2009年12月16日星期三

Giunti Labs - Immersed in learning

Research is blame aback the frontiers of e-learning, allying the absolute and basic worlds to enhance the acquirements experience.

Leading bend analysis beneath the 36 month, 12.9m Euro activity awarded by the European Commission to a Consortium of 13 arch European organisations is abutting to application filigree and billow accretion to accommodate the accretion assets to accompany learners calm in both the absolute and basic worlds. Known as the Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS) Project, the activity afresh anesthetized its aboriginal – 12 ages - analysis in a absolute meeting, captivated in Brussels, area European Commission assembly and an all-embracing console of experts advised the aboriginal after-effects of the project.

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs – one of the 13 companies complex in the IRMOS Project, appear these basic after-effects at the ‘Immersive Education Summit’ - captivated at the London School of Economics in London on 23rd and 24th April.

The activity aims to advance ‘real-time’ alternation amid humans and applications over a account aggressive basement (SOI), area processing, accumulator and networking charge to be accumulated and delivered with affirmed levels of service.

The project’s key objectives chronicle to ‘extended geo-learning’, delivered ‘in-class’, ‘in-house’, ‘in campus and ‘in building’ on an urban, burghal and all-around GPS basis. Cardinali aswell declared that Giunti Labs is aswell alive on ‘learner positioning’ in basic worlds as able-bodied as in the absolute world.

Indeed, the aim of the activity is to amalgamate the two, enabling a learner’s avatar to be synchronised with that learner’s movements in the absolute world. Cardinali added: “And, of course, the acquirements agreeable produced can be re-used and broadcast via altered accumulation media – such as argument books, web-based acquirements materials, adaptable learning, agenda boards and so on.

“Using the IRMOS-empowered set-up, learners will be able to accommodated in specific absolute apple acquirements hubs, such as museums, day-tripper attractions, schools and/or automated locations, and accept location-based acquirements abstracts and association services, geo-located on a amount of appliance and ambience awareness, while the absolute time arrangement will 'synch' user interactions and advice aural a basic about-face of the visited premises,” explained Cardinali. “This will empower learners to accommodated a association of adaptable and basic visitors, for a added achievement abutment and acquirements experience.

“Today, we’re not cerebration about ‘e-learning platforms’ but, rather, about an ecosystem which knows – or discovers – who the abecedarian is, what accent s/he speaks, the learner’s background, acquirements accumulation preferences and so on,” he continued. “This is allowance to aftermath accurate personalised learning.”

Cardinali declared that ‘virtual worlds’ accommodate accomplished analysis opportunities for Giunti Labs – which is Europe’s better clandestine analysis laboratory. He said: “Giunti Labs is, currently, alive on claimed ambient acquirements solutions.

“Since 2000, we accept formed on added than 50 all-embracing analysis and development projects in this acreage – including the IRMOS Project - in over 500 EU bookish and automated partnerships. These partnerships awning new acquirements methodologies, technologies and solutions; new agreeable repositories, administration systems and architectures, and new acquirements content.”

Within the IRMOS Project, Giunti Labs advised both accessible and non-open antecedent systems and is now developing a user book for alternate real-time area based learning, amalgam its HarvestRoad Hive Digital Repository and apprentice eXact adaptable acquirements technologies with the Wonderland and Darkstar Virtual Worlds and accord platforms by SUN, active on top of the IRMOS account aggressive basement (SOI) infrastructure.

Blending accessible antecedent acquirements platforms, such as Sakai or Moodle, with Giunti Labs' adaptable acquirements technologies, the band-aid constitutes a absolute time ‘extended’ location-based acquirements acquaintance to learners breath both in absolute and basic acquirements worlds.

Cardinali said: “This has meant extending the HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum into adaptable and basic worlds’ agreeable editors – to actualize agreeable delivered via BlackBerries, PDAs and so on.

“Once the abstracts is in the agenda repository, Hive can actuate who is attempting to download data, alternating with what accessory s/he is application and area s/he is. In added words, Hive will accord anniversary abecedarian the appropriate advice for the appropriate accessory in the appropriate area – to actualize a association of those who are afterward the aforementioned studies, behindhand of area the learners are.”

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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.

Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Alessandro Lorenzelli, Giunti Labs, +39 0185 42123, a.lorenzelli@giuntilabs.com

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