The Centre for International Mobility, in Finland, awards grants known as CIMO Scholarships to foreign post-graduate students and young researchers to carry out their studies and examinations and to teach in Finnish universities. Every year, about 700 persons come to the welfare state Finland under the various scholarship programmes. The objective of this policy consists [...]
Academic Earth is an American organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. For this reason, it affords online video educational content from leading universities. Navigating through the Net to get educational information is becoming more and more popular, especially that the amount of high quality instructional content is [...]
We are pleased to announce that the European ROLE project will be holding a pre-conference workshop at PLE2010. ROLE – Responsive Open Learning Environments – addresses theoretical models and associated technologies that allow learners to tailor learning environments according to their needs. The results of this research will contribute to improving adaptive and responsive learning [...]
The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) is seeking for contributions to its forthcoming special issue to one of the guest editors. The Journal is listed with ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 29/112 Education & Educational Research Impact Factor: 1.065 Each volume includes one, sometimes two, Special Issues and these provide readers with an in-depth [...]
Knol is a web site, hosting full of knols defined as “units of knowledge”, which allows people to share information on line. In fact, every one can write any article, suggest improvements to an existing one or simply discover what other people have written. No doubt, a huge amount of people know so many things [...]
The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. The OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including the ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is [...]
ERASMUS Student mobility for studies is a program which enables students at higher education institutions to spend an integrated period of study of between 3 months and 12 months in another participating country. For instance; having fixed the goal of promoting cooperation between institutions and enriching their educational environment, the project allows participants to benefit [...]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, and TWAS offer up to twenty fellowships per year to young scientists from developing countries (other than China) who wish to undertake the last year of their PhD research in China. The following is additional information concerning the TWAS-CAS Postgraduate Fellowship Programme tenable in China. It is [...]
With enrollments in online coursework nearly doubling over a three-year period – from 1.6 million to almost 3.2 million – it’s clear that a growing number of adult learners are finding online programs to be a viable alternative to campus-based studies. Today’s students expect more than the convenience of high technology – they also want [...]
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