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New eLearning Tool for Every Medical Career Stage
Leipzig (GER), March 2022 - Pre-medical and medical students, nurses, USMLE aspirants, and physicians can now access the new comprehensive, efficient Lecturio Concept Pages for every stage of their medical career.
» MOREEasier Access to Simulations Frees Up Time for Physics
Hamburg (GER), March 2022 - The growing use of simulation tools in computational science raises the question of how their accessibility and performance can be improved, typically focusing on higher execution speeds. Now a research team from Germany and Great Britain has tackled the interface between the researcher and the simulation software and developed a workflow that allows researchers to spend far less time on the syntax and data formats of the simulation package and to work with the data immediately.
» MORELearning in the Flow of Work
Ilkley (UK), March 2022 - The ways in which we learn have changed over the decades, and this isn't just being reflected in educational establishments but in businesses, too. The latest approach is being called "learning in the flow of work", but what is it, and what does it mean for L&D teams?
» MOREPatients Share Their Experiences
Zurich (CH), February 2022 - What do people with multiple sclerosis, dementia, or chronic pain go through? What are their experiences of medical practices or hospitals like? What kind of support do they find helpful? The new dipex.ch platform launched by Zurich researchers makes patient experience reports publicly available so that they can be used for research and teaching, in order to improve healthcare provision or for self-help.
Anthology Earns Additional ISO 27001 Certifications
Boca Raton, FL (USA), February 2022 - Anthology, a leading provider of education solutions that support the entire learner lifecycle, has announced that it has secured additional ISO 27001 certifications, successfully meeting one of the foremost international information- security standards for Anthology Reach, Blackboard Learn (SaaS), Blackboard Collaborate, and Blackboard Ally.
» MOREBBC Learning English Teams Up with The Open University
London (UK), January 2022 - The award-winning team of BBC Learning English has collaborated with renowned academics from the UK's largest academic institution, The Open University, to explore the underlying nature of leadership. The resulting new twenty-part series explores the power of cults, the genius of visionaries, the unexpected power of individuals, the strength of community-led leadership, and whether leadership is best done by women.
» MORE100% of Virtual College Is Acquired by Netex
Ilkley (UK), January 2022 - "We are delighted to announce that Virtual College has reached an agreement with Netex, a Spanish technology company specialising in eLearning solutions and listed on the Spanish BME stock market, for them to acquire all the shares in Virtual College." Hannah Brindle, MD, of Virtual College commented, "The entire Virtual College Team is hugely excited about our collaboration with Netex."
NEDLA Introduces Dr Laura Dowling as Executive Director
Washington, DC (USA), December 2021 - Dr. Douglas J. Koch and the rest of the Board of Directors of the NorthEast Digital Learning Association (NEDLA formerly PADLA) are pleased to announce that Dr. Laura Dowling will be assuming the role of Executive Director.
Hands-On Robotics Teaching also Works Online
Bremen (GER), December 2021 - COVID-19 has helped online teaching make a breakthrough at many universities. But how do teachers cope with the pandemic in practice-oriented courses such as robotics, where working in the lab has been considered essential and indispensable until now? This is what two scientists at Jacobs University Bremen have been investigating. The work of Andreas Birk, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and psychologist Dora Simunovic was recently published in the "IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine".
» MOREIndonesian OU Upholds Fair and Equal Education Environment
Stockholm (SWE), December 2021 - Ouriginal, a leading European provider of plagiarism detection and prevention solutions, is proud to work together with Universitas Terbuka, the Indonesia Open University, to ensure a fair and equal teaching and learning environment at Indonesia's first and biggest hybrid university. The university, with more than 500,000 students from 36 countries, upholds the highest standards of teaching and learning methods. To protect these standards in times of the pandemic and also beyond, Universitas Terbuka chose Ouriginal as the plagiarism detection solution of their choice in early 2021.
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