Promoting Cultural Dialogue with E-Learning A shared interest to acquaint people with cultural values and backgrounds as highly diverse as Hungary, Turkey and Japan is the motivating force that stands behind the e-learning project Learning Design of ... Read More November 19, 2008 News
Expert Session: Publishing Meets E-Learning Learning content is increasingly available on the Internet without any cost. The presence of open educational resources may help promote goals like lifelong learning and access for all, but at the same time... Read More November 14, 2008 News
Open Education Resources: Unstoppable or Unsustainable? After several years of experimenting with various types of Open Education Resources (OER), is there a formula for success towards making sure that an OER service has a sustainable future? This is a key qu... Read More November 6, 2008 News
Controversial: Why it is so Quiet in Many Content Repositories? © Dustin Lyson - Fotolia.com A content repository needs to integrate with users’ daily work. Immediate benefits must be obvious to trigger and further drive application and content sharing within the re... Read More November 4, 2008 News
Competing in a Global Economy Through Open Education On a global scale, the U.S., European Union, Japan, China and India will face critical shortfalls of 32 million technically specialised professionals. Throughout the world, the demand for educated professionals... Read More November 1, 2008 News
Master’s Programme: Online Education in Veterinary Tropical Medicine The Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (DVTD), Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa presents a web-based master’s programme in Veterinary Tropical D... Read More October 30, 2008 News
E-Learning for Kids: Benjamin’s House of Wonderful Words © Tomasz Markowski - Fotolia.com Creating learning environments for sightless people poses a significant challenge for content developers, especially when the target group is children. During the whole ... Read More October 29, 2008 News
Dutch Police Build Virtual City Natascha Blijleven-Tebbe Police officers have a lot of work to do in the imaginary city of Behrloo. The virtual territory embraces a variety of realistic problems: traffic accidents, illegal hemp cultiv... Read More October 27, 2008 News
Meeting the Needs of the New Learners Wednesday, December 3rd, starts with a workshop on the Google generation in higher education. The seminar, held by Dr Judy Hardy, Prof Simon Bates and Dr Hamish Macleod from the University of Edinburgh, UK, wil... Read More October 2, 2008 News
Portugal: Mobile Phones in Schools © Ewe Degiampietro - Fotolia.com At the end of the second quarter of 2008, there were 14.3 million Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) subscribers in Portugal. This is a nearly five percent increase in the total... Read More September 29, 2008 News
