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unite.education at Online Educa Berlin 2014

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unite.education is sponsoring this years' Online Educa Conference and Exhibition.

"To ensure top notch data protection and security within all of our products to us is paramount. And likewise this is a must for data, generated by our clients. Data sovereignty belongs to the user - and certainly not to NSA and the likes."

Generating big data is easy, but how do you store and process? Who does the data generated belong to? Could the data even be used against its owner / creator? What can be done in order to keep data sovereignty? These are very important questions that we asked ourselves when developing software solutions in the field of e-learning.

"When we were approached last year for compatibility and interoperability with SCORM, we had been dealing with Experience API for quite a while already. And in doing so we came to the conclusion that SCORM is obsolete, especially since it does not allow for the depth and automation of data processing that can be achieved when using xAPI. In our view using SCORM causes a decline in evaluation ability and quality. Using xAPI - compared to SCORM - allows for much more efficient and vastly better detailed evaluating, analysing and tracking of results, improvements and progress in learning as well as teaching. Also, xAPI allows for time- and location-independent teaching and learning as well as evaluating results."

At the same time Activity Tracking by unite.education offers the most stringent data protection and security as well as the by far largest number of xAPI-Applications within German-speaking countries. We emphasise secure integration of teaching and learning content, regardless of what system or solution is currently used. Sicher-im-Inter.net SaaS for Learning Record Stores and Personal Data Lockers in German language is unique and may be utilised immediately by every user.

Activity Tracking xAPI is the comprehensive xAPI-Service by Sicher-im-Inter.net in German language, which allows for safe and secure utilisation of Experience API by schools, colleges, universities, companies, enterprises and organisations, as well as by public authorities, agencies and administrations. Equally as important, every bit of data coming from or integrated into our Activity Tracking xAPI is processed and stored in Germany only, solely under German data protection laws and is solely subject to German jurisdiction.

unite.education has created a LMS, which - when used properly - ensures, that teaching and learning content, results of R&D, business data, administrative data, etc. is processed and stored safe and secure. All of this can be achieved without the utilisation of US-American software products.