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Higher Education Exploring ICT Use for Lifelong Learning
Brussels (BE), April 2009 - HEXTLEARN invites colleagues to network and collaborate. HEXTLEARN is an international community of Higher Education Institutions willing to share their experience related to using ICT! » MORE
Launch of Healthcare e-Academy Plugs Gap
Ilkley (UK), April 2009 - A new standalone eLearning organisation for the healthcare sector has been launched. The Healthcare e-Academy delivers clinical and non-clinical online training programmes, with strategic modules covering key topics such as data protection and information governance, infection prevention and control, blended or e-induction training, and statutory and mandatory training. » MORE
Craig Barrett of Intel Receives Honorary Ph.D. in Bucharest
Bucharest (RO), March 2009 - (by Elena Lita) Bucharest's University Politehnica (UPB), Romania's largest technical university, has awarded its highest honor to Intel Corporation chairman, Craig Barrett. The honorary Ph.D. was granted during a special ceremony held at the university to recognize Barrett's intellectual merits. The recipient made a speech on education to Romanian university students, telling them that education and technology are key to creating an innovation economy. » MORE
CampusContent Launches New Repository Network
Hagen (GER), March 2009 - CampusContent, the DFG (German Research Foundation) Center of Excellence for eLearning has launched "edu-sharing" for the education sector. As opposed to other repository solutions throughout the EU, CampusContent largely supports protected cooperation among communities of colleagues and experts. » MORE
Tool for Quality Assessment in eLearning
Heerlen (NL), March 2009 - E-xcellence is a web-based instrument focusing on eLearning in higher education. It is the main product of a two-year project, undertaken under the auspices of EADTU (The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) and involving a pool of experts from twelve European institutions with a stake in eLearning developments. Quality Assurance in Higher Education (HE) has received a great deal of attention at the institutional, national, and European levels through validation centres, universities (and their umbrella organisations), quality agencies, national Ministries of Education, and the like. » MORE
WebCT Founder Launches Brainify
Vancouver, British Columbia (CA), January 2009 - Murray Goldberg, founder of WebCT, has announced the beta launch of Brainify.com - an academic community for university and college students and their instructors centred on academic social bookmarking. In addition to bookmarking, Brainify includes the ability to create groups of common academic interest, to pose academic questions to the student community, and to follow the collections, comments, and questions of other respected community members closely. » MORE
Quacquarelli Symonds Publishes Latest Survey Results
London (UK), January 2009 - QS Quacquarelli Symonds has announced the publishing of the results of their eighteenth annual MBA employer survey "QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009: The Employers' Choice". The research demonstrates that MBA employers around the world are increasingly targeting a broader selection of regionally strong business schools from which to hire MBA graduates. » MORE
Fresh Approach to Section 508-Compliant eLearning
Warrenville, IL (USA), January 2009 - Section 508 was enacted by the US government to eliminate barriers in information technology and to make new opportunities for people with disabilities available. CourseAvenue now announces the availability of their Accessibility Player, a new technology that builds Section 508 compliance into the core of eLearning content. » MORE
Economic Downturn Not Bad News for All Universities
Milton Keynes (UK), January 2009 - The British Council fears the economic downturn may deter international students from coming to the UK to study, but it's not bad news for all. The Open University Business School is defying the trend through offering relevant and responsive business and management education to around 43,000 students in nearly seventy countries. » MORE
Useful Tools for Students
Washington, DC (USA), January 2009 - Independent research has determined that Smarthinking's online tutoring services increase student achievement and assist in improving student retention. » MORE
