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Trade Body for Serious Games Launched
Worthing (UK), November 2006 - The Alliance for New Generation Interactive Leisure and Simulations - ANGILS - has officially launched, with a line-up of support from leading experts and commissioners of serious games. It is the first trade body representing the business of serious games. » MORE
Digital Immigrants & Digital Natives
Bloemfontein (South Africa), November 2006 - (by Dr. Herbert Thomas) In South Africa, large numbers of faculty members at higher education institutions are 'digital immigrants', and yet we presume to create learning environments for 'digital natives', who differ radically from us in their understanding of technology. This already complex situation, is further exacerbated in South Africa, where we have eleven official languages and as many different cultural groupings. » MORE
Simulation of Crisis as a Learning Context
Hedmark (Norway), November 2006 - As the student-assessment component of the Hedmark University College's seminar-based course "Crisis Management, Communication and Collaboration", a one-week simulation is conducted at the Norwegian Army Command and Staff Trainer. Students from call-out services such as fire, police, and ambulance departments, as well as army staff and security employees from large private corporations or governmental organizations get prepared for action. » MORE
Elearning at the Novosibirsk State Technical University
Novosibirsk (Russia), November 2006 - "In a regional university, eLearning is a factor of life quality improvement", says Dr. Olga Kazanskaya, Deputy Director of the Institute of Distance Education at the Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU). Demand for ICT supported learning is really high. » MORE
Actual Applications Rather than Theories!
Leicester, November 2006 - To enhance the institution-wide adoption of ICT in learning and teaching, the University of Leicester has opened an E-Zoo, a very colourful and likeable way to invite teachers to join the eLearning world. Gilly Salmon, Professor of E-learning & Learning Technologies at the University's Beyond Distance Research Alliance, showed CHECKpoint eLearning around. » MORE
Wikis and Blogs as Part of Language Education
Padua (Italy), November 2006 - At the University of Padua, Sarah Guth works as an English language teacher in a team that is carrying out action research on the use of freely accessible wikis and blogs that use remote servers to substitute for the more complex proprietary VLEs currently used for online and blended language learning. » MORE
Towards a Middle-East of Knowledge
Beirut (Lebanon), November 2006 - Lebanon's Saint Joseph Université has started a "CoP" with "Master's in Management" graduates. The aim is highly ambitious. Former students from home and abroad are being sought in order to play a key-role in developing the crisis- Dr. Joseph Mezher hit country by being a "proposal force". CHECKoint eLearning spoke with Dr. Joseph Mezher, Head of the University's ICT learning program and eLearning program development, about the challenges, successes, and future perspectives. » MORE
One Number Tells It All
Poitiers, July 2006 - The Contact centre of the French national centre for distance education (Cned) has developed a single-phone-number service for the benefit of the partners within the EduContact project. It will advise students worldwide by answering their phone calls to +33 5 49 49 98 98 as well as e-mails in French, English, German, and Spanish. » MORE
Online Education in the Arab World
Dubai, June 2006 (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) Dr. Nidhal Guessoum is an astrophysicist; he graduated with a Ph.D. from UCSD in 1988, spent a total of 8 years in the US, then went back to his home country Algeria, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses and finally left for Kuwait where he has been teaching Physics and Astronomy at the College of Technological Studies. Nidhal has gotten involved in projects that deal with multimedia and online approaches to teaching. Today he teaches as Associate Professor of Physics at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. » MORE
ICDL Offers Arabic Braille
Dubai, June 2006 - ITEP, HH Sheikh Mohammed IT Education Project, has joined forces with Tamkeen, the UAE training centre for the visually impaired, to announce the availability of the world's first Arabic International Computer Driving License (ICDL) courseware. This is part of ITEP's efforts as an organisation devoted to enhancing IT literacy in the UAE. » MORE
