16th January 2007

Giunti Labs provides best practice lessons at Learning Technologies

Best practice lessons from an award winning learning content management system application are among the key tips and techniques on offer at this year's Learning Technologies conference on 31st January and 1st February at Olympia, London.


The Giunti Labs' learn eXact learning content management system (LCMS) is being used in the Radiology - Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) Project, which is helping to reduce radiology based diagnosis time in the National Health Service (NHS). To date the project has produced more than 600 hours of e-learning at a fraction of the previous costs of training.


Since adopting learn eXact, the R-ITI Project has made great strides towards its target of reducing radiology-based diagnosis time to 18 weeks from the average of two years currently experienced by patients entering the NHS. The R-ITI Project, a collaborative initiative between the Royal College of Radiologists, the Department of Health and the NHS, won a gold award in the E-Learning Age Awards, announced last November.


Jon Turner, project manager of the R-ITI Project, will be giving more details of this project at the conference which accompanies the Learning Technologies exhibition. Speaking in the session on 'The changing face of content development', on 1st February, Jon Turner is explaining how to:
 

• Build a design process around subject matter experts (SMEs)

• Deal effectively with issues including motivation, risk and reward

• Ensure quality with the expert review process

• Use tools to capture and share expertise
   

According to Angus Turpin, manager for Giunti Labs in the UK and Ireland: "The Giunti Labs_ learn eXact suite is also being used in the public sector, along with such industries as telecoms, banking and finance, as well as in healthcare, to deliver benefits to learners and their employers.


"New developments in LCMS technology now mean that we can deliver, and monitor the use of, learning content onto mobile devices such as Blackberry mailers, Windows Mobile palm computers, Symbian Smartphones and Xybernaut Wearable computers gaming consoles," he added. "This new generation of mobile LCMSs (mLCMS) will be available on the Giunti Labs' stand (stand number 34) at the accompanying Learning Technologies exhibition."

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Notes for Editors

About Giunti Labs

Giunti is unique in the international publishing industry.

In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, together with others in Venice, began modern book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has built a 'historical catalogue' of huge dimensions, through a gradual process of 'fusion' of different publishers, but also through the creation of new brands, including Giunti Labs. Giunti Editore now includes 20 companies in the publishing sector.

Giunti Labs, which has its EMEA headquarters in Italy and an office in Milton Keynes (UK), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering:

• Content production

• Research and development

• Technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management

• Architectural and technological solutions for mobile & wireless

• Training and consulting

Giunti Labs provides the learn eXact suite, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology. This suite is interoperable with all major vendor-driven and open source LMS and VLE solutions in the market including Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, .LRN and Moodle.

Moreover, Giunti Labs does not just adhere to the international standards relating to the LMS/LCMS world, it is one of the organisations that helps to determine and drive these standards: co-writing and developing them. Giunti Labs plays a key role in most of the international institutions for the definition of e-learning specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS, ADL-SCORM and OKI).

About Giunti Labs' learn eXact suite

Giunti Labs' learn eXact is a learning content management system (LCMS) that enables users to create, manage and deliver content based on learning objects, XML, standards and international specifications. It delivers learning content to location-based mobile devices, interactive TV and wearable computer devices.

Further information from:

Angus Turpin, Giunti Labs, +44 (0) 7733 365063

Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 348939912

Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405