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New President and CEO of Educause elected
Boulder, CO (USA), November 2007 - The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors has announced that Diana G. Oblinger, vice-president of EDUCAUSE, will become president and CEO of the association effective January 1, 2008. Oblinger succeeds Brian L. Hawkins, who has led EDUCAUSE since it was formed in 1998. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. » MORE
Estonia Expands Strategic eLearning
Tallinn (EE)/Hamburg (GER), October 2007 - Based on the strategic plan 2007 - 2012, the Estonian IT Foundation - the legal body of the Estonian eLearning Development Centre - has decided to extend the existing Blackboard Campus Edition Learning System for universities and vocational, and secondary schools in the country. Of the more than 2000 courses taken by over 21,000 university students annually, 79% run on Campus Edition. » MORE
Learning Lab Appoints John Traxler as New Director
Telford (UK), October 2007 - The Learning Lab, based at the Telford Campus of the University of Wolverhampton, announces the appointment of John Traxler as Learning Lab Director. Traxler replaces Steve Molyneux, who resigned his post in September. John brings a wealth of experience to the role. He is currently the Reader in Mobile Technologies for eLearning and Director of the Applied Innovative Digital Technologies Research Group in the School of Computing and IT at the University of Wolverhampton. » MORE
Chinese Students Take Part in Lectures at Potsdam
Potsdam (GER), October 2007 - Students from China will continue to attend online lectures held in Germany. A celebration of the extension of the computer-science cooperation contract between the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), represented by Vice President Prof. Zhang Yigang, and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) was recently held at the Institute, located the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. » MORE
French University Switches to Sakai
Paris (F), September 2007 - The Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (UPMC), one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, recently announced the deployment of the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education as its official eLearning platform. The platform has been open for students since 17 September. » MORE
Scientific Director for Research Institute Appointed
Heerlen (NL), September 2007 - The college governing board of the Netherlands' Open Universiteit has appointed Prof. Dr. Jeroen van Merriënboer as scientific director of the Netherlands Laboratory for Lifelong Learning - NELL. The appointment is effective as of 1 September 2007. » MORE
Enter Your Courses in the EduContact Online Catalogue
Futuroscope Chasseneuil (FR), September 2007 - European universities are welcome to join the European project EduContact test year and enter a selection of their online courses in the EduContact catalogue at the special rate of 100 euros for the period of October 2007 till October 2008. » MORE
MARGA Online Competition to Be Continued
Erftstadt (GER), August 2007 - MARGA, the long-established General Management Business Simulation, is an integral part of the management development activities of many companies. Deadline for teams to participate in the next online competition is 5 October 2007. » MORE
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
Changing the World of Learning
London (UK), June 2007 - Since being made available to the public, the first version of the Kaleidoscope Vision Statement has already had significant impact in the field of TEL. Currently it is informing input into a governmental report on "future learning" in the UK. In addition, it has attracted the attention of the organisers of the 2008 Networked Learning conference, who are interested in a keynote presentation concerning the iterative and highly collaborative process the Network undertook for the Statement's creation and the challenges it faced. » MORE
