Giunti Labs - Two Learning Impact Awards for Giunti Labs' LCMS and DR technologies

Two of Giunti Labs’ applications are a allotment of this year’s winners of the celebrated IMS Learning Impact Awards.

The arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs has won a ‘Gold’ and a ‘Best in category’ accolade at the IMS Learning Impact Awards (LIAs), the world’s anniversary antagonism for the top appulse use of technology to abutment and enhance learning. Organised by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), the LIAs recognise use of technology to advance acquirements above all apprenticeship segments and in all regions of the world.

Giunti Labs won the Gold Award for architecture a Dynamic Management Skills Catalogue - application its apprentice eXact acquirements agreeable administration arrangement (LCMS) – for the France-based all-embracing baton in acquirements and development, Cegos.

During 2007 Cegos called Giunti Labs and its LCMS, apprentice eXact, to advice it anchorage Cegos’ artefact offerings into a new bearing attenuated catalogue, accumulation classroom training, e-learning and pre- and post-training appraisal in a modular and personalisable way for end user organisations.

Today Cegos’ e-learning archive comprises 200 awful modular acquirements experiences. These are accessible in 10 languages and are dynamically configurable, via Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact LCMS, to actualize personalised acquirements altar playlists which can be affiliated to any third affair acquirements administration arrangement (LMS).

Providing acquirements abstracts to 200,000 end-users a year, the Cegos Catalogue represents Europe's better action in bendable abilities e-learning archive development.

Through application the apprentice eXact LCMS, the Cegos Catalogue is loadable aural any above-mentioned acquirements administration arrangement (LMS) and accompanying tracking can abutment planning and administration aural the adequacy development cycle.

According to Pascal Debordes, Cegos’ e-learning Director, audience of Cegos begin those e-Learning Solutions by Cegos modules decidedly attractive, able-bodied advised and actual interactive. International companies aswell amount the actuality that those solutions are localised in 10 languages, demography into anniversary cultural gaps.

A France-based activity aswell won the ‘Best Rich Media Solution’ chic LIA for Giunti Labs. This time, it was for the use of Giunti Labs’ HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum (DR) in developing ‘the Vet Tube’, a agenda exchange for video lectures for veterinary education.

In bounce 2007, the Lyon Vet School called HarvestRoad Hive DR technology to architecture a multi-access agenda exchange for educational resources. This activated both to academic educational systems in the Lyon University arrangement and new, ‘web 2-like’, breezy and avant-garde acquirements services, such as the ‘Vet Tube’ - a ‘You Tube for Education’ account giving acceptance to educational video lectures and assets harvested from aural the School's athenaeum and a alliance of third affair repositories amalgamated via OKI OSIDs interfaces.

The Vet Tube DM is now accepting accessible not alone by Lyon University acceptance but aswell by acceptance abroad, accoutrement all French speaking countries, including the commonsense in Montreal (Canada), Rabat (Morocco) and Dakar (Senegal).

Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs’ CEO, commented: “Naturally, we’re captivated that our plan is accepting recognised with all-embracing awards in this way.

“In the case of both Cegos and the Lyon Vet School, our articles are allowance to advance both accessibility to, and the capability of, acquirements materials. They are aswell abacus avant-garde and artistic agreeable personalisation solutions.

“In turn, this is allowance learners to accomplish their jobs added bigger and calmly – to account both their organisations and their organisations’ customers.

“Of course, technology does not angle still and we are now extending our apprentice eXact LCMS and HarvestRoad Hive DR solutions into college degrees of personalisation.

“This is accurate on the media side, abacus adaptable and basic worlds’ agreeable editors - to actualize agreeable delivered via BlackBerrys, PDAs and Virtual Worlds. It aswell applies to the abilities side, acceptable the achievability of dynamically bond personalised agreeable playlists from above-mentioned third affair LMSs and VLEs, such as SumTotal, Saba, Oracle, Blackboard, Sakai and Moodle,” he added.

“Once the abstracts is in the agenda athenaeum and agreeable administration system, the band-aid can actuate who is attempting to download data, alternating with which accomplishments abilities and portofolio s/he has, what accessory s/he is application and area s/he is.

“In added words, Giunti Labs’ solutions accord anniversary abecedarian the appropriate advice to break her/his abilities gaps - and accommodate this 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 and which adequacy accomplishments they have.”

The LIAs finalists were evaluated by an able console of board and the attendees at the IMS anniversary Learning Impact appointment and Summit on Global Learning Challenges, captivated afresh in Barcelona, Spain.

The Learning Impact appointment brings calm leaders from supplier, educational, and government organisations focused on convalescent access, affordability, and above of apprenticeship worldwide. This year’s appointment featured almanac appearance of all-around leaders from 25 countries and six continents.

According to the IMS GLC, the LIA awards are different in that they recognise the use of technology in context.

Nominations cover not alone advice about the technology but how it is acclimated by an apprenticeship provider. In addition, the entries are evaluated according to eight belief of impact, including convalescent acceptance to learning, convalescent affordability of learning, and convalescent the above of learning.

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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.

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