The world in Berlin Around the World has been travelling the globe in search of e-learning stories for several months now. This week it's a bit different: the world has come to us! More than 90 different countries are represented ... Read More December 6, 2013 News
The cutting-edge chopping-board, and other stories a steak dinner (medium rare) c.2095(the white stripe in the middle is Bearnaise sauce) ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is less than a week away! And, as usual from Around the World, here are six items to whet your appe... Read More November 28, 2013 News
Emotional Computers, and other stories November 21, 2013 News Online Learning is by nature a global endeavour. This week’s reports in Around the World show many of e-learning’s international applications – to aid development, promote unity and co-operation, and expand worldwide influence. This, plus the latest stories an... Read More
E-Learning in pole position, and other stories From east to west and north to south, Around the World is dedicated to discovering news from across the seven continents. Yes, seven continents – for this week the largest global e-learning conference brings yo... Read More November 14, 2013 News
Attack of the cyborg cockroaches, and other stories While technology-supported learning is a worldwide movement, it takes on a dazzling variety of different forms everywhere it is practised, from the hi-tech parks of Singapore to the dank gap behind the fridge i... Read More November 7, 2013 News
The Around the World Hallowe’en special October 31, 2013 News from a 1931 exhibition at Berlin's Arbeiterschütz-Museum, teaching about correct body posture in daily life Ghost schools, zombie universities, skeletons and evil spirits: it’s all here this week in an extra-cobwebby edition of Around the World. But we’re ... Read More
E-Learning in a cold climate, and other stories cyber-security in 1943 Around the World considers no destination too remote for education and online learning. Nevertheless, even we are surprised this week at news that the high-speed cables may soon even ... Read More October 24, 2013 News
India’s financial five-year-olds, and other stories Last week, Around the World promised you the very last article you'd ever have to read on MOOCs. Well... we lied – see below for the whole story, along with e-health news from West Africa, e-government developm... Read More October 18, 2013 News
Educating Rigveda (and other stories) October 9, 2013 News Kenya and Nigeria are two of the crucibles of Africa’s tech revolution: yet the news from each of them this week presents a stark contrast. As do the findings of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills – good news for Finland and Japan, less so for the US and UK. All ... Read More
Censorious sensibilities – and other stories Turkey’s deep internal divisions revealed themselves again this week, this time in educational institutions. Meanwhile in neighbouring Syria, teachers and pupils struggle on in the face of a conflict that shows... Read More October 4, 2013 News
