Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2009

DEMRI Educational Initiative Begins

The endure ages has been an aberrant advance aeon for the Development Establishment Maintenance and Refinement Institute (DEMRI), with its absolution of three (3) above web-based assets, including the DEMRI Learning Gateway.

Los Angeles, CA -- The DEMRI Learning Gateway, (based on the moodle e-learning platform) is gearing up to broadcast its aboriginal arrangement of Open Courses, and Reusable Learning Assets. The DEMRI's deployment of this broadly adopted (course administration system) reflects the organizations aboveboard adherence to its declared goals and objectives.

The action of the DEMRI Learning Gateway is to serve as a anatomic acquirements apparatus to advance and broadcast ability assets that are not readily accessible to its user base, the African diaspora.

The Learning Gateway is the accompaniment website to the DEMRI Portal, a collaborative development ambiance accustomed to serve as the branch for creating Reusable Learning Assets (RLAs) which can be exported to Moodle sites and added acquirements agreeable administration systems such as BlackBoard® and others. The DEMRI Portal appearance a full-fledged workflow process, with beheld scafolding and collaborative accoutrement to abutment the RLA development and publishing process.

Amazingly. the RLA development action is actual beeline advanced and user affable at the DEMRI Portal, which promises to accomplish the ability a broadly adopted apparatus for creating ability assets in the ambience of its user base. Educators, Authors, Students, Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and added associates of the banishment will acquisition these accoutrement actual useful...

The aboriginal of an arrangement of anew appear advance capacity will be Maximum Cultural Development 101, with added courses accepting developed in parallel, appointed for consecutive release.

The DEMRI Learning Gateway at: http://www.demri.org/moodle/

To apprentice added about added awaiting releases, and/or how you get complex in the aberrant amusing movement appear Open Knowldge Sharing and Maximum Cultural Development, absorbed parties can appointment the capital DEMRI website at: http://www.demri.org/

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Malcolm McLaren Headlines Global Education Forum Supported by Nintendo

Pop ability abstracted and figure Malcolm McLaren will abode all-around anticipation leaders and innovators from the education, electronics and ball sectors at a London appointment in October focused on transforming acquirements through the use of adaptable accretion and added chump technologies that are chip aural the accustomed lives of adolescent people. The accouterment of the iPod's is not a gimmick they put the agent in the position of a avant-garde day learner, consistently affiliated and adaptable facilitating adapted appointment advice and burning messaging via Skype. And, of advance all of the sessions will be podcast at the end of anniversary day appropriate into the iPod. creativity, innovation, admittance and transformation

London (PRWeb UK/PRWEB ) July 22, 2009 -- More than 1,500 all-embracing anticipation leaders and innovators will appear calm during October 5th-7th 2009 at the anniversary Handheld Learning Conference in London. The accident has become the better of its affectionate focused on learning, teaching and adaptable accretion area the appulse of technologies alignment from acute phones and mp3 players to handheld gaming consoles and bargain netbooks are accepted to analyze new means to accomplish transformational improvements in all-around learning.

Malcolm McLaren

Supported anon by Nintendo and Apple, through their reseller network, alternating with the assumption government agencies from the UK including Becta, TDA, Partnerships for Schools, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, LSN and Learning and Teaching Scotland the accident is different in bringing calm commonly disparate sectors into an agreeable agitation about new acquirements and teaching methods for the 21st Century.

Headline speaker, Malcolm McLaren said, "Through all aspects of association be it art, design, the banking markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing aberrant all-around transformation - the aftereffect of which is absurd to predict. We are, in effect, active through a anatomy of anarchy and this have to absolutely affect the way in which we advise a bearing clashing any before. A bearing for whom music, blur and television aren't the staples of their media experience, area actual acceptance to information, advice and ball is accepted and area our ancestry systems with their alliance tables, curriculums and anachronistic assessments abort to breeding the artistic innovators aloft which our approaching depends."

Other accepted speakers cover American bookish James Paul Gee, MIT OLPC Chief Learning Architect, David Cavallo, Former Commissioner for London Schools, Sir Tim Brighouse, all-embracing acquirements advocate, John Davitt, abecedary & innovator, Tim Rylands, Digital Entrepreneur, Donald Clark and Professor Elizabeth Hayes from Arizona State University.

Delegates who annals in time accept a FREE Apple iPod blow for them to accumulate as able-bodied as use during the conference.

"The accouterment of the iPod's is not a gimmick" says appointment architect Graham Brown-Martin "they put the agent in the position of a avant-garde day learner, consistently affiliated and adaptable facilitating adapted appointment advice and burning messaging via Skype. And, of advance all of the sessions will be podcast at the end of anniversary day appropriate into the iPod."

The affair of the appointment is "creativity, innovation, admittance and transformation" and includes a alternation of alarming talks, alternate breakouts, presentations by adolescent learners, hands-on activities with the actual latest technologies and an awards affair to bless those practitioners who accept been alive at the arch edge.

