e-Taalim

Mobile learning & iTunes U

Mobile learning is getting more and more interest these days, as mobile devices are becoming more sophisticated and the infrastructure ready to support multimedia content. A lot of educational institutions are expanding their content delivery by using Apple’s iTunes University (iTunes U). With the 3.0 software update for iPhone and iPod touch, iTunes U is [...]

ENS e-Learning

ENS eLearning Solutions, is a Canadian leader in designing and delivering comprehensive, start-to-finish learning solutions. They provide effective, cost-efficient services, custom designed training solutions to increase organizational human resource capabilities and deploy critical learning initiatives throughout the enterprise. Their teams of learning professionals include instructional designers, educational technologists, graphic designers, writers and technical specialists with [...]

The Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 for rendering and displaying e-books and other digital media. Three hardware devices, known as “Kindle”, “Kindle 2,” and “Kindle DX” support this platform, as does an iPhone application called “Kindle for iPhone”. The first device was released in the United States on [...]

European Commission supports e-Taalim

It is our pleasure to announce the choice of the European Commission for « e-Taalim » as one of the leading initiatives about e-learning outside Europe. This choice was done by « elearningeuropa.info »: elearningeuropa.info is a portal established by the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education [...]

The Times Higher Education

The Times Higher Education is the UK’s most authoritative source of information about higher education. Designed specifically for professional people working in higher education and research, The Times Higher was founded in 1971 and has been online since 1995. The Times Higher covers policy issues and intellectual developments world wide through a specialist staff of reporters based [...]

A Leader in Higher Education for Adults

Founded in 1947, University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is one of 11 accredited, degree-granting institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). Offering a broad range of cutting-edge classes, UMUC has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence as a comprehensive virtual university and for focusing on the unique educational and professional development needs of [...]

World Innovation Summit for Education

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser AL-MISSNED, Chair of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, officially opened on November 16th,2009 the premiere edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE, an initiative of Qatar Foundation. Addressing 1,000 of the world’s pre-eminent opinion leaders, Her Highness delivered her vision on education, the [...]

International Seminar on Open Social Learning

To mark the end of the 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning UOC offered an international seminar for presenting Open Social Learning (OSL) related research and practices, with an eye on mapping new trends in the field of open online education at all levels. Invitees discussed the [...]

Free MIT course materials

In this article, we would like to highlight one of the global leading initiatives about open learning. It’s about MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) OpenCourseWare (OCW), OCW is s a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. It is a [...]

Microsoft Learning Solutions

The official Microsoft e-learning website is one of the best online resources to offer flexible, tailored and efficient e-learning experience for individuals and organizations. Courses within this Website include those dedicated to developers, system administrators, database administrators and also office users. IT professionals and developers can choose from more than 1,400 hours of training on [...]