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HarvestRoad Hive Eases Content Migration Issues
Sestri Levante (I), July 2008 - A software system - HarvestRoad Hive from learning and mobile content-management-technology provider, Giunti Labs - is helping organisations, particularly those in the education sector, to save both time and manpower as they make information more readily available to users. » MORE
UK University Lectures via iTunes
London (UK)/ Dublin (IE), July 2008 - University College London, the Open University, and Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures on to iTunes. Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music-downloading service. But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material for students to use on iPods or computers. The service will include recordings of lectures from leading academics. » MORE
Adult education - Pathway to the Future
Athens (GR), July 2008 - Adult education took a backseat in Greece until recently, although the educational level of the population has been pushed substantially upwards in the last half century as a result of rapid economic development - and following EU membership, it has accelerated enormously. Now, adult education has become an important part of a drive for improved conditions and services in the country. » MORE
Speed and Space for eLearning in the City University
London (UK), July 2008 - City University in London has upgraded its data network to support high bandwidth eLearning technologies such as video podcasts of lectures. The University selected ntl:Telewest Business to replace its WAN with a high-speed metro Ethernet VPN network, which connects its main building and central campus at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell to ten remote sites, including Cass Business School, City Community and Health Sciences, and The City Law School. » MORE
A Bridge between Graduation and Job Acquisition
Bucharest (RO), June 2008 - (by Elena Lita) One hundred and fifteen students from the Cisco Networking Academy Program have been selected in the second edition of the NetReady initiative to be supported in developing a career in the telecommunications field. NetReady is a joint effort begun in February 2007 by Cisco Romania, the Romanian Association of Networking Academies (RoNetAcad), and other major industry organizations. » MORE
EduContact opens up to new partners
Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex (F), June 2008 - EduContact is an Erasmus Mundus project that allows students worldwide to obtain personalized advice on European higher distance education, thanks to its multilingual contact centre. It also provides an online selection of courses in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch and Turkish. » MORE
The Online Education Method Practiced in Nitra
Praha (CZ)/ Bratislava (SK), June 2008 - The IT Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Univerzita Konstantina Filozofa (FPV UKF) in Nitra, a specialised facility for educating teachers and specialists in Applied Information Technology, makes use of the Internet in connection with a new method for online education with eLearning support. » MORE
Wimba Unveils Pronto in Europe
New York (USA)/ Manchester (UK), May 2008 - Wimba, the education technology company that helps people teach people, unveiled the new Wimba Pronto™ to an international audience, at Blackboard's annual European Users Conference. Wimba Pronto is an academic-centric, instant messaging platform designed specifically to advance and promote learning through a unique set of tools. Featuring pre-populated classmates tab, online tutoring and office-hours mode, and rich communications tools, Wimba Pronto is different from other basic messenger platforms. » MORE
Global Forum for Responsible Management Education
New York (USA), May 2008 - The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a UN-backed global initiative developed to promote corporate responsibility and sustainability in business education, has now been endorsed by more than 100 business schools and universities from around the world. » MORE
The Network for Tanzanian High Learning and Research
Dar-es-Salaam (TZS), May 2008 - Dr. Jabiri Kuwe Bakari is currently a Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University of Tanzania. He is also the Acting Executive Secretary of TERNET, an organisation he will introduce at eLearning Africa. He will also explain TERNET's plans and strategies for facilitating eL.earning initiatives among higher learning institutions in Tanzania. » MORE
