*Language acquirements website Babbel.com has been online for one year and continues to abound rapidly
*180,000 users from added than 200 countries alleged to address altogether wishes to Babbel.com
Berlin, January 15, 2009 – Language acquirements website Babbel.com looks affectionately aback on its aboriginal year and receives altogether wishes from its associates in their corresponding languages.
On the 15th of January 2008, Babbel.com went online for the aboriginal time. Now, afterwards alone a year, 180,000 humans from all over the apple are acquirements English, Spanish, French, Italian and German on the website. For the anniversary, they've been asked to address altogether wishes in the accent they are currently learning. Then built-in speakers from from the Babbel association will go over these texts and accord accessible feedback.
180,000 associates from over 200 countries
Right now, Babbel association associates appear from 209 countries. From Afghanistan to Venezuela, about the accomplished apple is represented. Markus Witte, one of the founders and CEOs, says, "The bound growing amount of users and their absolute acknowledgment appearance us that we've absolutely annoyed a demand. Online acquirements isn't just fun, it aswell offers bright advantages."
Online accent acquirements gets even added attractive
Babbel.com was formed a year ago with the abstraction of authoritative accent acquirements easier and added adorable application the possibilities of the the internet. With its antic teaching approach, the website aswell advised to ability users who may use accepted acquirements abstracts less. The alternate cant bales and tutorials are allegedly designed. Pictures and accentuation examples facilitate compassionate and accent acquirements that sticks. Meanwhile, the association functions accomplish it accessible to abstraction with others, whether it be with a acquirements accomplice or a "tandem" (language exchange). In the next months, alongside its chargeless material, Babbel will activate to action paid exceptional content.
Further advice at www.babbel.com/about/ENG/press.
Find unusual, absorbing and accepted annotation on accent and accent acquirements at the Babbel Blog blog.babbel.com/.
About Babbel.com:
Babbel (www.babbel.com) offers the befalling for anyone to apprentice languages for chargeless online. Since January, 2008, about 180,000 users accept registered. The aggregation abaft Babbel, Lesson Nine GmbH, is amid in multi-cultural Berlin and was founded in 2007 by Lorenz Heine (35), Markus Witte (38), Toine Diepstraten (33) and Thomas Holl (33). Beforehand these four formed for the audio software company, Native Instruments, which Heine had co-founded. Babbel.com accustomed an investment from Kizoo AG and VC Fonds Berlin in the summer of 2008. The Babbel Team consists currently of ten full-time advisers and over ten freelancers.
Markus Witte
press@babbel.com
+49 30 346 55 93 87
Lesson Nine GmbH
Großbeerenstr. 81
10963 Berlin, Germany
www.babbel.com
2009年12月16日星期三
Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs showcases personalised and adaptable acquirements agreeable administration at Masie’s Learning Systems 2008
Management of acquirements objects, agenda repositories and the agenda exchange will aswell be featured.
Giunti Labs, a all-around baton in e-learning and agenda asset management, will advertise common chump deployments and its holistic access to the affiliation of personalised and adaptable acquirements with agenda agreeable administration and delivery, during Elliott Masie’s Learning Systems 2008 event, this anniversary in Las Vagas in the USA.
Giunti Labs North America will be complex in the accident as a sponsor, presenter and exhibitor. Reflecting the event’s focus on best practices, issues and deploying systems for organisational learning, assembly will be demonstrating the company’s award-winning artefact curve at the Giunti Labs ‘Sponsor Connection Point’.
Attendees of Learning Systems 2008 are encouraged to accommodated Giunti Labs to apprentice added about apprentice eXact®, the company’s flagship acquirements agreeable administration arrangement (LCMS), and the HarvestRoad Hive® agenda exchange and athenaeum solutions and abstruse agreeable administration arrangement (TCMS).
As allotment of the appointment agenda, on Friday 11th April, Stephan Thieringer, COO of Giunti Labs North America, will participate in a console advantaged ‘The Future of Learning Systems (Part 2): Interviews with CLO/CTO From Suppliers’. Hosted by Cushing Anderson, programme administrator of IDC’s Corporate Learning and Performance Research Group and co-host of Learning Systems 2008, the affair is focused on accepted and approaching acquirements systems challenges.
Stephan Thieringer commented: “Globalisation is creating new demands and opportunities for learning. Through new adaptable accumulation platforms and the bigger ascendancy and interoperability fabricated accessible through MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) and its OSIDs blueprint for accessible account orientated acquirements architectures, we are now able to actualize a acquirements systems architectonics that provides contextually relevant, personalised agreeable – just-in-time, just abundant and just as adapted – to accommodated the needs of the alone learner.”
Described by Elliott Masie as a ‘wonderful common advocate for the acquirements industry’, Giunti Labs’ CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali abutting Masie in advanced of the appearance for a podcast on the accompaniment of agenda acquirements and content. Listen to it at: learningsystems08.com/giunti or apprehend a archetype at www.giuntilabs.com/info.php?vvu=15&pud=477
In the podcast, Cardinali comments on Giunti Labs’ administration in arising trends including the uptake of added breezy and personalised acquirements agreeable as able-bodied as on new accumulation technologies including adaptable devices, area based content, portals and Software as a Service (SaaS). He aswell describes the arising ‘digital marketplace’ in which creators, traders and brokers will be able to canyon agreeable from agenda repositories through acquirements agreeable administration systems, to accomplish it simple for end-learners to download accordant agreeable on the fly to their iPods, iPhones and through YouTube videos for educational purposes.
Cardinali’s podcast aswell data Giunti Labs’ contempo accretion of the HarvestRoad’s Hive® agenda athenaeum and abstruse agreeable administration arrangement (TCMS), which are now chip with Giunti Labs’ solutions for agreeable assembly and management. These technologies are able accoutrement that can drive the acceptance and success of the agenda marketplace.
From his angle as Chair of the European Learning industry Group (ELIG), Cardinali closes his podcast altercation on how the apple abridgement is affecting the industry and expresses his optimism on advance appear standards for reusable and accountable content. Cardinali expresses his acceptance that accessible architectures like OKI and standards including SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge, Moodle and Sakai will accumulate the packaging, agriculture and administration of acquirements content.
end
Further advice from:
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Patrick Rafter, Giunti Labs North America (Boston, MA), +1-617-901-2697, p.rafter@giunitlabs.com
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
c/o Bob Little Press & PR
23 Sherwood Avenue
St Albans
Herts
AL4 9QJ
UK
tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405
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 HarvestRoad Hive®
HarvestRoad Hive is a Federated Digital Repository System (FDRS). It manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives.
It is advised to authorize a arch amid islands of agreeable aural and above assorted institutions or organisations, behindhand of the blazon of agreeable or purpose for its existence. HarvestRoad Hive is acclimated to abundance and administer so alleged "learning objects" or "knowledge objects" and their metadata, accumulate these into standards-compliant packages, and bear that agreeable on appeal to acquirements and advance administration systems, accumulated training systems or web portals.
HarvestRoad Hive is an absolute agenda repository; it 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.
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.
Giunti Labs, a all-around baton in e-learning and agenda asset management, will advertise common chump deployments and its holistic access to the affiliation of personalised and adaptable acquirements with agenda agreeable administration and delivery, during Elliott Masie’s Learning Systems 2008 event, this anniversary in Las Vagas in the USA.
Giunti Labs North America will be complex in the accident as a sponsor, presenter and exhibitor. Reflecting the event’s focus on best practices, issues and deploying systems for organisational learning, assembly will be demonstrating the company’s award-winning artefact curve at the Giunti Labs ‘Sponsor Connection Point’.
Attendees of Learning Systems 2008 are encouraged to accommodated Giunti Labs to apprentice added about apprentice eXact®, the company’s flagship acquirements agreeable administration arrangement (LCMS), and the HarvestRoad Hive® agenda exchange and athenaeum solutions and abstruse agreeable administration arrangement (TCMS).
As allotment of the appointment agenda, on Friday 11th April, Stephan Thieringer, COO of Giunti Labs North America, will participate in a console advantaged ‘The Future of Learning Systems (Part 2): Interviews with CLO/CTO From Suppliers’. Hosted by Cushing Anderson, programme administrator of IDC’s Corporate Learning and Performance Research Group and co-host of Learning Systems 2008, the affair is focused on accepted and approaching acquirements systems challenges.
Stephan Thieringer commented: “Globalisation is creating new demands and opportunities for learning. Through new adaptable accumulation platforms and the bigger ascendancy and interoperability fabricated accessible through MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) and its OSIDs blueprint for accessible account orientated acquirements architectures, we are now able to actualize a acquirements systems architectonics that provides contextually relevant, personalised agreeable – just-in-time, just abundant and just as adapted – to accommodated the needs of the alone learner.”
Described by Elliott Masie as a ‘wonderful common advocate for the acquirements industry’, Giunti Labs’ CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali abutting Masie in advanced of the appearance for a podcast on the accompaniment of agenda acquirements and content. Listen to it at: learningsystems08.com/giunti or apprehend a archetype at www.giuntilabs.com/info.php?vvu=15&pud=477
In the podcast, Cardinali comments on Giunti Labs’ administration in arising trends including the uptake of added breezy and personalised acquirements agreeable as able-bodied as on new accumulation technologies including adaptable devices, area based content, portals and Software as a Service (SaaS). He aswell describes the arising ‘digital marketplace’ in which creators, traders and brokers will be able to canyon agreeable from agenda repositories through acquirements agreeable administration systems, to accomplish it simple for end-learners to download accordant agreeable on the fly to their iPods, iPhones and through YouTube videos for educational purposes.
