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| Improved Communication with Parents, Students, and Staff |
| Washington, DC (USA), July 2010 - Blackboard has announced several enhancements to its AlertNow and Blackboard Connect mass notification services for K-12 districts and schools. The Blackboard Connect platform has added significant feature enhancements, including rich-text HTML e-mail that enables users to create and send e-mails with formatted text, embedded images, and hyperlinks using an intuitive interface. [more...] |
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| Introducing a New Learning Calendar |
| London (UK), June 2010 - With the rise of web 2.0 tools and social media, teachers are increasingly looking for hi-tech ways of communicating, collaborating, and saving time. English-language teachers now have a new way to plan and schedule online resources with the launch of the Learning Calendar on onestopenglish.com. [more...] |
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| Interactive Technology to Enhance Learning Experience |
| Galway (IE), June 2010 – ALISON, an Irish-based provider of free online courses, has announced the release of a suite of new maths courses that allow the learner to grapple with the subject matter in an interactive and self-paced manner. The programs give students the confidence and skills to succeed at both higher and ordinary-level maths. [more...] |
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| Change Ahead |
| Free Online Resources Justify Government's ICT Cuts |
| Galway (IE), June 2010 - The UK government's decision to abolish the education ICT agency Becta by November has been met with mixed views. The scrapping is part of cuts worth £6.2 billion in what Chancellor George Osbourne has called "wasteful" public spending. While up to 240 jobs will go and its services cut, many are asking if Becta will truly be missed. [more...] |
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| Utah Education Network Praises Adobe Products |
| Salt Lake City, UT (USA), May 2010 - The Utah state government has established the Utah Education Network (UEN). The UEN is made up of providers of training and technical support services and serves more than 22,000 K–12 teachers and higher- education instructors State wide, helping to improve the learning environment for the students in Utah public schools. [more...] |
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| Operating System for Kids |
| A Safer PC Environment with Magic Desktop |
 Bucharest (RO), April 2010 – (by Elena Lita) As a premiere for Romania, visitors of the UPC Romania's website can download Magic Desktop, one the most appreciated software programs for children up to ten years of age for free. Pre-loaded on twelve million PCs purchased in Europe in 2009 alone, Magic Desktop, developed by the Norwegian company EasyBits Software, has twice been honored as best-in-class software for child safety online by the European Union. [more...] |
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| Multimedia for Open Schools in Namibia |
 Vancouver, BC (CA)/Windhoek (NA), March 2010 - In 2009, the Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) implemented a Multimedia Content Development Strategy in Open Schooling and introduced sixteen video lessons in Accounting, English, Mathematics, and Physical Science. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is now offering a report for download that recounts NAMCOL’s experiences. [more...] |
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| Virtual College |
| Safeguarding Children Moves to Adult Training |
 Leeds (UK), March 2010 - The Safeguarding Children e-Academy has extended its remit to incorporate adult social-care training for the first time. The academy, an operating division of online-training pioneer Virtual College, of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, is specialised in the delivery of interactive online learning for the children's workforce. [more...] |
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| Health & Safety |
| Training to Teach about Bloodborne Pathogens in Schools |
| Virginia Beach, VA (USA), February 2010 - Coastal Training Technologies has announced the release of Bloodborne Pathogens in Schools: The Fundamentals, a training program that explains how school staff members can stop the spread of bloodborne pathogens. [more...] |
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| Astronomy Questionnaire |
| Input for New eLearning Modules Wanted |
 Pallini Attikis (GR), February 2010 - The EU project COSMOS is funded under the eContentplus programme and creates eLearning modules on Astronomy, offering a large collection through one portal. The needs of teachers and students are currently assessed via an online questionnaire. [more...] |
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| Home Access |
| Stone Group Supplies Laptops to Low-Income Families |
| London (UK), February 2010 - Stone Group has been appointed as one of Becta’s provisional "approved suppliers" for the Home Access programme. The government-funded programme underpins the government’s vision for more children to have access to technology at home to support learning. [more...] |
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| HeadSafe |
| Online Health and Safety Training for Schools |
 London (UK), February 2010 - Cobent Limited has announced the launch of "HeadSafe", a new eLearning resource for schools developed by risk-management consultancy Three Spires Safety. The HeadSafe programme has been developed to provide head teachers, school bursars, school governors, and other school managers with a practical online-training resource covering health and safety in schools. [more...] |
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| Creating Connections |
| Elluminate’s Fire and Ice Project Wins Award |
| Calgary, AB (CA), December 2009 – Elluminate, Inc., a provider of web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that support 21st-century teaching, learning, and collaboration, has announced that its Fire and Ice initiative has been awarded iNACOL’s Best and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice award. [more...] |
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| ELearning Needs Tutoring – Tutoring Needs Competence |
| Vienna (AT), November 2009 - In cooperation with the Austrian teacher-training institute "e-LISA Academy" and the Danube University Krems, common sense eLearning & training consultants GmbH has developed a practice-oriented education-training program for online tutors. The first run was successful and had a high number of attendees. The alumni gave positive feedback and felt confident in handling the learning platform - in this case Moodle -, moderating, and giving feedback during an eLearning course. [more...] |
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| Education Worldwide |
| Global Non-Profit Reaches 1.5 Million Children |
| Ardmore, PA (USA), November 2009 – E-Learning for Kids (EFK) was launched in 2005 by a small, all-volunteer and virtual team of business and education professionals with a dozen courses and a few hundred online users. In 2009 alone, EFK has reached more than 1.5 million children in 192 countries, who have taken more than 5 million courses. [more...] |
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