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8th April 2008
Giunti Labs showcases personalised and mobile learning content
management at Masie's Learning Systems 2008
Management of
learning objects, digital repositories and the digital marketplace will
also be featured.
Giunti Labs, a global leader in e-learning and digital asset
management, will showcase worldwide customer deployments and its
holistic approach to the integration of personalised and mobile
learning with digital content management and delivery, during Elliott
Masie's Learning Systems 2008 event, this week in Las Vagas in the USA.
Giunti Labs North America will be involved in the event as a sponsor,
presenter and exhibitor. Reflecting the event's focus on best
practices, issues and deploying systems for organisational learning,
representatives will be demonstrating the company's award-winning
product lines at the Giunti Labs ‘Sponsor Connection Point'.
Attendees of Learning Systems 2008 are encouraged to meet Giunti Labs
to learn more about learn eXact®, the company's flagship learning
content management system (LCMS), and the HarvestRoad Hive® digital
marketplace and repository solutions and technical content management
system (TCMS).
As part of the conference agenda, on Friday 11th April, Stephan
Thieringer, COO of Giunti Labs North America, will participate in a
panel entitled ‘The Future of Learning Systems (Part 2): Interviews
with CLO/CTO From Suppliers'. Hosted by Cushing Anderson, programme
director of IDC's Corporate Learning and Performance Research Group and
co-host of Learning Systems 2008, the session is focused on current and
future learning systems challenges.
Stephan Thieringer commented: "Globalisation is creating new demands
and opportunities for learning. Through new mobile delivery platforms
and the improved control and interoperability made possible through
MIT's Open Knowledged Initiaitve (OKI) and its OSIDs specifications for
open service orientated learning architecturews, we are now able to
create a learning systems architecture that provides contextually
relevant, personalised content - just-in-time, just enough and just as
desired - to meet the needs of the individual learner."
Described by Elliott Masie as a ‘wonderful worldwide advocate for the
learning industry', Giunti Labs' CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali joined Masie
in advance of the show for a podcast on the state of digital learning
and content. Listen to it at:
http://learningsystems08.com/giunti or read a transcript at
http://www.giuntilabs.com/info.php?vvu=15&pud=477
In the podcast,
Cardinali comments on Giunti Labs' leadership in emerging trends
including the uptake of more informal and personalised learning content
as well as on new delivery technologies including mobile devices,
location based content, portals and Software as a Service (SaaS). He
also describes the emerging ‘digital marketplace' in which creators,
traders and brokers will be able to pass content from digital
repositories through learning content management systems, to make it
easy for end-learners to download relevant content on the fly to their
iPods, iPhones and through YouTube videos for educational
purposes.Cardinali's podcast also details Giunti Labs' recent
acquisition of the HarvestRoad's Hive® digital repository and technical
content management system (TCMS), which are now integrated with Giunti
Labs' solutions for content authoring and management. These
technologies are powerful tools that can drive the adoption and success
of the digital marketplace.
From his viewpoint as Chair of the European Learning industry Group (ELIG),
Cardinali closes his podcast discussion on how the world economy is
affecting the industry and expresses his optimism on progress towards
standards for reusable and discoverable content. Cardinali expresses
his belief that open architectures like OKI and standards including
SCORM and IMS Common Cartridge, Moodle and Sakai will streamline the
packaging, harvesting and distribution of learning content.
end
Notes for editors
Pictures of Andrea Gentili and Paolo Sicca are available, on request,
from Bob Little Press & PR (tel 00 44 (0) 1727 860405; email
bob.little@boblittlepr.com)
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 global headquarters in Italy and offices in
London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden) and in Boston (US),
provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning
and knowledge management need, covering:
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Content production
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Research and
development
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Technological
solutions for content, learning & knowledge management
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Architectural and
technological solutions for mobile & wireless
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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 Plateau, 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 eLearning
specifications (IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS WSLT, AICC, IMS,
ADL-SCORM and OKI).
Further information from:
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405
