Giunti Labs Collaborates with Cisco, Institute
<p><strong>Surrey, England — Sept. 18</strong><br />Giunti Labs, a European leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions, is collaborating with Coventry University’s newly formed Serious Games Institute (SGI) and Cisco, a supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet, to provide demonstration software that shows what can be achieved in combining mobile and virtual worlds in e-learning.<br /><br /> “The extraordinary success of virtual worlds such as ‘Second Life’ as virtual social spaces for play is leading us to examine the potential for the serious uses of these worlds,” said David Wortley, SGI director. “SGI is focusing on virtual worlds and immersive environments because these are key elements for serious games.</p><p>”SGI is going to be the place in Europe to find expertise in virtual environments as applied to learning — especially as they are used to link virtual and real environments.”<br /><br />Angus Turpin, manager for Giunti Labs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, agreed.</p><p>”Giunti Labs are supplying the SGI with back-end development, consultancy and software based on our flagship e-learning and mobile learning content management platform learn eXact, Europe's leading solution for learning content production and authoring, now adding mobile and virtual learning worlds authoring capability,” Turpin said. <br /><br />This will enable:<br /></p><ul><li>SGI to demonstrate drag-and-drop positioning of digital learning contents, 3-D hotspot positioning, triggering and tracking of learning content by the avatar into those zones.</li><li>SGI to have the tools and functionality to allow the creation, packaging, management and tracking of SCORM-compliant contents, which will be contextualized and delivered to Windows Mobile 5 PDAs within the SGI Cisco Wi-Fi network.</li><li>The X, Y, Z coordinates of the mobile devices for use by other applications, such as Second Life.<br /></li></ul><p>“Giunti Labs are proposing to supply the tools, training and support to enable the creation and repurposing of content using its authoring suite and to test extended third-party deployment via this test suite, as well as offering the requisite training and support,” Turpin said. “We’re delighted to be joining with Cisco and Ambient Performance — both world leaders in their fields — to help SGI demonstrate the latest, state-of-the-art learning technology. Learning via virtual worlds represents a quantum leap for e-learning technology, and it’s heartening to see the SGI take a lead in promoting this, not just in the U.K. but also within Europe.”</p>
