Themen

Community Service

Reggie Smith Receives Black Engineer of the Year Award

Boston, MA (USA), March 2009 - The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) announces that Reggie Smith III received national recognition for "Community Service" during the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. » MORE

Ranking

IT Training Awards 09 Celebrates Outstanding Achievement

London (UK), March 2009 - The Institute of IT Training Awards for 2009 were presented in early February at a gala dinner held at The Dorchester in London. Despite the bad weather around the country, a capacity audience of over 450 people attended this year's awards. The event included an address by Ann Mogridge, a ChildLine counsellor, who spoke about her counselling work with the ChildLine charity for children in trouble or danger, for which the Institute raised £10,900 in its annual Charity Auction. This brought the total raised by the Institute for the charity to £150,000. » MORE

Best Practice

Top Ten Learning Tips from Learning Technologies Visitors

London (UK), February 2009 - Visitors at Learning Technologies 2009 gave their top learning tips to help share best-practice learning and development with peers. Premier IT asked visitors to provide a top learning tip as part of their "Growing Great Ideas" themed exhibition stand. A "Top 10 Learning Tips" list has been created from the most popular and most creative answers given. » MORE

Call for Cases

Contribute Your Experience on Transnational Learning

Riyadh (SA), February 2009 - The book Cases on Technological Adaptability and Transnational Learning: Issues and Challenges is currently inviting contributions. Editors are Dr. Siran Mukerji and Dr. Purnendu Tripathi from the Arab Open University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. » MORE

ALT Events

EPortfolios to Support Women Returners to Employment

Oxford (UK), February 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) has announced two one-day events to disseminate the work of the JISC-funded eReturn project. eReturn promotes the use of ePortfolios to support women returners to employment, ensuring that they have an electronic record of achievements from the variety of learning establishments they may have studied at along with reflections, presentations, and other material that can be used for employment applications. » MORE

Get Connected

Learning Impact 2009 in Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona (ES), February 2009 - This year's theme of Learning Impact is "Leveraging Web Applications and Enterprise Integration to Enable Innovation and Creativity in Teaching and Learning". It takes place in conjunction with the Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges from 11 - 14 May at the Fira Palace Hotel in Barcelona. » MORE

Professional Development

National Launch of the eCPD Programme in the UK

London (UK), January 2009 - The national launch conference for the Learning and Skills Improvement Service's (LSIS) eCPD Programme will be held on Thursday, 5 February 2009. The conference will build on the outstandingly successful eLearning practitioner conferences held in 2005 and 2007, which were organised by QIA and ALT and supported by partners including Becta, JISC, NIACE, LSN, and CEL. » MORE

Proposals in Demand

Interactive Computer-Aided Learning 2009

Villach (AT), January 2009 - ICL 2009 will be held from 23 - 25 September 2009 in Villach, Austria. This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experience in interactive computer-aided learning, especially in engineering education. » MORE

ALT-C 2009

Conference Theme Announced: In Dreams Begins Responsibility

Oxford (UK), January 2009 - The Association for Learning Technology has announced the theme for its 2009 conference. The event will focus on "In dreams begins responsibility: choices, evidence, and change" and will take place at University Place, University of Manchester, UK from 8-10 September 2009. » MORE

eAssessment

BTL Breakfast Briefings 2009

Shipley (UK), January 2009 - BTL learning & assessment Ltd. invites colleagues, partners, and interested individuals to join them for BTL's breakfast briefings in the UK. The events include user case studies by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, EMTA Awards Limited, and the Association of Accounting Technicians. » MORE