| Qualification |
| Digital Literacy Advocates Make Plans for Maghreb |
| Algiers (DZ), January 2012 - The prospects for large-scale implementation of government and public-sector International Computer Driving License (ICDL) programmes in the Arab world recently came under the spotlight at a conference in the Hilton Hotel in Algiers. [more...] |
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| Learning Culture |
| OEB: Europe's Digital Education Vision |
 Berlin (GER), December 2011 - Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes has reiterated the European Commission’s commitment to ensuring that all Europeans are fully digital by 2013. In a major speech at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011, Commissioner Kroes said: "My goal in the EU is clear: to get every European Digital. That has to include education and training. We need every teacher digital and every student digital. Right from the very start of formal education and as part of lifelong learning."
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| MEDEA Awards 2011 |
| Announcing the Overall Winners |
| Roosbeek (BE), December 2011 – Belgian entry Monkey Tales Games has won the MEDEA Professional-Production Award 2011 and Austrian entry The Merchant of Venice has won the MEDEA User-Generated Award 2011. This was announced during the MEDEA Awards Ceremony on 24 November 2011 as part of the Media & Learning Conference in the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training in Brussels. [more...] |
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| LearnX 2011 |
| Kaplan Learning Technologies Win Three Awards |
| Reading (UK), August 2011 - Kaplan Learning Technologies’ (KLT) position as a global provider of collaborative eLearning was further solidified upon receiving three awards at the 2011 LearnX eLearning & Training Awards. Both STT Trainer and Atlantic Link were Platinum Winners in their respective categories. [more...] |
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| Second Leonardo |
| Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Follows Jacques Delors |
 Cologne (GER), August 2011 - An invaluable collection of knowledge on the internet that is easy to access and to which everyone can contribute – ten years ago skeptics mocked the whole idea of the Wikipedia project. But the online encyclopedia has proved its critics wrong: hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped make Wikipedia the largest repository of knowledge known to man; it has revolutionized knowledge creation in the worlds of education and business and in society in general. It is for this achievement that Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales is to be awarded the Leonardo – European Corporate Learning Award. [more...] |
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| Distance Learning |
| 2011 ICDE Meeting Mulls Lack of Acceptance of Technology |
| New York, NY (USA), July 2011 - University Presidents took criticism for the lack of acceptance of open and distance learning at the 2011 International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Standing Conference of Presidents in New York, USA in June 2011. Sponsors included Pearson, CISCO, Datatel, and Brite Computers, who also featured in the program. [more...] |
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| Sunshine & Staff Morale |
| CrossKnowledge Presents Summer Campus 2011 |
| London (UK), June 2011 – CrossKnowledge has announced the launch of the CrossKnowledge Summer Campus 2011, a cost-effective way to revive staff morale and the ideal opportunity to try out eLearning over the quiet summer months. [more...] |
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| Learning at Work Day |
| LINE Conducts Social Media Debate for British Airways |
| London (UK), June 2011 - LINE Communications has used Twitter to facilitate a social-media debate at a British Airways internal event celebrating Campaign for Learning’s "Learning at Work Day". As a long-term supplier to British Airways, LINE was on hand to see if BA employees felt social media could have a positive impact on their learning at work. [more...] |
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| eLearning Africa |
| Growing Commitment to ICT-supported Education |
 Dar es Salaam (TZ), June 2011 – eLearning Africa 2011 saw the celebration of the Technology in Government Awards (TIGA) in the "ICT in Education" category and has demonstrated that African countries are increasingly engaging in the development of ICT-based solutions for education and training. Over 1,400 participants from about eighty countries attended the recent sixth International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training. [more...] |
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| Competition |
| Hult Global Case Challenge Announces Winner |
| Boston, MA (USA), April 2011 - Hult International Business School has announced the online winner of its second Annual Hult Global Case Challenge: University of Cambridge (London). The virtual competition, an extension of its regional competitions, ended in March; entries were submitted from schools around the world. [more...] |
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| Recognizing Excellence |
| IT Training Award Winners Announced |
 London/Coventry (UK), February 2011 - The winners of the annual IT Training Awards were announced in front of 400 top industry professionals at a gala ceremony. A couple of standout categories included "Training Company of the Year", which was won for the second year in a row by Verridian. In addition, the category for "Training Department of the Year", which was dominated by a host of household names including Boots, British Airways, and Bupa, was won by Ricoh UK. [more...] |
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| Trends |
| eLearning Can Help Economies Remain Competitive |
 Sestri Levante (IT), December 2010 - Carin Martell, International Alliances Manager at the leading learning-content-management (LCMS) and digital-repository (DR) solution provider, eXact learning solutions, was one of the keynote speakers at the European eLearning Summit, held in Sheffield in November. Presenting "A European Perspective", Martell outlined world population and economic trends - to set a context for the future development - and value - of eLearning. [more...] |
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| MEDEA Awards 2010 |
| BBC News School Report the Overall Winner |
| Roosbeek/Brussels (BE), December 2010 - The BBC’s highly engaging project School Report, which gives eleven-to-fourteen-year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience, was a popular overall winner of this year’s MEDEA Awards. Announcing the winner of this year’s MEDEA Awards, Kathy Lindekens (VRT) talked about the high quality of the entries and the value of networking amongst all those involved. [more...] |
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| European eLearning Summit |
| A programme to promote the corporate eLearning sector
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| Sheffield (UK), November 2010 - Delegates at the European eLearning Summit, organised by Learning Light with support from learndirect and Creativesheffield and held in Sheffield (17th to 19th November) have agreed to pursue dialogue with national governments to establish a single, independent and impartial body representing the corporate eLearning sector.
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| High Standards |
| Brightwave Wins Double Gold at eLearning Awards 2010 |
 Brighton (UK), November 2010 - Brighton-based eLearning specialists Brightwave scooped up two gold awards at the annual prestigious ELearning Awards. This follows the company’s holding the coveted ELearning Development Company of the Year accolade over the past year. [more...] |
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