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Personalisation and contextualisation solutions at Online Educa in Berlin

Standards, tools and techniques for competency and skills based learning content personalisation are emerging – which is just as well because they can help organisations perform better in the increasingly competitive global economy. This is the message that Giunti Labs (www.giuntilabs.com) is outlining at this year’s Online Educa conference and exhibition, being held in Berlin [...]

By | November 27th, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Master’s degree in e-learning

Giunti Labs, the vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive), is supporting the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Genoa in the provision of its Master’s in E-learning degree programme (http://masterelearning.unige.it). The programme, which is also supported by The European Pedagogical ICT Licence Group (EPICT) [...]

By | November 23rd, 2009|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments

Spreadsheet jockeys ride to victory again

According to a recent report by ace consultants, auditors and accountants, PwC, finance departments continue to devote almost 60% of their time to gathering data as opposed to analysing it.   Comment: Such findings may appear crazy to you or me but accountants – and therefore finance departments – rule the business world. What they [...]

By | November 13th, 2009|Categories: Business|Tags: , |0 Comments

Stressed about stress

Wednesday 4th November was National Stress Awareness Day and, to mark the occasion, psychologist Dr Rick Norris launched a campaign to lobby for change in the education system to deal with root cause of rising mental health problems.   With as many as one in four people suffering from stress, anxiety or depression in the [...]

By | November 6th, 2009|Categories: Business, Lifestyle|Tags: , , |0 Comments

ELIG hits out at cost-cutting

At its 2009 Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) formally endorsed the view that cost-cutting by itself was not a sustainable way out of the current economic crisis and that innovation was required now more than ever.   “With new ICT enabled tools we can tap the brainpower of knowledge [...]

By | November 4th, 2009|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments