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| NetReady |
| A Bridge between Graduation and Job Acquisition |
| Bucharest (RO), June 2008 - (by Elena Lita) One hundred and fifteen students from the Cisco Networking Academy Program have been selected in the second edition of the NetReady initiative to be supported in developing a career in the telecommunications field. NetReady is a joint effort begun in February 2007 by Cisco Romania, the Romanian Association of Networking Academies (RoNetAcad), and other major industry organizations. [more...] |
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| Erasmus Mundus |
| EduContact opens up to new partners |
 Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex (F), June 2008 - EduContact is an Erasmus Mundus project that allows students worldwide to obtain personalized advice on European higher distance education, thanks to its multilingual contact centre. It also provides an online selection of courses in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch and Turkish. [more...] |
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| PRME initiative |
| Global Forum for Responsible Management Education |
| New York (USA), May 2008 – The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a UN-backed global initiative developed to promote corporate responsibility and sustainability in business education, has now been endorsed by more than 100 business schools and universities from around the world. [more...] |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| US Association |
| New President and CEO of Educause elected |
 Boulder, CO (USA), November 2007 - The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors has announced that Diana G. Oblinger, vice-president of EDUCAUSE, will become president and CEO of the association effective January 1, 2008. Oblinger succeeds Brian L. Hawkins, who has led EDUCAUSE since it was formed in 1998. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. [more...] |
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| Blackboard Vista |
| Estonia Expands Strategic eLearning |
 Tallinn (EE)/Hamburg (GER), October 2007 – Based on the strategic plan 2007 – 2012, the Estonian IT Foundation - the legal body of the Estonian eLearning Development Centre – has decided to extend the existing Blackboard Campus Edition Learning System for universities and vocational, and secondary schools in the country. Of the more than 2000 courses taken by over 21,000 university students annually, 79% run on Campus Edition. [more...] |
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| Telford Campus |
| Learning Lab Appoints John Traxler as New Director |
 Telford (UK), October 2007 – The Learning Lab, based at the Telford Campus of the University of Wolverhampton, announces the appointment of John Traxler as Learning Lab Director. Traxler replaces Steve Molyneux, who resigned his post in September. John brings a wealth of experience to the role. He is currently the Reader in Mobile Technologies for eLearning and Director of the Applied Innovative Digital Technologies Research Group in the School of Computing and IT at the University of Wolverhampton. [more...] |
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| Agreement |
| Chinese Students Take Part in Lectures at Potsdam |
 Potsdam (GER), October 2007 - Students from China will continue to attend online lectures held in Germany. A celebration of the extension of the computer-science cooperation contract between the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), represented by Vice President Prof. Zhang Yigang, and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) was recently held at the Institute, located the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. [more...] |
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