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ICERI2013 - Call for papers

Editorial Staff — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:40:57 +0000

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ICERI2013, the 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, will be held in Seville (Spain) from 18 to 20 November 2013.

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Higher Education

Training & Work

Learning & Society

eLearning Africa 2013 programme revealed

Grégory Vespasien — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:58:09 +0000

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Sharing the best practices of sustainable classroom computing: join experts from Zambia, Lesotho and the UK in the eLearning Africa interactive session chaired by Dell's David Angwin http://bit.ly/10kBPJj.

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Higher Education

eLearning Africa 2013 - Innovation or Sustainability: the Choice for African Education

Grégory Vespasien — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:57:05 +0000

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Four controversial experts will take part in "a bare-knuckle fight" about priorities for African education at this year's eLearning Africa Debate. Outspoken Scottish entrepreneur and blogger Donald Clark and Namibian teacher and eLearning expert Maggy Beukes-Amiss will square up to "mobile technology crusader" Adele Botha and Angelo Gitonga of the ICT for Education Unit of Kenya's Ministry for Education at the annual war of words. They'll be arguing about whether too much attention has been paid to innovation in education and not enough to sustainability.

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Higher Education

8 out of 10 underline benefits of European projects for innovation in the classroom

Editorial Staff — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:37:59 +0000

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More than 8 in 10 people involved in an EU-funded initiative aimed at encouraging innovative teaching methods and improved learning materials for children say the scheme had a positive and lasting impact on them. The same proportion also states that it would have been impossible to achieve the same results without European support, according to a new study released by the European Commission.

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Higher Education

Training & Work

Learning & Society

Open call for papers for GUIDE - Can online education contribute to overcome the crisis?

GUIDE Association — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:18:20 +0000

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This is one of the main questions that the VI International GUIDE Conference 2013, to be held in Athens (Greece) on October 3-4, 2013, will tackle, while providing a comparative analysis of the effects of governmental policies on new training and research strategies.

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Higher Education

ARTinED - A new approach to education using the arts resources ready

Joel Josephson — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:26:25 +0000

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ARTinED project resources are now ready on the website for all European primary schools. This European Union funded project is designing innovative methodologies to both improve the teaching of any primary school subject by using the arts and using the arts to improve creativity, engage and inspire children to learn.

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Schools

Learning & Society

Patrick McAndrew: MOOCs "are only a part of what's happening” in Open Education

elearning Webmaster — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:28:51 +0000

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Patrick McAndrew, professor at the UK’s Open University and author of the article “Learning from Open Design: Running a Learning Design MOOC”, published in the latest issue of eLearning Papers, talks to us about his experience with Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

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Higher Education

Training & Work

Learning & Society

À propos MOOC: EU2C - the European Union explained

Aline Palige — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:54:47 +0000

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À propos MOOC: CIFE in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science of the University of Cologne would like to develop web-based online courses on the EU. Have a close look here.

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Higher Education

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Yishay Mor “Are MOOCs really as adequate to open up the educational scene as they seem to promise?”

Editorial Staff — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:07:22 +0000

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“MOOCs and Beyond” is the title of issue number 33 of eLearning Papers, a quarterly online magazine published by the European Commission. Guest edited by Dr Yishay Mor, Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at the UK’s Open University, he believes the publication is coming out in an “incredibly timely” moment, at a point when “we are getting over the initial excitement about MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] and people are trying to get a more critical view” about them.

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Higher Education

Training & Work

Learning & Society

ITU Young Innovators’ competition calls for innovative ICT solutions to global challenges

Editorial Staff — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:57:53 +0000

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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched the third edition of its annual Young Innovators’ Competition, offering talented social technopreneurs the opportunity to present their ideas to industry leaders at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok this November – as well as winning funding, mentorship and ongoing support.

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Higher Education

Training & Work