ePortfolios for Health Professionals In 2005, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) piloted a bespoke ePortfolio to support the training of 410 of the country’s junior doctors. Following its successful introduction, the system has rapidly grown and now... Read More September 22, 2009 News
Open Resources as Marketing Tool for Universities British academic Russell Stannard, an expert on ICT and language teaching, has produced an extensive range of online videos that demonstrate how to apply technology in teaching. He began by making screen... Read More September 16, 2009 News
Education in the Digital Age – What Does It Mean? Is education – in a more classical sense, or “Bildung”, as the Germans say, – in danger of falling by the wayside in the digital age? Or is it possible to provide a personal learning environment that re... Read More September 15, 2009 News
Interview with Artur Dyro, Young Digital Planet SA, Poland Educational publishers need to invest more in the development of online content if they want to compete with open educational resources in the long run, says Artur Dyro from Young Digital Pl... Read More September 15, 2009 News
Microtraining for Dutch Truck Drivers The Dutch transport company Van der Wal International wanted to develop a sustainable solution for their learning practices. With support from Delft University of Technology and ACHT Business ... Read More September 15, 2009 News
Poll: Economic Crisis Boosts E-Learning The world’s present economic woes are opening up new opportunities for innovative forms of education and training such as informal learning, e-learning and blended learning. Faced with shrinking budgets... Read More September 14, 2009 News
How to implement a successful online training programme Ursula Hesselmann has been working at ZF since 1993. She is Manager New Media Qualification at ZF Friedrichshafen AG and responsible for e-learning. She started to build up e-learning for ZF worldwide fr... Read More September 14, 2009 News
Failed Schoolgirl Returns to School Sixteen years old and having failed at school, Zenna Atkins launched her first social enterprise. She aspired to help people who appeared to share her fate: a dismal future due to a lack of academic qualific... Read More September 10, 2009 News
E-Learning Down Under As a country dominated by space and renowned for its self-sufficiency, distance education has been part of Australia’s educational landscape for a long time. But does it necessarily mean that the nation is ... Read More September 10, 2009 News
Textbooks Terminated – Schools go Online ©Inacio Pires - Fotolia.com California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched an initiative to ban textbooks from high school classrooms and replace them with digital material. Traditional book... Read More September 8, 2009 News