The approaching of the acquirements agreeable industry – in particular, its adeptness to acclimate to, and accomplishment fully, a new bearing of educational agreeable production, management, administration and administration models – is the accountable of a top akin conference, hosted accordingly by Giunti Labs, one of the arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid providers, and the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). The conference, on Digital Educational Content Marketplaces (DECOM 2008, www.decom2008.com), is accepting captivated at Giunti Labs’ address in Sestri Levante, on 23rd October.
Delegates comprise top akin admiral from the acquirements agreeable industry, all-embracing publishing firms, accumulated training providers and bookish stakeholders affianced in both publishing and accessible courseware initiatives in schools, universities and accumulated training, calm with Government action makers throughout Europe.
The after-effects of delegates’ deliberations will be summarised in a aggregate certificate – ‘The Sestri DECOM Declaration’. This will be presented to the EU Commission as a set of appropriate action accomplishments to abutment a alteration appear agenda agreeable marketplaces for educational publishing in Europe.
The accident is sponsored by Cegos, Plateau, Cisco, IBM, AxMediaTech - AXMEDIS and SIF Association.
“Today’s automated publishing and administration models for educational textbooks and acquirements materials, conceived in the age of non-digital broadcasting and accumulation distribution, are advancing of age,” commented Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs and collective armchair of ELIG.
“After a time area online acquirements capacity had to be produced arranged aural bound accumulation options - bent by the few LMS and VLE platforms in the bazaar - the actualization of accessible standards and architectures accept unleashed acquirements contents. De facto, this has accustomed the ‘un-bundling’ of agreeable assembly from the accumulation belvedere of choice.
“Today, able agenda repositories and acquirements agreeable administration architectures can be added seamlessly, interoperating with absolute Open Source - such as Sakai and Moodle - or bell-ringer accumulation solutions. This either supports belvedere clearing options or adds rich, basic and adaptable media to absolute accumulated or bookish acquirements infrastructures - authoritative acquirements adventures abundant added personalised and engaging,” he added.
Cardinali believes that abreast educational publishing needs to accept such accessible and accepted architectures, formats and administration models - bigger aggregate chargeless and appear agreeable offerings through avant-garde business models - so as not to leave anybody abaft in the all-around charge for added accessible and acceptable educational resources.
“This represents a generational befalling for educational agreeable producers,” he said. “It will accolade those who are acute abundant to bolt the addition wave, adapt their models and, so, aftereffect in acceptable business paradigms and models.
“Publishers and agreeable producers who abort to advance in the new agenda agreeable exchange accident battling abounding of their above colleagues in the music publishing industry. That industry has apparent abounding stakeholders lose their copyrights and bequest products, while disturbing to acclimate their business models to the tunes-orientated administration paradigms which hit the music industry during the agenda anarchy of the backward ‘90s.”
“The European Learning Industry Group has fabricated the transformation of educational publishing one of its key focus areas in 2008,” said Richard Straub, Secretary General of ELIG. “ELIG is abnormally positioned to accompany calm all aspects of the value-net with players from the infrastructure, architecture, software and agreeable sectors to facilitate the envisioning of new models of amount conception for the industry.”
After keynote speeches and ‘best practice’ presentations by arch all-embracing publishing companies McGrawHill, Elsevier, Bertlesmann and Pearson, and key OpenCourseware Initiatives from MIT, the Open University UK and Delft University, DECOM 2008 will cover a alternation of accessible altercation tables on key needs and objectives for Europe’s educational publishing sector.
Participation in the DECOM Workshop is by allurement only. To appeal an invitation, amuse acquaintance the accident manager, Minna Leikas (m.leikas@giuntilabs.com). Requests have to announce your amalgamation with, and assurance in, this topic. Places will be allocated on a ‘first come, aboriginal served’ basis.
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About Giunti Labs
Giunti Group (www.giunti.it/giunti_eng.html) is different in the all-embracing publishing industry. Giunti history goes aback to 1841; back again the accumulation has become one of the better publishers in Italy. Over the years Giunti has complete a archive of huge ambit (over 7.000 titles) and acquired new brands in Italy and worldwide.
Giunti Labs (www.giuntilabs.com), which has its all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden), Boston (US), as able-bodied as Sydney and Perth (Australia), provides a advanced ambit of solutions, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•Content assembly
•Technological solutions for content, acquirements & ability administration
•Delivery solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and able casework
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
Tel: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Tel: +39 3474435167, email: m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
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