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Quality Language Service

Speexx Earns Eaquals Accreditation

Munich (GER), June 2023 - Speexx, a leading platform for digital people development, has announced that it has been awarded accreditation by Eaquals (Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality Language Services), making it the first ever online-only provider to earn this status from a world leader in language teaching accreditation for organizations.

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European Alliance

Global Survey on the Quality of MOOCs Is Launched

Brussels (BE), February 2017 - The unique Global Survey on the Quality of Open Education and Massive Open Online Courses, short MOOCs, is unique. Join our fascinating adventure if you are a MOOC learner, MOOC designer, or MOOC facilitator. Contribute to our main long-term goal: the improvement of future MOOCs by developing quality indicators and tools. "We are very excited to facilitate the quality debate with all interested parties worldwide", emphasises Christian M. Stracke from the Open University of the Netherlands, a MOOC expert.

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Open and Distance Education

Series of 6 ICDE webinars in 2016/2017

Oslo (NO), October 2016 - The webinars will be held in the last part of 2016 and the first part of 2017 and will be hosted by internationally renowned experts in the field. The chosen topics are "Challenges for leadership in open and distance education"; "Challenges for quality in open and distance education"; "Supporting students for success in open and distance education"; "Co-developing strategies for rural and remote communities"; "Open education: what is really happening?"; and "Changing pedagogies for open education".

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Content Is Not Dead

High-Quality Content Will Prevail over Time

Christian Wachter, CEO of IMC AGSven R. Becker, Sales Professional at IMCSaarbrücken (GER), May 2016 - Some experts involved in digital training say that producing costly eLearning content is a thing of the past: creating hours of training in movie quality is simply too expensive. Target audiences consisting of young learners need little bites of training that present content in a concise and easy-to-grasp manner. But will these bites, which are known as learning nuggets, be sufficient to reflect complex learning needs? And what concept will future learning content be based on in order to engage and motivate learners, while meeting the increasingly complex requirements of organizations in terms of on-the-job training at the same time? Christian Wachter, CEO of IMC AG in Saarbrücken, Germany, and Sven R. Becker, Sales Professional at IMC, talk about learning contents of the future and stand up for high-quality eLearning content. 

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Alliance for Quality

New Initiative to Make MOOCs Better

Brussels (BE), April 2016 - The European quality alliance MOOQ (Quality of Massive Open Online Courses) has started, with the key aim of improving the quality of massive open online courses (MOOCs). MOOQ supports the formulation and integration of quality approaches and mechanisms into the life cycle of MOOC design, implementation, and delivery, with emphasis on learning content, innovative learning settings, and quality of the learning experience.

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