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| One Laptop per Child – the Global Case Challenge |
| Boston, MA (USA), March 2010 - One Laptop per Child (OLPC), in partnership with Hult International Business School, TalentCastr.com, and the Center for Innovation, Excellence, and Leadership (IXL Center) is hosting MBA and other university students from across the globe to compete simultaneously in four locations in the inaugural Global Case Challenge. [more...] |
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| Handbook |
| Reviewing the Virtual Campus Phenomenon |
| Heverlee, (BE), March 2010 - This handbook provides a glimpse into the complex world of rising large-scale eLearning initiatives and how institutions are experimenting with the set-up of virtual campuses. It gathers the outcomes and experiences of the European Re.ViCa project, which aimed to undertake a systematic and extensive review of virtual campuses in higher education from 2007 - 2009. [more...] |
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| Sharing Information |
| ALT launches Open Access Repository |
| Oxford (UK), December 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology’s (ALT) Open Access Repository is now available. Since going online, the repository has had about 10,000 visitors - browsing, searching for, and downloading journal articles, conference presentations, links to webinar recordings, and similar content. [more...] |
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| Brain Hurricane |
| Highly Interactive Free Classroom Tutoring |
| Chicago IL (USA), December 2009 - Brain Hurricane tutoring focuses on the interaction between teachers and students to make classroom learning a fun experience. The company develops tutoring programs that teach students through interactive classroom sessions and involve hands-on learning for subjects like math and reading skills. [more...] |
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| Have Your Say |
| University Hull Launches Video in Education Survey |
| Hull (UK), November 2009 - Kevin Burden and his colleagues at the University of Hull have recently launched a survey about how educators (e.g. teachers, lecturers) select and use digital video clips in their teaching. The survey is part of a European project (EduTubePlus), which is currently designing a video-clips library for educators. [more...] |
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| Global Students |
| Learn.com Goes Etiquette with Protocol School |
| Sunrise, FL (USA), November 2009 - Learn.com, a provider of workforce development and productivity, has announced that The Protocol School of Washington has selected the company's Learning Management System to provide Electronic Etiquette, Networking, Business Attire and Body Language eClasses to the world. [more...] |
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| Shaping the Future |
| Crown Prince Addresses Leading Educators in Bahrain |
 Manama (BH), November 2009 - Education is the most important issue for the future of any country, His Highness Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince of Bahrain and Chairman of the Kingdom’s Economic Development Board (EDB), told leading international education experts attending the inaugural Education Project in Bahrain. [more...] |
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| Acknowledgement |
| Honorary Life Membership of ALT Awarded |
| Oxford (UK), October 2009 – Professor David Hawkridge of The Open University and University of Leicester has been awarded an Honorary Life Membership in the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) for his outstanding contributions to the field of learning technology. [more...] |
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| Standardisation |
| Dutch Business School wins ISO Award for HE |
 Cape Town (ZA)/Rotterdam (NL), October 2009 - The Rotterdam School of Management of the Netherlands’ renowned Erasmus University has been declared the winner of this year's ISO Award for Higher Education in Standardisation. The award was presented at the 32nd ISO General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. [more...] |
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| Deadline |
| Last Call for Entries - Medea Awards 09 |
| Roosbeek (BE), September 2009 - Submissions to the MEDEA Awards 2009 are arriving daily and are well up on the numbers received for 2008. Furthermore, they include submissions from countries new to the competition like Latvia, Ukraine, and Israel. [more...] |
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| Interactive Training |
| South Africa's oldest University selects Kaplan |
 Cape Town (ZA), September 2009 - Kaplan IT Learning has announced that The University of Cape Town are using eLearning lessons created using STT Trainer to train staff on a multitude of systems. Originally introduced for a PeopleSoft system implementation three years ago, STT Trainer is now used for many systems and within many different departments. [more...] |
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| Access to Education |
| ALISON Welcomes Obama's Investment in Free Learning |
 Galway (IE), August 2009 - ALISON, a free online learning service, welcomes the Obama administration’s announcement that it is to invest $500 million in the provision of free online learning content. The announcement was made by President Obama on his visit to Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan and is part of a $10 billion education bill for community colleges and skills training. [more...] |
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| Applied Research |
| Transferring Technology to Industry |
| Guildford (UK), August 2009 - The University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed an agreement to collaborate on the delivery of a £10m programme to translate the results of research into innovation that make a real-world difference. [more...] |
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| Going Online |
| Educational Media Research of the Georg Eckert Institute |
 Braunschweig (GER), July 2009 - Edumeres.net (Educational Media Research), the Georg Eckert Institute's portal for international educational media research, is now officially online with a new layout and design. This is the next step in the development of a key virtual centre in the network of this research field, following the test phase initiated in January 2009. Alongside current information and electronic publications, it provides access to specific topics and research relating to educational media, particularly textbooks. [more...] |
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| ICT Platform Improves Collaboration within Universities |
| Bucharest (RO), July 2009 - (by Elena Lita) SIVECO Romania is extending its experience in research and development of information platforms dedicated to the education sector through the SUNIDOC national project. The SUNIDOC project will provide Romanian educational institutions with a flexible and efficient tool for document management, able to integrate with other existing systems. [more...] |
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