years to provide all municipal offices with tutorials for Microsoft Office and Microsoft operating systems. Whether working in the office or from home, civil servants can access their SITOS learning environment by clicking a desktop icon. » more Advertisement Cross-Discipline Bammy EdTech Awards Los Angeles, CA (USA), July 2015 - The Academy of Education Arts and Sciences has announced that the 2015 Bammy Awards will again include developers of education technology. Three Bammy EdTech Awards will be presented to recognize the best-in-class education apps, teaching tools, and education-related web sites. The winners will be selected by an international panel of leading education-technology directors. » more Forecast to 2020 Smart Education and Learning Market Dublin (IR), July 2015 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Smart Education and Learning Market by Hardware, Software, Educational Content, Learning Modes, User Type, & Region - Global Forecast to 2020" report to their offering. This report expects the total smart-education-and-learning to grow from $105.23 billion in 2015 to $446.85 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.4% during the forecast period. » more Market of the Future EFMD Global Network Asia Annual Conference Brussels (BE), July 2015 - Being a trailblazer has been at the center of EFMD Global Network’s innovative nature! EFMD GN is proud to bring to you its first Asia-centric annual event, "The 2015 EFMD Global Network Asia Annual Conference". This gathering will be held at Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, 20-21 November 2015, in Phuket, Thailand. » more Call for Chapters Handbook of Research on Leadership in Higher Education New Delhi (IN), July 2015 - From the management point of view, higher education is no longer perceived as stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology. Rather, it is in the domain of support services provided to the learners in the form of academic and educational programmes as "educational products" in the higher-learning institutions, now considered as professional organizations. » more Digital Economy The Crucial Role of eHealth, eGovernment and eEducation Bucketty, NSW, (AU), July 2015 - BuddeComm has produced the seventh annual edition of its report entitled "Global Digital Economy - The Crucial Role of E-Health, E-Government and E-Education". The last update explores the transformation that e-health, e-government and e-education are all undergoing as a result of developments in ICT and smart communities. » more

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