Cardinali’s podcast aswell data Giunti Labs’ contempo accretion of the HarvestRoad’s Hive® agenda athenaeum and abstruse agreeable administration arrangement (TCMS), which are now chip with Giunti Labs’ solutions for agreeable assembly and management. These technologies are able accoutrement that can drive the acceptance and success of the agenda marketplace.
From his angle as Chair of the European Learning industry Group (ELIG), Cardinali closes his podcast altercation on how the apple abridgement is affecting the industry and expresses his optimism on advance appear standards for reusable and accountable content. Cardinali expresses his acceptance that accessible architectures like OKI and standards including SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge, Moodle and Sakai will accumulate the packaging, agriculture and administration of acquirements content.
end
Further advice from:
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Patrick Rafter, Giunti Labs North America (Boston, MA), +1-617-901-2697, p.rafter@giunitlabs.com
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
c/o Bob Little Press & PR
23 Sherwood Avenue
St Albans
Herts
AL4 9QJ
UK
tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405
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 HarvestRoad Hive®
HarvestRoad Hive is a Federated Digital Repository System (FDRS). It manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives.
It is advised to authorize a arch amid islands of agreeable aural and above assorted institutions or organisations, behindhand of the blazon of agreeable or purpose for its existence. HarvestRoad Hive is acclimated to abundance and administer so alleged "learning objects" or "knowledge objects" and their metadata, accumulate these into standards-compliant packages, and bear that agreeable on appeal to acquirements and advance administration systems, accumulated training systems or web portals.
HarvestRoad Hive is an absolute agenda repository; it 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.
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.
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."
End
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
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
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.
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."
End
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
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
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.
Echelon Corporation - Survey confirms Echelon’s belief for connected success
Learning specialist Echelon has accustomed a able vote of aplomb from its barter via the after-effects of its contempo ‘Client Survey’ – which, in particular, rated Echelon’s ‘attitude’ and ‘flexibility’ acutely highly.
Echelon’s applicant analysis asked its clients, which cover carriage and acumen undertakings, accessible area bodies such as NHS Trusts, bookish bodies and able institutes, to amount – anonymously - its achievement over the endure year adjoin a alternation of eight criteria. Every acknowledgment rated Echelon as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ for anniversary of these criteria.
The top scoring belief were ‘attitude’ and ‘flexibility’.
Commenting on this, David Hill, Echelon’s managing director, said: “In agreement of attitude, our mantra is that we get things done appropriate aboriginal time – and we are focused on affair our clients’ needs.
“Moreover, our analysis shows that the acumen that audience appear to us is to get a absolutely bespoke account to bout their organisation’s acquirements needs. We don’t advertise a band-aid analytic for a problem.”
Illustrating the assortment of approaches that Echelon has active to accommodated accurate ‘learning challenges’, Hill added: “For example, if alive with London and Continental Rail (LCR) in the countdown to the aperture of St Pancras International, we advised an avant-garde access to application and consecration by application actors in Forum Theatre and bearing adaptable acquirements abstracts for the St Pancras International employees.
“And, for an NHS Trust, we created the ‘One Thousand Ideas’ programme, which enabled patients, users and agents to analyze up to 1,000 applied opportunities for bigger account delivery. The programme provided means of breeding and capturing account from patients and staff; beheld methods to acquaint Trust account attempt and agent commitments; agency of capturing and communicating outputs and outcomes alternating with training accoutrement bare to sustain a account advance culture,” he said.
The archetype in which Echelon performed ‘least well’ – but still accomplished an all-embracing achievement basis of 75 per cent – was ‘detail’. Hill commented: “Being a publishing company, detail is important to us.
“We are currently traveling through the action of accomplishing ISO 9001 – which should advice us to advance our achievement in this respect. Indeed, to advice us accomplish this above mark, we’ve adopted our own agreeable administration arrangement to advice us certificate and adviser all our centralized procedures.”
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About the Echelon Client Survey
The Echelon Client Survey accustomed a 100 per cent acknowledgment from 25 per cent of Echelon’s accepted clients. These cover carriage and acumen undertakings, accessible area bodies such as NHS Trusts, bookish bodies and able institutes.
Measuring Echelon’s achievement adjoin the eight belief - attitude; details; value; flexibility; implementation; innovation; effectiveness, and compassionate – Echelon’s audience denticulate Echelon’s achievement in anniversary chic over the endure year at or aloft ‘75 per cent’ (ie ‘good’ or ‘excellent’). The everyman scoring archetype – detail – admiring a account of 75 per cent.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228; Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk
About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies
Echelon’s applicant analysis asked its clients, which cover carriage and acumen undertakings, accessible area bodies such as NHS Trusts, bookish bodies and able institutes, to amount – anonymously - its achievement over the endure year adjoin a alternation of eight criteria. Every acknowledgment rated Echelon as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ for anniversary of these criteria.
The top scoring belief were ‘attitude’ and ‘flexibility’.
Commenting on this, David Hill, Echelon’s managing director, said: “In agreement of attitude, our mantra is that we get things done appropriate aboriginal time – and we are focused on affair our clients’ needs.
“Moreover, our analysis shows that the acumen that audience appear to us is to get a absolutely bespoke account to bout their organisation’s acquirements needs. We don’t advertise a band-aid analytic for a problem.”
Illustrating the assortment of approaches that Echelon has active to accommodated accurate ‘learning challenges’, Hill added: “For example, if alive with London and Continental Rail (LCR) in the countdown to the aperture of St Pancras International, we advised an avant-garde access to application and consecration by application actors in Forum Theatre and bearing adaptable acquirements abstracts for the St Pancras International employees.
“And, for an NHS Trust, we created the ‘One Thousand Ideas’ programme, which enabled patients, users and agents to analyze up to 1,000 applied opportunities for bigger account delivery. The programme provided means of breeding and capturing account from patients and staff; beheld methods to acquaint Trust account attempt and agent commitments; agency of capturing and communicating outputs and outcomes alternating with training accoutrement bare to sustain a account advance culture,” he said.
The archetype in which Echelon performed ‘least well’ – but still accomplished an all-embracing achievement basis of 75 per cent – was ‘detail’. Hill commented: “Being a publishing company, detail is important to us.
“We are currently traveling through the action of accomplishing ISO 9001 – which should advice us to advance our achievement in this respect. Indeed, to advice us accomplish this above mark, we’ve adopted our own agreeable administration arrangement to advice us certificate and adviser all our centralized procedures.”
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About the Echelon Client Survey
The Echelon Client Survey accustomed a 100 per cent acknowledgment from 25 per cent of Echelon’s accepted clients. These cover carriage and acumen undertakings, accessible area bodies such as NHS Trusts, bookish bodies and able institutes.
Measuring Echelon’s achievement adjoin the eight belief - attitude; details; value; flexibility; implementation; innovation; effectiveness, and compassionate – Echelon’s audience denticulate Echelon’s achievement in anniversary chic over the endure year at or aloft ‘75 per cent’ (ie ‘good’ or ‘excellent’). The everyman scoring archetype – detail – admiring a account of 75 per cent.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228; Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk
About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies
Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs wins ‘Platinum’ at the IMS Global Learning Consortium ‘2008 Learning Impact Awards’
Leading acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration technology provider, Giunti Labs has won a ‘Platinum’ Learning Impact Award (LIA). The Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact acquirements agreeable administration arrangement LCMS won the accolade for its appliance with Volkswagen Group Italia, the absolutely endemic Italian accessory of the Volkswagen Group, which distributes Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Italy.
This appliance of the apprentice eXact LCMS aswell won two ‘best in category’ awards - for the best accumulated training band-aid and the best acquirements arrangement - from shortlisted entries calm from all over the world.
A adorning banker network; accretion the amount of participants in training and the amount of bare training courses; the accretion amount of car models, and their abstruse complexity; the accretion charge to alternation staff, dealers and account ally rapidly, as able-bodied as ascent the above standards in training prompted Volkswagen Group Italia to apparatus a attenuated acquirements approach.
This access addresses alone training needs by defining key competencies and accomplishment gaps.
Volkswagen Group Italia uses this appraisal to plan tailored training programmes to advance individuals’ key competencies.
This has bigger the availability of training courses and cut down the charge for contiguous training, appropriately abbreviation ‘time to competency’ for learners. The advance in all-embracing ability in training reduces training costs – conspicuously those associated with biking and time.
In turn, this has added the organisation’s all-embracing productivity.
In 2005, Volkswagen Group Italia called Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact for its e-learning programme implementation.
Volkswagen Group Italia bare to actualize a multi-domain portal, which could be absolutely chip with PetrA, the banker portal; BDO, the banker database, and Ad@ the employees’ portal. The aim was to accomplish abounding affiliation of ‘single assurance on’ with company’s appliance for the contiguous training activities.
