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Digital Resilience in Higher Education
Budapest (HR), April 2013 - The European Journal of Open, Distance and eLearning (EURODL) presents scholarly work and solid information about open leaning, distance learning, and eLearning. Since 1995 it has provided a home for the introduction of new dimensions of technology-enhanced learning and has made a meaningful contribution to the open content movement. » MORE
Reflex Usage Accelerates Strongly
Charlottesville, VA (USA), April 2013 - ExploreLearning®, a business unit of Cambium Learning Group, Inc., has announced that students have now solved more than two billion addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts using Reflex®. ExploreLearning Reflex is a research-based program that uses the allure of challenging and exciting games to get students engaged and working at peak performance in developing instant recall of math facts. » MORE
Sberbank Leverages Saba to Improve People Development
Bracknell (UK), April 2013 -Saba, the provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, has announced that Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, is using its solution to transform people development across the country through a strategic program called the Virtual School of Sberbank. Founded in 1841, Sberbank comprises 17 local banks with more than 18,000 branches and over 230,000 employees throughout Russia. » MORE
Adaptive Mobile Online Platform for Faster Learning
Boston, MA (USA), April 2013 - If you've ever been in a course and struggled because you just aren't "getting it-, the reason might be less your ability than the way in which the material is being presented. New technology is now allowing online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies. » MORE
New Edition of Open Thoughts Blog from UOC
Barcelona (E), March 2013 - How can technology help find solutions to the challenges of today's world? Are we prepared to handle the large amount of data that surrounds us? Can ICT and Internet help us become more sustainable and more competitive? To coincide with the Mobile World Congress 2013, The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has launched a debate on whether we are prepared to make smarter use of technology. This is being done through a new edition of the Open Thoughts blog, where international personalities from academia, business, and the cultural world will answer the question "Ready for a SMARTer world?" » MORE
Blackboard Transact Expands Campus Security Offering
Washington DC (US), March 2013 - Blackboard Transact™, a provider in integrated campus commerce and security solutions, has expanded its campus-security offerings through a strategic partnership with S2 Security. The alliance allows Blackboard Transact to offer schools and universities even more physical security capabilities to create a supportive learning environment. » MORE
Moodle App Experience Revealed by Mobile Learning Pilots
Horaplantsoen (NL), February 2013 - Initiated by Samsung Thailand, the Dutch-based company Smart Learning Apps and the Malaysia-based cloud company Anise Asia present the first Moodle Native App for Android tablets. Development started with several pilots at universities, using the Moodle platform on tablets. The Moodle Educloud Native App turns any Android tablet into a fully equipped learning device, offering flow-based HD video courses; social-media support like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn; and current cloud-based file-storage technology. The iPad Moodle version will follow soon. » MORE
Rediscovering the value of cultural diversity
London (UK), February 2013 - (by Bob Little) New research from the University of Exeter Business School has revealed that corporate managers who're widely exposed to more than one culture during their formative years (up until 23 years of age) are more likely to be confident taking difficult and risky (business) decisions. This is probably just as well because, apparently, there are 40 per cent more first-generation migrants living in the world today than in 1990 - so the global population is becoming more diverse. » MORE
University of Tennessee Selects Blackboard Mobile
Washington D.C. (US), February 2013 - Blackboard Inc. has announced that the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM) has selected Blackboard Mobile™ to replace its current mobile app with one that will offer access to campus services, information, and courses. » MORE
Over 6.7 Million Students Learning Online
Wellesley, MA (US), February 2013 - The 2012 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group reveals the number of students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6.7 million. However, higher education adoption of massive open online courses (MOOCs) remains low, with most institutions still on the sidelines. » MORE
