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News Elearning! Best of 2007 Award-Winners Display Plaques Present at the Training 2008 Conference and Expo in Atlanta to accept their awards as the best e-learning products of last year were the following suppliers, 1: Laurie Enos of Element K; 2: Keith Dalton and Michael Bone of the American Marketing Association; 3: Linda Lavin, Linda Uli, Shikha Mathur, Jennifer Teeters and Francescah Smith of WebEx; 4: Chris Bishop and Curtis Lewis of iLinc; 5: Jeff Place of Questionmark and Elearning! editor Jerry Roche; 6: Mark Schwartz and Gabe Anderson of Articulate; 7: Tracie Hugley and Chris Lennon of GeoLearning. (Elearning! staff photos) Google, Microsoft, IBM Target Africa Top American software manufacturers are testing the African nation of Uganda as a viable market by sponsoring software development competitions and mentorship programs for lecturers and students at Makerere University, according to a report in East African Business Week. Makerere Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba said last month in Kampala that software makers Google, Microsoft and IBM hope to influence the African market through Uganda because of its potential as an ICT hub in the region. Prof. Baryamureeba said the initiative is meant to identify talent and support it so as to benefit through global outsourcing programs. He said Google would run a software gadgets development competition for students while IBM is running a mentorship program where students and lecturers from Makerere University work with IBM experts to improve on their skills. The IBM project — known as the Makocha Minds mentorship program — aims at training students and lecturers in areas where they have interest so that they can sharpen their skills and insight for one year. Already, 30 students and lecturers have been enrolled and are working with experts from IMB through an e-learning program. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 April / May 2008 Elearning!

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Elearning - April/May 2008 Editor's Note Contents News Targeting Africa Locating Courseware People in the News Upcoming Events Deals Trendlines Web Services Building a Learning Culture Measuring the Learning Experience Making Learning Fun and Social LMS's 2008: What You Need To Know Learning Leader: CA Case Study: AVI Case Study: IBM Case Study: QualComm WBS Case Study: National Center for State Courts Case Study: Grundfos Pumps Case Study: Virginia Tech Pop Quiz Last Word

Elearning - April/May 2008

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