Themen

Wireless

Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning

St. Albans (UK), January 2012 - Xirrus, a provider of high-performance wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200 eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility. » MORE

Free Digital Education

Open Source Innovation for the Teaching Community

Paris (FR), January 2012 - The goal of the Sankoré programme is to make the digital education revolution available for everybody and to enhance teachers' creativity by the potentials of working digitally and with the internet. The Sankoré Portal offers open and free access to excellent teaching contents and new resources produced with the Open-Sankoré IWB Open Source software. » MORE

Game-based Learning

Chelsea FC launch Footee for Young Fans

London (UK), January 2012 - Chelsea FC has announced the launch of Chelsea Footee, an online educational football-themed entertainment zone for children that links to the National Curriculum. It has been developed in partnership with UK eLearning specialist MotivatEd. » MORE

Early Learning

European Children's Travelling Language Library

London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children's Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success. » MORE

Public Spending

UK Education Funding Falls at Fastest Rate Since 1950s

London (UK), November 2011 - Public spending on education in the UK is falling at the fastest rate since the 1950s, according to a report released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report says the biggest challenges ahead are for early-years education, youth services, and sixteen-nineteen education, where spending is set to fall by around twenty percent in real terms. » MORE

Olympic Achievers

Non-Traditional Education for Non-Traditional Students

Norcross, GA (USA), November 2011 - With the hope of becoming the best in the world, world-class amateur athletes are devoted to their sport. So when do these athletes plan for life after sports, and what happens when it's time to turn in the uniform or hang up the skates? » MORE

Stress Management

Training to Improve Educator Effectiveness

Duluth, GA (USA), November 2011 - ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET-approved, nationally accredited, distance-training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care and education workforce, offers educators a new course for stress management. » MORE

Peer Sounds

Intersection between Technology and Creativity in Music

Rome (I), November 2011 - The OEB session "Social Sounds for Peer Education" aims to give an overview of how digital-technology applications have changed music education, creation, and production. Andrea Pozzi, marketing and communication manager of MidiWare is also in charge of managing all MidiWare activities relating to their European educational projects. MidiWare provides support to music teachers, schools, conservatories, and other important European Institutions. As a musician, Andrea plays bass in a band that is signed to an Italian record company. » MORE

Analyse a Game

How Do You Identify Games for the Classroom?

Copenhagen (DK), November 2011 - "Important Lessons from the Last Ten Years with Game-Based Learning" is the title of the OEB contribution of Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen. He is CEO of Serious Games Interactive in Denmark, a company that develops serious game, simulations, and virtual worlds with graphics that are able to stand up to other commercial computer games. Their solutions have explicit learning objectives and are developed with attention to the special needs of clients and users. » MORE

Cyber Cruelty

Don't Let Bullying Destroy the Lives of Kids

New York, NY (USA), November 2011 - As an openly gay young man, Tommy Walser, currently a New York University Law School student, watched in shock and anger as it seemed like every week a new suicide was being committed due to bullying and cyber-bullying. Enter The Bullying Academy, which Walser created as a free online resource to help parents, students, and teachers deal with the dangers associated with bullying and cyber-bullying. » MORE