Themen
Schools
New Policy on ICT Use in Education
Bucharest (RO), February 2008 - (by Elena Lita) The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth and the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have recently launched a new public policy proposal called "The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the pre-college education system in Romania". The aim of this policy is to increase the quality and the access to the educational process through the integration of the ICTs, and for the first time in such a high-level directive, open educational resources, collaborative technologies, open source software, and online courses are taken into account. » MORE
Danware Launches New Version of NetOp School
Birkerød (DK), February 2008 - The Danish IT company Danware is launching version 5.5 of NetOp School, one of the world's leading programmes for managing and running computer-based classrooms. NetOp School 5.5 supports all Windows platforms, including Vista. At the same time, Danware is introducing a new technology that makes it much easier for teachers to oversee students' use of the Internet. » MORE
SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Enriches Lessons
Calgary, Alberta (CA), February 2008 - SMART Technologies has announced the SMART document camera, the latest addition to its 21st-century classroom solution. This easy-to-use product enables teachers to display detailed images and video of any physical object and instantly incorporate that material into digital lessons using a SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard and Notebook™ collaborative learning software. » MORE
Kenya Launches eLearning in Schools
Nairobi (KE), January 2008 - Kenya has become the third African country to launch eLearning facilities in secondary schools. The programme by Intel, and whose only other beneficiaries are South Africa and Nigeria, was launched at Kamiti Secondary School in the outskirts of Nairobi. The programme enables students to be taught through information communication technology (ICT) and is a collaboration effort between the Ministry of Education and several local and multinational ICT companies. » MORE
Representatives Inspired by Norwegian Schools
Oslo (NO), January 2008 - A group of UK education authorities have spent two days in Oslo observing how their Norwegian colleagues are using ICT technology in education. Education in the UK is receiving a great deal of attention, as government policies and initiatives aim to 'Build Schools for the Future' and equip students with the skills that they will need in their working life ahead. » MORE
Romanian Schools Join Think.com Community
Bucharest (RO), December 2007 - (by Elena Lita) Oracle has implemented Rumania's first nation-wide educational programme dedicated to students aged between nine and eighteen years. Think.com is a free web-based environment for primary and secondary students and teachers and is designed to assist schools with the implementation and use of state-of-the-art technology for educational purposes. At the end of November, 1,600 teachers across the country, including all areas of specialization, attended training courses on using the Think.com programme. » MORE
Iona Technologies Connects Belgian Schools
Dublin (IE), December 2007 - More than 3,000 schools throughout Belgium will be using Irish software firm Iona's open source technology to deploy a centralised student-registration system after being chosen by the Belgian Ministry for Education. Iona will be providing distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure in the form of its FUSE ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), which will be integrated with various applications and databases to provide real-time registration for over one million students. » MORE
Lifelong Learning for Teachers, Students, and Parents
Luxembourg (LU), November 2007 - The Center of Technology of Education (CTE), part of the Ministry of National Education Luxembourg, pursues the aim of a multilingual educational working environment for teachers, principals, students, office staff, and parents. Luxembourg's Educational Portal, called "mySchool", is based on a technical business solution provided by BEA Systems. This solution is flexible that the integration of new specifications, like a restaurant management for the school cafeteria, was feasible. » MORE
Elearning 2.0 - A Stepping Stone to Elearning 3.0?
Grenaa (DK), November 2007 - Anne Fox is teacher trainer in the Experience-Based Learning Project, a Danish project piloting teacher training in the adoption of web 2.0 tools in secondary education. For CHECK.point eLearning, she reveals her findings and gives advice to other teacher trainers. » MORE
How the Lessons from a Disaster Led to Success
Edinburgh (UK), November 2007 - Making mistakes in the past did not stop Andrew Watt and his colleagues from the City of Edinburgh Council from continuing with eLearning. In his presentation, Andrew Watt takes an honest look at the lessons learnt and draws out guidelines for implementing online learning in schools and other educational situations. » MORE
