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Hands-On Robotics Teaching also Works Online
Bremen (GER), December 2021 - COVID-19 has helped online teaching make a breakthrough at many universities. But how do teachers cope with the pandemic in practice-oriented courses such as robotics, where working in the lab has been considered essential and indispensable until now? This is what two scientists at Jacobs University Bremen have been investigating. The work of Andreas Birk, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and psychologist Dora Simunovic was recently published in the "IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine".
» MOREIndonesian OU Upholds Fair and Equal Education Environment
Stockholm (SWE), December 2021 - Ouriginal, a leading European provider of plagiarism detection and prevention solutions, is proud to work together with Universitas Terbuka, the Indonesia Open University, to ensure a fair and equal teaching and learning environment at Indonesia's first and biggest hybrid university. The university, with more than 500,000 students from 36 countries, upholds the highest standards of teaching and learning methods. To protect these standards in times of the pandemic and also beyond, Universitas Terbuka chose Ouriginal as the plagiarism detection solution of their choice in early 2021.
» MORECamtasia Video Editor Exports Directly to Panopto
Okemos, MI / Seattle, WA (USA), December 2021 - TechSmith Corporation, a leading provider of screen capture and video editing tools, and Panopto, a leading video management system provider, have announced that TechSmith Camtasia users can now export videos directly into their Panopto video library. This marks another milestone in the multi-year strategic partnership announced earlier this year.
» MOREYork University School of Continuing Studies Joins D2L Wave
Toronto (CA), July 2021 - D2L Inc., a global learning technology leader, has announced that the York University School of Continuing Studies has joined the D2L Wave platform to provide working professionals with opportunities to upskill and reskill within one centralized and easy-to-use cloud-based platform.
» MOREEAN University Inaugurates Advanced XR Lab
Bogota (COL), November 2021 - EAN University inaugurated its new XR Lab, powering its infrastructure with the Extended Reality (XR) platform VIROO®. The first of its kind in Colombia, this laboratory is part of EAN's mission and initiatives to expand its positive social and economic impact by fostering excellence and innovation in higher education and sustainable entrepreneurship development.
» MOREIrish Universities Come Together to Talk about Racism
London (UK), November 2021 - A network of Irish universities has come together and signed on for a national version of Marshall E-Learning Consultancy’s course entitled "Lets Talk about Race" that has been tailored to the country’s cultural context.
Student Nurses Train to Be Better Allies
London (UK), November 2021 - A new cohort of student nurses from the University of Surrey has been trained on how to be better allies. Marshalls and the university have come together to collaborate on a new module called Allyship. From being long-standing existing clients to now collaborating with them on their latest module, Marshalls are gearing up to release their Allyship Module in partnership with the University of Surrey’s School of Health Sciences.
Bahamas' Institute Benefits from eAssessment Platform
Dunfermline (SCL), November 2021 - With over half its multi-million dollar revenue regularly coming from clients outside the UK, the digital learning and assessment specialist eCom Scotland is used to working with organisations in far-flung, often exotic, and sometimes remote parts of the world. Among these is the far-from, remote, but no-less-exotic Bahamas, where one of its professional institutes is benefiting from using eCom's eAssessment platform with the hundreds of students studying for qualifications on its sixteen or so regular programmes.
"The goal is to increase graduates and socioeconomic mobility"
Los Angeles, CA (USA), November 2021 - Ryan Craig is the author of "College Disrupted" (2015) and "A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College" (2018). He is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners, which is reimagining the future of higher education and creating new pathways from education to employment. At OEB Global, his presentation is entitled "Identifying and Addressing the Barriers to Reducing the Cost of Higher Education".
Do We Need More Flexible Structure in Masters Programs?
Bucharest (RO), November 2021 - Mariana Mocanu, a full professor who has completed the European Habilitation degree, was head of the Computer Science Department at the University Politehnica of Bucharest from 2016 to 2020. She is currently the president of the QA Commission of the University Senate and a member of the Faculty Council. She is also in charge of the "eGovernance" masters study program and participates in the development of the ERASMUS Knowledge Alliance "IT in Aviation" project. Her presentation at OEB Global is entitled "Engineering Masters Studies between Teaching Challenges and Society 4.0 Realities".
