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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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| 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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| Mobile Learning |
| A Classroom in Your Pupils’ Pocket |
 Okemos, MI (USA), June 2011 - (by Dave McCollom) Mobile technology is increasingly commonplace in the classroom, be it pupils’ mobiles or brand-new tablet devices. Dave McCollom, education specialist of TechSmith, discusses how schools can take advantage of mobile technology and ensure investment in mobile ICT is well worth the cost. [more...] |
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| Literacy App |
| New Technology to Help Young Children's Reading |
| Milton Keynes (UK), June 2011 - Researchers at The Open University have created a free "app" to help parents teach their children to read. "Our Story" has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading. [more...] |
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| Next Generation |
| What Would a Ted Speaker Say to Ten Year Olds? |
| Brussels (BE), May 2011 - You can find out next month at a new kind of TEDx event called TEDxKIDS@Brussels on 01 June. The organisers have invited a team of extraordinary experts (many of them former TED speakers) for a day in Waterloo, Belgium. [more...] |
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| Future Pathways |
| Changing Teaching through 3D Technology |
| Reading (UK)/Dallas, TX (USA), February 2011 – Two UK schools are using Texas Instruments DLP® 3D-ready technology to bring science lessons to life and turn two-dimensional topics into engaging 3D learning experiences. The result is an improvement in the pupils’ understanding of difficult topics. Participating schools are The Abbey School, an independent girls’ day school of over 1,000 pupils, and the Emmbrook School, a mixed comprehensive school of 1,200 pupils. [more...] |
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| Literacy |
| Video Game Tackles Primary School Reading Crisis |
| Cambridge (UK), January 2011 - Nine percent of boys in England reach the age of eleven with, at best, the reading skills of an average seven year old. This figure equates to over 18,000 boys with seriously substandard literacy. This shocking statistic, obtained by the BBC's Today programme, also revealed that in some areas, such as Nottingham, Derby, Manchester, Rotherham, and Telford the figure was closer to fifteen percent. [more...] |
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| Learning Styles |
| Peter Honey: There's No Such Word as Can't! |
 London (UK), October 2010 – In a though-provoking presentation, world-famous learning- styles "guru" Dr Peter Honey inspired and entertained members of the Charity Learning Consortium at its recent meeting. The title was, "Should Learning Always Be Fun? And Is the Learning Styles Questionnaire Sufficient to Help Promote Learning?" [more...] |
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| Intrinisic Motivation |
| Game-based Learning for Quality Education in Schools |
 Graz (AT), July 2010 - Can learning be fun? Many people would not agree with this hypothesis since they remember their own educational history, which involved investing a lot of effort to pass exams in school and university. On the contrary, learning is often perceived as an exercise in getting results in the form of a certification – and for this reason, extrinsic motivation strongly dominates most of the learning process in primary and secondary education, at the university level, and even in vocational education and training. [more...] |
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| Specific Phenomenon |
| Open Educational Practices Lead to Quality in Education |
 Milton Keynes (UK), July 2010 - There is an inherent connection between opening educational practices and quality of education. In the recent debates about the quality of OER and eLearning content in general, a structural problem becomes apparent. In many approaches, educational resources are evaluated and judged separately from their intended use, e.g. through certification or criteria-based approaches. [more...] |
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| New Service |
| Saffron Interactive Announces LMS in a Box |
| London (UK), June 2010 - LMS in a box is a Moodle-based solution that allows customers to quickly and easily make a branded learning management system available to their learners. It offers custom brand design, hosting, and support service. [more...] |
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| Obstacles to overcome |
| Mobile Solar Classrooms in Rural Uganda |
 Kampala (UG), May 2010 - Three solar panels, a battery, ten folding chairs, five tables, fifteen Intel-powered Classmate PCs and two teachers in a small van: This is the basic "equipment" of the Mobile Solar Computer Classroom (MSCC). It has been en route through rural Uganda for two years now with the purpose of teaching pupils and teachers IT and computer skills. [more...] |
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| Education |
| Interactive Books for Science Students Published |
 Oslo (NO), October 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and managed-learning service provider, in partnership with Greenbook Digital Publishing AS, a Norwegian all-digital publishing house, have released their first digital multi-book for use by science students. By using video, animation, sound, and various exercises, multi-books enhance learning and make it more enjoyable for students. Users don't have to be online to access the information, and the feedback from students and teachers has been positive. [more...] |
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| World Bank Study |
| ELearning in Russia's Schools |
| Moscow (RU), May 2009 - So far, the transition to a new economic system has brought little tangible benefit to Russia's education system. Disorganisation, underfunding, and a brain drain have made it difficult to adapt. In this situation, the authorities have launched a major effort to improve the employment of ICT to foster reform of Russia's education system and to help it catch up with standard practices in other countries. [more...] |
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| Games for eLearning |
| Serious Games: Fun Is a Good Motivator |
| Berlin, December 2008 – Gaming is being taken seriously by teachers and trainers all over the globe. Several panels during ONLINE EDUCA Berlin dealt with innovative games for eLearning. Serious gaming is often expensive to produce, but there are exceptions that demonstrate how a good idea or storyline can forge the foundation of a game that is fascinating and useful learning tool. [more...] |
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