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The Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT
Barcelona (E), February 2014 - The Open University of Catalonia, UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is a fully accredited online university based in Barcelona and serving over 60,000 students worldwide. The eLearn Center is its research centre focusing on eLearning. The University and the research centre welcome doctoral students who want to develop their research in a highly qualified and international setting and in a doctoral programme that forms part of the Bologna process. » MORE
The World's Top 50 LMS Systems
Los Angeles, CA (US)/ London (UK), February 2014 - A thorough analysis of 582 of the world's leading learning-management systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing 50. » MORE
What CIOs in Education Should Have on Their Checklist
New York, NY (USA), January 2014 - (by Dr. Shay David, Co-Founder at Online Video Platform Kaltura) As they prioritise their to-dos for 2014, CIOs are putting the planning and deployment of a central media strategy and rich media repository at the top of the list. While video is permeating almost every aspect of campus life – from teaching and learning to marketing, development, communications, and admissions - the approach has generally been haphazard, resulting in silos of content that lack a coherent framework. » MORE
Pebble Learning Announces New Features
Telford (UK), January 2014 - Pebble Learning has added a number of new features and enhancements to its popular PebblePad system and Personal Learning Space, Pebble+ in its January 2014 update. Two new features particularly catch the eye. » MORE
"Social Interaction Is Irreplaceable in the Learning Process"
Braunschweig (GER), January 2014 - Contemporary research on the brain is constantly providing new insights and details regarding the neurobiology of learning. One factor that accentuates the advantages of eLearning is the opportunity it affords for the individualized acquisition of knowledge. Responding as well as possible to the development of the individual learner promotes the learning process. Prof. Martin Korte, brain researcher and learning expert at the University of Braunschweig, elucidates the details. » MORE
OpenEd Launches Public API
Los Gatos, CA (USA), November 2013 - OpenEd® has announced that its catalog of over 250,000 standard-aligned videos and games can now easily be used by other websites or apps using a new publicly available API. This allows any EdTech offering to easily tap into OpenEd's searchable, teacher-curated catalog or contribute its own educational content to OpenEd using a simple API call. » MORE
Virtual College Partners with the CLC
Ilkley (UK), November 2013 - Virtual College is home to several e-Academies, such as the Housing, Safeguarding, and Healthcare e-Academies, which offer sector-specific courses. These courses have been chosen by the CLC because of their relevance to the growing number of Housing Associations, charities, and not-for-profits. » MORE
Expressing an Identity through Avatars in Virtual Worlds
Coventry (UK), November 2013 - Creating effective serious games requires effective engagement and involvement from a wide range of stakeholders, including educational designers, developers, artists, researchers, subject-matter experts, teachers, and learners. Nicole Steils is an educational researcher at Coventry University, and she has developed a typology of avatars for use in a virtual learning environment that she will present at the OEB pre-conference about serious games. » MORE
How Knowledge Is Made Relevant
Oslo (NO), November 2013 - Associate Professor Ingeborg Krange has been working on the design of digital learning environments for more than a decade and has specifically analyzed their use in educational settings. The title of her talk at OEB is -œA Learning Miracle: Improving Conceptual Learning by Designing and Using Digital and Analogue Devices-œ. » MORE
The Evolution of MOOCs: Should We Still Be Interested?
Irvine, CA (USA), November 2013 - Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D., serves as dean of Continuing Education, Distance Learning and Summer Session at UC Irvine. Matkin is responsible for the academic programs and operations of University Extension, Summer Session, and the UCI Distance Learning Center (DLC). He contends, -œMOOCs and OER will be significant contributors to higher education in a more consistent, efficient, and less costly way given their ability to distribute knowledge throughout the world.- » MORE