Multi-delivery options – via such things as CD-ROM, Mobiles, Smartphones, and even wearable PCs - action dealers and account ally a top amount of adaptability in accessing the acquirements materials.
“Advanced user achievement tracking functionalities of the called belvedere are axiological as able-bodied as abilities administration options for alone acquirements programme planning,” explained Volkswagen Group Italia’s Laura Apostoli. “Learning Object based agreeable assembly architectonics and acquiescence with the capital e-learning standards and blueprint agreement that the adopted band-aid is approaching proof.
“Essentially, the customised apprentice eXact LCMS band-aid allows Volkswagen Group Italia to organise all its acquirements agreeable into one individual LCMS and agenda repository. Most importantly, Volkswagen Group Italia bequest agreeable has been transferred into the arrangement and tagged with a SCORM-based metadata and taxonomies framework.
“Using this access enables Volkswagen Group Italia to dispense and re-use agreeable seamlessly amid altered formats and to actualize altered deliveries of the aforementioned agreeable from one individual source,” she said.
During 2006, 18 training courses were deployed above altered brands and training sectors in the Volkswagen Group Italia. Based on the absolute after-effects and the feedback, apprentice eXact has now been absolutely chip in the banker portal.
The LIAs - the after-effects of the world’s anniversary antagonism of top appulse use of technology to abutment and enhance acquirements - were appear by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. The LIAs recognise use of technology – in ambience - to advance acquirements above all industry segments and in all regions of the world.
Twenty-three finalists were evaluated by an able console of board at the IMS anniversary Learning Impact appointment and Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges, captivated in Austin, Texas. 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
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Press contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK. tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405 email bob.little@dial.pipex.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 ambit and brands such as Giunti Labs. Giunti Labs, 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.
About IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC)
IMS Global Learning is a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. IMS GLC associates accommodate administration in abstraction and growing the acquirements industry through association development of interoperability and acceptance convenance standards and acceptance of the acknowledgment on investment from acquirements and educational technology. For added information, including the world's a lot of absolute set of acquirements technology interoperability standards, advice on the anniversary Learning Impact appointment and awards program, and chargeless association assets for acquirements technology leaders, appointment www.imsglobal.org
About Volkswagen Group Italia
Volkswagen Group Italia, based in Verona, is the absolutely endemic Italian accessory of the Volkswagen Group, distributing Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
Volkswagen Group Italia has about 1.000 advisers and over 1,300 dealers and account partners. Specific training, aiming at convalescent affairs ability and account above is advised for added than 20,000 workers in dealers and account partners.
This appliance of the apprentice eXact LCMS aswell won two ‘best in category’ awards - for the best accumulated training band-aid and the best acquirements arrangement - from shortlisted entries calm from all over the world.
A adorning banker network; accretion the amount of participants in training and the amount of bare training courses; the accretion amount of car models, and their abstruse complexity; the accretion charge to alternation staff, dealers and account ally rapidly, as able-bodied as ascent the above standards in training prompted Volkswagen Group Italia to apparatus a attenuated acquirements approach.
This access addresses alone training needs by defining key competencies and accomplishment gaps.
Volkswagen Group Italia uses this appraisal to plan tailored training programmes to advance individuals’ key competencies.
This has bigger the availability of training courses and cut down the charge for contiguous training, appropriately abbreviation ‘time to competency’ for learners. The advance in all-embracing ability in training reduces training costs – conspicuously those associated with biking and time.
In turn, this has added the organisation’s all-embracing productivity.
In 2005, Volkswagen Group Italia called Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact for its e-learning programme implementation.
Volkswagen Group Italia bare to actualize a multi-domain portal, which could be absolutely chip with PetrA, the banker portal; BDO, the banker database, and Ad@ the employees’ portal. The aim was to accomplish abounding affiliation of ‘single assurance on’ with company’s appliance for the contiguous training activities.
Multi-delivery options – via such things as CD-ROM, Mobiles, Smartphones, and even wearable PCs - action dealers and account ally a top amount of adaptability in accessing the acquirements materials.
“Advanced user achievement tracking functionalities of the called belvedere are axiological as able-bodied as abilities administration options for alone acquirements programme planning,” explained Volkswagen Group Italia’s Laura Apostoli. “Learning Object based agreeable assembly architectonics and acquiescence with the capital e-learning standards and blueprint agreement that the adopted band-aid is approaching proof.
“Essentially, the customised apprentice eXact LCMS band-aid allows Volkswagen Group Italia to organise all its acquirements agreeable into one individual LCMS and agenda repository. Most importantly, Volkswagen Group Italia bequest agreeable has been transferred into the arrangement and tagged with a SCORM-based metadata and taxonomies framework.
“Using this access enables Volkswagen Group Italia to dispense and re-use agreeable seamlessly amid altered formats and to actualize altered deliveries of the aforementioned agreeable from one individual source,” she said.
During 2006, 18 training courses were deployed above altered brands and training sectors in the Volkswagen Group Italia. Based on the absolute after-effects and the feedback, apprentice eXact has now been absolutely chip in the banker portal.
The LIAs - the after-effects of the world’s anniversary antagonism of top appulse use of technology to abutment and enhance acquirements - were appear by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. The LIAs recognise use of technology – in ambience - to advance acquirements above all industry segments and in all regions of the world.
Twenty-three finalists were evaluated by an able console of board at the IMS anniversary Learning Impact appointment and Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges, captivated in Austin, Texas. 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
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Press contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK. tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405 email bob.little@dial.pipex.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 ambit and brands such as Giunti Labs. Giunti Labs, 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.
About IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC)
IMS Global Learning is a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. IMS GLC associates accommodate administration in abstraction and growing the acquirements industry through association development of interoperability and acceptance convenance standards and acceptance of the acknowledgment on investment from acquirements and educational technology. For added information, including the world's a lot of absolute set of acquirements technology interoperability standards, advice on the anniversary Learning Impact appointment and awards program, and chargeless association assets for acquirements technology leaders, appointment www.imsglobal.org
About Volkswagen Group Italia
Volkswagen Group Italia, based in Verona, is the absolutely endemic Italian accessory of the Volkswagen Group, distributing Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
Volkswagen Group Italia has about 1.000 advisers and over 1,300 dealers and account partners. Specific training, aiming at convalescent affairs ability and account above is advised for added than 20,000 workers in dealers and account partners.
Nvolve Limited - E-Learning Provides the Answer to Effective Training
Store this angel in big sizeIn contempo years added and added companies are axis to e-learning to bear their training needs as this adjustment enables the accumulation of added training to added humans and added amount efficiently. E-learning can aswell be said to be fast, convenient, connected and abundantly effective. Some studies accept apparent that assimilation amount is up to 250 percent greater with e-Learning than with a alone classroom-based model.
The alternative of courses is one of the a lot of important accomplish in putting calm a acknowledged e-learning program. The agreeable a lot of abode the abilities to be developed based on company’s business objectives. The best is awful abased on the acquirements and development organisation compassionate what the abecedarian needs to know. Choices have to aswell account how the abecedarian needs to apprentice and axle the date of acquirements that they are in. There are 5 stages of acquirements that a affairs needs to address
Initial acquirements – new abilities and concepts are presented to the abecedarian for the aboriginal time.
Continued acquirements – the abecedarian has a foundation of ability in the affair across and is extending it.
Remedial acquirements – refresher learning
Upgrade acquirements – the abecedarian is advanced from adequacy at an aboriginal akin to adequacy at a top akin in the affair area.
Transferred acquirements to new technology – the abecedarian knows the concepts on the affair across and is appointment them to a altered operational area.
Irish based aggregation Nvolve Limited who specialise in accouterment training administration solutions to organisations accept that audience accept altered objectives and are at altered stages of the acquirements process. Taking this into application Nvolve Limited can actualize a customised clothier fabricated band-aid to accommodated the needs of anniversary alone customer. Nvolve accept developed a attenuated acquirements band-aid that leverages classroom, online and adaptable technologies that can alternation advisers in accumulation or alone format, online or offline, at a atom of the amount of the acceptable training methods.
To acquisition out added amuse feel chargeless to acquaintance Nvolve on +353 7491 16000
Nvolve Limited (UK, Ireland, North America) are specialists in the development of acquirements technologies including acquirements administration systems, Learning agreeable administration systems, elearning, attenuated learning, training keypads and handsets, aptitude administration and abstracts systems. Their focus aural elearning is Food hygiene, HACCP, Health & Safety, Food Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical regulations, Medical Devices, IT Regulations, Compliance. Contact Nvolve on +353 7491 16000
Nvolve Limited
BDC, LYIT, Port Rd, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Nvolve Limited specialise in accouterment training administration solutions to organisations above a ambit of industries.
By accumulation classroom learning, elearning and adaptable acquirements technologies accompanying with the able appearance of Nvolve’s acquirements administration system, Nvolve accept become a bazaar baton in accouterment a absolutely paperless attenuated acquirements solution.
The alternative of courses is one of the a lot of important accomplish in putting calm a acknowledged e-learning program. The agreeable a lot of abode the abilities to be developed based on company’s business objectives. The best is awful abased on the acquirements and development organisation compassionate what the abecedarian needs to know. Choices have to aswell account how the abecedarian needs to apprentice and axle the date of acquirements that they are in. There are 5 stages of acquirements that a affairs needs to address
Initial acquirements – new abilities and concepts are presented to the abecedarian for the aboriginal time.
