Re-Qualifying Education and Training Helps Health Workers
Birmingham (UK), June 2019 - Gender-based violence (GBV) could be tackled more effectively by giving healthcare students wider and more practical education and training in identifying and responding to the warning signs presented among patients they will encounter in professional life, according to a new study.
» MOREGamifying Online Tests to Promote Retrieval Based Learning
St. Louis, MO (USA), May 2019 - Recent findings have provided strong evidence that retrieval based learning is an effective strategy for enhancing knowledge retention and long-term meaningful learning, but it is not a preferred learning strategy for the majority of students. The present research analyzes the application of learning gamification principles in online, open book, multiple choice tests in order to motivate students to engage in repeated retrieval based learning activities.
» MORECoursera Secures $103M in Series E from New Investors
Mountain View, CA (USA), May 2019 - Coursera, an online learning platform, has announced closing a $103 million investment in a Series E equity round. SEEK Group, a global leader in investing, scaling, and operating online employment and education businesses, led the round, while existing investors Future Fund and NEA also participated in the funding.
» MOREHow Education Can Support the Paris Climate Goals
Frankfurt (GER), April 2019 - "New rules and procedures inspired by the recommendations of the EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth will affect businesses. They want to understand the upcoming rules on transparency, not only to comply with them, but more importantly to be more informed and perhaps adjust their business models," said Professor Dr Ulf Moslener, Professor for Sustainable Energy Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
» MOREStudent Bystander Training for UK Higher Education
Coventry (UK), April 2019 - Coventry University has partnered with Marshall E-Learning, a specialist consultancy for diversity and equality learning, to provide a new online module on Student Bystander Training for higher education institutions across the UK.
» MOREHelping to Memorize Information More Efficiently
Tübingen (GER), April 2019 - Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems develop algorithms that optimize the well- known spaced repetition method used for memorizing educational material. By using optimal spacing time, the learning process becomes as efficient as possible. Their findings were published in the prestigious journal PNAS.
» MOREDeath-Notification Delivery Training for Police Cadets
Konstanz (GER), March 2019 - The blended learning course "Death Notification with Responsibility" supports police officers with one of their most challenging tasks. The course is the result of a scientific transfer project conducted by a research team led by Kirsten Mahlke, professor of cultural theory and cultural studies methods in the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" at the University of Konstanz.
» MOREVocational Education and Training Cooperation with Iran
Bonn (GER), March 2019 - BIBB will advise Iran on planned VET reforms. The relevant ministries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on future German-Iranian vocational education and training cooperation at a workshop in Teheran, which BIBB helped to organise.
getAbstract Offers Free Student Access
Aventura, FL (USA), February 2019 - getAbstract, one of the world's largest libraries of compressed knowledge, is now offering free access to its online collection to students over the age of sixteen. Students will have access to a growing database of 18,000 abstracts covering topics such as career planning, economics, business, management, science, technology, and politics.
» MORECollaborative Agreement with EUNIS
Lake Mary, FL (USA), December 2018 - IMS Global Learning Consortium, a leading non-profit collaborative advancing edtech interoperability, innovation, and learning impact, has announced a mutual agreement with the EUNIS (European University Information Systems), the association of information technology services in European higher education and research.
» MOREOU of the Netherlands Goes to the European Parliament
Heerlen (NL), November 2018 - The Open University of the Netherlands has been asked to present the RAGE project on 20 and 21 November at a meeting of the European Parliament in Brussels. Together with nine other projects, the RAGE project has been selected from hundreds of current research and innovation projects in the European Commission’s Horizon2020 Program.
» MOREProblem-Based Learning and Learning Analytics
Herleen (NL), October 2018 - The online course and online community PBLLA18 is now open! "We are eager to discuss how problem-based learning and learning analytics can improve our future lifelong learning", says Dr. Christian M. Stracke from the Open University of the Netherlands. Together with his colleague Dr. Olga Firssova, he designed this new learning experience - PBLLA18 - for the European PBL 3.0 consortium.
Learning Pool Teams Up with The Football Association
Derry / Nottingham (UK), October 2018 - Learning Pool, one of the largest providers of online learning solutions in the United Kingdom, has announced a new partnership with The Football Association (The FA) to support the delivery of a world-leading football education programme by 2020.
» MOREMental Health Collaboration between Universities and Schools
To Revolutionise Education and Talent Sourcing
Barcelona (E), August 2018 - TELANTO is a technology startup based out of Barcelona, Spain, that operates a global network of university and industry partners. Led by its founders, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Timo Kerzel, TELANTO is on a mission to disrupt the traditional forms of university-industry collaboration and change the face of recruiting.
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