Sanoma’s Finnish learning business operations will adopt the name Sanoma Pro. Learning solutions are one of Sanoma’s key focus areas.
What does it really mean to have 20 years of experience in ePublishing? To be 20 years on the market, learning to anticipate the needs of the learners? What have we learnt? How have we developed?
Follow the modern wave of eBooks – see where it will take you and how far you can reach
Recently Malmberg received the definitive number of introductions in 2011. These numbers were especially favourable for the subject arithmetic.
Malmberg presents: Table monsters! Practice the tables from 1 through 10 in a playful way with this free app for the iPad.
If you happen to be in Belgium, driving on the E313 to Antwerp in the direction of Hasselt, please look to your right when you pass the exit Wommelgem. A VAN INspiring image of a teacher in a classroom is displayed on the façade of Van In’s office building. It’s a huge eye-catcher of their new corporate campaign.
31st October-2nd November, Sweden’s two biggest fairs for teachers took place in Stockholm and Gothenburg. 18,000 professionals visited the events to attend seminars and to see the exhibitions.
According to the official figures, The Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, held from October 12 to 16, recorded a slight increase in the number of visitors, with about one per cent more people coming to Frankfurt in 2011 than in 2010.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair on 12 October 2011, the best learning material in Europe was recognised. The primary school category was won by the Czech environmental education material PRVOUKA2, while WSOYpro's Yippee series (English instruction) received the silver medal, and third place went to A Grande Aventura (maths) from Portugal.
A mobile library funded by a Finnish foundation began its journey to schools for migrant children in China. Sanoma Learning is one of the partners in this project.
One-on-one education is a project of Van Dijk ICT, the Erasmiaanse Gymnasium and Malmberg. In this new project in secondary education, iPads are used in the classroom! These iPads replace the traditional books. No more heavy bags, always all books at hand and fun to work with! But what are the educational consequences?
Sanoma announced the acquisition of the assets of the Finnish educational publisher Tammi Learning and all the shares of the Swedish educational publisher Bonnier Utbildning AB from the Swedish media group Bonnier AB on 29 April 2011.
Last month, the new school year started in Holland. Malmberg’s research shows that teachers are excited to get started again (62%). They especially look forward to the teaching itself. Over 75% of the teachers look forward to seeing their fellow teachers again after the summer holidays and to meeting new students. One in three thinks about work (a lot) during the holidays and almost 50% of the teachers has already studied the teaching materials.
In Budapest the new school year has started with nearly 800 teachers visiting the opening conference of the National Textbook Publishing House (NTK).
As in previous years, Young Digital Planet will be present at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 to showcase our products and services and meet with our present and prospecting clients.
Young Digital Planet is excited to announce the launch of their newly designed Web site, which went live on Monday 12th September 2011 and is located at http://www.ydp.eu/.
Unique non-methodical material for watching, listening and reading comprehension Malmberg has entered an exclusive partnership with National Geographic, to offer the learning materials from the National Geographic Footprint Reading Library in the Netherlands. This library contains unique learning material for watching, listening and reading comprehension for higher secondary education. National...
From 2014 onwards, Dutch students in vocational education (VE) will have to pass an exam regarding their abilities in the Dutch language and arithmetic. This new situation has increased the demand for learning solutions in these two fields. The Dutch VE students are trained both in the classroom and in practical situations, in competences and theoretical knowledge and, if and when possible, they are offered a tailor made program, based on an assessment of their competences (knowledge, ability and attitude).
A new school year has just begun in Finland. In the Finnish school system, foreign languages are taught from grade 3 onwards in basic education. The Yippee! series covers grades 3 to 6 in the Finnish comprehensive school for English as a first foreign language.
One of the world leaders in complete eContent and software solutions for the educational sector, Young Digital Planet is now targeting the social networks market. Over 30,000 teaching and learning objects for sciences, mathematics, biology, physics and chemistry will be available in myeverCLASS – the first-ever e-learning content platform on Facebook.
Personalised learning is an important development in education. Instead of dealing with the lesson material at class level, it is tailored to the specific learning needs of the individual. This form of education ensures a greater learning efficiency and better results.
A flight simulator in the classroom? Why not! Nowa Era’s “Project with the class” program and its winners are proving that imagination has no limits and education can be a great adventure.
For the first time in Belgium pupils can practice content seen in the class room on an iPad. Woordtrainer En action 5 assists children in rehearsing the French vocabulary from Éventail-junior En action, which is Van In’s market leading method for French as a second language in primary education.
Earlier this spring, AAC Global hosted an impressive group of students - EU interpreters - who had signed up for an intensive three-week immersion into Finnish language and culture. Taking place at the time of the parliamentary elections, the training offered a box-seat to Finnish politics. Meeting people from Finnish political and business life, culture, and education were key elements of this special, customized Finnish language training experience.
Andrew Rufener (1966) has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Sanoma Learning & Literature as of June 1, 2011. Sanoma is focused on delivering innovative learning solutions to the market and is consequently strengthening its skill-set surrounding the application of technology to a broad range of digital offerings.
Esmerk is to concentrate an increasing part of its content production of news abstracts in its office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The majority of all English to English news abstracting will in the future be carried out in Kuala Lumpur, including coverage of North America and many English language trade sources.
We are exhibiting at Learning & Teaching Expo in Hong Kong on 28th -30th June at stand F15. We are going to present our Maths & Science content, Early & Special Needs Education series, English Language Courses and ePublishing Technologies. 'Learning & Teaching Expo 2011' is a major annual professional development event for the teaching community. Besides the exhibition, the Expo will also host...
Sanoma announced the divestment of its general literature operations to the Swedish media group Bonnier on 29 April 2011. The Finnish competition authorities have given their approval of the transaction. The closing of the transaction is expected during the autumn. Sanoma inspires, informs and connects. As a diversified media group, we bring information, experiences, education and entertainment...
Children being able to reason with numbers
Children being able to reason with mathematical concepts
Children being able to apply the concepts to real-life situations
Children being numerically literate
Children being comfortable with logic and reasoning
The Association for Finnish Work has granted Esmerk Finland the right to use the Key Flag symbol in its news services produced in Finland. Esmerk news service, the media monitoring service Esmerk Tracking, the internet monitoring service EsmerkWebWatch, and the social media monitoring service EsmerkBlog&Forum Watch, as well as Esmerk's Consumer Report, and the Society of the Future report have been granted the right to use the Key Flag symbol in recognition of Finnish work and know-how.