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| Why Do Students (Not) Blog? |
| Leeds (UK), February 2010 – Positive impacts on learning through blogging, such as active knowledge construction and reflective writing, have been reported. However, not many students use weblogs, even when appropriate facilities are offered by their universities. Researchers Monika Andergassen, Reinhold Behringer, Janet Finlay, Andrea Gorra, and David Moore from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK have introduced their findings on the reasons for this apparent aversion. [more...] |
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| Mobile Learning |
| Blackboard Adds Application for BlackBerry Smartphones |
| Denver, CO (USA), December 2009 - Blackboard Inc. has announced the launch of an application for BlackBerry smartphones as part of the new Blackboard Mobile platform. The system is being leveraged by a growing number of campuses and K-12 schools to deliver a rich set of campus-life services and content to mobile devices. [more...] |
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| Letter from UK |
| ELearning loses out in Oxford Union debate |
 London (UK), December 2009 - (by Bob Little) That most British and august of debating institutions, The Oxford Union, has focused its attention on the world of eLearning when it debated the motion that 'this house believes that the eLearning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow'. The motion was lost, after learning experts from industry and academia had engaged in a debate at least encouraged, if not sponsored, by the well known eLearning developer, Epic. [more...] |
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| Academia |
| University of Tartu Increases International Visibility |
 Tartu (EE), September 2009 – The University of Tartu (UT) is better accessible to English-speaking audiences since recently opening its official page in Facebook.com. In July, the University also set up its own Twitter news stream and released a new version of its English-language web. [more...] |
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| eAssessments |
| To Develop and Deliver High-stakes Examinations |
| Shipley (UK), September 2009 - BTL Group Ltd has announced that during the summer of 2009, WJEC - the Cardiff-based awarding body - successfully delivered the first-ever on-screen A-Level examinations in England and Wales, using BTL’s Surpass eAssessment solution. WJEC is amongst a number of leading UK examination boards who use BTL’s Surpass to develop and deliver high-stakes examinations such as A-Levels, GCSEs, and NVQs. [more...] |
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| Savings |
| Schwarzenegger’s Demand for Free Student Textbooks |
| Frederiksberg (DK), September 2009 - Arnold Schwarzenegger has demanded that California cut costs on textbooks. Bookboon.com is obeying the "Govenator" and is now launching a 100% free online textbook service for college and university students in the USA. BookBoon.com is a Danish book-publishing house that has specialized in free textbooks for students since 2005 and counts more than twenty million downloaded books a year. [more...] |
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| Strategic Vision |
| Content-Development Training for Oman Ministry |
| Dubai (UAE), June 2009 – Universal Knowledge Solutions (UKS), a learning-solutions enabler based in the Middle East, delivered training on content development to the Oman Ministry of Education from March to May 2009 as part of the ministry’s strategy to transfer their curricula to digital format. [more...] |
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| Survey |
| How Students Develop Relationships Online |
 Lagos (NG), May 2009 – "Virtual Construction of Social Reality through the Internet and its Applications among Nigerian University Students" is the title of the contribution of Dr. Blessing Adeoye at eLearning Africa 2009 in Dakar. In advance of the event, he has been kind enough to provide CHECK.point eLearning with insight into the student situation in Nigeria and the results of his investigations. [more...] |
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| Forum New Media |
| Peter Scott: Opening New Channels for Learners |
 Vienna (AT), May 2009 – The Forum New Media Austria (fnm) will take place in Vienna on 30 June and 01 July 2009. As a preview, here are excerpts from the keynote by Peter Scott below (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University): "The online world for both learners and teachers is now a very rich and complex place. Some powerful learning resources are proprietary, whilst others are free and open. [more...] |
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| Bookmarking |
| WebCT Founder Launches Brainify |
 Vancouver, British Columbia (CA), January 2009 - Murray Goldberg, founder of WebCT, has announced the beta launch of Brainify.com – an academic community for university and college students and their instructors centred on academic social bookmarking. In addition to bookmarking, Brainify includes the ability to create groups of common academic interest, to pose academic questions to the student community, and to follow the collections, comments, and questions of other respected community members closely. [more...] |
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| Distance Learning |
| Economic Downturn Not Bad News for All Universities |
| Milton Keynes (UK), January 2009 - The British Council fears the economic downturn may deter international students from coming to the UK to study, but it's not bad news for all. The Open University Business School is defying the trend through offering relevant and responsive business and management education to around 43,000 students in nearly seventy countries. [more...] |
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| Worldwide Access |
| OER: Unstoppable or Unsustainable? |
| Berlin, December 2008 – In the plenary session "Open Educational Resources: Unstoppable or Unsustainable?" at ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, Richard Baraniuk, charismatic pioneer of the Open Educational Resources movement discussed the extent to which Open Educational Resources (OER) have become a sustainable part of education with several other experts. [more...] |
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| Innovative Learning Desig |
| Not Such New News for Parts of the Future |
| Berlin (GER), December 2008 – Chaired by Louisa Dale of JISC (UK), one of the sessions at ONLINE EDUCA Berlin focused on Innovative Learning Design. With "a swarm of people" waiting outside commented Dale, the session got off to a promising start, with its offer of insights into the future of technologies and processes of learning, collaboration and innovation. The products and concepts presented, however, turned out to be rather well known. [more...] |
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| Increasingly Popular |
| Digital Storytelling: What’s in a Story |
| Berlin, December 2008 – Storytelling, described as the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment, is becoming increasingly popular in the world of online learning. During this presentation session of ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, followed by an open discussion session on the same topic, several practitioners showed how they are use storytelling. [more...] |
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| Learning Connection |
| New Collaboration between Education and Industry |
 Orlando, FL (USA), November 2008 – At Educause 2008 in October, the nonprofit IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced the Digital Learning Connection, a new programme designed to make it easier for faculty, professors, teachers, and IT staff to incorporate digital learning applications and content into course web sites. [more...] |
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