Themen

Letter from UK

'Little's Britain': eLN election campaign hots up

London (UK), November 2010 - (by Bob Little) Elections have been in the news recently. There has been the recent General Election in Burma, which has prompted some misgivings among the international community. In the UK, its former immigration minister and Labour MP, Phil Woolas, has recently lost his seat in Parliament for making false statements against his opponent during theGeneral Election campaign of earlier this year. » MORE

New Report

i3 Forum Issues "Voice Over IPX"

Paris (FR), November 2010 - The i3 Forum, which is comprised of more than 37 telecommunication providers representing a combined retail base in excess of 1.5 billion customers in over 100 countries, has announced the release of the official document outlining the technical and commercial specifications for Voice over IPX. » MORE

Quality Assurance

The Safety Train Gains NCFE Accreditation

Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - The Safety Train, a company that operates an eLearning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health and safety training, has been granted a bespoke quality license from the Northern Council for Further Education (NCFE) - making it one of the UK's first eLearning providers to be accredited in this way. » MORE

SCORM

Leadership in eLearning Content Standards

London (UK), November 2010 - Plateau Systems has announced that it has become the first major talent management provider to achieve Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 4th Edition conformance, marking its longstanding commitment to and leadership in eLearning content standards. » MORE

British Auto Maker

LINE Helps Pilot iPhone and iPod App for Ford

London (UK), November 2010 - LINE Communications, a provider of learning and communications, is helping Ford of Britain to pilot an innovative application for iPhones and iPods designed to help sales executives explain some of the features on the C-MAX and Grand C-MAX. » MORE

Business Standards

PSL debates Collaborative Working with Government

London (UK), November 2010 - Having undergone a quality revolution in the 1980s and a productivity revolution in the 1990s, business practice in the UK is about to undergo another revolution in the second decade of the twenty-first century: that of innovation through collaboration. This is the view of John Hill, the Chief Executive of PERA Innovation Network. Mr. Hill was one of the speakers at "Collaborative Working with Government", the latest PSL (Partnership Sourcing Limited) Executive Partnering Knowledge Network conference. » MORE

For business efficiency

Learner-centered Institutional Architecture Needed

Pleasanton, CA (USA) - November 2010 - As Toolwire's co-founder and primary innovator, David James Clarke IV brings over 25 years of industry passion and entrepreneurial spirit to his eLearning projects. He is an industry expert in education and a best-selling author of over 34 technology and learning books. At Online Educa Berlin he will speak about "Real Life, Real Time: Experiential Learning at the Speed of Business". » MORE

Change Management

Xtreme Learning: To Boldly Go…

Madrid, November 2010 - Ignacio Aliende is Trainer and Project leader in many different consultancy projects of Change Management and Human Resources Development for different companies. He will speak in the session: "Xtreme Learning: To Boldly Go…" This means the explosion of creative, engaging and omnipresent technology, whilst adopted wholehearted by young learners, is still struggling to find a place in the minds and approaches of educators. The session explores how innovation occurs in the classroom. » MORE

Joint Venture

Shake up of LMS market with Moodle for Corporate Sector

Wellington (NZ), November 2010 - Three eLearning and open-source companies (Kineo, Catalyst IT, and Flexible Learning Network) have formed a joint venture to develop and distribute a version of the Moodle learning management system for the corporate sector. The product, called Totara, is set to revolutionise the corporate LMS space as the first open-source learning-management solution designed specifically for the corporate sector. » MORE

New Series

United Nations University eLearning Video

Bonn (GER), November 2010 - The United Nations University Vice Rectorate in Europe (UNU-ViE) has launched its first 'Sticky Concepts' video on eLearning as part of a series of explanatory videos spotlighting complex eLearning ideas and concepts. » MORE