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| The Case of Italy |
| Developing a Continuing Training System for Trainers |
 Rome (IT), November 2007 – Sharing expertise within Europe’s Teacher Training Networks is one theme of this year’s Online Educa Berlin Conference. Dr. Claudia Montedoro and Dr. Saverio Pescuma from ISFOL (the Italian Institute for Vocational Training) will present the Italian Online Project SPF (Xformare). CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Dr. Saverio Pescuma about the biggest public On Line Continuing Training System ever created by the Italian Ministry of Labour. [more...] |
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| Web 2.0? |
| In Search of a Fluid Networking Culture |
 Helsinki (SF), November 2007 – The international MA program ePedagogy Design – Visual Knowledge Building has recently been awarded "best-practice" in the Erasmus program. Following his experience with this project, Prof. Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss tries to answer questions about the impact of social software tools on eLearning and implications on students’ modes of interaction, aesthetics, and techniques. [more...] |
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| Portugal’s Road Towards Lisbon 2010 |
 Lisbon (PT), October 2007 - As its name in Portuguese indicates, the FDTI – the Foundation for the Promotion of Information Technologies - is responsible for disseminating ICT knowledge and use in Portugal, and the organization was, naturally, one of the institutions responsible for the recent EU Conference on Delivering the Lisbon Agenda. During the eLearning Lisboa 2007 event, CHECK.point eLearning had a chance to speak with Patricia Leão from the FDTI. [more...] |
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| FLOSS |
| Open Source in Rumanian Education |
 Timisoara (RO), September 2007 – (by Elena Lita) Open Source, a term proposed in 1998, refers to a set of principles and practices that promote the access to the process of planning and implementing various products and resources. The term is primarily used in relation to software. A wider term is FLOSS (or FOSS) - Free Libre Open Source Software. Carmen Holotescu, an instructor at the Automation and Computer Science Faculty - Politehnica University of Timisoara, the coordinator of the eLearning firm Timsoft, and the author of two eLearning guides speaks about the use of Open Source in Education. [more...] |
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| Project Funding |
| Partnership Opportunities between Europe and Africa |
 Dakar (SEN), May 2007 - START (also called the EuroAfrica-ICT initiative) is a project supported by the European Commission. It aims at connecting Sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union for ICT partnerships through the Framework Programme 7. Ken Lohento from the Panos Institute West Africa is Coordinator of the START initiative in West and Central Africa. He gives us an update on the situation. [more...] |
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| eQuality Award |
| Supporting a New Philosophy of Quality in Europe |
 Berlin, November 2006 - At Online Educa Berlin, the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) will introduce the EFQUEL eQuality Award, which recognises excellence in eLearning processes. CHECKpoint eLearning talked to Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Coordinator European Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, about the objectives, the criteria, and the impacts of the award. [more...] |
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| World Bank Activities |
 Madrid, November 2005 – The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is an initiative of the World Bank to promote knowledge-sharing in the belief that know-how is a key success factor to development. CEDDET, the Spanish affiliate together with public and private organizations, has developed a wide range of online training programmes. Irene Zurborn explained the role of CEDDET to CHECKpoint eLearning. [more...] |
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| Turkey's eLearning Future |
 Istanbul, January 2005 - Distance education, whether delivered online or in real time, has become one of the most significant growth areas in higher education. Major academic institutions around the world are investing human and economic resources into developing high-quality distance learning programs. In Turkey, web-based teaching is a fairly new experiment. At the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), the first distance learning center was established in 1996. Web-based distance teaching projects have recently become an integral part of the ITU educational system. Joscha Remus for Checkpoint eLearning spoke in Istanbul with Mustafa Sahin from the ITU Distance Learning Center about the effects of distance education on the overall quality of the education in Turkey. [more...] |
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an eLearning Platform | | 3D simulations and serious games are attaining ever-increasing significance for the learning world. A special case of its own is the virtual world Second Life. The CHECK.point eLearning Whitepaper "Second Life as an eLearning Platform" seeks to contribute to the discussion about Second Life’s suitability as a technological platform for education and training. The study answers questions like "For which application scenarios is Second Life suitable?" and "Which topics can be implemented successfully in Second Life?"
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