Continued acquirements – the abecedarian has a foundation of ability in the affair across and is extending it.
Remedial acquirements – refresher learning
Upgrade acquirements – the abecedarian is advanced from adequacy at an aboriginal akin to adequacy at a top akin in the affair area.
Transferred acquirements to new technology – the abecedarian knows the concepts on the affair across and is appointment them to a altered operational area.
Irish based aggregation Nvolve Limited who specialise in accouterment training administration solutions to organisations accept that audience accept altered objectives and are at altered stages of the acquirements process. Taking this into application Nvolve Limited can actualize a customised clothier fabricated band-aid to accommodated the needs of anniversary alone customer. Nvolve accept developed a attenuated acquirements band-aid that leverages classroom, online and adaptable technologies that can alternation advisers in accumulation or alone format, online or offline, at a atom of the amount of the acceptable training methods.
To acquisition out added amuse feel chargeless to acquaintance Nvolve on +353 7491 16000
Nvolve Limited (UK, Ireland, North America) are specialists in the development of acquirements technologies including acquirements administration systems, Learning agreeable administration systems, elearning, attenuated learning, training keypads and handsets, aptitude administration and abstracts systems. Their focus aural elearning is Food hygiene, HACCP, Health & Safety, Food Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical regulations, Medical Devices, IT Regulations, Compliance. Contact Nvolve on +353 7491 16000
Nvolve Limited
BDC, LYIT, Port Rd, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Nvolve Limited specialise in accouterment training administration solutions to organisations above a ambit of industries.
By accumulation classroom learning, elearning and adaptable acquirements technologies accompanying with the able appearance of Nvolve’s acquirements administration system, Nvolve accept become a bazaar baton in accouterment a absolutely paperless attenuated acquirements solution.
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
PR Contant: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
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
PR Contant: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Echelon Corporation - Echelon appoints Alistair Morrison as CEO
The consultancy-led publishing house, Echelon Learning, has appointed Alistair Morrison as its CEO.
This agency that David Hill, who has headed up Echelon Learning back its birth in 1986, becomes the company’s Chairman, while application the role of Services Director to abutment key clients. Jenny Hill continues to advance the company’s consultancy division.
David Hill commented: “Alistair Morrison has a continued affiliation with Echelon, accepting ahead served as a non-executive administrator of the company.
“His admonition and advice accept accepted to be awful admired to Echelon in the accomplished and so we are captivated that he is now devoting even added of his great energies and business accuracy to added our could cause and advice us accomplish our business goals. His acquaintance in the areas of business consultancy, agent communications and e-learning are absolutely what is appropriate to advance Echelon as we abide to advance and expand.”
Morrison, who abutting Echelon from The Fifth Business - an centralized communications and e-learning aggregation alive principally in the oil and gas industries – ahead ran his own business consultancy company, Strathmore Business Consulting, with audience that included HSBC and Lorien plc. Before that, he was an operational axle administrator at defence and amplitude specialists Vega plc.
Prior to abutting Vega, Morrison was architect and managing administrator of acquirements agreeable ambassador Skillchange Systems - one of the aboriginal leaders and innovators in the UK’s e-learning market. More recently, he has served as a non-executive administrator with web development aggregation Netcel, LMS bell-ringer Cobent, and architecture consultancy Juice.
“I’m captivated to accept abutting Echelon,” Morrison said.
”This is a aggregation with a abundant clue almanac and a absurd applicant base. Moreover, it has a acceptability for top above deliverables that accomplish a absolute appulse with its clients.
“At a time if analysis is advertence that organisations are added assisting if their advisers are absolutely affianced with their employer’s eyes and strategy, there has never been a greater charge for companies such as Echelon Learning. Our amount business is the accomplishing of communications and acquirements solutions that actuate and advance agents to bear their companies’ casting and chump account promises.
“We accept solid consulting ability and abounding multimedia development capabilities that accredit us to actualize a absolute ambit of solutions, from absolute centralized communications strategies to project-based campaigns and alone apprenticeship and training interventions.
“Our bespoke solutions are accurate by our absolute library of over 2,000 modules of on-line learning. We are absolutely able to abutment audience administer the animal aspect of above change initiatives and to drive improvements to business-as-usual performance,” Morrison added.
Morrison will be authoritative his industry contacts and ample banking and business acquaintance accessible to Echelon Learning as it pursues a action of not alone accretion its amount business of acquirements and consultancy casework but aswell diversifies into application added learning-related markets.
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Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228; Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk
A account of Alistair Morrison is available, on request, from Bob Little Press & PR (tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@boblittlepr.com)
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 00 44 (0) 20 8568 1500; fax 00 44 (0) 20 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@didal.pipex.com; web www.boblittlepr.com
About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated learning, based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
This agency that David Hill, who has headed up Echelon Learning back its birth in 1986, becomes the company’s Chairman, while application the role of Services Director to abutment key clients. Jenny Hill continues to advance the company’s consultancy division.
David Hill commented: “Alistair Morrison has a continued affiliation with Echelon, accepting ahead served as a non-executive administrator of the company.
“His admonition and advice accept accepted to be awful admired to Echelon in the accomplished and so we are captivated that he is now devoting even added of his great energies and business accuracy to added our could cause and advice us accomplish our business goals. His acquaintance in the areas of business consultancy, agent communications and e-learning are absolutely what is appropriate to advance Echelon as we abide to advance and expand.”
Morrison, who abutting Echelon from The Fifth Business - an centralized communications and e-learning aggregation alive principally in the oil and gas industries – ahead ran his own business consultancy company, Strathmore Business Consulting, with audience that included HSBC and Lorien plc. Before that, he was an operational axle administrator at defence and amplitude specialists Vega plc.
Prior to abutting Vega, Morrison was architect and managing administrator of acquirements agreeable ambassador Skillchange Systems - one of the aboriginal leaders and innovators in the UK’s e-learning market. More recently, he has served as a non-executive administrator with web development aggregation Netcel, LMS bell-ringer Cobent, and architecture consultancy Juice.
“I’m captivated to accept abutting Echelon,” Morrison said.
”This is a aggregation with a abundant clue almanac and a absurd applicant base. Moreover, it has a acceptability for top above deliverables that accomplish a absolute appulse with its clients.
“At a time if analysis is advertence that organisations are added assisting if their advisers are absolutely affianced with their employer’s eyes and strategy, there has never been a greater charge for companies such as Echelon Learning. Our amount business is the accomplishing of communications and acquirements solutions that actuate and advance agents to bear their companies’ casting and chump account promises.
“We accept solid consulting ability and abounding multimedia development capabilities that accredit us to actualize a absolute ambit of solutions, from absolute centralized communications strategies to project-based campaigns and alone apprenticeship and training interventions.
“Our bespoke solutions are accurate by our absolute library of over 2,000 modules of on-line learning. We are absolutely able to abutment audience administer the animal aspect of above change initiatives and to drive improvements to business-as-usual performance,” Morrison added.
Morrison will be authoritative his industry contacts and ample banking and business acquaintance accessible to Echelon Learning as it pursues a action of not alone accretion its amount business of acquirements and consultancy casework but aswell diversifies into application added learning-related markets.
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Media contact: Peter Muir Tel + 44 (0)1296 715228; Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk
A account of Alistair Morrison is available, on request, from Bob Little Press & PR (tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@boblittlepr.com)
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 00 44 (0) 20 8568 1500; fax 00 44 (0) 20 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email bob.little@didal.pipex.com; web www.boblittlepr.com
About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated learning, based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
Echelon Corporation - Survey letters connected advance in CPD importance
Latest analysis reveals abiding advance in the use of connected able development (CPD) by UK able bodies.
The third anniversary CPD analysis by e-publisher Echelon Publishing focused on the accepted accouterment of CPD by able bodies, their approaching needs, and whether and how they will ambition to publish, deliver and clue CPD in the future.
The analysis begin that:
•CPD is binding for some 50% of responding institutions. This represents alone a bordering access on the amount from Echelon’s 2006 CPD analysis but is still a decidedly top amount a allotment of the UK’s able bodies.
•The accent of CPD is overextension from able and abstruse acquirements to business and claimed 'soft' skills.
•There is a about-face in accent from ascribe – that is, the amount of hours spent on the acquirements - to output, in added words, what the appliance of the CPD is to the learner’s job. Thus there is a about-face in CPD accent from able capability to claimed effectiveness.
•This makes it added difficult to adviser and appraise ‘CPD’ (because the action is affective from ecology hours spent on CPD to outcomes advance above a accomplished ambit of disciplines).
•Although about every organisation surveyed offered users the adeptness to log their CPD activities online, there has not been a cogent move to accouterment online alternate acquirements applications during the process. This shows little change from the after-effects of Echelon’s 2004 and 2006 surveys.
Commenting on the analysis findings, Echelon’s Chairman, David Hill, said, "This year’s analysis reflects – and reinforces - the accent absorbed by able bodies to advancement the able standards of their members.
"It is absurd to be continued afore barter appeal that able admonition is accustomed alone by those who accept kept their ability and abilities up to date."