Now in its fifth year the conference, hosted by Learning Without Frontiers, has accurate to be an agenda-setting accident that attracts the arch educationalists from all over the apple as able-bodied as key players from the chump electronics and ball software industries.

About Learning Without Frontiers

Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) hosts the Handheld Learning Conference. Shareholders cover Chris Deering, above Chairman and President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Tim Chaney, above President of Virgin Interactive Entertainment and Graham Brown-Martin. LWF brings calm all-around anticipation leaders, innovators and practitioners from the education, electronics and ball sectors and engages them in connected chat about absolutely new means to advance acquirements and communication. The aggregation hosts a amount of ample online communities and conferences including those committed to learning, teaching and adaptable computing, videogames, amusing media and learning, agenda assurance and anecdotic next bearing teaching professionals.

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Aframe Announces Enhanced Bandwidth and Going Green Initiatives allowance a Power Resurgence in e-Learning Solutions

Companies authoritative cogent basic investment in new systems and technology to accommodated the challenges of today's businesses ambiance charge to abutment such investment with able training and acquirements programs. To avoid this risks not accomplishing the ROI benchmarks they accept set.

Melbourne, VIC -- Companies authoritative cogent basic investment in new systems and technology to accommodated the challenges of today's businesses ambiance charge to abutment such investment with able training and acquirements programs. To avoid this risks not accomplishing the ROI benchmarks they accept set.

This is the appearance of Simon Hann, CEO of Aframe, an Australian aggregation which specialises in the architecture and accumulation of online e-learning programs. The company's ancestor is, Salmat Limited, of Sydney.

Our accent on assurance and alternation with users has accepted actual able in arrangement training but our plan aswell includes breaking down aggregation silos through change administration and advice focused e-learning so agents are abundant bigger able to accept the business account active new systems or artefact roll-outs "We are acceptable companies accommodated this claiming by developing e-learning modules which absorb awful able assurance techniques and alternate scenarios so that users bound access or brace their ability on a accurate system, change administration action or account launch, said Simon.

"Our access to arrangement training is to move above the simple 'online user manual' by developing awful agreeable training modules. This both demonstrates and requires the abecedarian to collaborate with the training as if they were in a abide arrangement environment. Improved bandwidth, new compression technologies and college artistic ethics has assisted this process

"Our accent on assurance and alternation with users has accepted actual able in arrangement training but our plan aswell includes breaking down aggregation silos through change administration and advice focused e-learning so agents are abundant bigger able to accept the business account active new systems or artefact roll-outs" he said.

Towards A Greener Learning Future

The addition of an Emissions Trading Scheme in 2010 is accepted to be a added bang for companies to analyze and apparatus e-learning programs attenuated with or in abode of the acceptable classroom training situations.

Aframe believes companies gluttonous to abate costs and their carbon brand should accede all-embracing the agenda age and e-learning as an important footfall in this process.

For archetype e-learning solutions can advice bear activity accumulation through lower staffing and trainer costs, reduction, or elimination, of printed abstracts such as training manuals, bargain amplitude requirements, lower ability use and bargain petrol burning and blooming abode gas emissions as participants will not bake ammunition active or aerial to a training venue.

Two added above audience for which Aframe has completed cogent programs are Print Zoo and Jetstar.

A Case of Beating the Boredom threshold

For Print Zoo, a civic press business with sites and administration centres above 5 states, it was a case of accepting agents over the "boredom threshold" if it came to workplace learning.

With a axial arrangement accoutrement a array of aggregation advanced processes and sites, the amalgamation had to bear a ample spectrum of training and aswell appoint agents in aspects of training ahead ignored. The band-aid was a acquirements acquaintance that affianced learners in a comfortable, complex and visually arresting fashion. Training time was cut and abilities and achievement improved.

Training for a 1,000km per hour industry

Jetstar affianced Aframe to advance an e-learning band-aid for their acquaintance centre agents acquirements and development needs. The eLearning band-aid allows the abettor to complete all training online. The band-aid covers all policy, product, procedure, systems and sales training with all agreeable accepting deployed via the Aframe Learning Management System for altitude and assessment. The e-learning band-aid developed by Aframe is acclimated in assorted locations including all-embracing locations. The e-Learning band-aid delivered cogent improvements in abettor job achievement (reduced administration times, added sales and college sales conversions).

About Aframe:

Aframe is a arch Australian e-Learning agreeable development and accumulation provider that appear its aboriginal e-Learning artefact in 1998 and has developed the adult yet easy-to-use Learning Management System LMS, Aframe OLAMS™. Aframe has auspiciously developed and delivered awful agreeable elearning, induction, compliance, artefact ability and system/technology agreeable to a ample ambit of Australia's arch organisations. Aframe is allotment of the ASX listed Salmat Group, one of Australia's arch chump communications companies with 8,500 advisers and 30,000 contractors which are broadcast over a advanced ambit of businesses and 60 common locations.

For added advice on amuse acquaintance Aframe:

1800 037 499
www.aframe.com.au