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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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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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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New Master's Program

HMKW - M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Societies

Berlin (GER), August 2023 - From winter semester 2023-24, the HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management will be offering the interdisciplinary, two-year online master's program M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Societies, which is dedicated to the interplay between artificial intelligence technologies, societal issues, and the creative and cultural industries.

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Partnership

edX Launches Groundbreaking AI MicroBootCamp™

Dr Anant Agarwal, Founder of edXLanham, MD (USA), June 2023 - edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. has announced the launch of its groundbreaking new Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence MicroBootCamp program in partnership with 12 leading American universities. The intensive online program is designed to rapidly equip technology professionals with the core skills needed to excel in the dynamic fields of machine learning and AI.

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Interoperability

On the Current Status of the National Education Platform

Prof. Ulrike LuckePotsdam (GER), May 2023 - In April 2021, a consortium coordinated by the University of Potsdam began developing the Bildungsraum Digital (Digital Learning Space) project, or BIRD for short. In the context of the German government’s Digital Education Initiative, BIRD is the first of four prototypes for a future national education platform and makes possible the testing of structures for data exchange, the interoperability of various platform types, and the implementation of standards. Prof. Ulrike Lucke, the BIRD project’s head, will elucidate the status of the National Education Platform, 24 May at 15.00 as part of the Digital University session at LEARNTEC.

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HR

Analysing How We Work

Bern (CH), April 2023 - Public administration expert David Giauque studies how people work and how new ways of working affect our wellbeing and performance. The aim is to determine best practices in human resources management.

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Education Programme

Leuphana Promotes Sustainability in the German Football League

Lüneburg (GER), October 2022 - Representatives of clubs in the first and second Bundesliga will receive further education at the Professional School of Leuphana University Lüneburg from October this year in order to promote the topic of sustainability in German professional football. An agreement to this effect has now been signed. Together, SPONSORs, a leading B2B service provider in the sports business, and Leuphana are launching the new continuing education programme "Sustainability in Sports Organisations". The DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) is on board as a co-initiator and first partner and supports the project both ideologically and financially.

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Informational Resilience

New Learning Tool Available in the Baltics

Riga (LVA), September 2022 - IREX recently launched a new, open access education platform in five languages: English, Russian, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian, to help people overcome challenges created by the complicated current-day media landscape with more insight and confidence. It is supplemented with a special feature: blended learning plans for nine lessons that can be freely used by teachers and media literacy trainers. The course is available online at VeryVerified.eu.

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Hybrid Mode vs. Fully Online

How Different Teaching Models Impact Satisfaction and Loyalty

Laurent ScaringellaRennes (F), September 2022 - Laurent Scaringella, professor at Rennes School of Business, investigated both hybrid and fully online teaching models to find out which one generates the highest levels of faculty satisfaction, MBA word-of-mouth reputation, MBA value, student satisfaction, and loyalty to a school.

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Ispring

Three eLearning Use Cases in the Academic Sector

Alexandria, VA (USA), August 2022 - More and more schools, colleges, and universities are adopting eLearning practices and including them in their curriculum and staff training programs. This article explains how online learning can be leveraged in education and covers actual stories of educational institutions that use eLearning technologies. Continue reading to see the results they achieved.

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BIPS

Millions in Funding for New AI Research Group

Bremen (GER), July 2022 - As part of a strategic funding initiative on artificial intelligence (AI), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation - DFG] is establishing eight new research groups. One of them is coming to Bremen: the research group "Lifespan AI: From Longitudinal Data to Lifespan Inference in Health", headed by Professor Tanja Schultz from the University of Bremen and Professor Marvin N. Wright from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS.

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