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How Farming Innovation Can Sustainably Feed the Future
La Jolla, CA (US), November 2012 - The global population is expected to hit nine billion by 2050, and there's an urgent need to reform food production to meet the rising demand. The new four-part YouTube series "9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming," now available on University of California's YouTube channel UCTV Prime, examines these challenges and demonstrates how UC Davis researchers and students are working together. » MORE
Virtual College Releases "Choose to Stop" App
Ilkley (UK), November 2012 - Virtual College, a leading provider of eLearning in the UK worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to produce and release the "Choose to Stop" app. » MORE
SEB: A Secure, Web-based Testing Environment
Zurich (CH), November 2012 - Daniel R. Schneider studied Sociology, Information Technology, and Political Science. He is the leader of the Safe Exam Browser (SEB) project at the ETH Zurich's Center for Educational Development and Technology. This system ensures, among other things, that during an exam, it's only possible for a student's testing device to access the exam. » MORE
South-South Collaboration between India and Africa
New Dehli (IN), November 2012 - Kaviraj Sharma Sukon, Director-General of the Open University of Mauritius, will discuss "Using ICT to Shrink Horizons: Pan-African e-Network" at ONLINE EDUCA. His session on Thursday afternoon covers various examples of infrastructure projects that enable national, transnational, and cross-institutional collaborative content development. The Pan-African e-Network is one of the most ambitious projects worldwide in this field. » MORE
How to Enhance Participation in Class
Vanderbijlpark (ZA), November 2012 - Re-an Muller is a lecturer in Business Management and Marketing Communication at the North-West-University in South Africa. In his talk at ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, he will pose the question, "Can class participation be enhanced by using the student's favourite mobile chat-platform?" Here he summarizes his experience. » MORE
"ELearning Is a Fast-growing Approach in the Caucasus"
Tbilisi (GE), November 2012 - Tamar Lominadze is professor and Head of the eLearning Centre at the Georgian Technical University. She is coming from Tbilisi to ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN to give an overview about the development of eLearning and lifelong learning in the Caucasus. And she explains the special need to use eLearning as a bridge that connects countries and ties together nations with different languages, cultures, and religions. » MORE
Conflictology Training for United Nations Workers
Barcelona (E), October 2012 - As of October, the UOC School for Cooperation will validate subjects on the Master's in Conflictology in English for United Nations personnel who are studying in any of the courses on the UNITAR training programme. Thanks to this institutional collaboration, many of the workers on peace missions will be able to gain a UOC university qualification. » MORE
University of Farmers Campuses Using iPads
Los Angeles, CA (US), October 2012 - Inspired by cost efficiency and capabilities of delivering interactive participant materials, Farmers, America's third-largest insurance group, has invested in iPads for classrooms throughout the campuses of the University of Farmers. » MORE
Polycom Video Helps St. Petersburg University
Moscow (RU), October 2012 - Polycom, Inc. has announced that Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (SPBGU) has implemented the Polycom RealPresence® Platform® and RealPresence® Room solutions across the University. The platform provides high-quality learning and also improves communications among students and faculty. » MORE
Blackboard CEO Resigns and Rumblings
Washington, DC (USA), October 2012 - Michael L. Chasen has announced that he will step down as President, CEO, and Director of Blackboard Inc. at the end of the year. Chasen will be replaced by Jay Bhatt, currently President and CEO of Progress Software. » MORE
