| Community Involvement |
| Cameras Roll on Collaborative Video Learning Project |
 Stroud (UK), January 2012 - Members of The Charity Learning Consortium are busy filming for a huge collaborative video learning project. All members have been offered a free flip camera to create short pieces of video learning to share with other members of the community. [more...] |
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| Corporate eLearning |
| Top Ten eLearning Movers and Shakers |
| St. Albans (UK), January 2012 - The dawn of a New Year means that, once again – based on nothing more than experience and prejudice – it’s time to publish lists of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate eLearning sector, in the world, Europe, and the UK. CHECK.point eLearning is Number 3 on the European List! [more...] |
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| Predictions |
| Tablets, Smartphones, and New Business Skills |
| London (UK), January 2012 - With all of the ups and down across the business and political world during the last year, what can we expect for 2012? These are some of the learning predictions for the coming year of top executives and trainers from ILX Group, which declares 2012 to be the year for digital learning. [more...] |
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| Excellence Rating |
| Assuring eLearning Quality with epprobate |
 Brussels (BE), January 2012 - Today computers, tablets, and smartphones have become an everyday part of the learning process. However, this technology often fails to live up to the expectations people have for it. The lack of quality of the courseware has been one of the key reasons of this failure. Now a worldwide consortium of experts is addressing this gap by developing an international quality label for eLearning resources – the "epprobate". [more...] |
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| Trends |
| LPI Launches the Learning Survey 2012 |
| Coventry (UK), January 2012 - The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has launched the Learning Survey 2012 – a comprehensive review of the workplace-learning sector, which is shaped by Institute members and backed by hundreds of Institute-accredited organisations. [more...] |
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| Make eLearning Fun |
| Omniplex Distributes New Learning Management System |
| Hemel Hempstead (UK)/Montreal (CA), January 2012 - This new approach to managing and monitoring learning activities, known as Absorb SmartLab and produced by the Canada-based Blatant Media Corporation, aims to encourage people to learn because they want to, not because they have to. [more...] |
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| Data Protection |
| IMC AG Announces New Expert Interview |
 Saarbrücken (GER), January 2012 – IMC AG has announced an interview on data protection in the series titled "Ten Questions About". The author of imc's data-protection blog, Christina Meiers, offers her point of view on this timely subject. Below, she kindly answers three of the ten questions. [more...] |
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| Early Learning |
| European Children’s Travelling Language Library |
| London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children’s Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success. [more...] |
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| Social Networks |
| EU Language Project "aPLanet" |
 Istanbul (TR), January 2012 – The Autonomous "Personal Learning Networks" for Language Teachers is a European Union-funded project to help language educators who are not yet using social networks to understand what social networks for language educators are, why they should use them, and how they can get involved. [more...] |
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| Safety-Critical Industrie |
| Atlas Wins Over £3.6 Million of Export Orders |
 Aberdeen (UK), January 2012 – Atlas has reported a period of international growth over the last twelve months, winning over £3.6 million of new eLearning contracts. These focussed on safety, skills and competency training in the oil and gas sector, and produced a resultant eighty percent increase in new jobs within the UK. [more...] |
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| Qualification |
| Digital Literacy Advocates Make Plans for Maghreb |
| Algiers (DZ), January 2012 - The prospects for large-scale implementation of government and public-sector International Computer Driving License (ICDL) programmes in the Arab world recently came under the spotlight at a conference in the Hilton Hotel in Algiers. [more...] |
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| Evaluation |
| SEVAQ+ Launches Version 3.0 of Quality Tool |
| Nancy (FR), January 2012 - SEVAQ+ now offers a range of products and services to meet the needs of different types of users from different educational sectors, including higher education and vocational education and training. The offerings also address a variety of levels, including executive managers, training managers, tutors and teachers, as well as IT and administration. [more...] |
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| eLBa Award 2012 |
| Assistance in Everyday Professional Life |
 Rostock (GER), January 2012 - eLearning is not introduced and used as an end in itself, but to practically support the work routine. Now where does eLearning really help in everyday working life? How does eLearning have to be shaped to optimally meet its supporting function? The eLBa Contest 2012 evaluates current practice solutions based on these criteria. [more...] |
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| eLearning Awards |
| Deadline for Business Division Is 01 March |
| New York, NY (USA), January 2012 - Submissions are open for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards - Business Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA). The entry-submission page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2012. [more...] |
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| Learning & Development |
| The Fall and Rise of the Corporate Academy |
| London (UK), January 2011 - L&D market analyst David Wilson and Nuffield Health’s Group L&D manager Harvey M Seale will review the infrastructure of corporate learning at Learning Technologies Conference, held 25 and 26 January 2012 in London. Donald Taylor will ask, "What are the right systems to support learning in organisations?" [more...] |
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