Cisco, Ericsson and Giunti Labs reveal developments in mobile and location based learning
Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS) vendor, is collaborating globally with the world-leading technology companies Cisco and Ericsson, on Location Based Mobile Learning.
The three organisations will announce the first results of this collaboration in a dedicated workshop in Berlin during Online Educa Berlin, Europe’s largest educational technologies event. The workshop, attendance at which is by invitation only, takes place on 28th November at Europe’s premier learning technologies event, Online Educa Berlin 2007.
According to Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs and co-chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), the workshop will reveal how to add mobile and location based learning content management to your streamline e-learning platform and infrastructure. It will include real life models, solutions and case studies.
The workshop will present the main challenges and achievements that Giunti Labs has faced in addressing ‘new generation’ mobile and location based learning requirements within a number of global organisations in the academic, corporate and industrial sectors. Presentations will include scenarios based on innovative e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions, along with new mobile learning solutions developed by Giunti Labs in collaboration with leading technology partners, such as Cisco and Ericsson.
In particular, the workshop will:
• Examine new needs, threats, challenges and opportunities for greater personalisation of learning, adding just-in-time learning to today's educational and training scenarios.
• Illustrate innovative business, publishing and pedagogical models for mobile learning, such as Narrowcasting, SMS Learning, Geo Learning and Ambient Learning.
• Provide a hands-on demonstration on how to create, manage and deliver multi-channel learning content on new generation mobile smartphones, mailers, wearable computers and GPS navigators.
• Reveal architectural details of how to integrate mobile learning content management solutions with streamlined VLE and LMS solutions, using standards based tracking protocols and web services.
• Share examples of mobile and virtual learning pilots implemented within the Serious Games Institute of Coventry University and the Millennium Village in Rwanda and in Ericsson Corporation
• Outline real life international user cases and scenarios, presented by leading mobile operators and infrastructure providers such as T-Systems and Ericsson.
The workshop runs from 3pm to 6.30 pm on 28th November and is being held at the Hotel InterContinental, Berlin
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