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| HR Modernisation |
| Department for Work and Pensions Chooses Eedo |
 London (UK), February 2008 - Eedo Knowledgeware has recently announced that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is standardising its learning content management system (LCMS). The decision follows the largest eLearning pilot programme within the UK government, at Jobcentre Plus. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with John Hudson, President and CEO of Eedo, about this project and how ForceTen™ helps to equip employees with the knowledge they need to realise their full potential and meet the government’s business goals. [more...] |
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| Neighborhood Watch |
| Steven Johnson's View on Digital Culture |
 Boston, MA (USA), January 2008 – (by Manuel Aineto) Steven Johnson is one of the fundamental analysts of digital culture of the last decade. Essay writer, popular science divulgator, and also Internet enterprising, he comments here on outside.in, his last initiative on the Web to provide users with information about what happens around their own neighbourhoods. [more...] |
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| Romania |
| What do Banks Look for in an eLearning Solution? |
 Bucharest (RO), January 2008 – (by Elena Lita) ING Bank Romania has taken a step further in addressing its training needs. Now the bank is training its employees with the INTUITEXT solutions. Laura-Elena Duta, INTUITEXT’s Corporate eLearning Product Manager, was kind enough to speak to us about this project within the dynamic context of the Romanian banking sector, which is growing continuously. [more...] |
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| Belgian eLearning Guide |
| Supporting Decision-Making in SMEs |
 Namur (BE), November 2007 – AWT, the Wallon Telecommunication Agency has designed an interactive guide of eLearning for small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium’s Walloon region. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Pascal Balancier, the person in charge of the coordination of eLearning programmes in the Walloon region and designer of the eLearning guide. [more...] |
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| IBM Knowledge Factory |
| An Example of Social Software in Workplace Learning |
 Brussels (BE), November 2007 - Companies are increasingly taking a global approach to learning, and not only for delivery but also for content development. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Bert De Coutere, IBM, about the IBM Knowledge Factory, an industrialised approach to content creation. [more...] |
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| SMEs and Innovation |
| EVA –Andalusian Lifelong Learning Virtual Space |
 Malaga (E), November 2007 - Introducing innovation through eLearning in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the Spanish region of Andalusia was the task of Dr. Ainhoa Otamendi from the International University of Andalusia. Her team and she developed the portal EVA to meet this important economic sector’s training needs. [more...] |
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| Interview |
| Insight into Learning Content Management Systems |
Nashua, NH (USA), September 2007 – Stephen Shaw is chief learning officer of Eedo Knowledgeware and Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has helped Eedo to achieve a leading position in the LCMS market, while assisting a wide variety of customers in designing and implementing effective learning-content management strategies. In an interview with CHECK.point eLearning, Shaw speaks about operating mode and benefits of Learning Content Management Systems. [more...] |
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| Gender Differences |
| An Investigation in Selected South African Companies |
 Port Elizabeth (ZA), May 2007 - Willie Tafadzwa Chinyamurindi from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University has just completed a Master’s research project on eLearning in South African corporations. He will present his results in the conference section "Alternatives and Roles for Micro-Entrepreneurs, SMEs and Large Corporations". [more...] |
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| Success Story |
| How to Upgrade 22,000 Nurses in Kenya |
 Nairobi (KEN), May 2007 - In a public-private partnership, Accenture and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) have developed the Kenya Nurses Training Program. eLearning Program Manager Adesuwa Akinboro from AMREF will present this very successful case study in the conference section "Online Learning Opportunities for Health Professionals". [more...] |
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| Civil Servants |
| Enhancing Training for District Offices in Uganda |
 Kampala (UGA), May 2007 - "Provide Internet, and They Will Learn How to Use It" summarizes Daniel Stern from Uconnect in regard to his experience with a project that trained 175 officials in ICTs. For CHECK.point eLearning, he gives detailed insight into this project, whose task was to teach remote rural district officers in Uganda how to use computers and the Internet as tools to help them do their work. [more...] |
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| 3-D Learning |
| Female Power in Romanian Management |
 Sibiu (RO), March 2007 – (by Joscha Remus) In Sibiu, Romania, Cristina Werther is working as a manager of the IT service provider Eytro and the eLearning forge Eytro Media Dimensions. Her creed is: It is time to show more female thinking in the eLearning sector and to support more creative courage and the development of modern multidimensional eLearning solutions. Also, she asks her female colleagues to search for new ways beyond a purely rationally guided but playful and often routine-blinded men's world. Joscha Remus spoke with her for CHECK.point eLearning. [more...] |
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| Development Programme |
| Intel® Teach in Romania |
 Bucharest (RO), March 2007 – (by Elena Lita) It is planned to train more than 60,000 Romanian teachers as part of the Intel Teach programme, officially launched in Romania by the signature of a cooperation protocol between Intel Corporation and The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. As this initiative represents an important moment for the Romanian educational system, it seemed like a good time to chat about it with Mr. Irinel Burloiu, Intel Business Development Manager in Romania. [more...] |
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| LECTURNITY® 2.0 |
| New release offers mobile and interactive rapid learning |
 Birmingham/London, January 2007 – Forget your iPOd for just listening to music – get learning with it too! IMC's rapid authoring tool, LECTURNITY, now comes with MPEG-4 support and new interactive features. With the new LECTURNITY 2.0 release, IMC has delivered an exciting approach to learning environments that features one of the coolest gadgets of our times. Needless to say; it also works with all other devices supporting MPEG-4. In an interview with Thomas Roscheck, Product Marketing Manager LECTURNITY, Checkpoint eLearning gets an exclusive first insight into the new LECTURNITY. [more...] |
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| Hot topics |
| Social Software and Learning Management Systems |
 Birmingham/London, January 2007 – Terms like Web 2.0 and Social Software are currently hot topics and an integral part of the CLIX 6.1 framework, too. What are the implications of these developments for Learning Management Systems? IMC board members Wolfgang Kraemer, Frank Milius, and Volker Zimmermann share their thoughts… [more...] |
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| Research |
| Game-based Learning for Employees? |
 Cary (Illinois, USA), November 2006 – Dr. Tony O’Driscoll is responsible for Performance Analysis and Design at IBM. He has spent over fifteen years in organizational learning roles and has most recently been researching the potential applications of synthetic worlds and MMORPGs to real-world corporate applications. He kindly gives our readers insight into his work in the form of an interview. [more...] |
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