UK Training Industry Press Releases

Visitors to this year's Online Educa Berlin (OEB) conference - the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors - will be able to see the latest developments in learning content management system (LCMS), digital repository (DR) and mobile learning technology, courtesy of the leading learning content management and digital repository platform provider, eXact learning solutions. Among other things, eXact learning solutions - previously known as Giunti Labs - will have on show version 7 of its flagship eXact LCMS and the new mobile applications for  iPhone, Blackberry and, now, iPad devices. 

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions North America, said: "We've just launched our eXact Mobile 2.0 solutions which bring the power of location based and personal learning content management to a new range of devices, such as Apple's iPad and other tablets."

Cardinali, as Chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), will join the Pre-Conference Workshop: The European Digital Education Agenda on Wednesday, 1^st December, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. The workshop includes leading international stakeholders from the European Commission and ELIG, as well as worldwide market analysts. He will be providing input on how to improve the European framework conditions for digital education, digital literacy and skills, and the challenges involved where policy meets the digital education market.

Carin Martell, of eXact learning solutions will be speaking at a conference session organised by ELIG: ‘Balancing Individual and Organisational Learning', which takes place on Friday 3^rd December from 11.45am to 1.15pm. The session will explore the nature of new knowledge worker skills, how organisations can provide the most effective training approaches for current needs and what organisations might consider doing to strike a balance between empowering knowledge workers and upholding the values, aims and objectives of a modern and successful organisation.

Joining Martell as panellists at this session are Richard Straub, General Secretary of ELIG; Josh Bersin, of Bersin & Associates, USA; Martti Raevaara, of Aalto University, Finland, and Paul Hunter, of Corporate Learning Network - IMD, Switzerland.

At this year's OEB conference, eXact learning solutions will also be presenting ‘ten commandments of enterprise learning content management in the iPad tablet era' (download the whitepaper ‘Ten Commandments Prompted by Today's iPad Tablets' at http://www.exact-learning.com/en/resources/whitepapers). This seminar takes place on Thursday 2^nd December  from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm

"The iPad not only makes a ‘mobile learning machine' affordable and accessible but it also removes the previous limits and frustration of poor visualisation and connectivity," believes Cardinali. "The iPad is both effective and efficient in terms of pedagogic soundness and semantic richness."

eXact learning solutions, which is exhibiting at OEB - on stand B61 - along with its Middle Eastern partner, UKS; its partner in Africa, the Educational Advancement Centre (EAC), and Saudi Arabia's  National Center for eLearning (NCEL), is also joining NCEL's Manager for Planning & PMO, Abdullah Al Mogheerah, in presenting the Maknaz case study at the OEB conference.

The presentation, being given on Thursday, 2^nd December, from 2pm to 4pm, is in the session on: ‘Challenges and Opportunities for ICT and e-learning in the Middle East and North Africa'. The presentation outlines the Maknaz - or Treasure Chest - Project: the largest learning content digital marketplace implementation in the Arabic world.

Maknaz is a unique project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, providing digital learning objects in an electronic environment to support higher education institutions. It aims to enrich the curriculum and the learning objects of digital courses through the storage, retrieval and re-use of educational modules designed according to international standards. This repository aims to allow access to a diverse range of scholarly material that students require, providing a new, cost-free resource that is highly accessible.

In implementing the project, NCEL has been working closely with eXact learning solutions, along with its partner in the Middle East, UKS.

At the eXact learning solutions' stand at Online Educa, representatives of its Nigerian partner, EAC, will also outline the University of Ibadan Mobile Network, a new mobile learning initiative launched by eXact learning solutions with the University of Ibadan, one of the largest Universities in Nigeria.

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About Online Educa Berlin (OEB)

Online Educa Berlin takes place from 1^st to 3^rd December at the Hotel InterContinental in Berlin.

Under the banner of Learning for All, the 16th OEB addresses the core issues of e-learning in the corporate, public and academic sector.

See innovation at work, get immersed in virtual worlds, join the discussion on the ethical and practical implications of digitally enhanced learning, experience the highlights and challenges of the classroom evolution and find out all about smarter working environments which focus on achieving organisational results through collaborative intelligence and learning. This year's conference places a strong emphasis on impact, results and change.

About UKS

Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS) is a partner of eXact learning solutions in the Middle East and a reseller of eXact LCMS and HarvestRoad Hive. UKS is the Middle East's leading learning solutions enabler, with years of experience in the fields of education and training. UKS is a subsidiary of Al Tanmiya Holding, a conglomerate committed to the development of Human Capital in the corporate and academic worlds. UKS is a partner of eXact learning solutions in the Middle East and a reseller of eXact LCMS and HarvestRoad Hive.

About EAC

Educational Advancement Centre (EAC) is a name synonymous with academic excellence in Nigeria. Currently, EAC prepares annually over 300 ‘A' level students for the Cambridge and London General Certificate of Education; some 80 students for the JAMB University Matriculation Examination, and some 60 students for the American Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Formed in 1997, EAC has an impressive list of past students, with most of them having graduated with upper second and first class degrees from universities in Nigeria, the UK and the USA.

Currently, EAC is registered as a Centre of the Cambridge University and is also a Testing Centre for the Internet based TOEFL, the Prelim-SAT and the Advanced Placement Tests of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) of the USA.

EAC is a partner of eXact learning solutions and a reseller of eXact LCMS and HarvestRoad Hive Digital Repository in West, East and Central Africa.

About the National Center for eLearning (NCEL), Saudi Arabia

The National Center for e-learning and distance learning was established as a national plan for the utilisation of information technology and as an advancement in the field of e-learning and distance learning. The center is dedicated to provide technical support in e-learning and its related infrastructure, provide skilled consultancy, e-content methodologies with the best approaches and practices along with the provision of change management.

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About eXact learning solutions

eXact learning solutions, formerly Giunti Labs, is a leading learning content management and digital repository solutions provider, which offers a wide range of tools and services for content development, content management and content delivery, covering:

• Learning content management system (LCMS) and digital repository platforms
• Mobile learning technologies
• Multi-language bespoke learning content production
• Consulting and professional services

The company has over fifteen years of experience and more than 100 customers worldwide. Our technological innovations allow enterprises to improve their organizational performance, and achieve significant reductions in business costs.

For more information, please contact:

Minna Leikas, eXact learning solutions, Marketing Manager

Mobile +39 347 4435167; Office +39 0185 4608; Email m.leikas@exact-learning.com

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR,

Office +44 (0)1727 860405; Email bob.little@boblittlepr.com