Giunti Labs helps develop t-learning

Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS) vendor has been selected as the overall learning content management platform provider for the Enhanced Learning Unlimited (ELU) initiative. ELU is a European Project which, in the next 30 months, targets to develop innovative TV learning solutions for an international consortium led by Ort France and grouping a large array of more than ten European Universities and Broadcasters, among which is the Center for futurism education - Ben Gurion University, University of Ljubljana, Hradec Kralove, Riga and Czech Television.

The project focuses on pedagogical as well as technical aspects of the possibilities of ‘t-learning’, with a goal of constructing a new integrated learning platform for interactive TV. One of the focus areas is a game based t-learning application.

Existing learning technology standards will be used and enhanced within the project. The ELU approach aims to present t-learning content material to users in a manner that is generated to meet the user’s learning context in terms of the users’ learning preferences, the selected pedagogic strategy, monitored skills and competencies and the interaction capabilities of the means of delivery.

A new module of Giunti Labs’ learn eXact LCMS platform, eXact TV, has just been announced to make SCORM contents delivered and tracked on Set Top Boxes, and will be used for the ELU project.

eXact TV is an integrated module of Giunti Labs’ learn eXact LCMS suite and further enhances the learning opportunities by providing an additional channel for learning content delivery. eXact TV is already used in Italy for Canale DTT Lavoro, which is the first thematic channel focusing on learning and work related issues.

Canale DTT Lavoro is funded by Fondazione Ugo Bordoni which operates under the supervision of Italian Ministry of Communications.

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs commented: ”From the pedagogical point of view, TV is a different medium from the internet and needs a different approach than ‘traditional distance learning solutions’.

“T-learning will help to overcome, for example, the limits of physical distance as there is a broad digital TV infrastructure base in Europe. In addition to web and mobile learning, TV is an additional channel for providing personalised learning experiences using always the most convenient channel from the user’s point of view.”

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About Enhanced Learning Unlimited (ELU)

ELU objectives are:
• study the pedagogical and technological aspects of using iDTV as the media for t-learning
• develop new tools for creating content for t-learning to be used on iDTV
• develop enhancements to the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) to meet the t-learning needs
• share the knowledge in iDTV and t-learning with new EU countries.

More info at: http://www.elu-project.com/

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 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 Oracle, SumTotal, Saba, WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai, LRN and Moodle.

Further information from:
Angus Turpin, Giunti Labs, +44 (0) 7733 365063
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405