| Global Campus 21 |
| ELearning for Sustainable Development |
| Bonn (GER), August 2010 – (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Ten years after the launch of their eLearning platform Global Campus 21, the non-profit organization InWEnt, Capacity Building International, started the GC21 E-Academy, where experts and managers all over the world can participate in courses. For developing countries in particular, this means a tremendous step forward in education since many people have not been able to access content due to a lack of infrastructure. [more...] |
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| Join In |
| Public Consultation on Open Educational Resources |
 Brussels (BE), June 2010 – The Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) invites participation in a consultation process about Open Educational Practices (OEP). The OPAL project is a new international initiative to promote innovation and better quality in education and training through the use of open educational resources. [more...] |
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| Outreach |
| Learning Light Co-Ordinates European eLearning Project |
| Sheffield (UK), May 2010 - Learning Light is leading an EU-wide consortium of organisations developing effective ways to use eLearning to reach and engage "marginalised" learners. This 300,000-euro project is funded by the EU under the Leonardo Transfer of Innovation scheme. [more...] |
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| Serious Games |
| E-VITA Storyboards Real-Life Experiences |
 Milan (IT), May 2010 - The E-VITA project ("European Life Experiences") – co-funded by the Education and Culture DG under the Lifelong Learning Programme – is to develop and test serious games that let younger generations "live" stories experienced and told by older people. This way, the past can be experienced directly and understood while playing a game that once was a real story. [more...] |
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| Electronic Telework |
| SeeS - SMEs eLearning to E-work Efficiently |
| Graz (AT), May 2010 – Bit media has sent out the first newsletter on the European project SEES - "SME’s eLearning to E-work Efficiently". The goal of this project, developed under the Leonardo da Vinci programme, is to provide practical and useful support to prepare e-managers and e-workers of SMEs to work in a "virtual environment". [more...] |
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| EFQUEL |
| The Mandate to Innovate Quality in Education |
 Brussels (BE), April 2010 – In September 2009, around eighty researchers, managers, and politicians agreed on the EFQUEL Innovation Agenda beyond 2010. Six months after the endorsement, Rolf Reinhardt, Executive Manager of EFQUEL, reflects on EFQUEL's achievements. [more...] |
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| Competence Modeling |
| European Initiative WACOM Launched Successfully |
 Duisburg (GER)/Athens (GR), April 2010 – WACOM (WAter COmpetences Model Transfer) is the European Leonardo-da-Vinci Project for the transfer of a competence model to the water sector. Its integration and harmonization with the European Qualification Framework (EQF) for competence modeling throughout Europe is another aspect of the effort. [more...] |
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| Piccolingo |
| Early Foreign Language Learning for Children |
 Brussels (BE), April 2010 - Why should my child learn foreign languages? What is the best age to start? How can I make it a fun experience for the whole family? Find the answers to these questions - and much more - at the new European Commission website. [more...] |
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| HEXTLEARN |
| The Web-Community for Higher Education Experts |
 Budapest (HU)/Bologna (IT), April 2010 - Over 300 higher-education professionals make use of the HEXTLEARN project’s web 2.0 community space when sharing their experiences. In the framework of the project, good practices of using ICT in higher education are discussed online and recommended for peer reviewing. [more...] |
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| Interoperability |
| ELENA - Creating a Smart Space for Learning |
| Vienna (AT), February 2010 - ELENA demonstrates the feasibility of smart learning spaces. These are platforms that allow the consumption of heterogeneous learning services via assessment tools, learning management systems, educational (meta) repositories, and live delivery systems such as videoconferencing. [more...] |
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| Benchmarks |
| Quality Standards for eLearning in Capacity Building |
| Brussels (BE), March 2010 - Open ECBCheck, the first international quality standard for ELearning programmes and institutions in international Capacity Building is now available. Initiated by Germany’s InWent – Capacity Building International and EFQUEL, Open ECBCheck has been developed through a unique interagency collaboration of about 25 international capacity-building agencies and their partners, amongst them eight UN agencies. [more...] |
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| Cross-cutting Priority |
| Europe Must Integrate Education and Employment Policies |
 Thessaloniki (GR), March 2010 - The need to develop fully integrated skills policies for education and training, employment, and innovation at all levels was a dominant theme in the workshop Skills and competence to overcome the crisis, which Cedefop co-organised with MEP Ole Christensen on 02 March at the European Parliament in Brussels. [more...] |
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| Standardization |
| Successful Year for eLearning in Europe |
 Essen (GER), February 2010 - The year 2009 was a very successful year for European eLearning standardization. Three new standardization projects were started, and as the highlight, the first European de-jure standard was published. "We are very pleased that the first official European Norm (EN) for eLearning was approved in consensus last year!", explains Christian M. Stracke, Vice-Chair of the European eLearning standardization body CEN/TC 353. [more...] |
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| Call for Applications |
| EU Study Visits Programme |
| Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Would you like to explore education and training issues with your peers in other European countries? Are you interested in expanding your professional network? Do you wish to learn more about education and training policy and practice across Europe? Then perhaps it’s time to participate in the EU’s Study Visits Programme. [more...] |
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| Easy Access |
| New Web Portal for Vocational Education and Training |
| Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, has brought its redesigned and updated Web pages under a new roof. The new Web portal has been conceived primarily with the needs of policy-makers, researchers, and social partners in mind. It also aims to serve practitioners and interested European citizens. [more...] |
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