Themen

Conference Report

Delivering on the Lisbon Agenda

Lisbon (PT), October 2007 - More than 1,500 people attended the European eLearning Lisboa 2007 conference last week, which was the fourth major EU Conference on the Lisbon Agenda 2010. Major themes of the conference were Digital and Social Cohesion, Re-Skilling for the Knowledge Society, and eLearning Value. » MORE

Annual General Meeting

ELIG Is Shaping Its Future Directions

Brussels (BE)/Dublin (IR), October 2007 - Hosted by the Intel EMEA Innovation Centre, the ELIG Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on 13 November 2007 in Dublin. After repositioning itself in June this year, the European Learning Industry Group now wants to further define and validate its directions and initiatives. The meeting is open for everybody interested in the work of ELIG. » MORE

Clinical Risk Assessment

Winner of the National Training Award in the South East

Cambridge (UK), October 2007 - Information Transfer and Priory Group have been awarded a prestigious National Training Award in the South East region for one of the training courses in their multi-award-winning corporate learning programme. Winners of this award are deemed to have undertaken training that has demonstrated outstanding achievement and proven benefits. » MORE

NOVATech Com 2007

Regional Competition Held in Bucharest

Bucharest (RO), October 2007 - (by Elena Lita) To encourage creativity by putting the theories of entrepreneurship into practice, Intel Education and the University of California at Berkeley have recently sponsored the second edition of the regional competition for business plan in the high-tech area - NOVATech Com 2007. The competition was organized by the Bulgarian Institute for Management and Technology (BIMT) in cooperation with the Romanian ICUBE Association, the Bulgarian ICT Cluster, and the Sofia University. » MORE

HR Conference

Trinity Brings Knowledge Economy to Another Level

Galway (IE), October 2007 - With speakers from Google and Apple, the 6th annual Irish Universities Association HR Conference held recently in Trinity dealt with the importance of fourth-level education and building an Irish knowledge economy through innovation and technology. » MORE

eLearning Africa 2008

Call for Proposals Now Open

Berlin (GER)/Accra (Ghana), October 2007 - The 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training will take place from May 28 to 30, 2008 in Accra, Ghana under the Patronage of the Ghanaian Minister for Education, Science and Sports, the Hon. Prof. Dominic K. Fobih. Suggestions for the programme can be submitted until 7 December 2007. » MORE

Technology Challenge

Accolade for Giunti Labs' "NovaRes-

New Orleans (USA)/ Sestri Levante (I), September 2007 - Giunti Labs was recently named the 'most innovative technology demonstrator' at the OpeniWorld (OiW) event in New Orleans, USA. The event, which was organised by the Open Knowledge Initiative, followed the annual MERLOT conference. According to Stephan Thieringer, Giunti Labs' COO for North America, "Giunti Labs' product NovaRes: the New Thing in Educational Resources Management attracted great interest from industry colleagues and from potential collaborators among the vendors at the event." » MORE

Canada

Mobile Learning and Technology Conference

Fredericton, NB (CAN), September 2007 - On October 2nd and 3rd, international speakers will be coming to Fredericton, New Brunswick to introduce mobile learning at a two-day workshop and technology summit event co-hosted by Red Hot Learning, LearnNB, and the eLearning Guild, the largest eLearning industry alliance in the world. » MORE

ePortfolio 2007

Conference Programme Now Online

Maastricht (NL), September 2007 - The programme of the ePortfolio conference and the first Human Capital and Social Innovation Technology Summit offers a lively mix of presentations, workshops, and open discussions devoted to specific aspects of ePortfolio implementation. Keynote speakers Rens de Groot from the CWI and Rene De Heij from Nedcar, the Netherlands, will share their experiences in using the ePortfolio for job-seeking and competence-management. » MORE

For Serious Players

New Conference on Virtual Worlds

London (UK), September 2007 - The Virtual Economic Forum, the independent think tank for virtual worlds business, is organizing the first European Virtual Worlds Forum. The conference is to take place in London, October 24th - 25th 2007, to provide a forum for business leaders to discuss and evaluate the different opportunities of virtual worlds and their impact on business, converging media and corporate collaboration, as well as brand marketing and consumer engagement. » MORE