Christian Stracke

Expert at "Leaders and Legends of Online Learning"

Christian StrackeBonn (GER), February 2024 - Educational scientist and researcher Dr. Christian M. Stracke has been granted a special honour: He has been selected as the 90th expert for the Leaders and Legends of Online Learning. What is unique about this is that the selection is only made by the other experts and colleagues worldwide. Marc Nichols started this project at the Open University of UK back in 2018 and has always recorded a podcast with all the selected experts. In his questions, he is particularly interested in the personal long-term perspective.

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Four-Day Program

Professional & Executive Development Program Develops LGBTQ+ Leaders

Cambridge, MA (USA), February 2024 - Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education's Professional & Executive Development has launched a new leadership program designed to empower LGBTQ+ professionals to thrive as leaders. The intensive four-day program, held on Harvard's Cambridge, MA campus in July 2024, will provide participants with leadership strategies tailored to their unique experiences and identities.

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D2L Helps Educators

Generate Practice and Quiz Questions with Generative AI Beta Program

Toronto (CA), February 2024 - D2L, a global learning technology company, has shared the ongoing roll out of its Generative AI beta program to help educators and content creators easily and quickly generate practice questions and quiz questions using existing course content. This will help reduce administrative workloads and encourage a greater focus on learner engagement.

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Skill Acquisition

UK's First CPD Course for AR, VR, and MR Knowledge

London (UK), February 2024 - ARuVR®, a multi-award winning end-to-end extended reality (XR) learning platform for enterprises, has announced that the City, University of London, and ARuVR® will launch the UK's first Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course to fill the UK skills void in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR). The course will be open to those who want to upskill their learning to take advantage of the opportunities presented by XR within the enterprise setting.

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On-Demand Tutoring

Study Shows Favorable Outcomes for Students Using Tutor.com

Hong Kong (CH), January 2024 - Tutor.com, one of the world's largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced that it satisfies Level II requirements (Moderate Evidence) of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for its on-demand tutoring services.

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Transfr

The Future of Learning through XR Training Simulations

New York, NY (USA), December 2023 - Transfr, a leader in virtual reality-based skills training, has announced the launch of the Transfr SDK for its extended reality (XR) training platform, providing 3D designers with a set of high level, Unity-based low-code design tools to create interactive XR training simulations. Initially available in a closed Beta to select partners, the SDK provides a consistent experience across its simulation offerings. It creates an easier way to develop content on the Transfr platform, which is currently accessible by tens of thousands of students at over 1,000 locations across the U.S.

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Team Competency

Hult International Business School Partners with Mindflick

Cambridge, MA (USA), November 2023 - Hult International Business School continues to innovate on behalf of its students by introducing a new partnership with high-performance coaching and performance psychology organization Mindflick. The collaboration allows Hult's full-time MBA students access to Mindflick's cutting-edge individual and team performance tool, which was honed for more than 25 years in the world of high-performance sports.

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World TV Day

Five Ways Television Can Help with Language Learning

Brookline, MA (USA), November 2023 - From understanding cultural nuances to learning conversational speech, immersing yourself in television can be an effective tool when it comes to learning a new language. To mark World TV Day, the team at Preply have provided a roundup of the different ways television can aid language learning.

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Cameroon

Student-Founded Academy among the Top 50 Worldwide

Kinlo Ephriam TangiriYaounde (CMR) / Bremen (GER), October 2023 - Making education more accessible in his native country Cameroon has motivated Kinlo Ephriam Tangiri to develop a free eLearning service, the KET Academy. With this project, the student of Constructor University in Bremen made it into the top 50 of the international student competition "Chegg.org".

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IELA

The 2023 IELA Winners in the Academic Division

New York , NY (USA) / Madrid ( E), October 2023 - The International E-Learning Awards recognize the best uses of technology to improve learning and job performance within companies or through individual professional development. Please join us in congratulating the deserving winners of the 2023 International E-Learning Awards in the Academic Division who were honored at ICL2023, the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, in Madrid, Spain.

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Metaverse

40% of Students Show Great Interest in Using It in Education

Madrid (E), October 2023 - Spanish students are more enthusiastic about the introduction of the metaverse in education than teachers. Almost 40% consider it fun and entertaining, compared to 18% of teachers. This is among the most significant revelations from the research "The Metaverse in Education: Challenges and Uses" conducted by BBVA and Fad Juventud within the framework of Educación Conectada.

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Case Study

ELearning Content Subscriptions that Support Learning Priorities

London (UK), September 2023 - Middlesex University - a "University for Skills" - has built a reputation for combining academic rigour with practice-based learning, and for embracing the value and power of diversity. It has 40,000 students across its four campuses in London, Dubai, Malta, and Mauritius. In 2018, Middlesex became the first UK university to be awarded a Corporate Gold/Embedded Charter Mark by UK Investor in Equality and Diversity (UKIED), and it was ranked 58th on the 2023 Stonewall UK Workplace Equality Index.

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