Echelon manages the development and affiliation of apprentice and members’ acquirements on account of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Echelon CPD Survey is allotment of a alternation of acquirements surveys conducted by the company.
For copies of the 2008 CPD Survey, email davidhill@echelonl.com
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About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; web www.boblittlepr.com
The third anniversary CPD analysis by e-publisher Echelon Publishing focused on the accepted accouterment of CPD by able bodies, their approaching needs, and whether and how they will ambition to publish, deliver and clue CPD in the future.
The analysis begin that:
•CPD is binding for some 50% of responding institutions. This represents alone a bordering access on the amount from Echelon’s 2006 CPD analysis but is still a decidedly top amount a allotment of the UK’s able bodies.
•The accent of CPD is overextension from able and abstruse acquirements to business and claimed 'soft' skills.
•There is a about-face in accent from ascribe – that is, the amount of hours spent on the acquirements - to output, in added words, what the appliance of the CPD is to the learner’s job. Thus there is a about-face in CPD accent from able capability to claimed effectiveness.
•This makes it added difficult to adviser and appraise ‘CPD’ (because the action is affective from ecology hours spent on CPD to outcomes advance above a accomplished ambit of disciplines).
•Although about every organisation surveyed offered users the adeptness to log their CPD activities online, there has not been a cogent move to accouterment online alternate acquirements applications during the process. This shows little change from the after-effects of Echelon’s 2004 and 2006 surveys.
Commenting on the analysis findings, Echelon’s Chairman, David Hill, said, "This year’s analysis reflects – and reinforces - the accent absorbed by able bodies to advancement the able standards of their members.
"It is absurd to be continued afore barter appeal that able admonition is accustomed alone by those who accept kept their ability and abilities up to date."
Echelon manages the development and affiliation of apprentice and members’ acquirements on account of organisations including the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Echelon CPD Survey is allotment of a alternation of acquirements surveys conducted by the company.
For copies of the 2008 CPD Survey, email davidhill@echelonl.com
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About Echelon Learning Ltd
Echelon Learning is a consultancy-led publishing abode that integrates electronically-delivered ability and acquirements into the development of administration abilities and business performance.
Echelon Consulting spearheads the company’s account with the development of new agreeable in affair clients’ requirements. This is usually acquired from analysing agent ability and acquirements needs captured during applicant acquirements programmes.
Where appropriate, Echelon Publishing again offers this new agreeable to a added admirers by publishing the actual in all-encompassing format. This is fabricated accessible in the anatomy of simple to use ‘learning nuggets’ and is complimented with business development advice accountant alone from one of the market’s best-known providers, Bloomsbury.
Echelon e-Learning provides the cyberbanking systems which accredit agreeable to be published, broadcast and acceptance tracked, and offers work-based solutions to a all-around audience. Echelon’s attenuated acquirements based on a bespoke website busy with actual called to abutment specific courses, builds ability above-mentioned to the accident and refreshes appliance if aback at the desk.
Echelon technologies advice organisations abode solutions at people’s fingertips, whether analytic accustomed business and work-related problems or allowance accretion abilities and connected able development.
Echelon:
• Has a agreeable administration arrangement enabling advisory or acquirements actual to be developed or adapted into XML so that it can be appear and broadcast in argument and/or via the web.
• Has a acquirements administration arrangement to accommodate accessible acceptance via the web to awful structured information, which is calmly searched and retrieved, and whose acceptance can be tracked and acquirements logged.
• Publishes and/or reformats agreeable for able bodies and bartering organisations to advice acceptance and advisers advance or advance requisite abilities throughout their careers.
• Supports humans from the alpha of their careers in alive with able bodies to advance and bear the acquirements agreeable appropriate by acceptance in advancing for examination.
• Frees up the ability and acquirements absolute aural a business so that humans accept accessible acceptance to these assets in allowance them to break problems or advance their careers.
• Works with a amount of abject cavity organisations and able bodies.
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road, LONDON W5 4RP
tel 020 8568 1500; fax 020 8560 6612; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: David Hill Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500; Email: david@echelonl.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; web www.boblittlepr.com
eLearning Network - The eLN debates the secrets of architecture agreeable e-learning
Methods and media; acquirements strategies; architecture processes, and personality, ethics and culture, are the four stages in creating able and agreeable e-learning, believes e-learning artist ‘guru’, Patrick Dunn. Addressing the affair of ‘designing agreeable e-learning’, Dunn explained his appearance at a meeting, in London, of the eLN - a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning association for the e-learning community.
Dunn’s presentation was one of seven presentations on this affair to eLN members. Held in London, these affairs action associates not alone a adventitious to become abreast about, and discuss, the latest tips and techniques in the e-learning apple but aswell to arrangement with added users and developers of e-learning.
Membership of the eLN now stands at over 1,500 – and, afterwards some 20 years of accepting a ‘UK-only’ organisation, it now numbers several associates who are based alfresco the UK. The affair at which Dunn spoke, for example, admiring assembly from Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic as able-bodied as from the UK.
Dunn who, a allotment of added things, has formed for e-learning companies in the US and UK as able-bodied as for PricewaterhouseCoopers, holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, an MSc in Networked Learning and a music amount from Oxford University. As anyone who has been designing, bearing and cerebration about assorted forms of acquirements technology back the aboriginal 1980s, he explained that, in the seek for added interactivity, acquirements designers tend to body pictures, action and so on into their programmes.
He observed: “Although we assume to apperceive the answers to authoritative e-learning added agreeable we aren’t applying them. That’s apparently because there aren’t abundant trained, accomplished acquirements designers and because designers abridgement simple applied accoutrement to advice them.”
Dunn proposed an acronym – ‘CREAM’ – to awning the key appearance architecture assurance with acquirements materials: control, relevance, emotion, action and ‘multi-sensory environment’ (using a aggregate of video, audio, graphics, action and so on). He said: “If you accord learners ascendancy of their learning, you accomplish the acquirements acquaintance accordant to them – enabling them to acknowledgment the catechism ‘what’s in it for me?’ at every akin of the learning.
“You charge to be acquainted of the amount of affect – application ball and stories, humour, abruptness and ‘controlled safe failure’ to appoint with learners on an affecting level,” he continued. “You charge to get learners to crop action – but accepting them to bang a button to get added advice does not calculation as ‘action’.
“Engaging e-learning is about the adapted use of methods and media – but it’s alone a baby allotment of the answer,” he said. “For example, acquirements strategies – top akin plans, based on the attempt of learning, about how to change humans and break learners’ achievement problems - could cause humans to change. Methods and media may be the approach acclimated but afterward a acquirements action is important to developing agreeable e-learning because learners are antipathetic of abominably advised acquirements abstracts that decay their time.
“The architecture processes are aswell key,” he continued. “A abundant accord of e-learning is debris is because those who aftermath it anticipate of it as ‘engineering’ rather than ‘art’.
“We charge to architecture ‘experiences’ not agreeable – because humans apprentice from experiences, not from content. Designers charge to accept the acquirements problem; how learners charge to change; what acquaintance may accompany about this change, and what agreeable is bare to abutment this experience.
“Designers are declared to activate with achievement objectives; use these to acquire acquirements objectives; again devise the acquirements strategy, finally, the acquirements tactics,” Dunn explained.
“However, abounding designers generally about-face this process. That is ‘good design’: it’s accepted and fluid.
“It can be a absolute advice to activate by developing a prototype,” he said. “This provides something ‘concrete’ for appraisal and about which to anatomy opinions.
“This is about ability and values, not just the action associated with bearing acquirements materials. Prototype-driven cultures are bigger able to accomplish what added humans charge and want.
“So, agreeable e-learning is complete application fluid, accepted user-focused processes,” he stated.
Finally, Dunn alien the affair of ‘culture and personality’. He explained that accumulated cultures abide on several levels, including ‘representations and symbols’, ‘norms and behaviours’ and, at the amount of the organisation, ‘beliefs and assumptions’.
“If an organisation’s behavior and assumptions don’t abutment ‘fun’, agreeable e-learning, it won’t aftermath or use it – behindhand of what it says,” Dunn observed. “So, as a designer, you charge to accept the organisational characteristics that animate or anticipate developing agreeable e-learning.
“So, agreeable e-learning is body by organisations with adapted cultural ethics – and by humans with a ‘design orientation’,” Dunn said.
For added data of the eLN appointment www.elearningnetwork.org
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The eLearning Network (eLN) is a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning association for the e-learning community. The eLN is the amount one antecedent for advice on best convenance and approaching trends in technology-based acquirements and development at work, with added than 1,500 associates in the UK and beyond.
For added advice about the eLN and eLN events, alarm +44 (0)1273 561714 or appointment www.elearningnetwork.org
The eLearning Network
c/o Thrift Cottage, Common Road,
HADLOW, TN11 0JE
UK
tel 00 44 (0)1732 850650; email info@elearningnetwork.org
Contact: Clive Shepherd, The eLearning Network, +44 (0)1273 561714
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St ALbans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0) 1727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Dunn’s presentation was one of seven presentations on this affair to eLN members. Held in London, these affairs action associates not alone a adventitious to become abreast about, and discuss, the latest tips and techniques in the e-learning apple but aswell to arrangement with added users and developers of e-learning.
