Themen
Corporate eLearning
Protection for eLearning
Ayr (UK), July 2006 - ELearning is as exposed to piracy issues as any other digital content sector. Scotland-based LockLizard Limited has developed a Digital Rights Management (DRM) enforcement product specifically focused on protecting an eLearning company's revenue streams. » MORE
A Need in a Global eLearning World
Dublin, June 2006 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Transware has been localizing elearning software for ten years now. Today its founder, Kieran McBrien, has to deal with smaller markets and projects, yet he faces an increasing need for content transfer. McBrien does not consider translators as competitors; rather he sees them as part of the process because localization has to take cultures, laws, political correctness, and other important aspects of a target group into account. » MORE
Microsoft Germany and IMC cooperate
Munich / Saarbrücken, June 2006 - Microsoft Deutschland GmbH (Germany) and IMC AG, provider of Learning Management solutions, are working hand in hand towards integration of IMC AG's CLIX Learning Management System (LMS) into Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server. » MORE
MobileMonday Global Peer Awards
Sestri Levante, June 2006 - Giunti Labs' mobile learning solution eXact Mobile received the Silver Prize at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards in Helsinki. The event, sponsored by Nokia and Nexit Ventures, showcased world's best B2B Mobile Solutions. A fifteen-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. » MORE
Overcoming Language Barriers
London / Brisbane, June 2006 - Reuters PLC has renewed its contract and signed a multiyear agreement with the GlobalEnglish Corporation. Reuters has maintained major offices in India and East Asia for over a century but has recently initiated expansions in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, and other locations. For this reason, the company has increased its investment in training employees in its official language, English. » MORE
Becoming Increasingly Mainstream
Midvale/Utah, June 2006 - (by Birgit Gamböck) Social software will play an important role in more and more bottom-up structured and team-oriented enterprises because it offers opportunities to take advantage of informal interaction across groups and to make it purposeful, thereby supporting the performance, growth, and innovation goals of most enterprises. This is the conclusion of the report "Trends in Social Software" conducted by the Burton Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in network and applications infrastructure technologies. CHECKpoint eLearning spoke with analyst Mike Gotta about the benefits, the market trends, and the first integration approaches of IBM and Microsoft. » MORE
New 3D Collaborative Intelligence
Paris, France, June 2006 - Dassault Systèmes (DS), a French provider of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has announced ENOVIA 3D Live beta version, a 3D Collaborative Intelligence solution that exploits DS's V5 SOA architecture for online applications. Via an intuitive user interface, ENOVIA 3D Live enables any individual to instantly search and navigate any PLM information, regardless of location, source or format. » MORE
Intel Internship for Science Brains in KSA
Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba ) Intel Corporation's vaunted Digital Transformation Initiative for the Middle East has reached an important milestone in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the announcement of an internship programme aimed at some of the Kingdom's brightest science brains. » MORE
Sheikh Mohammad's IT Education Project
Dubai, June 2006 - ITEP was created six years ago as part of the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to promote IT literacy in the UAE. Its goal is to help Emirati industry and society face the challenges of the new knowledge-based economy. » MORE
Learning Futures in Dublin
Dublin, June 2006 - The Future of Learning will be the focus of a special two-day event featuring best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell (Blink and The Tipping Point), Nigel Paine, Head of People Development at the BBC, and Elliott Masie, founder of the Learning CONSORTIUM. Learning Futures will take place in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College, July 10-11. » MORE