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The UK's Biggest Mobile-learning Project

York (UK), July 2007 - The UK's largest-scale exercise in mobile education to date is helping 9,000 students throughout Yorkshire to assess their own competencies via their phones and related handheld devices. The Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings project (ALPS) aims to ensure that the graduates, studying sixteen different subjects from a wide range of health and social care courses, have the skills needed to be effective in the workplace. » MORE

IT Skills Research

The UK's Top 50 IT Training Providers of 2007

London (UK), July 2007 - IT Skills Research, which offers pooled research to subscribing members and publishes industry news, has recently published its annual table of the UK's Top 50 IT training providers. QA-IQ leads the field by a wide distance - gauged in terms of revenue - followed by Learning Tree International and SAP in place three. » MORE

Support Solution

RWD Technologies Releases uPerform™ in Europe

Baltimore, MD (USA), July 2007 - RWD Technologies, Inc. (RWD), a company that develops, implements, and supports products and services in the areas of training, consulting, and organisational performance improvement, has announced the release of RWD uPerform™ to markets in Europe and the United Kingdom. RWD uPerform is a comprehensive human performance support tool kit for businesses seeking to improve business results and return on investment (ROI) from their enterprise solutions, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and sales force training programs. » MORE

Bird Flu

Training for Better Surveillance

Paris/Montpellier (F), July 2007 - Veterinary epidemiology has really taken off in recent years. Diseases that can be transmitted from animals to man are changing and spreading to world regions that had previously been spared. CIRAD, which has a mandate for training and surveillance in France and overseas, organizes animal health teaching workshops and develops suitable IT tools. » MORE

Testing

ETS to Acquire Thomson Prometric

Princeton, NJ (USA), July 2007 - Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world's largest educational assessment and research organization, is acquiring Thomson Prometric, the global leader in technology-enabled testing and assessment services. Prometric is part of The Thomson Corporation. ETS is Prometric's largest customer for technology-based delivery of tests and assessments. » MORE

Mobile Connection

Distance eLearning for African Countries

Stockholm (SE), July 2007 - Ericsson announced at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva (05-06 July) that it is collaborating with Stanford University to explore the innovative use of mobile technologies in distance eLearning. Ericsson will work with Stanford University's International Outreach Program to bring distance learning to countries in Africa. » MORE

Motor Industry

Successful Management of Online Assessments

London (UK), July 2007 - The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is the UK's leading qualification-awarding body for the retail motor industry: approximately 18,000 candidates sit five to six examinations every year. With the implementation of Questionmark Perception, the IMI was able to increase its market share and now has greater control over the item bank, giving the testing process the flexibility it needs: » MORE

French Start Up

EMOB - More than 400 Computer Training Videos

Toulon (F), June 2007 - EMOB, a very innovative platform for training-on-demand to help Francophones improve their software skills, has just gone online after two years of development. Computer users seeking training in Photoshop, Word, Outlook, Excel, and other applications can find exactly the video they need. » MORE

Guinness Trust

Using Rapid eLearning to Produce Online Courses

Southampton (UK), June 2007 - Guinness Trust is just one of a number of companies now seeing the benefits of developing their own online training courses. The Trust is a nationwide housing association originally founded by the great-great grandfather of the Guinness Brewery to "improve the condition of the poorer classes of the working population of London". Being a charity, it is important for the Trust to keep the costs of training down. » MORE

Euro Info Centre Network

ESN and Epic Team up for EU eLearning

Brighton (UK) / Brussels (BE), June 2007 - The EU has actively promoted eLearning for nearly a decade, but the European Commission itself has so far made very little use of eLearning. With help from European Service Network and its British sub-contractor, Epic, the Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has recently launched the first in a series of eLearning modules for the 3,000 staff of the EU-wide Euro Info Centre network. » MORE