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21st May 2008
New contracts and other news
The last few months have seen PIXELearning secure:
- significant additional contract work from our existing US-based 'Big 4' accountancy firm (audit training);
- a major contract with a global petrochemical giant (process streamlining / global SAP rollout);
- a large project with the philanthropic arm of a global IT services and hardware vendor (business and IT training for global rollout); and,
- a major win with the largest US cable TV, internet and telecom provider (call center agent training).
We are not resting on our laurels though and are also hard at work developing products in partnership with leading specialists in several market sectors as well a developing sales distribution channels with partners in the UK, EU and US.
We are also pleased to announce that we shall be exhibiting (at booth 1609) at the ASTD 2008 Conference. If you are going to be there please pop in and talk to us. Both our CEO (Kevin Corti) and our Sales Director (Richard Smith) will be available for all three days of the expo where, incidentally, we will also be publicly announced as the developer of the ASTD Excellence in Practice Award-winning simulation.
In the UK PIXELearning has been asked to present at the 3rd annual Apply Serious Games conference to be held on 10th July at RIBA in London. Our CEO, Kevin Corti, will be delivering a key session.
From ASG'08 site:
"Now in its third year, ASG 2008 - with around 250 attending last year - this event is a packed day of discussion and debate across the serious games genres, focusing on the key areas for awareness, learning, branding and all uses of immersive and engaging environments.
Now Microsoft and IBM have entered the market, and the market has been valued at $9 Billion by Microsoft, we expect even more demand to discover what's the latest buzz, where's the reality of the application and how serious games are developed and what they can tell us about effective convergence and mashup".
Keynote speaker: Lord David Puttnam plus 13+ other speakers across all accessible sessions.
Book individual event pass here
1st May 2008
PIXELearning supports The National Learning at Work Day (LAW)
The National Learning at Work Day (LAW) is the biggest celebration of workplace learning in the country. Co-ordinated by the Campaign for Learning, the theme for this year´s Learning at Work Day is Sustainable Workplaces.
PIXELearning, has been given the opportunity to demonstrate their talents at this years "LAW Day" on the 19th- 22nd May 2008. PIXEL will provide demonstrations of three very different types of games. Each game has been devised to educate you in the different principles of business practices and further your knowledge with a hands on experience.
Focused on providing an alternative approach to training PIXELearning encourages all its users to return to the simulation to keep furthering their knowledge. All our games motivate learners to go that bit further, to apply the knowledge they gain, to improve their confidence and most importantly you learn by doing.
23rd January 2008
PIXELearning client solution wins an ASTD award
We are very proud to announce that our immersive learning simulation work for one of the 'Big 4' US accountancy firms has been selected for an ASTD Best Practice award.
More to follow soon....
23rd January 2008
PIXELearning join Learning Light VEN as founder members
Learning Light, a non-profit organization which focuses on integrating systems and aligning learning and people development programs to meet strategic business goals, has created the UK’s first Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) - a consortium of companies to sell learning-related products and services.
The Learning Light (LL)-led Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) comprises a consortium of companies and tenders for large private and public sector contracts.
LL’s CEO, Mark Pittaway, explained: “The VEN brings together businesses to meet customer requirements. It allows innovative and creative companies which are unlikely to have the resources to win – and supply – large contracts on their own to combine, within a proper legal and project management framework, to win and deliver these contracts.
You can read more here (MS Word)
23rd January 2008
PIXELearning CEO to deliver session at E-Learning Guild Annual Gathering
Our CEO, Kevin Corti, has been asked to deliver a session at the E-Learning Guild's Annual Gathering in Orlando in April. This session is entitled "Inception to Delivery: An ILS Case Study" and seeks to demystify the process of scoping, designing, developing and deploying a large-scale Immersive Learning Simulation. Read more here.
The event web site is here
7th January 2008
PIXELearning featured in The Economist
Our project work and ‘guerrilla marketing’ has been creating quite an interest recently. We’ve been featured previously on MTV, on BT’s web site and in the Financial Times and The Times Higher Education Supplement. We can now add a bit of coverage in The Economist following our CEO’s presentation at the very well-attended Serious Virtual Worlds Conference in Coventry a few weeks ago. The Economist carried a 2-page article on ‘virtual worlds’ entitled “Getting Serious”.
You can read it in full at the following link:
http://www.economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10202591
PIXELearning to deliver simulation wokshop for The E-Learning Guild
PIXELearning have been asked to deliver an E-Learning Guild Online Forum session on 18th January 2008. The session is entitled “Implementing a Large Scale Simulation from Design to Deployment” and is intended to walk the audience through a large-scale immersive learning simulation process from start to finish. Read more about this session here.
We are, in parallel, creating an essay for the E-Learning Guild entitled “Demystifying the design, deployment and evaluation of Immersive Learning Simulations and Serious Games” which should be published in the middle of February.
PIXELearning to present at Apply Groups Serious Games sympsium
PIXELearning are to deliver a 30 minute session around delivering best practice in immersive simulation design and delivery for the Apply Group’s event on 31st January. Details below….
2008 Symposium - Towards Best Practice in Designing & Developing Serious Games for Learning & Communications: Focus on Internet, Mobile & Virtual Worlds.
Date: 31st January 2008
Venue: RIBA, 66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
Programme & more information available here
PIXELearning's CEO to present at eGames Conference in Muscat, Oman
Kevin Corti, PIXELearning’s CEO and Chief Learning Architect, is to present an hour-long session at the eGaming Conference in Oman. Details below:
Date: 31st March 2008
Venue: Knowledge Oasis Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman
Session title: “Gaming & Entrepreneurs: A Case Study”
How can Oman’s schools and colleges benefit from serious gaming technology? How do we take serious games to prepare young Omanis for the business world? Indeed, can serious games help foster a new generation of Omani entrepreneurs?
PIXELearning's The Enterprise Game features on Pfeg web site
The Enterprise game - also known as The Entrepreneur Game in the USA - has been featured on the Personal Finance Information Group's (Pfeg) web site.
