CINECA and Semantic Internet Innovation SPA (SII) have announced that they will partner to offer the European Computer Driving License exam to students via a .LRN-based application to be supported by SII.

CINECA (www.cineca.it), is a consortium comprising 24 Italian universities and Italy's National Resource Council under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR). It is the major Italian computing center and one of the most important worldwide.

SEMANTIC INTERNET INNOVATION SPA (www.sii.it) provides integrated solutions (contents, tools, methodologies) for the management of learning communities or communities of practices, and is the first Italian company to support .LRN.

With over 4 million participants, the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) is the world's largest vendor-neutral end-user computer skills certification and is internationally recognised as the global benchmark in this area. ECDL is currently available in 137 countries and has been translated into 32 languages around the world, making it the world's leading certification program.

This latest adoption will push .LRN significantly beyond its current base of over a quarter of a million users, at 24 major universities in 18 countries on 5 continents.

For more information, email info@dotlrn.org

Bill Ives, formerly head of Accenture's knowledge management practice, covers the use of .LRN's weblog module for a unique alumni relations application at MIT's Sloan School of Business.

I would like to invite people interested about learning more of OpenACS/dotLRN, or just have a fun time to an OpenACS/dotLRN social on the 19th Nov.
Venue: WEG meeting room, level 1 Link Engineering Bldg, University o Sydney.
If you are coming, please send an email to Rafael or call +61 2 9351 8171.
If you are presenting (or would like to be added to the list of presentations) please bring laptop or send slides to Rafael

Agenda:
2 pm start
2-4pm Introductions and technical presentations from each technical project we are working on.

- Nick: OpenACS and web services
- Rusell (coming from Melbourne!): Image banks
- Mark: workflows(?)
- Bruno: Experiences with scalability in GP (?)
- Rafa: OAK CASE, a modelling - code generation tool for OpenACS
- Ernie: LORS - Learning Object repository for .LRN
- Surath: dotTeach a Teaching management system
- Aiman: Integration of dotLRN with Macromedia Collab. server

4-6pm How can openacs gain force in the Australian market?
- Joint funding opportunities (i.e. ARC, Consortium)
- Hosting support
- Consulting for large projects
- Marketing
- Research

6pm dinner. We will go to some Glebe/Newtown restaurant.


cheers

Rafael

eSchool News reports on .LRN and launch of the .LRN Consortium.

http://eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=5362