| Meta-learning |
| Connectivism – a Learning Theory for the Future |
| Karlsruhe/Weserbergland (GER), November 2011 - In the age of Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc., new forms of learning are developing. Gaining in importance is networked, more informal learning with the aid of social media during leisure time - but also in schools, universities, and the working world. Prof. Dr. Volkmar Langer, president of the Weserbergland University, will give a talk entitled "Connectivism as a Learning Model of the Future" at the LEARNTEC Conference on 31 January 2012 in the "Technology 2" session. [more...] |
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| Documenting Experience |
| Migrants to Australia Embrace e-Portfolios |
| Brisbane (AU), September 2011 - Newly arrived migrants have participated in an eLearning project that provided them with a method to record their learning and employment experiences. The project, which was conducted by AMES (Adult Multicultural Education Services), piloted the use of e-portfolios by adult Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) learners. [more...] |
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| Accounting |
| Leading Universities Take Higher Education to the Cloud |
| San Mateo, CA (USA), September 2011 - NetSuite Inc., a provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, has announced that thirteen North American university accounting programmes have made the move to the cloud by adopting NetSuite as a key component of their degree curricula. [more...] |
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| Virtual Classroom |
| First Live Android Tutoring Application Is Ready |
| New York, NY (USA), September 2011 - Online tutoring provider TutaPoint.com has released the first live tutoring application for the Android Market. The application, "Live USA Tutoring," is the first application for Android that allows students using a smartphone or tablet to connect, communicate, and collaborate directly with a live tutor. [more...] |
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| Most Likes |
| Guinness World Records Marks Social Media Day |
| London (UK), July 2011 - On global Social Media Day - 30 June 2011 - Guinness World Records announced New Social Media Records for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. These records include the most "likes" on a Facebook page, which totaled 47,194,601 and were achieved by the platform’s own product page on 29 June 2011. [more...] |
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| Market Appraisal |
| Are Smartphones Useful For Vocabulary Learning? |
| Hong Kong (HK), June 2011 - Hong Kong is at the leading edge of smartphone penetration: 58% ownership compared to North America’s 41%, according to recent reports. Neil Ballantyne is based in Hong Kong, where he is the Mobile Learning Manager for the British Council. The following are some of his insights regarding Hong Kong’s learning market. [more...] |
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| Latin America |
| Regional Development of Higher Education |
| Bogota (CO), May 2011 – A consortium of 23 national and international university associations from across Latin America and Europe have joined forces to launch a major three-year project designed to improve mechanisms for modernisation, reform, and harmonisation of education systems in Latin America and to enhance Europe-Latin America university partnership. [more...] |
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| Higher Education |
| Investment and Autonomy Needed to Develop Talent |
| Aarhus (DK), May 2011 - Around 450 university leaders and other higher-education stakeholders gathered in April at Aarhus University, Denmark for the European University Association (EUA) Annual Conference on the theme "Investing Today in Talent for Tomorrow". This is a short report from the meeting, provided by the EUA. [more...] |
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| Open University |
| eSkills Programme Features High Participation of Women |
| Milton Keynes (UK), December 2010 - Almost one third of IT professionals taking e-skills UK's new industry-designed postgraduate programme at The Open University are women - more than double the industry average. Designed by the Sector Skills Council for Business and IT in conjunction with leading employers, the e-skills Professional Programme is open to anyone in work and is ideally suited to people who have recently undertaken an IT- professional role regardless of their background. [more...] |
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| White Paper |
| More Students Engaged in Unique Ways of Learning |
| Boston, MA (USA), November 2010 – The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) recently released a white paper entitled "Enabled By Broadband, Education Enters A New Frontier." The paper highlights the successes and growth of distance learning and suggests policy measures to ensure that barriers to continued growth are removed. [more...] |
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| Skills and Techniques |
| New Certification for Live Online Event Facilitators |
| Coventry (UK), October 2010 - The IITT has launched a brand-new certification programme for everyone who will be delivering live online learning events, meetings, and webinars. "Today's learning and development professionals are being asked to deliver learning to more people with less budget, and provide learning events that will save money but deliver increased business performance", explains IITT Chief Executive and architect of the programme, Colin Steed. [more...] |
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| Research |
| Students Call for Better ICT-trained Lecturers |
| Oxford (UK), September 2010 - Almost all students (96%) use the internet as a source of information, and seven in ten (69%) use it daily as part of their studies new research published at the 2010 annual conference of the Association for Technology Lecturer reveals. [more...] |
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| Open Standards |
| mEKP Takes Learning to the Field |
| Hong Kong (HK), August 2010 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning-management systems, has announced the commercial release of a new product, mobile EKP (mEKP). "We believe that mEKP is the world’s first full-featured personal learning environment that runs completely off a USB flash drive – no installation required", said NetDimensions Managing Director and CEO Jay Shaw. [more...] |
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| Quality Assurance |
| User-Generated Content in Higher Education |
 Erlangen (GER), July 2010 - Very much due to its success, user-generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions. Web2.0 and the corresponding tools enable learners to develop and publish learning content independently from experts' knowledge and institutional frameworks. This development has led to questions as to whether the traditional concept of "authority" is still appropriate at universities and to suggestions for the "ivory tower" of higher education to be opened to the wider world. [more...] |
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| Change Issues |
| The Readiness of Traditional Universities for Quality |
 Brussels (BE), July 2010 - Traditional universities have been more than slow in integrating ICT in their teaching and learning. The reasons for this are linked to strategic and organizational change issues rather than technological or budgetary ones. Successful eLearning indeed requires new organizational and pedagogical models. This conflicts with the historical model that has shaped the culture of our traditional universities. [more...] |
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