UKS, a leading learning solutions enabler, in co-operation with its technology partner, Giunti Labs will showcase mobile learning content management solutions at IMCL2008 in Amman.

The third International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, (IMCL2008), is being hosted by Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan from April 16 to 18.

Giunti Labs is Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology provider.

The IMCL conference aims to promote mobile learning in the Middle East.

It provides a forum for education and knowledge transfer, gives students access to the latest information communication technology (ICT) applications and encourages the study and implementation of mobile applications within teaching and learning. said a company official.

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Labs, will be delivering a keynote speech at the conference entitled: ‘Innovating Learning Content Management towards 2010 Knowledge Society: Global Challenges, Threats and Opportunities’.

According to Cardinali, the current trends in this area include: the increasing use of mobile and location-based content delivery; growth in informal access to earning via portals and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems and boom in  network of content providers operating as ‘learning clearing houses’ owing to the development of digital marketplaces.

With the development of these digital learning content marketplaces, content providers, content brokers and end users now interoperate on the basis of open and standard architectures and formats, he said.

They can ‘download and play’ mobile models and innovative publishing models for education which embed professionally published contents with self-produced open and shared Web 2.0 contributions.

"It is a sort of 'iTunes' for education in an open, government-led marketplace for exchanging and trading digital resources for students," he said.

During IMCL2008, UKS will be showcasing the latest developments in Giunti Labs’ learn eXact Suite for mobile learning.

Nada El-Marji, UKS’s marketing & sales director said, “We will be demonstrating how eXact Packager can be used to create learning objects for mobile devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, and BlackBerrys."

"We will also show how the content can be published to the digital repository and then retrieved by the learner on his/her mobile device," she noted.

Furthermore, UKS will demonstrate the new learn eXact MS-Office plug-in, which allows users to import MS-Office files into the eXact Packager’s authoring templates. 

“We will also be demonstrating the advanced templating technologies of eXact Packager, such as the ability to create a 3D-based virtual reality (VR) content which is packaged according to the ADL SCORM specification, and allows monitoring the learner activities and learning progresses.”

The mobile phone has become such an integral part of modern life that educators are grasping its potential for improved educational coverage, said El-Marji.

“Today’s big challenge in educational content management technologies is to create and profile e-learning content, making it available wherever and whenever a user may need it. Giunti Labs’ mobile learning content management solutions can help in tackling this challenge."-TradeArabia Service News