Multimedia Information and Technology journal has appointed a new Managing Editor. Catherine Dhanjal replaces Lyndon Pugh who edited the journal for almost ten years following Dr Anthony Hugh Thompson who was editor from 1991-2000. Lyndon is also retiring from his post as a lecturer in management but he and Anthony will continue to providing a [...]
Chaintec, the country’s leading supplier of leaf chain to the forklift truck (FLT) replacement market, is further expanding its footprint in the UK with the move of its existing Midlands business to larger, purpose built premises at Bentley Bridge Business Park, Wednesfield, West Midlands. The new offices, open on Monday 4th January 2010, can be [...]
Europe’s number one RFID supplier, Bibliotheca, officially launched its new UK operation at the CILIP RFID in Libraries conference in November. This also provided the ideal opportunity for customers to meet the new UK Managing Director, Johannes Rogg. Bibliotheca is Europe’s number one RFID supplier, specialising in RFID solutions for libraries since 2002. It is [...]
The Association for Learning Technology’s Open Access Repository was formally launched at ALT’s annual conference ALT-C in September and is now available. The repository represents a long-awaited development in ALT’s work and services as it allows users to contribute assets and make them available via the repository. Since it went online the repository has had [...]
Jorum learning and teaching competition with ALT – prizes awarded at ALT-C. First prize was awarded to ‘Making Group-work work’, developed by LearnHigher, a collaboration between the Universities of Brunel, Bradford and Leeds.
Pebble Learning is to demonstrate the latest release of the PebblePad online Personal Learning System at ascilite’s 2009 conference in Auckland City, New Zealand as a bronze sponsor. This is the first time that Pebble Learning has exhibited in New Zealand and follows the success of the team’s attendance at ascilite 2008 in Melbourne. Ascilite [...]
The UK’s Dudley Library Service has been shortlisted in the e-Government National Awards 2009, for its RFID self-service project. The highly sought-after awards recognise excellence across eleven categories, highlighting the UK’s top public sector innovators in the use of technology, enabling businesses and citizens to better communicate with councils, central government, NHS and other public [...]
The latest update to PebblePad brings more flexibility, Moodle integration and a branding tool for enterprise users. In the latest release of the PebblePad online Personal Learning System, users are now able to draw upon items they create using common online tools such as Twitter, Blogger, and any other RSS or ATOM enabled system. This [...]