Themen

Irish eLearning Research Initiative

Dublin, July 2006 - The Irish Ministry for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has launched a two-million-euro eLearning research project focusing on key research for delivering tangible, commercial progress in the development of next generation eLearning products and services for Irish eLearning companies. The Irish eLearning industry is joining forces in the endeavour. » MORE

IBM Donates Code to Sakai

Armonk, NY (USA), July 2006 - IBM is donating eLearning software code and expertise to the Sakai Project, a group of learning institutions creating and deploying open-source course management, collaboration and online research support tools for higher education. The donation is part of IBM's overall support of open computing in education. » MORE

Developing Media-Rich Content

London, July 2006 - BT Global Services has selected OutStart to provide the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to support the Royal Navy's prestigious Type 45 training content development programme. The tailored courses will bring together contributions from Royal Navy subject matter experts as well as information and media- rich content in the form of simulations and emulations - all delivered via the Defence Learning Portal (DLP). » MORE

Books24x7 goes Podcasting

Norwood (US), July 2006 - Valuable insights and practical knowhow from business leaders is provided by Books24x7 in the trendy form of podcasts. The online referenceware specialist has launched a free-of-charge audio series that includes excerpts from Books24x7's ExecBlueprints Referenceware collection. » MORE

Business Networks for Russian SMEs

Stuttgart, July 2006 - The EU-funded project "RUSMECO" supports the development of interpersonal business networks for sharing experiences - so-called "Communities of Practice" (CoPs) in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular can exchange knowledge via a specific web-based platform. » MORE

Fingertip Knowledge

Saratoga Springs, July 2006 - Elliott Masie, CEO of the MASIE Center's Learning Consortium and the host and producer of Learning 2006 sees the need for a different approach to information retrieval. In an exclusive essay for CHECKpoint eLearning, Masie writes about "Fingertip Knowledge". » MORE

A Need in a Global eLearning World

Dublin, June 2006 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Transware has been localizing elearning software for ten years now. Today its founder, Kieran McBrien, has to deal with smaller markets and projects, yet he faces an increasing need for content transfer. McBrien does not consider translators as competitors; rather he sees them as part of the process because localization has to take cultures, laws, political correctness, and other important aspects of a target group into account. » MORE

Microsoft Germany and IMC cooperate

Munich / Saarbrücken, June 2006 - Microsoft Deutschland GmbH (Germany) and IMC AG, provider of Learning Management solutions, are working hand in hand towards integration of IMC AG's CLIX Learning Management System (LMS) into Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server. » MORE

MobileMonday Global Peer Awards

Sestri Levante, June 2006 - Giunti Labs' mobile learning solution eXact Mobile received the Silver Prize at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards in Helsinki. The event, sponsored by Nokia and Nexit Ventures, showcased world's best B2B Mobile Solutions. A fifteen-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. » MORE

Overcoming Language Barriers

London / Brisbane, June 2006 - Reuters PLC has renewed its contract and signed a multiyear agreement with the GlobalEnglish Corporation. Reuters has maintained major offices in India and East Asia for over a century but has recently initiated expansions in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, and other locations. For this reason, the company has increased its investment in training employees in its official language, English. » MORE