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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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| Training |
| 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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| Strategic Partnership |
| Building the Next Generation of Online Courses |
| Austin, TX (USA), November 2009 – Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a developer and provider of virtual K-12 education solutions, has announced strategic partnership with Giunti Labs, a provider of learning content management and digital repository solutions, to create a state-of-the-art Learning Content Management System (LCMS). [more...] |
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| Keep in Touch |
| Using Technology to Keep Parents Informed |
| Coventry (UK), November 2009 - The report, Schools and parents: A new partnership, part of Becta's 'Next Generation Learning' campaign is now available for download. It suggests that simple technologies such as online reporting can support a new, more effective partnership between parents and schools. [more...] |
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| UK Pilot |
| First Nationwide Visualiser-Seeding Project |
 London (UK), October 2009 - Elmo UK is piloting the first nationwide visualiser- seeding project in the UK. Over three hundred schools are currently testing Elmo Visualisers in their classrooms for a ten-week period to see how it aids teaching primary and secondary-school children in a range of subjects. [more...] |
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| Strategic Project |
| 1,500 Teachers Will Learn to Create Educational Software |
| Bucharest (RO), October 2009 - (by Elena Lita) The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research has launched the "The Teacher - Educational Software Developer" strategic project that is to be implemented between September 2009 - September 2011 (24 months). The target of the project is three million pupils around the country. [more...] |
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| High Achievers |
| ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2009 |
 Oxford (UK), October 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Learning Technologist of the Year Award is now in its third year of operation. It celebrates and rewards excellent practice and learning in the learning technology field and is this year sponsored by Pearson eCollege. [more...] |
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| Collaboration |
| Bradesco Foundation Partners with eLearning for Kids |
 Ardmore, PA (USA)/São Paulo (BR), September 2009 - eLearning for Kids (EFK), a global non-profit foundation dedicated to providing free learning on the Internet (or via CD ROM) for children 5-12, has announced its partnership with the Bradesco Foundation. The partnership will further make EFK courseware available through the Bradesco Foundation "Virtual School", which serves 150,000 students. The Bradesco Foundation is one of the largest foundations in Brazil with a focus on education for children in need. [more...] |
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| Dual Enrolment |
| New Model of Student Progression |
| Washington, DC (USA), September 2009 - A recent report has presented a new model of student progression and plan of action proposed by a unique assembly of high-level stakeholders from K-12, community colleges, and four-year institutions working toward increased high school and college graduation rates. [more...] |
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| Wireless Security |
| Mexborough School Rolls Out New IT Network |
| Doncaster (UK), August 2009 - Mexborough School, a specialist science college, has implemented a new wireless IT network throughout its entire campus from specialist secure systems integrator and NG Bailey Company, s2s. [more...] |
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