Membership of the eLN now stands at over 1,500 – and, afterwards some 20 years of accepting a ‘UK-only’ organisation, it now numbers several associates who are based alfresco the UK. The affair at which Dunn spoke, for example, admiring assembly from Germany, Norway and the Czech Republic as able-bodied as from the UK.
Dunn who, a allotment of added things, has formed for e-learning companies in the US and UK as able-bodied as for PricewaterhouseCoopers, holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, an MSc in Networked Learning and a music amount from Oxford University. As anyone who has been designing, bearing and cerebration about assorted forms of acquirements technology back the aboriginal 1980s, he explained that, in the seek for added interactivity, acquirements designers tend to body pictures, action and so on into their programmes.
He observed: “Although we assume to apperceive the answers to authoritative e-learning added agreeable we aren’t applying them. That’s apparently because there aren’t abundant trained, accomplished acquirements designers and because designers abridgement simple applied accoutrement to advice them.”
Dunn proposed an acronym – ‘CREAM’ – to awning the key appearance architecture assurance with acquirements materials: control, relevance, emotion, action and ‘multi-sensory environment’ (using a aggregate of video, audio, graphics, action and so on). He said: “If you accord learners ascendancy of their learning, you accomplish the acquirements acquaintance accordant to them – enabling them to acknowledgment the catechism ‘what’s in it for me?’ at every akin of the learning.
“You charge to be acquainted of the amount of affect – application ball and stories, humour, abruptness and ‘controlled safe failure’ to appoint with learners on an affecting level,” he continued. “You charge to get learners to crop action – but accepting them to bang a button to get added advice does not calculation as ‘action’.
“Engaging e-learning is about the adapted use of methods and media – but it’s alone a baby allotment of the answer,” he said. “For example, acquirements strategies – top akin plans, based on the attempt of learning, about how to change humans and break learners’ achievement problems - could cause humans to change. Methods and media may be the approach acclimated but afterward a acquirements action is important to developing agreeable e-learning because learners are antipathetic of abominably advised acquirements abstracts that decay their time.
“The architecture processes are aswell key,” he continued. “A abundant accord of e-learning is debris is because those who aftermath it anticipate of it as ‘engineering’ rather than ‘art’.
“We charge to architecture ‘experiences’ not agreeable – because humans apprentice from experiences, not from content. Designers charge to accept the acquirements problem; how learners charge to change; what acquaintance may accompany about this change, and what agreeable is bare to abutment this experience.
“Designers are declared to activate with achievement objectives; use these to acquire acquirements objectives; again devise the acquirements strategy, finally, the acquirements tactics,” Dunn explained.
“However, abounding designers generally about-face this process. That is ‘good design’: it’s accepted and fluid.
“It can be a absolute advice to activate by developing a prototype,” he said. “This provides something ‘concrete’ for appraisal and about which to anatomy opinions.
“This is about ability and values, not just the action associated with bearing acquirements materials. Prototype-driven cultures are bigger able to accomplish what added humans charge and want.
“So, agreeable e-learning is complete application fluid, accepted user-focused processes,” he stated.
Finally, Dunn alien the affair of ‘culture and personality’. He explained that accumulated cultures abide on several levels, including ‘representations and symbols’, ‘norms and behaviours’ and, at the amount of the organisation, ‘beliefs and assumptions’.
“If an organisation’s behavior and assumptions don’t abutment ‘fun’, agreeable e-learning, it won’t aftermath or use it – behindhand of what it says,” Dunn observed. “So, as a designer, you charge to accept the organisational characteristics that animate or anticipate developing agreeable e-learning.
“So, agreeable e-learning is body by organisations with adapted cultural ethics – and by humans with a ‘design orientation’,” Dunn said.
For added data of the eLN appointment www.elearningnetwork.org
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The eLearning Network (eLN) is a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning association for the e-learning community. The eLN is the amount one antecedent for advice on best convenance and approaching trends in technology-based acquirements and development at work, with added than 1,500 associates in the UK and beyond.
For added advice about the eLN and eLN events, alarm +44 (0)1273 561714 or appointment www.elearningnetwork.org
The eLearning Network
c/o Thrift Cottage, Common Road,
HADLOW, TN11 0JE
UK
tel 00 44 (0)1732 850650; email info@elearningnetwork.org
Contact: Clive Shepherd, The eLearning Network, +44 (0)1273 561714
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St ALbans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0) 1727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs’ CEO joins the IMS Global Learning Consortium Board
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs, and co-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC).
IMS GLC is a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation that encourages and enables the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. IMS Global associates accommodate administration in abstraction and growing the acquirements industry through association development of interoperability and acceptance convenance standards as able-bodied as acceptance of the acknowledgment on investment from acquirements and educational technology.
IMS has accustomed and appear over 20 standards that are the a lot of broadly acclimated acquirements technology standards in the world. IMS GLC standards cover meta-data, agreeable packaging, accepted cartridge, action services, catechism & test, sequencing, competencies, acceptance for all, e-portfolio, abecedarian information, accoutrement interoperability, ability list, sharable accompaniment persistence, cant definition, and acquirements design.
These standards accept been acclimated in college education, K-12 education, and accumulated training in regions about the globe. All IMS GLC standards are accessible chargeless of allegation via the IMS GLC website and can be acclimated after royalty.
Cardinali commented: “Over the endure 11 years, IMS GLC has been active in establishing a bulk of internationally acclimatized acquirements technology standards. In accomplishing so, it has provided adherence and standardisation, which has enabled the acquirements technology industry to authorize itself and accomplish an added admired addition to the private, accessible and apprenticeship sectors of the common economy.
“I am honoured to accept been asked to accompany this organisation’s Board and attending advanced to allowance it accomplish its objectives in the years to come.
IMS’s CEO, Rob Abel said, “We’re captivated that Fabrizio has abutting the IMS board. He brings a abundance of industry knowledge, experience, and key contacts to the post.
“I am abiding that he will be able to play a cardinal allotment in allowance IMS to accomplish its ambition of creating standards for the development and acceptance of technologies that accredit high-quality, accessible, and affordable acquirements experiences.”
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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
Phone: +39 0185 42123;
Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts,AL4 9QJ, UK Tel +44 (0)1727 860405, email bob.little@boblittlepr.com , web www.boblittlepr.com
IMS GLC is a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation that encourages and enables the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. IMS Global associates accommodate administration in abstraction and growing the acquirements industry through association development of interoperability and acceptance convenance standards as able-bodied as acceptance of the acknowledgment on investment from acquirements and educational technology.
IMS has accustomed and appear over 20 standards that are the a lot of broadly acclimated acquirements technology standards in the world. IMS GLC standards cover meta-data, agreeable packaging, accepted cartridge, action services, catechism & test, sequencing, competencies, acceptance for all, e-portfolio, abecedarian information, accoutrement interoperability, ability list, sharable accompaniment persistence, cant definition, and acquirements design.
These standards accept been acclimated in college education, K-12 education, and accumulated training in regions about the globe. All IMS GLC standards are accessible chargeless of allegation via the IMS GLC website and can be acclimated after royalty.
Cardinali commented: “Over the endure 11 years, IMS GLC has been active in establishing a bulk of internationally acclimatized acquirements technology standards. In accomplishing so, it has provided adherence and standardisation, which has enabled the acquirements technology industry to authorize itself and accomplish an added admired addition to the private, accessible and apprenticeship sectors of the common economy.
“I am honoured to accept been asked to accompany this organisation’s Board and attending advanced to allowance it accomplish its objectives in the years to come.
IMS’s CEO, Rob Abel said, “We’re captivated that Fabrizio has abutting the IMS board. He brings a abundance of industry knowledge, experience, and key contacts to the post.
“I am abiding that he will be able to play a cardinal allotment in allowance IMS to accomplish its ambition of creating standards for the development and acceptance of technologies that accredit high-quality, accessible, and affordable acquirements experiences.”
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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
Phone: +39 0185 42123;
Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts,AL4 9QJ, UK Tel +44 (0)1727 860405, email bob.little@boblittlepr.com , web www.boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs - Learning agreeable industry’s approaching beneath altercation at DECOM 2008, a key European accident in Italy
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
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1727 860405, email: bob.little@boblittlepr.com
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
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1727 860405, email: bob.little@boblittlepr.com
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.
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts,AL4 9QJ +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com; www.boblittlepr.com
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.
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts,AL4 9QJ +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com; www.boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs presents, at two above US conferences, its new Online and Mobile acquirements agreeable administration solutions
Leading acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs, is arena a key role in this year’s ‘Learning 2008’ conference, accepting captivated in Orlando, Florida, from 26th to 29th October. The accident – which has admiring over 1,600 assembly - is organised by the accumulated acquirements anticipate tank, The Masie Center, and chaired by Elliott Masie, an internationally recognised futurist, analyst, researcher and antic on technology, business, acquirements and abode productivity.
At Learning 2008, Giunti Labs – via Bryan Eldridge, Chief Solutions Architect of Giunti Labs North America and Michael Wallace, Area Manager, Giunti Labs North America – will be abstinent two sessions at the conference: ‘A absolute adaptable acquirements action for your organisation’ and ‘Better business objectives for action learning’.
