Themen

For British Schools

A New Learning-Platform Services Framework

Science Park (UK), January 2007 - Becta has launched a new Learning Platform Services Framework. The framework provides UK schools, colleges and local authorities with an EU-approved supplier network to deliver high quality, value-for-money learning platform services. » MORE

eTwinning

Best Practice Manual Available

Roosbeck (B), December 2006 - Based on the experiences gathered during Citizen E, an EU-funded project to improve teachers' ICT skills, the project partners have written a Best Practice Manual available for download now. » MORE

Take Note(book)

Qaddafi's Computer Kids

Tripoli (Libya), November 2006 -The government of Libya has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008. » MORE

Major Input

Government's eLearning Project to Enhance Education

Kingston (JAMAICA), November 2006 - According to a report by the Jamaica Observer, the country's government's US$50 million investment in an eLearning project, launched earlier this year, is expected to enhance the quality of secondary teaching and learning significantly. The program is scheduled for three years. » MORE

Value-Added Retail

LearnCenter® to Be Sold in Portugal

Sunrise (FL, USA), November 2006 - Florida-based Learn.com®, producer of on-demand workforce productivity, will sell the LearnCenter® platform in Portugal through Conhecer Mais Ti, a Portuguese information technology provider, to increase its share of Portugal's growing higher education and training market. » MORE

iPodagogy

Students and Teachers Are All Ears

Edinburgh, November 2006 - (by Andrew Watt, Senior Development Officer eTeam) The iPod has almost instant appeal to everyone and despite the best efforts of competitors is still the "must have" mp3 player. Can education make use of this sort of device and its desirability? Read and marvel at what happens when you give a class of Scottish students and their teachers an iPod each. » MORE

Non-Profit

eLearning for Foster Parents

Sunrise (FL, USA), October 2006 - More than 5,500 foster parents across the State of New Jersey will receive online, at-home training with the LearnCenter Workforce Productivity Suite by Learn.com® as early as next year. » MORE

Role-play against mobbing and violence in schools

photo: Institut für Theoretische Psychologie BambergEdinburgh, June 2006 - Bullying is a widespread phenomenon that includes continual harassment and social exclusion by pupils against their fellow pupils. This problem is now addressed by an EU-funded project called e-CIRCUS, which aims at fighting bullying in schools and providing innovative strategies for conflict resolution. The problem occurs across cultures, a concern that is addressed by the project's international consortium. » MORE

ICDL GCC Foundation Partnership with ITEP

Dubai, June 2006 - The ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority of the International Computer Driving License (ICDL) programme in the Gulf region, has announced that its partnership with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum IT Education Project (ITEP) has generated outstanding results in advancing the United Arab Emirates towards becoming a digital society. » MORE

Educators to Participate

San Jose, April 2006 - Adobe Systems Inc. has announced the Adobe Education Leader program to cultivate education technology innovations by providing educators with resources such as education software, free curriculum, training, and a forum to share best practices. » MORE