"In a space currently dominated by proprietary technologies, managing the long-term preservation, provenance, and accessibility of digital content is often downplayed or ignored."
- Cheryl McKinnon, CMO of Nuxeo, From information overload to Dark Ages 2.0?, OpenSource.com, October 29, 2010.
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
Giunti Labs is bringing its newly released state-of-the-art personal ePortfolio and skills management solution to the HRD exhibition at Olympia, London, on 21st and 22nd April.
At this year’s HRD exhibition – being held at London’s Olympia on 21st and 22nd April - Giunti Labs, the world leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, is putting on show its state-of-the-art ePortfolio and skills management solution, along with its learning content development capabilities.
In a world of rapidly developing competition, organizations need to re-invent their training style and effectiveness if they are to keep their talents and competencies up-to-speed, believes Giunti Labs, the global vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive).
This includes supporting clients to identify their workers’ skills, knowledge and competencies, as well as helping them to deliver the right learning content just in time, where and when the user needs it. Today, organizations must identify gaps in their employees’ knowledge and competencies at a faster, continuous and granular pace - and then take steps to remedy the diagnosed skill gaps as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible.
Increasingly – if it is to be effective in eradicating a skills gap - the learning experience must take into account the learner’s learning background, study track, likes and dislikes, abilities and disabilities, location and device used to access the learning materials.
Staffordshire University is taking part in a pilot study to explore the issues and benefits involved in making its ‘stock’ of learning content freely available.
The project, made possible by the use of Giunti Labs’ HarvestRoad Hive digital repository (DR) allied to the Blackboard virtual learning environment (VLE), is one of seven such projects being funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) – a Government-funded body which supports education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of information and communications technology (ICT) services.
The project involving Staffordshire University involves making some 700 ‘credits’ of learning materials available in various forms, including video, ‘hardcopy’ notes and so on. These materials, originally kept within the Blackboard VLE, or learning management system, have been migrated to Giunti Labs’ DR; then federated to the JISC repository (known as JORAM Open) and made available to learners via RSS feed alerts.
Professor Mark Stiles, the University’s Head of Learning Development and Innovation, and a member of the board of directors of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, explained: “We bought Giunti Labs’ HarvestRoad Hive – in 2006 – because we wanted flexibility in how we used our learning content. We already had the Blackboard VLE but we wanted to use the content on this system in other ways.
Giunti Labs, a leading global vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive), has officially opened its newest office in Atlanta. The office houses part of the Giunti Labs’ growing number of staff, who are accommodating the increased demand for Giunti Labs’ eLearning products in North America.
The new office marks not only an important milestone in Giunti Labs’ North American presence, but also demonstrates its commitment to providing state-of-the-art educational technology products and services to a broad range of clients in the corporate, public and educational sectors.
“During the last year, Giunti Labs has experienced a strong growth in North America,” commented José Grade, president of Giunti Labs. “We have a growing number of large clients. To be able to fulfil the growing market needs, we have enlisted some important recruits and, consequently have opened this new office in Atlanta.”
Anthony Suess, Director of Solution Deployment, Giunti Labs North America, commented: “Organizations in North America are increasingly realizing the tremendous value of an investment in their employees and their continual professional development. During the past few years the market has reached a level of maturity that has sparked a strong demand for elearning solutions.
