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| Erasmus Mundus |
| K.U.Leuven ranked highest in Europe |
 Leuven (BE), August 2010 - The European Commission has recently approved the new Erasmus Mundus programs, an event European universities eagerly anticipate every year. K.U. Leuven will participate in four of the twenty-nine new European Master’s programs and in two of the nine new European doctoral programs. Thus, in one year, K.U.Leuven has doubled the number of Erasmus Mundus programs it offers and is now ranked highest amongst European universities, offering no less than eleven programs with the Erasmus Mundus label. [more...] |
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| Higher Education |
| Luminosity eLearning Software Available to Universities |
 Bristol (UK), July 2010 - CM Group has announced that it is making Luminosity, the distance learning authoring software, available to the university and higher-education sector. Following its success in the private sector, universities and colleges can now benefit from the product to experience significant increases in the scale and scope of their use of eLearning. [more...] |
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| Cooperation |
| Business College Signs Contract with Fronter |
| Oslo (NO)/Copenhagen (DK), July 2010 - Fronter has announced that Niels Brock Business College has just signed a three-year contract with the company. Niels Brock had an older solution but realized that their demands and expectations of a modern learning platform were not being met. [more...] |
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| Research |
| Quality in eLearning in a Cultural Context |
 Gothenburg (SE), July 2010 - Since higher education is booming in developing countries, so is eLearning. In a case study on Iran, a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows how culture can shape quality in higher education in general and in eLearning in particular. [more...] |
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| Real World |
| Action Learning Programme for MBA Students |
| London (UK), July 2010 - Even before receiving their MBA degrees, students at Hult International Business School must showcase their hard-earned strategic mettle. Hult’s Action Learning Program (ALP) lets students flex their management muscle by providing blue-chip corporations with practical solutions to existing problems. [more...] |
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| Change |
| New President of EDEN |
 Budapest (HU), June 2010 - Morten Flate Paulsen, Professor of Online Education at NKI Distance Education, Norway, has been elected the new President of the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). He will take over from the current President, Alan Tait, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the Open University, UK. The announcement was made in June at the EDEN 2010 Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain. [more...] |
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| Career Development |
| Personalised Assessment Centre |
| London (UK), June 2010 – CrossKnowledge has joined forces with eGoPrism®, launching a solution to help HR departments, temping, and recruitment agencies - or even job centres - to address the major challenge they face in terms of accompaniment: implementing the large-scale individualisation of assessment programmes. [more...] |
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| No More Paper |
| iPads Revolutionize Learning in the IMD Classroom |
| Lausanne (CH), June 2010 – Following its recent launch, the iPad has proven to be an instant hit for millions of consumers. It has also been a great success in the classrooms of Swiss Business School IMD. "After having piloted the iPad in a partnership programme with Allianz Global Investors at the beginning of May, I am convinced that this device will revolutionize executive education", states IMD Professor Bettina Büchel. "The feedback from IMD Faculty, staff, and the participants was overwhelmingly positive." [more...] |
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| Donations |
| Boost for Charities Working with Children and Youth |
 Leeds (UK), June 2010 - Safeguarding Children eAcademy, a UK-based provider of online child-protection training courses donates a sizeable percentage of its revenues to child-related causes annually. Since 2007, it has handed over £54,000 to child-related charities, the majority nominated by the eAcademy's growing 65-strong UK membership, predominantly Local Safeguarding Children Boards. [more...] |
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| Open Source |
| eLML Wins IMS Learning Impact Award 2010 Silver Medal |
| Zurich (CH), June 2010 - The eLML team received the silver medal at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2010 in Long Beach, California in the category "New/Research and Development". The Learning Impact Awards are designed to recognize the most impactful use of technology worldwide in support of learning. [more...] |
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| Open Repository |
| MA Level Writing Courses Now Available Online and Free |
| Falmouth/Cornwall (UK), May 2010 – University College Falmouth has launched a website making its teaching resources free to learners all over the world. If you ever wondered about becoming a screenwriter or considered doing a Masters course but not sure if you’re up to it, now’s the chance to have a go. [more...] |
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| Educational Experience |
| Using KEWL and Other Open Source Tools to Train Future Teachers |
| Johannesburg (ZA), May 2010 - Claudette Ann Muller’s presentation at eLearning Africa 2010 will provide a detailed look at the delivery of a course entitled Online Teaching and Learning. It is part of the program for Bachelor of Education Honors students at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and addresses issues related to teaching in an online environment within an online environment. In the following, Claudette Muller outlines her talk. [more...] |
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| Diversity Now |
| New eLearning Programme at Queen’s University |
 Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK), May 2010 – eLearning provider Aurion Learning has been commissioned to design and deliver the equality-and-diversity eLearning programme 'Diversity Now' for Queen's University staff. [more...] |
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| Platform |
| Diaconia University of Applied Sciences Chooses Fronter |
| Helsinki (FI), May 2010 - Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (Diak) has chosen Fronter as its platform for learning and social networking. Diak emphasises a close relationship to practise and working life. It has four units and seven campuses located in different regions of Finland. [more...] |
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