Bob Little Press and Public Relations - Giunti Labs and the Region of Tuscany win IMS Learning Impact Leadership Award for the TRIO project on Moodle and Hive DR


Media Centre Giunti Labs Master List PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF: Bob Little Press & PR 23 Sherwood Avenue St Albans Herts AL4 9QJ UK PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF: Giunti Labs Abbazia dell'Annunziata, Via Portobello - Baia del Silenzio, 16039 Sestri Levante (GE), Italy Phone: +39 0185 42123; Web www.giuntilabs.com 2nd June 2010 Giunti Labs and the Region of Tuscany win IMS Learning Impact Leadership Award for the TRIO project on Moodle and Hive DR Giunti Labs - the leading learning and mobile content management solution provider - has been given a 'Learning Impact Leadership Award' at this year's IMS Learning Impact Awards, held in Long Beach, California, in May. Giunti Labs, along with the Region of Tuscany, in Italy, received the award for 'Building Europe's largest lifelong learning for employment initiative'. The project - known as the Training Innovation Research and (job) Orientation (TRIO) - uses the Moodle LMS and the HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR). Giunti Labs leads a consortium of companies running the work-related e-learning regional initiative, TRIO - Tuscany's web portal learning system (www.progettotrio.it). This web portal offers a wide range of learning products, with a catalogue of some 1,500 work-skills related e-learning courses - the most popular of which are IT, language and business related learning materials. To date, some 542,000 courses have been delivered to some 150,000 users since TRIO's inception in 2002. There are currently at least 70,000 active learners on the system, downloading 40,000 training hours per month. Moreover, surveys show that five out of six users go on to take another TRIO-delivered course and the system has a 95% satisfaction rating with users. The learning materials are delivered via the TRIO web portal in an innovative approach to providing continuing professional development opportunities for public and private sector organisations. In this, the project contributes to the implementation of European policies on lifelong learning. According to Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs: "The TRIO project consortium, under Giunti Labs' leadership, has introduced an extended implementation of Moodle to be the core of the new TRIO platform. This is integrated with HarvestRoad Hive, a federated digital repository system developed by Giunti Labs that manages any form of content such as SCORM/AICC courseware, learning objects, digital assets, e-books and podcasts. "By adding the HarvestRoad Hive DR infrastructure to Moodle, TRIO managers are able to unbundle their content offering from any specific delivery platform," he continued. "This enables this content to interoperate with any kind of third party learning or course management system and to interchange standard content catalogues with other public administration in Italy, Europe and worldwide - thus fostering maximum reuse and sharing of the produced work-based curricula." In the TRIO architecture, Moodle functionality is complemented by information services (KCMF), virtual classroom services (DimDim), collaborative social networking services for sharing knowledge and experiences (Elgg) as well as experimental mobile services via mobile learning modules offered by the HarvestRoad Hive DR add-on. "TRIO represents 'excellence' in the world of e-learning because it addresses the continuous evolution of training needs successfully," explained Cardinali. "It meets the growing demand for training, providing opportunities for re-training, knowledge increase or re-orientation, to ensure the business skills needed to succeed. In this, it supports and sustains the training needs of public and private bodies, promoting the development process of e-government, and contributes to the creation of an integrated regional system of education, training and work." End About the IMS Learning impact Awards The IMS Learning Impact Awards are designed to recognise 'the most impactful use of technology worldwide in support of learning'. This awards programme evaluates established, new and research efforts in context at an implementing learning institution. About TRIO TRIO offers services and tools through dedicated web portals (WLG) to government agencies, accredited training organisations and private organisations to support or supplement traditional training provision with online learning resources and service. These services are also delivered through a network of 'physical assisted internet access points' (Paas). These are managed by territorial municipalities to enhance support services for TRIO's e-learning provision, as well as help individuals experience 'social inclusion' and also gain qualifications. 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: 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 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

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