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Distance Educational Practices
This study will mention the distance education practices in Turkey, and will examine and discuss the role of leadership which should be undertaken by Turkey in the region of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic, Turkic, Caucasian, the Middle East and North Africa regions.
study will mention the distance education practices in Turkey, and will examine and discuss the role of leadership which should be undertaken by Turkey in the region of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic, Turkic, Caucasian, the Middle East and North Africa regions. International distance education organizations in the world are not well organized and functional in this area or for the regional distance education institutions in the name of educational institutionalism. To fill this gap, it will be argued that Turkey might have a leadership role in the distance education field in this region and can be organize the practices of the regional countries in academy and practice. The structure of the potential distance education organization and the regulations of the organizations will be discussed more detailed separate article based on this argument and available at http://www.midasebook.com. The suggested name for this regional group is ICDEEEWANA (International Council for Distance Education for Eastern Europe and West Asia). A draft of the constitution of the recommended association is presented and discussed at http://www.midasebook.com.
2013 International Summit on Teaching Profession
The Netherlands has the honour of hosting the 2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession in its beautiful capital of Amsterdam. As with the previous two editions the organisation of the 3rd summit will involve the joint efforts of OECD, trade unions and the government. A fruitful collaboration that will lead to exceptional results!
LINQ 2013 at the UN FAO Headquarters in Rome
The 2nd European Conference on "Learning Innovations and Quality" (LINQ 2013) will take place at the Global Headquarters of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy, on 16-17 May 2013.
The Global Headquarters of the FAO stands near the impressive Circus Maximus, the first and largest stadium in the Roman Empire, and its expansive facilities will provide ample space to the participants of LINQ 2013. Furthermore, the FAO’s development of global standards in food and agriculture-related policies (including training and education) makes it an ideal venue for LINQ 2013.
This year's LINQ 2013 has "Innovations and Quality: The Future of Digital Resources" as its motto, and addresses and invites experts who are active in the field of Innovations and Quality in Lifelong Learning (LLL).
The LINQ 2013 conference fee will remain reduced at the early-bird rate of 90€ until the 31st of March 2013, after which it will rise to 150€. For further information about conference fees, requirements, and other details about LINQ 2013, please visit the conference website.
Hackers Teach Programming
Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in programming languages like Python, JavaScript, and Ruby, as well as markup languages including HTML and CSS. To motivate users to participate, the site offers feedback, badges for completing exercises, as well as a function that keeps track of a user's total score and displays it to others. The site also allows anyone to create and publish a new course using a Course Creator tool.
Tablets in education: changing the game
One of the 2012 Leading in Learning projects, focused on the idea whether the iPad (i.e. tablets in general) could serve as an infrastructural device for the entire learning process in the tutor group.
After a three month trial with one tutor group during the course EU Politics: theories, institutions and challenges (Bachelor European Studies), the project results were very promising. The course book aimed at combining and integrating all relevant documents and materials into one file for one single device. Generally, we can conclude that the tablet-way of studying is very much appreciated and welcomed.
CodeHS
CodeHS is designed for use in high school Computer Science classes.
Students learn introductory programming and computer science principles, and teachers receive valuable support to adequately teach this subject. Beginners learn by watching videos, working in the browser, and receiving help and feedback from real tutors. Basic members can access the first module for free, while premium members get unlimited help on all modules without additional purchase.
END 2013 Conference - Last Call For Abstracts
The International Conference on Education and New Developments—END 2013 has issued a 2nd Call for Abstracts. This will be the last call: participants will have until 29 March 2013 to turn in new submissions.
END 2013 - International Conference on Education and New Developments will be accepting abstract submissions until 29 March 2013, and authors will be notified starting on 26 April 2013. The conference will be held 1-3 June 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, and registration is open until 17 May.
A European Commission call for Visionary Papers on the future of “Open Education” and the use of OER
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) --part of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission- in a study for Directorate General Education and Culture -- is now calling upon experts and practitioners to come up with visionary papers and imaginative scenarios on how Open Education in 2030 in Europe might look with a major focus on Open Educational Resources and Practices.
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Practices (OEP) have recently become hot topics, not only for educational researchers, but also for policy makers in Europe and abroad. There is a general agreement that openness has the potential to widen access to education and to improve, amongst others, cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning. In its recent Communication on Rethinking Education, the European Commission announced a new initiative on "Opening-up Education" to be launched mid-2013.
To this end, the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)--part of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission- in a study for Directorate General Education and Culture--is now calling upon experts and practitioners to come up with visionary papers and imaginative scenarios on how Open Education in 2030 in Europe might look with a major focus on Open Educational Resources and Practices, in each of the following education sectors:
Webinar "Online-Training für Projektmanagement-Zertifizierung" (kostenlos)
Die weltweit führenden Zertifizierungsprogramme sind PMI und PRINCE2. Hierfür bietet Skillsoft ein Online-Trainingsportal, mit dem die Projektmanagement-Zertifizierung erfolgreich umgesetzt werden kann. Versch. Online-Lernressourcen (z. B. eLearning Kurse, Online-Bücher, etc.) stehen jederzeit zur Verfügung u. können über zielgerichtete Lernpläne (Anfänger/Fortgeschrittene, Projektleiter/Zertifizierungspfade PMI/Prince2) schnell gefunden werden.
Die Webinar-Inhalte:
- Projektmanagement-Training: Die Anforderungen
- Das KnowledgeCenter zu Projektmanagement
- Termin: Freitag, den 22.03.13 um 9.30 h
- Dauer: 30 min - plus Diskussion - Bruttolänge max. 45 min
- Ort: An Ihrem Computer mit Web-Anschluss!
Hier geht's zur Anmeldung zum Webinar "Online-Training für Projektmanagement-Zertifizierung"
Viele Grüße,
Kerstin Stengel
Skillsoft NETg GmbH
EDEN 2013 Keynote Sugata Mitra Wins TED Prize 2013
Prof Sugata Mitra, Education scientist and keynote speaker of the EDEN's 2013 Annual Conference, wins TED Prize for his answer on the future of learning. Mitra’s $1 million seed money helps to fund the School in the Cloud in India this very year. This school will serve as both an education and research center to further explore approaches to self-directed learning. It will be managed by cloud technology, but with an adult supervisor always on hand. The plans for the school will be open-sourced.
Learning is becoming more and more individualized and self-managed. Personalization helps foster engagement and supports awareness and motivation. The 2013 EDEN Annual Conference thus explores themes such as “Engaging and challenging learners” „Enhanced learning experience by participation and collaboration” or „Joy, Fun and ICTs”. Prof Mitra’s talk on self-directed learning was posted on TEDTalks last year, with high edutainment potential. In this talk, he tackles one of the greatest problems of education -the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching:
http://www.eden-online.org/nap_elgg/pg/blog/read/3435/sugata-mitra-the-childdriven-education-video
Academics, researchers, practitioners gather every year at the EDEN Annual conferences to discuss the latest developments of e-learning, open and distance education. In Europe, despite economic and social pressures, there is a collective drive towards realising the creative potential.
Registration to the Conference is now open: http://www.eden-online.org/2013_oslo/registration.html