Themen

Further Education

Live Training Sessions in Leipzig in January 2011

Coventry (UK)/Leipzig (GER), December 2010 - After the second round of live training workshops offered to VETPROS in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, iEducate is preparing for the next workshop session - to be held in January 2011 in Leipzig, Germany. This time the thematic areas "Disabilities and Special Needs" and "Self-employment and Entrepreneurship" will be covered. » MORE

MEDEA Awards 2010

BBC News School Report the Overall Winner

Roosbeek/Brussels (BE), December 2010 - The BBC's highly engaging project School Report, which gives eleven-to-fourteen-year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience, was a popular overall winner of this year's MEDEA Awards. Announcing the winner of this year's MEDEA Awards, Kathy Lindekens (VRT) talked about the high quality of the entries and the value of networking amongst all those involved. » MORE

OER

Call for Submissions: Fostering Creativity

Budapest (HU), December 2010 - The European Journal of Open, Distance, and ELearning has announced a special issue for the summer of 2011 entitled "Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources". In this special issue, the editors are interested in exploring the nature of creativity in more depth and how this might be understood and used to better harness the potential of OER. » MORE

Future Planning

First Announcement and Call for Papers for ICL2011

PieÅ¡tany (SK), December 2010 - The fourteenth International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL2011) will be held 21-23 September 2011 in PieÅ¡tany, Slovakia. The interdisciplinary conference focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results, as well as the presentation of practical experiences in interactive computer-aided learning in higher education as well as in the corporate context. » MORE

Networking Platform

The Premier eLearning Expo and Conference

Johannesburg (ZA), December 2010 - The Premier eLearning Expo & Conference will be held 23-24 March 2011 at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Johannesburg. The event is designed for anyone involved in enterprise-wide eLearning efforts. » MORE

Trends

eLearning Can Help Economies Remain Competitive

Sestri Levante (IT), December 2010 - Carin Martell, International Alliances Manager at the leading learning-content-management (LCMS) and digital-repository (DR) solution provider, eXact learning solutions, was one of the keynote speakers at the European eLearning Summit, held in Sheffield in November. Presenting "A European Perspective", Martell outlined world population and economic trends - to set a context for the future development - and value - of eLearning. » MORE

Rendez-Vous

iLearning Forum in Paris 2011

Paris (FR), December 2010 - iLearning Forum Paris 2011 will open its doors 01-02 February 2011 at Le Palais des Congrès in Paris to welcome professionals from the whole world. In 2011 the Forum will have more than forty countries represented and is expecting around 5000 visitors. » MORE

Game-based Learning

ENGAGE Quality Award Nominees to Be Presented at OEB

Graz (AT), November 2010 - With the ENGAGE Quality awards, ENGAGE (the European Network for Growing Activity in Game-based learning in Education) recognises excellent contributions from teachers, educational practitioners, game developers, and producers to the quality of game-based learning. The award nominees will be presented at Online Educa in Berlin (OEB), 01-03 December. » MORE

Registration Open

Learning Technologies 2011 and Learning and Skills 2011

London (UK), November 2010 - Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills are taking place at London's Olympia 2 on 26-27 January 2011. Over 4,000 L&D professionals are expected to attend, and visitors are encouraged to register in advance online to avoid queues on the day. » MORE

High Standards

Brightwave Wins Double Gold at eLearning Awards 2010

Brighton (UK), November 2010 - Brighton-based eLearning specialists Brightwave scooped up two gold awards at the annual prestigious ELearning Awards. This follows the company's holding the coveted ELearning Development Company of the Year accolade over the past year. » MORE