“We will be discussing how advice business objectives, such as added revenues, action improvements, added applicant relations and aggressive advantage, into the acquirements organisation colloquial can provides a baseline of acclimatized approaches and a framework with which to admeasurement acquirements outcomes,” said Eldridge.
Wallace added: “Nearly every organisation sees the abeyant in application adaptable accessories for their learners yet abounding questions and apropos are befitting some of them ashore at the starting gate. These questions include, ‘will my learners access acquirements agreeable on a adaptable device?’, ‘What types of acquirements are best ill-fitted for adaptable delivery?’, ‘Will I be able to clue adaptable acquirements on my LMS?’ and ‘Will I accept to charm absolute agreeable so that it can be displayed on a adaptable device?’.
“This affair will awning these questions and added as allotment of a altercation on anecdotic the key elements for creating a adaptable acquirements action for organisations.”
Simultaneously, Giunti Labs’ CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is giving a keynote presentation at the NACOL Virtual School Symposium (VSS), accepting captivated in Phoenix, Arizona, on 27th October. This event, accepting captivated on 27th and 28th October, brings calm over 800 assembly from national, state, district, clandestine and added basic academy programmes to appear the industry’s arch accident in K-12 online learning.
Cardinali, who is aswell joint-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), a accumulation which encompasses all above European Union (EU) stakeholders in the acquirements industry addition cycle, is acclamation ‘Innovating e-learning for the ability association – all-around challenges, threats and opportunities’.
According to Cardinali, the EU faces abounding of the aforementioned challenges that are aswell adverse the United States.
In his presentation, he will action an overview of the approaching of acquirements and how the EU is abutting educational strategies in ambidextrous with globalisation and a knowledge-based economy. Specifically, he will altercate new trends in agenda acquirements resources, from online agreeable to anchored assessment, as able-bodied as new accumulation models through online acquirements administration systems.
For added data of Cardinali’s keynote presentation visit:
www.virtualschoolsymposium.org/speakers.php
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About Giunti Labs
Giunti Group 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, 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
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood AVenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK Tel +44 (0)1727 860405, Email bob.little@boblittlepr.com
At Learning 2008, Giunti Labs – via Bryan Eldridge, Chief Solutions Architect of Giunti Labs North America and Michael Wallace, Area Manager, Giunti Labs North America – will be abstinent two sessions at the conference: ‘A absolute adaptable acquirements action for your organisation’ and ‘Better business objectives for action learning’.
“We will be discussing how advice business objectives, such as added revenues, action improvements, added applicant relations and aggressive advantage, into the acquirements organisation colloquial can provides a baseline of acclimatized approaches and a framework with which to admeasurement acquirements outcomes,” said Eldridge.
Wallace added: “Nearly every organisation sees the abeyant in application adaptable accessories for their learners yet abounding questions and apropos are befitting some of them ashore at the starting gate. These questions include, ‘will my learners access acquirements agreeable on a adaptable device?’, ‘What types of acquirements are best ill-fitted for adaptable delivery?’, ‘Will I be able to clue adaptable acquirements on my LMS?’ and ‘Will I accept to charm absolute agreeable so that it can be displayed on a adaptable device?’.
“This affair will awning these questions and added as allotment of a altercation on anecdotic the key elements for creating a adaptable acquirements action for organisations.”
Simultaneously, Giunti Labs’ CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is giving a keynote presentation at the NACOL Virtual School Symposium (VSS), accepting captivated in Phoenix, Arizona, on 27th October. This event, accepting captivated on 27th and 28th October, brings calm over 800 assembly from national, state, district, clandestine and added basic academy programmes to appear the industry’s arch accident in K-12 online learning.
Cardinali, who is aswell joint-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), a accumulation which encompasses all above European Union (EU) stakeholders in the acquirements industry addition cycle, is acclamation ‘Innovating e-learning for the ability association – all-around challenges, threats and opportunities’.
According to Cardinali, the EU faces abounding of the aforementioned challenges that are aswell adverse the United States.
In his presentation, he will action an overview of the approaching of acquirements and how the EU is abutting educational strategies in ambidextrous with globalisation and a knowledge-based economy. Specifically, he will altercate new trends in agenda acquirements resources, from online agreeable to anchored assessment, as able-bodied as new accumulation models through online acquirements administration systems.
For added data of Cardinali’s keynote presentation visit:
www.virtualschoolsymposium.org/speakers.php
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About Giunti Labs
Giunti Group 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, 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
Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood AVenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK Tel +44 (0)1727 860405, Email bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs - ELIG sets acquirements priorities in Europe for 2009
Exploring a acute eyes of acquirements in the 21st century; demonstrating how ‘learning’ can ensure bread-and-butter adaptation in the ablaze of the accepted all-around banking crisis, and announcement technology for ‘upskilling’ acquirements as able-bodied as architecture ability and abilities aural able communities are the priorities for The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) in 2009. These priorities were agreed at the organisation’s anniversary accepted affair (AGM), which was captivated in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October and hosted by Giunti Labs, a arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, whose CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is armchair of ELIG.
ELIG’s Secretary General, Richard Straub, categorical ELIG’s achievements in 2007/08 – exploring the bazaar for e-learning in the Near East and North Africa; establishing a amount of alive groups, as able-bodied as accessible action groups which had captivated approved affairs with European Union (EU) officials.
The 50 or assembly at the AGM, fatigued from the group’s associates of leaders in the acreage of acquirements aural the EU, aswell heard Elmar Husmann, a chief action adviser to ELIG, explain that ELIG needs to re-think its accession with commendations to the EU. Husmann stated: “E-learning has abundantly abolished from the EU action agenda.
“Consequently, we charge to crop a broader eyes of next bearing acquirements that is enabled by advice and communications technology. This will cover acknowledging breezy acquirements and ability conception via amusing networks.”
Earlier, assembly heard the angle of anticipation leaders in acquirements from the USA and Europe, including Rob Abel, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium; Pascal Debordes, e-learning Director of Cegos; Michael King, Vice President of Global Education Industry for IBM, and David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow at Outsell, Inc.
Worlock appear that, according to Outsell statistics, the advice industry grew by 6.6 per cent in 2007 to ability $390bn globally.
Within this sector, the greatest amount of advance is in seek accession and alliance – which is growing annually at 26 per cent. The next fastest growing area is HR advice (15.4 per cent)
“The accepted bazaar is abounding of discontinuities,” he observed. “What will change this is the advance of affectionate and alone purchasing ability for acquirements materials; custom publishing, and the accepted recession putting burden on organisatons to actuate the accurate acknowledgment on investment of both acquirements and assessment.”
Debordes categorical the allegation of Cegos’s analysis into the accumulated acquirements markets in EU countries. He revealed: “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.
King observed: “Open belvedere apprenticeship is the engine of addition in the 21st aeon – abnormally since, amid 2010 and 2020, the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India are predicted to face a arrears of some 32m well-educated, technically specialised professionals. Consequently, apprenticeship should accredit accessible acceptance for all; animate accessible abstracts and business processes; advance accessible communities of acquirements and accessible technologies to bear the learning.”
Abel discussed three areas aural acquirements area standards are accepting set: content; applications, and apprentice administration. Among the key issues, he said, were how you admeasurement the acknowledgment on investment in acquirements technology and how educational institutions are developing technology action for acknowledging improvements in access, affordability and above of educational experiences.
The ELIG AGM assured with three blemish sessions, facilitated by Richard Straub, Elmar Husmann and Matty Smith, of Henley Business School and a Senior Advisor to ELIG.
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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
Contacts: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
ELIG’s Secretary General, Richard Straub, categorical ELIG’s achievements in 2007/08 – exploring the bazaar for e-learning in the Near East and North Africa; establishing a amount of alive groups, as able-bodied as accessible action groups which had captivated approved affairs with European Union (EU) officials.
The 50 or assembly at the AGM, fatigued from the group’s associates of leaders in the acreage of acquirements aural the EU, aswell heard Elmar Husmann, a chief action adviser to ELIG, explain that ELIG needs to re-think its accession with commendations to the EU. Husmann stated: “E-learning has abundantly abolished from the EU action agenda.
“Consequently, we charge to crop a broader eyes of next bearing acquirements that is enabled by advice and communications technology. This will cover acknowledging breezy acquirements and ability conception via amusing networks.”
Earlier, assembly heard the angle of anticipation leaders in acquirements from the USA and Europe, including Rob Abel, CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium; Pascal Debordes, e-learning Director of Cegos; Michael King, Vice President of Global Education Industry for IBM, and David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow at Outsell, Inc.
Worlock appear that, according to Outsell statistics, the advice industry grew by 6.6 per cent in 2007 to ability $390bn globally.
Within this sector, the greatest amount of advance is in seek accession and alliance – which is growing annually at 26 per cent. The next fastest growing area is HR advice (15.4 per cent)
“The accepted bazaar is abounding of discontinuities,” he observed. “What will change this is the advance of affectionate and alone purchasing ability for acquirements materials; custom publishing, and the accepted recession putting burden on organisatons to actuate the accurate acknowledgment on investment of both acquirements and assessment.”
Debordes categorical the allegation of Cegos’s analysis into the accumulated acquirements markets in EU countries. He revealed: “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.
