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| To Engage Students |
| The Online Education Method Practiced in Nitra |
| Praha (CZ)/ Bratislava (SK), June 2008 - The IT Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Univerzita Konstantina Filozofa (FPV UKF) in Nitra, a specialised facility for educating teachers and specialists in Applied Information Technology, makes use of the Internet in connection with a new method for online education with eLearning support. [more...] |
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| Wimba Unveils Pronto in Europe |
| New York (USA)/ Manchester (UK), May 2008 – Wimba, the education technology company that helps people teach people, unveiled the new Wimba Pronto™ to an international audience, at Blackboard’s annual European Users Conference. Wimba Pronto is an academic-centric, instant messaging platform designed specifically to advance and promote learning through a unique set of tools. Featuring pre-populated classmates tab, online tutoring and office-hours mode, and rich communications tools, Wimba Pronto is different from other basic messenger platforms. [more...] |
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| Empowerment |
| The Right of Women to Do Something |
 Buea Fako (CM), May 2008 – In his speech at eLearning Africa, Eugene Ngole Masango from the Rural Women Development and Environmental Organisation in Cameroon will clarify his belief that more women and girls should be empowered in Information and Communication Technology. This especially true of the grassroots women who are seriously in need of information. [more...] |
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| Governmental Strategy |
| Malawi: the View Forward |
 Lilongwe (MW), May 2008 - The Government of Malawi has recognized that the use of modern techniques of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is important and necessary for the acceleration of economic growth and development. Aubrey Diverson Matemba, Senior Technical Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, explains the governmental strategy with regard to eLearning to CHECK.point eLearning. [more...] |
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| Leadership role |
| ELearning Boom in Colombia |
| Bogota (CO) / Duisburg (GER), March 2008 - ELearning is the booming educational topic in Colombia. This month the country joined SC36, the leading international eLearning standardization committee, making it the first Latin American land to do so. [more...] |
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| IDOL Platform |
| Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden |
| Cambridge (UK) / San Francisco, CA (USA), March 2008 - Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, has announced that the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrĺdet, has selected its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part of the Swedish government's initiative to promote research, eLearning, and collaboration within Sweden's education system. [more...] |
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| The EuroPACE Approach |
| European Networking and Learning for the Future |
 Heverlee (BE), February 2008 - EuroPACE is a European nonprofit association of universities and their partners in education and training. Its main objective is to foster networked eLearning for virtual mobility, internationalisation of higher education, knowledge creation and sharing, and for lifelong learning. The book "European Networking and Learning for the Future", edited by Annemie Bonen and Wim Van Petegem, collects articles from various authors involved in the development of the EuroPACE network.
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| Podcasting |
| A Teaching-with-Technology White Paper |
| Pittsburgh PA (USA), July 2007 – Podcasts are a relatively new tool in teaching at universities. The Office of Technology for Education and Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University has recently published a white paper on Podcasting. [more...] |
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| Scott McNealy's Idea |
| Curruki: the Wikipedia of Curricula |
| Washington D.C. (USA), February 2007 – In recent years, the World Wide Web has been transformed by collaborative tools that help many people create and develop resources online. These implements are known collectively as 'wikis', and they represent the leading edge of what many Web experts and analysts call 'Web 2.0.' The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia, the collaboratively authored encyclopedia. Now there's a new wiki dedicated entirely to teaching resources and curriculum development. It's called Curriki. [more...] |
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| eLearning in South Africa |
| Digital Immigrants & Digital Natives |
 Bloemfontein (South Africa), November 2006 – (by Dr. Herbert Thomas) In South Africa, large numbers of faculty members at higher education institutions are 'digital immigrants', and yet we presume to create learning environments for 'digital natives', who differ radically from us in their understanding of technology. This already complex situation, is further exacerbated in South Africa, where we have eleven official languages and as many different cultural groupings. [more...] |
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| For an Open Exchange |
 Brussels, May 2006 – Communication and collaboration among 45 million researchers and students across Europe and China will be greatly facilitated by a new Sino-European high-speed network connection. ORIENT (Oriental Research Infrastructure to European Networks) will leverage the Sino-European research exchange by helping to step up the flow of information. [more...] |
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| Estonian e-University |
| Tallinn, April 2006 – (by Ene Tammeoru, Head of the Estonian e-University) The scene of Estonian higher education (HE) is changing towards more flexible ways of providing both higher and continuing education. The number of adult students in continuing education and retraining programmes will grow, and the number of high school graduates decrease. This void is being filled by the three-year-old Estonian e-University – a consortium of higher education institutions (HEI) with the goal to instigate and facilitate inter-university cooperation in implementing eLearning based on the principles of lifelong learning. [more...] |
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| Envision the Future Workplace |
Budapest, July 2005 – What if people approached computer education like teaching a first language, exposing very young children to information technology not as a school subject but simply as part of life? Consider how natural it would be for these children to make use of technology. This was one of many topics that emerged from a unique gathering of young futurists. For the second year in a row, Microsoft assembled its Office Information Worker Board of the Future, a panel of distinguished university students from around the globe, to discuss how information technology in the workplace most urgently needs to evolve in the next decade. [more...] |
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| Czech Experiences in Medical Training |
| Prague, July 2005 – (by Antonín Malina, M.D., Ph.D., MBA and Antonín Hlaváček , Ph.D.) The Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education in Prague is a public organisation that mainly focuses on the postgraduate education of doctors, pharmacists, and other professionals in the Czech health service. The education is managed in two directions: on the one hand it supports the acquisition of professional qualifications for work, and on the other it focuses on lifelong education. [more...] |
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| To break new ground |
| Lynnfield, April 2005 – WebCT, provider of eLearning solutions, has announced it is working to make open source and commercial learning software - traditionally polarized camps - interoperate in campus eLearning environments. [more...] |
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