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| Sharing the Vision |
| The Red Point and Blackboard in a Strategic Partnership |
 Iasi (RO), August 2010 - (by Elena Lita) The Red Point, a Romanian company, has recently extended its Academis integrated platform, which ensures complete and efficient management of the resources of higher education institutions. This was done by adding to it the Blackboard blended learning component. Alexandru Uglea, Chief Executive Officer of The Red Point, talks about the objectives of the partnership, as well as about the current goals of his company. [more...] |
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| Erasmus Mundus |
| K.U.Leuven ranked highest in Europe |
 Leuven (BE), August 2010 - The European Commission has recently approved the new Erasmus Mundus programs, an event European universities eagerly anticipate every year. K.U. Leuven will participate in four of the twenty-nine new European Master’s programs and in two of the nine new European doctoral programs. Thus, in one year, K.U.Leuven has doubled the number of Erasmus Mundus programs it offers and is now ranked highest amongst European universities, offering no less than eleven programs with the Erasmus Mundus label. [more...] |
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| Open Standards |
| mEKP Takes Learning to the Field |
| Hong Kong (HK), August 2010 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning-management systems, has announced the commercial release of a new product, mobile EKP (mEKP). "We believe that mEKP is the world’s first full-featured personal learning environment that runs completely off a USB flash drive – no installation required", said NetDimensions Managing Director and CEO Jay Shaw. [more...] |
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| Quality Assurance |
| User-Generated Content in Higher Education |
 Erlangen (GER), July 2010 - Very much due to its success, user-generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions. Web2.0 and the corresponding tools enable learners to develop and publish learning content independently from experts' knowledge and institutional frameworks. This development has led to questions as to whether the traditional concept of "authority" is still appropriate at universities and to suggestions for the "ivory tower" of higher education to be opened to the wider world. [more...] |
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| Change Issues |
| The Readiness of Traditional Universities for Quality |
 Brussels (BE), July 2010 - Traditional universities have been more than slow in integrating ICT in their teaching and learning. The reasons for this are linked to strategic and organizational change issues rather than technological or budgetary ones. Successful eLearning indeed requires new organizational and pedagogical models. This conflicts with the historical model that has shaped the culture of our traditional universities. [more...] |
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| Higher Education |
| Luminosity eLearning Software Available to Universities |
 Bristol (UK), July 2010 - CM Group has announced that it is making Luminosity, the distance learning authoring software, available to the university and higher-education sector. Following its success in the private sector, universities and colleges can now benefit from the product to experience significant increases in the scale and scope of their use of eLearning. [more...] |
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| Cooperation |
| Business College Signs Contract with Fronter |
| Oslo (NO)/Copenhagen (DK), July 2010 - Fronter has announced that Niels Brock Business College has just signed a three-year contract with the company. Niels Brock had an older solution but realized that their demands and expectations of a modern learning platform were not being met. [more...] |
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| PebblePad |
| Higher Education: ePortfolios Enter a New Era |
  Telfod (UK), July 2010 - Catherine Dhanjal interviews two users about their views on the personal learning system PebblePad. In the enquiry, she explores the way that ePortfolios have evolved from being tools exclusively for personal development planning to sophisticated interactive portfolios. Her interview partners are Moira Savage, the University of Worcester’s Senior Lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Training and Primary Information and Communication Technology Coordinator and Julie Hughes, a Principal Lecturer PCE in the School of Education at the University of Wolverhampton. [more...] |
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| Research |
| Quality in eLearning in a Cultural Context |
 Gothenburg (SE), July 2010 - Since higher education is booming in developing countries, so is eLearning. In a case study on Iran, a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows how culture can shape quality in higher education in general and in eLearning in particular. [more...] |
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| Real World |
| Action Learning Programme for MBA Students |
| London (UK), July 2010 - Even before receiving their MBA degrees, students at Hult International Business School must showcase their hard-earned strategic mettle. Hult’s Action Learning Program (ALP) lets students flex their management muscle by providing blue-chip corporations with practical solutions to existing problems. [more...] |
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| Manifesto |
| Empower European Universities |
| Brussels (BE), July 2010 – Twenty eminent thinkers and practitioners of higher education cried out in Brussels for urgent change in higher education. In a manifesto entitled "Empower European Universities", they plead to let the European garden of higher education and research grow in accordance with the basic principles of gardening: variety, empowerment through autonomy, proper nourishment, and internationalization. [more...] |
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| eAssessments |
| AAT Phases Out Paper-Based Exams |
| Shipley (UK), June 2010 - The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has announced that computer-based assessments will be central to its revised qualification, due to be launched in July 2010. The AAT has been using BTL’s Surpass e-Assessment solution to deliver exams for a while now, whilst also offering the option of a paper-based exam. [more...] |
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| Dialogue |
| The Potential of Open Educational Practices |
 Brussels (B), June 2010 - Can increased use of ICT and new media, self-regulated learning, and the intelligent use of open educational resources drive the creative learning experience? Roberto Carneiro of the Catholic University of Portugal offers his perspective on the Spotlight on Open Educational Practices. [more...] |
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| Change |
| New President of EDEN |
 Budapest (HU), June 2010 - Morten Flate Paulsen, Professor of Online Education at NKI Distance Education, Norway, has been elected the new President of the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). He will take over from the current President, Alan Tait, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the Open University, UK. The announcement was made in June at the EDEN 2010 Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain. [more...] |
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