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28th November 2007

MyKnowledgeMap wins contract for Centre for Excellence in Leadership

Specialist provider to develop easy-to-use online toolkit.

UK learning technology provider, MyKnowledgeMap ( www.myknowledgemap.com ) has been awarded the contract to develop an online toolkit for the Centre for Excellence in Leadership ( www.centreforexcellence.org.uk ).

The Centre fosters and supports leadership improvement, reform and transformation throughout the learning and skills sector, serving existing and future leaders of education providers.

The MyKnowledgeMap toolkit will deliver leadership learning materials and digital learning resources for the adult and community Learning sector as well as independent specialist colleges catering for special needs and severe disabilities not provided for in mainstream colleges.

Easy to use and access, the toolkit will be designed so that end-user organisations can customise and adapt it to suit particular sets of learners.

York-based MyKnowledgeMap is a specialist in national skills support with a wide range of digital learning productions in management and leadership undertaken over recent months, spanning the build and management of online support sites, including leadership skills toolkits.
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About MyKnowledgeMap

Founded in 2000, MyKnowledgeMap (often known as MKM) is a dynamic company delivering web-based knowledge systems designed by individuals, for the individual.

Operating in the corporate, public and education sectors, MKM's range of products and services includes:

• Academies: MKM is the UK's leading supplier of infrastructure systems for national skill academies, including those in the UK for food & drink manufacturing, sport & active leisure, care, and retail. MKM's e-academy infrastructure helps learners and people with a stake in a particular skill to progress from entry to degree level. Working with the UK's national Sector Skills Councils (MKM's clients include Skillsmart Retail, Improve and SkillsActive), MKM has pioneered online academies that can help people with everything from day-to-day productivity to discovering and achieving relevant qualifications. MKM also offers e-academies tailored to the needs of organisations in the private and local government sectors.
   

• Skills diagnostics: MKM's Skills Diagnostic suite allows clients to build their own system of skills diagnosis and training regimens. Its sophisticated software tools are designed to meet clients' specific needs, and to facilitate, not impose, the required solutions.
   

• Learning: MKM's e-learning solutions, including e-learning content, delivery systems and teaching aids, are used by a worldwide and growing range of organisations from Lloyds TSB to the RSPB; from manufacturing to retailing; from the police to local authorities; from the University of York to colleges in Delhi, Bahrain and Nairobi. MKM produces inventive and versatile applications that are can be shaped and contextualised by their users to meet the rapidly-changing needs of contemporary work and training, either for use within an e-Academy environment or as stand-alone products.

Further Information from:

Rob Arntsen / Tom Holland/ Dawn Ritchie, MyKnowledgeMap 00 44 (0) 1904 466081
Peter Muir / Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR 00 44 (0) 1727 860405