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September 2, 2009
Giunti Labs reveals the latest trends in online, mobile and blended
learning
Giunti Labs, with contributions from iNacol and IMS, will deliver a
post-event workshop on new generation online, mobile and blended
learning content production and management at EdNET in Chicago, US, on
September 16.
Giunti Labs, the leading learning and mobile content management
solution provider, is running a half-day seminar on innovative and
creative solutions for new generation educational content production,
sharing and management. These solutions have now been brought to the US
via its Giunti Labs North America operations, out of Atlanta, Georgia.
The seminar - which takes place from 8.30am to 1:00pm on Wednesday,
September 16, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - is part of the
EdNET 2009 conference (September 13 - 16), being held in Chicago,
Illinois, US.
Participation in the half day workshop is free for event attendees.
External interested parties are invited on a 'first come, first served’
basis. To reserve a place at this workshop, contact Minna Leikas,
Giunti Labs’ marketing manager at
m.leikas@giuntilabs.com
Delegates will be introduced to highly successful market projects for
building digital content marketplaces and economies for learning
resources production and sharing, such as the Saudi Maknaz Initiative,
federating all the Universities in Saudi Arabia, the Cegos SoftSkill
training catalog, producing Europe's leading multi-language soft skills
training catalog, and the UK NHS R-ITI initiative, one of the world’s
most effective medical education content production initiatives to
date.
The workshop is intended for academic and corporate CIOs and CLOs,
along with strategy decision makers within large Universities and
School Districts who want to implement new digital content production,
management and sharing strategies by integrating LCMS and DR solutions
in their learning infrastructures behind their existing LMS and VLE
set-ups, such as Moodle™, Sakai™, Angel™ or Blackboard™.
This workshop will allow stakeholders to achieve wider reusability,
interoperability, accessibility and durability of their online learning
materials while sharing them among federated networks and empowering
new generation learning experiences, personalizing learning contents to
the device, location and background skills and portfolios of target
students and trainees.
At the accompanying EdNET exhibition, Giunti Labs is launching new
releases of its globally acclaimed Online and Mobile Learning Content
Management Suite, learn eXact LCMS and of its Digital Repository
Solution Harvestroad Hive DR, which will be showcased in the final part
of the workshop.
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The Workshop agenda
8.30-8.50 Welcome. Changing US Education: Need or Opportunity?
Susan Patrick, President and CEO, iNacol, International Association for
K-12 Online Learning
9.00-10.00 Advancing Creativity and Innovation in Europe’s Educational
Technology Research Program. And Surviving Global Crisis and
Competition.
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs. Chair, European Learning Industry
Group (ELIG)
10.10-11.00 New Generation Content, Assesment, Application and
Curriculum Standards: from Content Packaging to SCORM, Common Cartridge
and Beyond
Presentation by Dr. Rob Abel, CEO, The IMS Global Learning Consortium,
followed by an open Q&A session with other content standards experts,
including Mr. Angelo Panar, ADL SCORM
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.45 New Generation Learning Content Management Standards,
Solutions and Services in Action
learn eXact LCMS 2009 Enterprise Edition and HarvestRoad Hive DR
Version 4 platforms. Best Practice Case Studies.
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO Giunti Labs
Jeff Hanjian, Educational Manager, Giunti Labs North America
12.45-13.00 Q&A
The workshop will introduce new generation, state-of-the-art learning
content production and management needs and solutions, including
highlights on new sector standards. It will showcase Giunti Labs’
engagement into Europe’s leading research initiatives such as the
CONTSENS, IRMOS, MOBIlearn, Sculpteur and Wearit at work projects
addressing new generation learning content management in mobile,
wearable and virtual worlds based learning as well as projects
introducing real cases of of Learning Content Management (LCMS) and
Digital Repository (DR) deployments worldwide within large Educational
Networks and Universities.
About EdNET (
http://www.schooldata.com/ednetagenda.asp )
EdNET 2009 brings together education’s top business executives and
innovators. It aims to provide delegates with deep and relevant insight
into the education market’s rapidly changing landscape to identify
trends and opportunities for business development. Each year, EdNET
gathers the industry together to network, identify hot business
opportunities, and discuss what's ahead for the market. Sessions focus
on interpreting and forecasting trends, dialoging with key educational
leaders and networking.
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
