Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs presents new LCMS & DR success belief at Online Educa Berlin

Giunti Labs, a arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider and bespoke agreeable producer, is represented at no beneath than four of the presentations that anatomy the Online Educa Berlin (OEB) appointment - the better all-around e-learning appointment for the corporate, apprenticeship and accessible account sectors – which takes abode from 3rd to 5th December.

Within the OEB conference, Giunti Labs’ CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, explores the affair of ‘building agenda agreeable repositories and marketplaces for the Knowledge Society’.

He explained: “Increasing globalisation is putting burden on Educational Organisations to advance in bigger educational abstracts and in added able means to deliver and reclaim educational materials, such as e-learning courseware, textbooks and ebooks.”

Cardinali believes that, in accession to the added use of adaptable and location-based agreeable accumulation and the charge for personalised acquirements experiences, there is an arising trend for breezy acceptance to acquirements via portals and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems. This will accomplish new agenda marketplaces for education, revolutionising the way we accord with acquirements assets online.

“It agency that the acquirements agreeable can be customised by the abecedarian rather than the developer or producer,” said Cardinali. “Learners download and use the actual or even use it 'on the fly' application new accessories such as Apple’s iPod Touch or iPhone and Amazon’s Kindle.

“Today's big claiming adverse providers of bookish as able-bodied as accumulated acquirements abstracts is how to adorn absolute packaging formats, for acquirements agreeable publishing and distribution, such as SCORM or the new IMS Common Cartdridge formats, not via single, turnkey arrangement but via an accessible architectonics - abnormally abacus web casework protocols to agreeable bales authoritative the acquirements acquaintance richer and added personalised,” he commented.

Giunti Labs’ Carin Martell joins Pascal Debordes of Cegos, the €194m, France-based e-learning agreeable producer, to outline the after-effects of Cegos’ 2007 cross-Europe acquirements survey. According to Debordes: “We begin that the better budgets for accumulated training action in France but abundant of this money is spent on administering rather than on training.

“The UK spends about a third of French budgets on training but provides its workers with broader acceptance to training abstracts – and appears to be bigger at evaluating the acknowledgment on investment (ROI) from these. Forty seven per cent of surveyed companies in the UK are assessing ROI compared with alone 26 per cent in France.

“Nonetheless, learners above Europe accept the aforementioned expectations of e-learning abstracts – conspicuously that they are user-friendly; accept top above content, design, cartoon and interactivity, and accommodate ‘concrete’ examples and exercises,” he said.

In acknowledgment to the survey’s findings, the Cegos Group has broadcast its customised e-learning action to cover a ambit of off-the-shelf modules – in the process, abutting armament with Giunti Labs. Cegos aswell relies on the Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact acquirements agreeable administration arrangement (LCMS) belvedere to customise modules according to specific chump demands – and, with this different bazaar offer, Cegos’ e-learning administration is targeting sales of €25m in 2010.

Sophie Touzé, of France’s Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, alternating with Amiel Kaplan, of Giunti Labs, France, advertise agreeable alliance via Giunti Labs’ HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum and WebTV.

“For abounding years, the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon has explored the use of new technologies in pedagogy,” said Touzé.

“We accept that new technologies action a way to accommodate the four concepts of acceptable pedagogy: interactivity, autonomy, simulation and collaborative work,” she added. “Working with Moodle and HarvestRoad Hive has accustomed us to accomplish our acquirements assets accessible to, a allotment of others, three added civic French institutes and the University of Montreal.

“Web TV, allotment of the Hive repository, is actual attractive, alms to any abecedary or apprentice the achievability to search, acquisition and watch a video created in their – or addition - institute. The query, in this case, is alone done from one acceptance point - application OKI technology chip in Hive,” she said.

Finally, Paul Landers of Ericsson, the apple baton in telecommunications, outlines a case abstraction of ‘mobile acquirements for Africa’. Ericsson is partnering with The Earth Institute, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in The Millennium Villages project, which is advised to accompany adaptable advice and the internet to some 400,000 humans in ten African countries area the activity is working.

The aboriginal adaptable pilot in this activity uses Giunti Labs' technology to bear just-in-time snippets of acquirements to alternation the aid and healthcare workers who advice the mothers of anew complete accouchement in Rwanda.

Giunti Labs is a Silver sponsor of this year’s event. Please appointment Giunti Labs at Foyer Potsdam, B61. For added data of OEB, appointment www.online-educa.com/

In addition, Andrea Lorenzon, Giunti Labs’ arch band-aid architect, is speaking on ‘content assembly and agreeable administration for a new generation’ at the OEB Security & Defence Forum, on 3rd December.

In his presentation, Lorenzon is discussing the challenges adverse defence organisations which accept to administer and bear both acquirements agreeable and abstruse publications in an chip platform. In particular, Lorenzon examines the arising technologies, tools, standards, processes and best practices appropriate for architecture a tailored yet adjustable acquirements belvedere for both agreeable types.

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Giunti Labs is a arch Online and Mobile Learning Content Management Solutions provider with all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden), Boston (US), as able-bodied as Sydney and Perth (Australia).
Giunti Labs provides a advanced ambit of solutions, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•24/7 multi accent acquirements agreeable production
•LCMS and Digital Repository Platforms
•Delivery solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and able casework
Giunti Labs is allotment of Giunti Group, a arch educational and cultural ancestry administrator with roots aback to 1841. Over the years Giunti has complete a archive of huge ambit (over 7.000 titles) and acquired new brands in Italy and worldwide.
In 2008, Giunti Labs acquired the HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum system, which manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives. HarvestRoad Hive can interface with about any ERP, Learning or Course Management System and is already chip with several frequently acclimated advance administration systems, assembly and agreeable accumulation tools.