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| Distance Learning |
| Certification for Clayton College of Natural Health |
 Boston, MA (USA), May 2008 – USDLA/QS certification is "a standards-based program that recognizes excellence across a range of distance learning settings", according to Dr. John G. Flores, USDLA Chief Executive Officer. Clayton College has been certified as an Alternative and Continuing Education provider under the Quality Standards program. Based on a rigorous peer review process, it is designed both to protect the public and to improve the distance learning experience. [more...] |
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| Aada&Aaron |
| To Facilitate Web-based Studies |
| Helsinki (FI), April 2008 – Competencies, Scoping and Monitoring of Web-Based Learning (KoMiTi) is a two-year project coordinated by the University of Kuopio, Finland. One of its aims has been to give visibility to web-based learning, which is often perceived of as invisible. The results of the project are assembled in the manual Skills, Hourglasses and Statistics. The project also produced a web-based course planning tool for teachers called Aada&Aaron. [more...] |
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| Moodle Integration |
| The Open University Selects Elluminate Live! |
 Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA), April 2008 – Elluminate, Inc., a provider of live eLearning and web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, has announced that the Open University (OU), the largest university in the United Kingdom and a pioneer of large-scale distance learning, has selected Elluminate Live!® as their enterprise synchronous collaboration solution. In addition, the OU will also integrate the virtual classroom with its chosen learning management system, Moodle™. [more...] |
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| Leadership role |
| ELearning Boom in Colombia |
| Bogota (CO) / Duisburg (GER), March 2008 - ELearning is the booming educational topic in Colombia. This month the country joined SC36, the leading international eLearning standardization committee, making it the first Latin American land to do so. [more...] |
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| First Bremen eLearning Fo |
| Preparing Universities for the Ne(x)t Generation |
 Bremen (GER), March 2008 - The first Bremen eLearning Forum will neither be a conference nor a convention, but a day-and-a-half occasion for discussing and exploring the issues faced by European universities in meeting the needs and expectations of the "Net generation" as well as those of the next generation of students. The Bremen Forum will take place on April 17th and 18th as part of the eLene-Teaching and Learning Centre’s activities. [more...] |
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| IDOL Platform |
| Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden |
| Cambridge (UK) / San Francisco, CA (USA), March 2008 - Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, has announced that the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, has selected its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part of the Swedish government's initiative to promote research, eLearning, and collaboration within Sweden's education system. [more...] |
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| The EuroPACE Approach |
| European Networking and Learning for the Future |
 Heverlee (BE), February 2008 - EuroPACE is a European nonprofit association of universities and their partners in education and training. Its main objective is to foster networked eLearning for virtual mobility, internationalisation of higher education, knowledge creation and sharing, and for lifelong learning. The book "European Networking and Learning for the Future", edited by Annemie Bonen and Wim Van Petegem, collects articles from various authors involved in the development of the EuroPACE network.
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| ENQA-EADTU |
| Collaboration on Quality Assurance in eLearning |
 Heerlen (NL), February 2008 - Quality assurance in eLearning is of growing interest. Not only has eLearning grown into a mainstream means of providing of education in open universities as well as traditional universities; it is also becoming the main instrument of internationalisation in education. [more...] |
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| Agreement |
| The Open University UK joins Santander Universities |
 London (UK), January, 2008 - The Open University has signed an agreement with Abbey, part of the Santander Group, to join Santander Universities, an international scheme that already supports 575 universities in Spain, the United States, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom. [more...] |
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| MIT Interview |
| "Education Can Be Open" |
 Barcelona (Spain) / Cambridge, MA (USA), December 2007 – (by Manuel Aineto) Vijay Kumar is working on the interface between technology and education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology. He attended the recent University Campus Workshop in Barcelona, where the future of open content universities was debated, and in the following, Mr. Kumar shares his vision on how students, researchers, and teachers can take advantage of the new initiatives in relation to digital technologies. Descended from several generations of musicians, he explains passionately the way technology will assist other fields such as transportation, medicine, or communications in the future. [more...] |
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| Doctoral Programme |
| E-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning |
| Lancaster (UK), December 2007 - In January 2008, the Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, launches a new structured, part-time Doctoral Programme in E-Research and Technology- Enhanced Learning. This innovative programme combines a limited number of face-to-face residential meetings with considerable online learning and will be available to anyone in the world wishing to develop eLearning research and practice. [more...] |
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| Learning Environment |
| Meeting in Real and Virtual Worlds |
| Coventry (UK), December 2007 - Coventry University has collaborated with Cisco® and Giunti Labs to create a highly innovative learning environment that blends mobile learning and virtual-learning-worlds technologies. The University wanted to help give its Serious Games Institute (SGI) a technology platform on which to build a digital model of the campus building so that students’ movements in both the real building and its virtual reconstruction trigger location-based access to learning content and experiences. This means that content can be pushed to students by the most suitable method for their location and the device they are using. [more...] |
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| Case Studies Singapore |
| Audio Visual Theory and eLearning |
 Singapore (Singapore), November 2007 - With the rapid development of technology and the merging of audio visual and IT in education, it is time to think about major issues brewing from the confluence of the professional practice in these two areas. Dr. Joe Peters from the National University of Singapore speaks about major implications for pedagogy, facility design, and staff re-training in these areas. [more...] |
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| Fostering Change |
| CARPE DIEM: Seizing Each Day for eLearning Design |
 Leicester (UK), November 2007 – How do universities develop ICT literate faculty? Prof. Alejandro Armellini, Research Fellow in eLearning and Leader of the Adelie Pathfinder Project at the University of Leicester, UK, explained to CHECK.point eLearning the strategy for building institutional capacity and fostering change at the University of Leicester. [more...] |
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| Get Lost |
| Labyrinths of Learning: Wikis in Education |
 Tilburg (NL), November 2007 - The use of wikis in education is more or less exploding. For Dr. Harrie Manders of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg, the wiki in an educational setting is a special tool to challenge students to walk though labyrinths and learn in a way that breaks through boundaries. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Dr. Manders about his experiences with wikis so far. [more...] |
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