Avallain at German Education Trade Fair

Together with its partner VHS.Böblingen Sindelfingen (the Adult Education centre at Böblingen Sindelfingen) Avallain is presenting products jointly developed to meet the special needs of adult education centers and colleges at the biggest German Education Trade Fair "Didacta" at Hannover. The clou of all products is that adult education centres do not have to buy, install and maintain a software: they book access to the web based tools and can use them - with localised details such as logo, localised URL, etc. - without the effort of hosting, maintenance, security, etc. The presented products include:

• vhs-intern.de is a project management tool enabling the communication with internal and external partners and the joint management of courses and projects. A sophisticated distribution of rights allows external partners to work within the system, edit projects and add items.
• vhs-WISSEN provides the platform to run localised online quizzes. A useful tool to strengthen the local education marketing and PR.
• vhs-KINDERuni.de (Kinder Uni = Kinder Universität = children's university). In Germany universities offer since 2002 lectures specially designed to attract children and win them at an early age for later studies. Recently, adult education centres (Volkshochschulen) also started offering such courses and lectures for children to establish a positive connection to learning and the brand "Volkshochschule" at an early age.
  vhs-KINDERuni.de is an online platform enabling children to learn in addition to lectures: together with their parents they can answer questions in reference to the attended lectures and solve tasks.

Find out more in Hall 14/15 at booth 56/1.

Perfect English for Professionals

Introduced in October, the online learning system Perfect English for Professionals (PEP) for the leading German education publisher Cornelsen (1500 new titles per year) already hosts a number of institutional clients. PEP gives language schools and companies working with Cornelsen learning materials the opportunity to offer their language students e-learning in addition to course work. PEP is based on Avallain's LCMS Architecture and was written entirely in the next generation Ruby/Rails development approach. An expanded version of PEP is to be launched in Q1. PEP will also be presented at Learntec, Karlsruhe.

Click here for a guided tour through PEP

Avallain launches on-line community for Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign (LitCam)

Together with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Google and other partners, Avallain acts as sponsor of the Frankfurt Literacy Campaign (LitCam). The annual international conference during the worlds largest book fair offers a platform for experts to meet and draws the attention of a wider audience, publishers, politicians and the media towards the importance of Literacy. To support the growing LitCam community, Avallain launched an online community enabling former LitCam participants to stay in touch, present their work, share knowledge and experience.

The community is at www.literacy-campaign.org. Please ask for an invitation to this closed user group.

Usability tests and TV exposure for writeon.ie

Recently, the Irish National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) ran a usability test for writeon.ie. All in all learners responded very well to the learning site. Testers liked the content, design and layout and had no real trouble with log in or finding the relevant sections. Nevertheless we received valuable feedback on a few issues that we will need to rethink in the presentation of the learning progress, which has to be aligned to the European certification model without showing its complexity. The end of March will see a last modification before a massive publicity is launched. Already now, Write On stars in the acclaimed TV series "Written Off". Developed with the Avallain Basic Skills System, the internet based e-learning portal for adult literacy learners offers highly interactive learning material allowing adults to improve their reading and writing skills.

www.writeon.ie
www.literacy.ie
www.nala.ie

Avallain supports eLearning Africa 2009 as silver sponsor, creates department of e-learning for development (e4d)

In line with the expansion of our activities in e-learning for development we have launched www.avallain.com/e4d where we present our latest activities, project ideas and solutions for development. Development activities are not regionally limited; Basic Skills training for unemployed adults in Frankfurt is just as important as Health training in Uganda - but Africa is clearly a hotspot and also a very dynamic environment we want to participate in.

As such, being participants since day one, we are sponsoring the latest edition of eLearning Africa this time held in Senegal.

We are looking forward to your visit to the Avallain booth!