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| Public Service |
| Journal of Online Education |
| North Miami Beach, FL (USA), June 2008 - Innovate is an open-access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. It is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. [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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| 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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| 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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| CTG Donates Courses |
| EFK About to Receive Educational Software |
| Ardmore, PA (US), May 2007 – ELearning for Kids (EFK), a global nonprofit foundation that provides free online learning for children 5-12, has entered into an exciting partnership with Close the Gap (CTG). CTG is an international non-profit organization that actively helps to bridge the digital divide by lengthening the lifespan of Western IT equipment through its various projects around the world. [more...] |
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| K-12 Education |
| Michigan Virtual University Goes For Meridian LMS |
| Chantilly, VA (US), May 2007 – Meridian Knowledge Solutions LLC recently announced that their Learning Management System has been selected by Michigan Virtual University (MVU) and its Michigan LearnPort. The latter is a state-wide communication and professional development portal supporting Michigan’s K-12 community. With the implementation of Meridian’s LMS, MVU intends to support the professional development of more than 150,000 educators and support staff throughout Michigan's K-12 community. [more...] |
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| Courses for Ghana |
| eLearning for Kids Partners With To Be Worldwide |
| Ardmore, OK (US), April 2007 - ELearning for Kids (EFK), a global non-profit foundation dedicated to providing free online learning for children 5-12, recently announced its partnership with To Be Worldwide (TBWW), a foundation that helps build educational facilities in developing countries. TBWW will implement a project at the pilot centre in Takoradi, Ghana that is available to more than 2000 children. [more...] |
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| Wikis in Schools |
| Revolution in the Classroom |
| Brisbane (AU), April 2007 - Wikis are revolutionising the classroom and reducing the amount of one-way communication, according to 'wiki guru' and founder of Wikispaces, Adam Frey. During a live web-conferencing session in March, Frey discussed what a wiki is, why they are useful in the classroom, and how to get started. [more...] |
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| Skills for Life |
| Epic Goes to the Movies |
| Brighton (UK), April 2007 – As part of the Quality Improvement Agency's (QIA) national Skills for Life Improvement Programme 2006-07, Epic is making four films that will demonstrate effective practice in teaching and learning in a range of settings. Within the programme, Epic has an opportunity to capture some of the very best examples of effective practice through a series of DVDs/videos/films. These will then be available for sharing with practitioners and teacher educators across the field. [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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