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
A Fresh Start for E-Books? © Amazon Looking at the market, e-books seem to be enjoying a great revival at the moment. In autumn 2007, online book-selling giant Amazon introduced its e-book reading device called Kindle. The white, iPo... Read More September 29, 2008 News
Interview with Dr Sebastian Graeb-Konneker, Royal Dutch Shell Sebastian Graeb-Konneker, PhD, MSc, is a Learning and Development specialist with more than fifteen years experience as a facilitator, consultant, team leader, professor and designer of blended-learning sol... Read More September 15, 2008 News
Discussion: Who Needs Teachers Anyway? Dr Giselle Ferreira What could be the role of the teacher in an Open Educational Resources scenario - an education system where content is packaged in an open library concept, allowing visitors to help ... Read More September 14, 2008 News
Networking and Social Events at Online Educa Berlin What’s really going on in e-learning around the world? To the over 2,000 professionals expected to attend this year’s conference, Online Educa Berlin will provide clear, explicit answers that can be applied i... Read More November 7, 2007 News
Case Study: A New Learning Service Concept for Thales Netherlands Pieter de Vries is senior researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and partner of Afora-learning, a learning-solutions company. He ... Read More October 29, 2007 News
Remote Teaching Laboratories in Chemistry Dietmar Kennepohl is Professor of Chemistry and Associate Vice President Academic at Athabasca University, Canada's leading distance-education and online university. Over the years, his research interests have ... Read More October 10, 2007 News
ICT in Higher Education – Transforming Universities with Technology Marc Dupuis is e-learning programme manager in the Central Administration Office of Leiden University (Universiteit Leiden). From 1997 till 2001, he was director of ICT at the University in the Faculty of A... Read More September 15, 2007 News
