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| Interactive Learning |
| Budgeting for Sustainable Open Schools |
| Vancouver (CA), April 2008 - In its work in developing and promoting sustainable models, the intergovernmental body Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has identified cost and financing of distance education as a critical element in planning for Open Schools. [more...] |
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| Interactive Learning |
| Trains, Virtual Worlds, Serious Games, and Kids |
 Richardson, TX (USA), March 2008 - Red Knight Learning Systems, based in Dallas, Texas, has been selected as a strategic partner in the design and development of a unique new interactive learning project for kids. "Chuggington" is an entertainment property being developed by London-based Ludorum, plc that follows the adventures of three young train engines, their human caretakers, and their fellow train friends. [more...] |
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| Monitoring Students |
| Danware Launches New Version of NetOp School |
| Birkerød (DK), February 2008 - The Danish IT company Danware is launching version 5.5 of NetOp School, one of the world’s leading programmes for managing and running computer-based classrooms. NetOp School 5.5 supports all Windows platforms, including Vista. At the same time, Danware is introducing a new technology that makes it much easier for teachers to oversee students' use of the Internet. [more...] |
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| Document Camera |
| SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Enriches Lessons |
 Calgary, Alberta (CA), February 2008 - SMART Technologies has announced the SMART document camera, the latest addition to its 21st-century classroom solution. This easy-to-use product enables teachers to display detailed images and video of any physical object and instantly incorporate that material into digital lessons using a SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard and Notebook™ collaborative learning software. [more...] |
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| Children’s Charity |
| eLearning Awareness Programmes Developed |
| Ilford/London (UK), February 2008 - Leading children's charity Barnardo's, working in partnership with online learning developers Nelson Croom, has released two new elearning programmes that inform professionals about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and behaviour in schools. The training courses form part of a new training, learning, and consultancy service called Barnardo's tlc. [more...] |
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| Romania |
| New Policy on ICT Use in Education |
| Bucharest (RO), February 2008 - (by Elena Lita) The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth and the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have recently launched a new public policy proposal called "The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the pre-college education system in Romania". The aim of this policy is to increase the quality and the access to the educational process through the integration of the ICTs, and for the first time in such a high-level directive, open educational resources, collaborative technologies, open source software, and online courses are taken into account. [more...] |
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| Intel Programme |
| Kenya Launches eLearning in Schools |
| Nairobi (KE), January 2008 - Kenya has become the third African country to launch eLearning facilities in secondary schools. The programme by Intel, and whose only other beneficiaries are South Africa and Nigeria, was launched at Kamiti Secondary School in the outskirts of Nairobi. The programme enables students to be taught through information communication technology (ICT) and is a collaboration effort between the Ministry of Education and several local and multinational ICT companies. [more...] |
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| British Visit |
| Representatives Inspired by Norwegian Schools |
| Oslo (NO), January 2008 - A group of UK education authorities have spent two days in Oslo observing how their Norwegian colleagues are using ICT technology in education. Education in the UK is receiving a great deal of attention, as government policies and initiatives aim to 'Build Schools for the Future' and equip students with the skills that they will need in their working life ahead. [more...] |
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| Free Resources |
| Romanian Schools Join Think.com Community |
 Bucharest (RO), December 2007 – (by Elena Lita) Oracle has implemented Rumania’s first nation-wide educational programme dedicated to students aged between nine and eighteen years. Think.com is a free web-based environment for primary and secondary students and teachers and is designed to assist schools with the implementation and use of state-of-the-art technology for educational purposes. At the end of November, 1,600 teachers across the country, including all areas of specialization, attended training courses on using the Think.com programme. [more...] |
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| Student Registration |
| Iona Technologies Connects Belgian Schools
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| Dublin (IE), December 2007 - More than 3,000 schools throughout Belgium will be using Irish software firm Iona’s open source technology to deploy a centralised student-registration system after being chosen by the Belgian Ministry for Education. Iona will be providing distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure in the form of its FUSE ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), which will be integrated with various applications and databases to provide real-time registration for over one million students. [more...] |
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| Educational Portal |
| Lifelong Learning for Teachers, Students, and Parents |
 Luxembourg (LU), November 2007 – The Center of Technology of Education (CTE), part of the Ministry of National Education Luxembourg, pursues the aim of a multilingual educational working environment for teachers, principals, students, office staff, and parents. Luxembourg’s Educational Portal, called "mySchool", is based on a technical business solution provided by BEA Systems. This solution is flexible that the integration of new specifications, like a restaurant management for the school cafeteria, was feasible. [more...] |
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| Teacher Training |
| Elearning 2.0 – A Stepping Stone to Elearning 3.0? |
 Grenaa (DK), November 2007 – Anne Fox is teacher trainer in the Experience-Based Learning Project, a Danish project piloting teacher training in the adoption of web 2.0 tools in secondary education. For CHECK.point eLearning, she reveals her findings and gives advice to other teacher trainers. [more...] |
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| So We Got It Wrong! |
| How the Lessons from a Disaster Led to Success |
 Edinburgh (UK), November 2007 – Making mistakes in the past did not stop Andrew Watt and his colleagues from the City of Edinburgh Council from continuing with eLearning. In his presentation, Andrew Watt takes an honest look at the lessons learnt and draws out guidelines for implementing online learning in schools and other educational situations. [more...] |
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| One Million Users |
| Fronter for All Schools in London |
| Oslo (NO), June 2007 - The signing of the contract in the British embassy in Oslo this Tuesday confirmed the decision to implement Fronter as the official learning platform for the City of London. The contract partner, London Grid for Learning LGfL, is a consortium of 33 local authorities in London with the task of providing London’s 2584 schools and their one million pupils with the best digital content, ICT infrastructure, and their own Learning platform: London Managed Learning Environment (London MLE). [more...] |
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| Virtual Guide |
| Interactive Romania Launched |
 Bucharest (RO), June 2007 – (by Elena Lita) Shortly before the start of the Romanian National Testing Session, INTUITEXT, the eContent Solutions Division of the Romanian company SOFTWIN, has launched Geografika - Interactive Romania, the first virtual Guide of Romania and the easiest way to discover the country for school children and everyone else. Sorin Guleac, INTUITEXT’s Educational Commercial Manager, was kind enough to speak to us about their new product. [more...] |
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