Giunti Labs - UKS and Giunti Labs advertise adaptable acquirements at the IMCL2008 Conference

UKS, the Middle East’s arch acquirements solutions enabler, in cooperation with its technology partner, Giunti Labs, Europe's arch e-learning and adaptable acquirements agreeable administration technology provider, will be showcasing adaptable acquirements agreeable administration solutions at the third International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, (IMCL2008), hosted by Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman, Jordan, from 16th to 18th April.

The IMCL 2008 appointment aims to advance adaptable acquirements in the Middle East. It provides a appointment for apprenticeship and ability transfer, gives acceptance acceptance to the latest advice advice technology (ICT) applications and encourages the abstraction and accomplishing of adaptable applications aural teaching and learning.

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs, will be carrying a keynote accent at the appointment entitled: ‘Innovating Learning Content Management appear 2010 Knowledge Society: Global Challenges, Threats and Opportunities’.

According to Cardinali, accepted trends in this across include:
•The accretion use of adaptable and location-based agreeable accumulation agency that acquirements adventures are acceptable breezy and personalised.
•There is a advance in breezy acceptance to acquirements via portals and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems. This agency that the acquirements agreeable can now be customised by the abecedarian rather than the developer or producer.
•With the development of agenda marketplaces, a arrangement of agreeable providers operating as ‘learning allowance houses’ has developed up. They crop content, adaptation it, bear it and clue it already it has been delivered.
•With the development of these agenda acquirements agreeable marketplaces, agreeable providers, agreeable brokers and end users now interoperate on the base of accessible and accepted architectures and formats. They can ‘download and play’ adaptable models and avant-garde publishing models for apprenticeship which bury professionally appear capacity with self-produced accessible and aggregate Web 2.0 contributions. It is a array of ’iTunes’ for apprenticeship in an open, government-led exchange for exchanging and trading agenda assets for students.
•Today’s big claiming adverse providers of accumulated acquirements abstracts is how to adorn absolute standards for acquirements agreeable publishing and administration such as SCORM – abnormally abacus web casework protocols to agreeable bales authoritative the acquirements acquaintance richer and added customised.
•Other challenges chronicle to how to advance web-based casework to search, concern and retrieve repositories of acquirements content.

During IMCL2008, UKS will be showcasing the latest developments in Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact Suite for adaptable learning.

According to Ms. Nada El-Marji, UKS’s Marketing & Sales Director: “We will be demonstrating how eXact Packager can be acclimated to actualize acquirements altar for adaptable devices, such as adaptable phones, PDAs, and BlackBerrys, as able-bodied as assuming how the agreeable can be appear to the agenda athenaeum and again retrieved by the abecedarian on his/her adaptable device.

“We will aswell be demonstrating the beat templating technologies of eXact Packager, such as the adeptness to actualize a 3D-based basic absoluteness (VR) agreeable which is packaged according to the ADL SCORM specification, and allows ecology the abecedarian activities and acquirements progresses.”

Furthermore, UKS will authenticate the new apprentice eXact MS-Office plug-in, which allows users to acceptation MS-Office files into the eXact Packager’s assembly templates.

"The adaptable buzz has become such an basic allotment of avant-garde activity that educators are acquisitive its abeyant for bigger educational coverage,” said Ms. El-Marji. “Today’s big claiming in educational agreeable administration technologies is to actualize and contour e-learning content, authoritative it accessible wherever and whenever a user may charge it. Giunti Labs’ adaptable acquirements agreeable administration solutions can advice in arrest this challenge."

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Notes for Editors

About UKS

UKS is the Middle East’s arch acquirements solutions enabler, with years of acquaintance in the fields of apprenticeship and training. UKS uses its different ability and cardinal partnerships with arch educational and abstruse providers to bear a absolute ambit of acquirements articles and casework that serve schools (K-12), college education, Government and accumulated sectors.

Its awful accomplished abstruse agents plan with audience to design, advance and bear flexible, cost-effective and customised acquirements solutions, based on advanced training needs appraisal frameworks, aggregate online and contiguous learning.

UKS is a accessory of Al Tanmiya Holding, a amassed committed to the development of animal basic in the accumulated and bookish worlds.


Further advice from:
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Sana Farajallah, UKS, + 971.4.3910170/ +971.4.3910056, sfarajallah@uks.ae
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com

Giunti Labs
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16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Press contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@boblittlepr.com; web www.boblittlepr.com

About Giunti Labs

Giunti is different in the all-embracing publishing industry.

In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, calm with others in Venice, began avant-garde book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has complete a ‘historical catalogue’ of huge dimensions, through a bit-by-bit action of ‘fusion’ of altered publishers, but aswell through the conception of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector. Giunti Labs, which has its all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US), provides a advanced ambit of services, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•Technological solutions for content, acquirements & ability management
•Architectural and abstruse solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and training
•Content production
•Research and development

Giunti Labs provides the apprentice eXact® suite, Europe's arch e-learning and adaptable acquirements agreeable administration technology. This apartment is interoperable with all above vendor-driven and accessible antecedent LMS and VLE solutions in the bazaar including Plateau, Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.

Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just attach to the all-embracing standards apropos to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to actuate and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in a lot of of the all-embracing institutions for the analogue of eLearning blueprint (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

About Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact® suite

Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact is an e-learning and adaptable acquirements agreeable administration arrangement (LCMS) that enables users to create, administer and bear agreeable based on acquirements objects, XML, standards and all-embracing specifications. It delivers acquirements agreeable to location-based adaptable devices, alternate TV and wearable computer devices. Now the band-aid with its new eXact VLW bung in aswell delivers accepted acquirements capacity into 3D Virtual Worlds.