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| Free Digital Education |
| Open Source Innovation for the Teaching Community |
 Paris (FR), January 2012 – The goal of the Sankoré programme is to make the digital education revolution available for everybody and to enhance teachers’ creativity by the potentials of working digitally and with the internet. The Sankoré Portal offers open and free access to excellent teaching contents and new resources produced with the Open-Sankoré IWB Open Source software. [more...] |
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| Game-based Learning |
| Chelsea FC launch Footee for Young Fans |
| London (UK), January 2012 - Chelsea FC has announced the launch of Chelsea Footee, an online educational football-themed entertainment zone for children that links to the National Curriculum. It has been developed in partnership with UK eLearning specialist MotivatEd. [more...] |
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| Early Learning |
| European Children’s Travelling Language Library |
| London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children’s Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success. [more...] |
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| Wireless |
| Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning |
| St. Albans (UK), January 2012 – Xirrus, a provider of high-performance wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200 eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility. [more...] |
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| Public Spending |
| UK Education Funding Falls at Fastest Rate Since 1950s |
| London (UK), November 2011 - Public spending on education in the UK is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, according to a report released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report says the biggest challenges ahead are for early-years education, youth services, and sixteen-nineteen education, where spending is set to fall by around twenty percent in real terms. [more...] |
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| Olympic Achievers |
| Non-Traditional Education for Non-Traditional Students |
 Norcross, GA (USA), November 2011 - With the hope of becoming the best in the world, world-class amateur athletes are devoted to their sport. So when do these athletes plan for life after sports, and what happens when it's time to turn in the uniform or hang up the skates? [more...] |
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| Stress Management |
| Training to Improve Educator Effectiveness |
 Duluth, GA (USA), November 2011 - ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET-approved, nationally accredited, distance-training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care and education workforce, offers educators a new course for stress management. [more...] |
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| Peer Sounds |
| Intersection between Technology and Creativity in Music |
 Rome (I), November 2011 - The OEB session "Social Sounds for Peer Education" aims to give an overview of how digital-technology applications have changed music education, creation, and production. Andrea Pozzi, marketing and communication manager of MidiWare is also in charge of managing all MidiWare activities relating to their European educational projects. MidiWare provides support to music teachers, schools, conservatories, and other important European Institutions. As a musician, Andrea plays bass in a band that is signed to an Italian record company. [more...] |
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| Analyse a Game |
| How Do You Identify Games for the Classroom? |
 Copenhagen (DK), November 2011 - "Important Lessons from the Last Ten Years with Game-Based Learning" is the title of the OEB contribution of Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen. He is CEO of Serious Games Interactive in Denmark, a company that develops serious game, simulations, and virtual worlds with graphics that are able to stand up to other commercial computer games. Their solutions have explicit learning objectives and are developed with attention to the special needs of clients and users. [more...] |
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| Cyber Cruelty |
| Don’t Let Bullying Destroy the Lives of Kids |
 New York, NY (USA), November 2011 - As an openly gay young man, Tommy Walser, currently a New York University Law School student, watched in shock and anger as it seemed like every week a new suicide was being committed due to bullying and cyber-bullying. Enter The Bullying Academy, which Walser created as a free online resource to help parents, students, and teachers deal with the dangers associated with bullying and cyber-bullying. [more...] |
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| Mastering Challenges |
| Student Success Gets Boost from Resiliency Education App |
| Arlington, VA/San Francisco, CA (USA), October 2011 - Teen Wellness, an online app that helps students improve resiliency skills, is now integrated into Naviance, the leading provider of measurable student-success solutions for K-12 schools and districts, through Naviance Succeed®. This integration will allow school staff and administrators to provide holistic academic, career, and emotional support to students using a single, integrated platform. [more...] |
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| Education |
| Romania Training Centres Equipped with Sanako Study Labs |
| Turku (FI), October 2011 - The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports has equipped two hundred of its teacher-training centres with Sanako Study 1200 language labs - one hundred for English and the other hundred for French. Teacher training on using the new language labs will take place between November 2011 and April 2013. Nine thousand teachers will be trained during this period. [more...] |
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| Early Learning |
| Mobile Technology Used for Underserved Children |
 New Delhi (IN)/San Diego, CA (USA), September 2011 - Qualcomm Incorporated and Sesame Workshop India, have announced Galli Galli Sim Sim, the Radiophone project. This initiative combines community radio with mobile phones to expand access to quality educational experiences for children, particularly children of migrant populations that reside in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi. [more...] |
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| European Schoolnet |
| Come Closer, Neighbour! |
.gif) Brussels (BE), August 2011 - In Europe there are roughly seventy country borders of which 25 are also language borders. Through eTwinning, many schools are crossing these frontiers by learning each other’s languages. eTwinning is part of Comenius, the EU programme for schools. [more...] |
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