Themen

Anytime, Anywhere

Pocket Language Course and Telephone Training

Munich (DE), March 2007 - Online learning without an Internet connection is a solution that is currently being developed by the language experts at digital publishing in Munich. The accessibility of all courses should be free of technical restriction, facilitating anytime, anyplace learning for the worldwide 50,000 students of the dp online language school, CLT. The latest innovation is CLT Plug&Learn, the smallest-ever mobile interactive language course; CLT Plug&Learn saves all course content on a USB flash drive, which can be used at any computer » MORE

Stress Reduction

MyKnowledgeMap Launches Web-Based Initiative

York (UK), March 2007 - According to Health & Safety Executive figures, some thirteen million working days for 560,000 people in the UK are lost to work-related stress, making "stress, anxiety and depression" the second-most-common cause of work-related illness. A web-based initiative to help reduce stress in the workplace has been introduced by MyKnowledgeMap (MKM). » MORE

Expansion

Giunti Labs Expands Its Global Presence

Sestri Levante (IT) / Boston, MA (USA), March 2007 - Giunti Labs, a European eLearning and mobile learning content management solutions and services provider is further expanding its international presence in Spain and South America by launching the Spanish version of its learn eXact platform. A Spanish web site has been launched (www.giuntilabs.es), and Stefan Whitefield has been appointed Sales Manager for Spain and South America. On another front, Giunti Labs has recently opened its North American headquarters in the USA in Boston, MA. » MORE

3-D Learning

Female Power in Romanian Management

Sibiu (RO), March 2007 - (by Joscha Remus) In Sibiu, Romania, Cristina Werther is working as a manager of the IT service provider Eytro and the eLearning forge Eytro Media Dimensions. Her creed is: It is time to show more female thinking in the eLearning sector and to support more creative courage and the development of modern multidimensional eLearning solutions. Also, she asks her female colleagues to search for new ways beyond a purely rationally guided but playful and often routine-blinded men's world. Joscha Remus spoke with her for CHECK.point eLearning. » MORE

Development Programme

Intel® Teach in Romania

Bucharest (RO), March 2007 - (by Elena Lita) It is planned to train more than 60,000 Romanian teachers as part of the Intel Teach programme, officially launched in Romania by the signature of a cooperation protocol between Intel Corporation and The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. As this initiative represents an important moment for the Romanian educational system, it seemed like a good time to chat about it with Mr. Irinel Burloiu, Intel Business Development Manager in Romania. » MORE

Partnership

Caspian Learning Closes Deal with WiedzaNet

Sunderland (UK), March 2007 - Caspian Learning, a global leader in the use of games and simulations to solve learning issues, has announced a licensing deal with the Polish company WiedzaNet. As master distributor, WiedzaNet will be able to use Caspian's Thinking Worlds™ authoring engine to develop and promote learning applications for the education and corporate training sectors in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia. » MORE

Adaptive Learning

RapideL Enables Creation of Branching Courses

Jersey City, NJ (USA), March 2007 - In mid-March this year, RapideL will start to provide support for the pedagogically sound adaptive learning techniques. Instructional designers and course authors will be able to build simple branching courses to suit learners' non-linear response to content. » MORE

Strategic Plans

Trainer1 Exports eLearning Expertise to Russia

London (UK) / Moscow (RU), March 2007 - Trainer1, a UK learning consultancy, is supplying its eLearning expertise and experience to Business Training Russia (BTR), one of Russia's short-term business education and training companies. » MORE

Practice Firms

Virtual Reality for Transport and Logistics Students

Melbourne (AU), March 2007 - An Australia-wide network of virtual practice firms is helping drive more skilled young people toward jobs in the transport and logistics sector. The TOLL Virtual program, which began in May 2006 and is now operating in every state and territory, is a joint initiative of the Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council and TOLL Holdings, Australia's largest transport and logistics service provider. » MORE

Sales Specialist

Mike Ramsay Appointed at Rhema Group

Rochester (UK), March 2007 - Rhema Group has appointed Mike Ramsay as their Sales Training Specialist in the area of using leasing products to increase sales for vendors and their value added resellers (VARs). » MORE