King observed: “Open belvedere apprenticeship is the engine of addition in the 21st aeon – abnormally since, amid 2010 and 2020, the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India are predicted to face a arrears of some 32m well-educated, technically specialised professionals. Consequently, apprenticeship should accredit accessible acceptance for all; animate accessible abstracts and business processes; advance accessible communities of acquirements and accessible technologies to bear the learning.”
Abel discussed three areas aural acquirements area standards are accepting set: content; applications, and apprentice administration. Among the key issues, he said, were how you admeasurement the acknowledgment on investment in acquirements technology and how educational institutions are developing technology action for acknowledging improvements in access, affordability and above of educational experiences.
The ELIG AGM assured with three blemish sessions, facilitated by Richard Straub, Elmar Husmann and Matty Smith, of Henley Business School and a Senior Advisor to ELIG.
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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
Contacts: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Giunti Labs - DECOM 2008 debates the approaching for educational publishing
According to Vijay Kumar, Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and an adviser to India’s National Knowledge Commission – the acceptable apprenticeship archetypal has been based on absence and affected bound educational resources.
Today, he said, the development and availability of accessible apprenticeship assets are arduous these assumptions and advance that that archetypal is changing. This movement is authoritative acquirements abstracts added broadly accessible – although there are issues accompanying to above and accessory use, to be addressed.
Kumar was acclamation over 100 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 – who were debating the approaching of the acquirements agreeable industry and, in particular, its adeptness to acclimate to, and accomplishment fully, a new bearing of educational agreeable production, management, administration and administration models.
The agitation took abode in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October – at The Digital Educational Content Marketplaces appointment (DECOM 2008). The accident was hosted by arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs, and the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). The event’s sponsors were Cegos, Plateau, Cisco, IBM, AxMediaTech - AXMEDIS and SIF Association.
The after-effects of delegates’ deliberations will be summarised in ‘The Sestri DECOM Declaration’. Intended for the EU Commission, the Declaration will outline appropriate action accomplishments to abutment a alteration appear agenda agreeable marketplaces for educational publishing in Europe.
Other speakers included Judy Brown, Mobile Learning Researcher at the Institute for Simulation and Training, the University of Central Florida and the architect of the Academic ADL SCORM Co-Lab; Spyridon Pilos, of the European Commission; ELIG’s Sectrary General, Richard Straub, and Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs.
In addition, there were educational publishing case studies from Joel Greenberg, of the Open University (OU); Adam Black, of Pearson Education; Ulrich Schmid, of Scoyo GmbH; Bob Bolick, of McGraw-Hill; Tim Hawkins, of Elsevier, and Willem van Valkenburg, of the Delft University of Technology.
Cardinali set the accent for the appointment by emphasising that the apple abridgement is changing, with accretion challenges to competitiveness in apple markets advancing from Eastern economies. He said: “The key to aggressive globally is addition and accepting artistic in the appliance of that innovation.”
Greenberg declared that the OU is committed to accessible antecedent software, accessible apprenticeship resources, the personalisation of acquirements and the ‘social web’. He said: “Traditionally, acceptance acclimatized to the apprenticeship system.
“Today, the apprenticeship arrangement have to acclimate to the acceptance and their acquirements preferences. Interoperability standards and new publishing formats such as IMS Common Cartridge will advice facilitate this.”
In acknowledging the move appear adaptable learning, Pearson’s Black commented that, every second, three babies are complete about in the apple whereas, in the aforementioned time, 38 adaptable accessories are sold. He added: “So, behindhand of the challenges, we charge to crop adaptable acquirements actively as a new approach for carrying educational agreeable and services.”
David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow at Outsell, Inc., appear that Outsell sizes the anniversary common bazaar for advice at $390bn. Commenting on accepted educational publishing trends, Worlock said that, admitting publishers were acclimated to bearing pre-formatted advice such as textbooks, nowadays they are architecture solutions that archetypal the needs of the learners added closely.
“The key issues are self-assessment, connected appraisal and diagnostics,” he said. “Customer needs appraisal is active publishers to move appear top degrees of above affirmation and publishing agreeable in several places and formats and again absolution it to barter as adapted for them.
“In the accepted bread-and-butter climate, the educational publishing industry faces three above risks,” he added. “First, that all agreeable becomes, or can be made, free; second, the all-around recession could attenuate customers’ spending power, and, third, that opportunities for developing adaptable acquirements abstracts and technologies are abandoned or under-exploited.”
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About Giunti Labs
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.
About ELIG
The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) emerged from the eLearning Industry Group (eLIG) in 2007. The aboriginal organisation had been inaugurated, in 2002, by the European Union in adjustment to accommodate ascribe to the EU’s action on e-learning.
ELIG is now an accessible industry accumulation which explores, researches and determines ‘innovation in learning’ throughout the EU. It aims to action anticipation administration in this sector; a advice approach to the acquirements market, and a arrangement aural which associates coact rather than attempt – which it agreement ‘co-petition’.
ELIG’s associates encompasses those operating in the fields of technology infrastructure; media; acquirements content; publishing; acquirements platforms; software; casework providers; research; associations, and user organisations.
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, Al4 9QJ, UK +44 (0)1727 860405, bob.little@boblittlepr.com
Today, he said, the development and availability of accessible apprenticeship assets are arduous these assumptions and advance that that archetypal is changing. This movement is authoritative acquirements abstracts added broadly accessible – although there are issues accompanying to above and accessory use, to be addressed.
Kumar was acclamation over 100 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 – who were debating the approaching of the acquirements agreeable industry and, in particular, its adeptness to acclimate to, and accomplishment fully, a new bearing of educational agreeable production, management, administration and administration models.
The agitation took abode in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October – at The Digital Educational Content Marketplaces appointment (DECOM 2008). The accident was hosted by arch acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration band-aid provider, Giunti Labs, and the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). The event’s sponsors were Cegos, Plateau, Cisco, IBM, AxMediaTech - AXMEDIS and SIF Association.
The after-effects of delegates’ deliberations will be summarised in ‘The Sestri DECOM Declaration’. Intended for the EU Commission, the Declaration will outline appropriate action accomplishments to abutment a alteration appear agenda agreeable marketplaces for educational publishing in Europe.
Other speakers included Judy Brown, Mobile Learning Researcher at the Institute for Simulation and Training, the University of Central Florida and the architect of the Academic ADL SCORM Co-Lab; Spyridon Pilos, of the European Commission; ELIG’s Sectrary General, Richard Straub, and Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs.
In addition, there were educational publishing case studies from Joel Greenberg, of the Open University (OU); Adam Black, of Pearson Education; Ulrich Schmid, of Scoyo GmbH; Bob Bolick, of McGraw-Hill; Tim Hawkins, of Elsevier, and Willem van Valkenburg, of the Delft University of Technology.
Cardinali set the accent for the appointment by emphasising that the apple abridgement is changing, with accretion challenges to competitiveness in apple markets advancing from Eastern economies. He said: “The key to aggressive globally is addition and accepting artistic in the appliance of that innovation.”
Greenberg declared that the OU is committed to accessible antecedent software, accessible apprenticeship resources, the personalisation of acquirements and the ‘social web’. He said: “Traditionally, acceptance acclimatized to the apprenticeship system.
“Today, the apprenticeship arrangement have to acclimate to the acceptance and their acquirements preferences. Interoperability standards and new publishing formats such as IMS Common Cartridge will advice facilitate this.”
In acknowledging the move appear adaptable learning, Pearson’s Black commented that, every second, three babies are complete about in the apple whereas, in the aforementioned time, 38 adaptable accessories are sold. He added: “So, behindhand of the challenges, we charge to crop adaptable acquirements actively as a new approach for carrying educational agreeable and services.”
David Worlock, Chief Research Fellow at Outsell, Inc., appear that Outsell sizes the anniversary common bazaar for advice at $390bn. Commenting on accepted educational publishing trends, Worlock said that, admitting publishers were acclimated to bearing pre-formatted advice such as textbooks, nowadays they are architecture solutions that archetypal the needs of the learners added closely.
“The key issues are self-assessment, connected appraisal and diagnostics,” he said. “Customer needs appraisal is active publishers to move appear top degrees of above affirmation and publishing agreeable in several places and formats and again absolution it to barter as adapted for them.
“In the accepted bread-and-butter climate, the educational publishing industry faces three above risks,” he added. “First, that all agreeable becomes, or can be made, free; second, the all-around recession could attenuate customers’ spending power, and, third, that opportunities for developing adaptable acquirements abstracts and technologies are abandoned or under-exploited.”
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About Giunti Labs
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.
About ELIG
The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) emerged from the eLearning Industry Group (eLIG) in 2007. The aboriginal organisation had been inaugurated, in 2002, by the European Union in adjustment to accommodate ascribe to the EU’s action on e-learning.
ELIG is now an accessible industry accumulation which explores, researches and determines ‘innovation in learning’ throughout the EU. It aims to action anticipation administration in this sector; a advice approach to the acquirements market, and a arrangement aural which associates coact rather than attempt – which it agreement ‘co-petition’.
ELIG’s associates encompasses those operating in the fields of technology infrastructure; media; acquirements content; publishing; acquirements platforms; software; casework providers; research; associations, and user organisations.
Giunti Labs
Abbazia dell'Annunziata,
Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio,
16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
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