How will we transfer knowledge digitally in the future? Which business models will play a role? What will the library of the future look like? And what is the “Weltmaschine” doing at the Book Fair? You’ll find answers to these questions in Hall 4.2 – the marketplace for science, specialist publishers, librarians and information professionals. [...]
Current issues including the celebration of diversity, interfaith dialogue, gender-sensitive education, prevention of racism, discrimination and violence as well as civic engagement of youth are discussed in a new UNESCO publication entitles “Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Education”. This collection of papers addresses contemporary issues in human rights education which has shifted over time, as [...]
We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: The University of New South Wales, Australia, hosts a site with short five minute videos of interviews with experienced online instructors, giving advice on topics such as planning your online class, considerations for choosing technology for teaching, should you use an an LMS [...]
The International Online Journal of Educational Sciences (IOJES) is an international, peer-reviewed, non-profit, professional scientific journal. IOJES is a journal that accepts manuscripts related to educational sciences. The journal is published online three times in a year. The article being submitted should be either in Turkish or English. IOJES publishes research employing a variety of [...]
We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: The journal “Distance Education” is calling for proposals for the development of a guest-edited themed issue that will need to go to press in early May 2012. Guest editors should send a short proposal using the following guidelines to the Executive Editor, Som [...]
Education has been experiencing new trends in the recent years. Learners known before as students are embracing the knowledge through a new de-centred pedagogy based mainly on self-learning, open learning and peer to peer interaction. They are shifting away from being passive receivers of knowledge to being more accountable and more independent in actively searching [...]
If Google Trends are anything to go by, a fair number of you were fortunate enough to unwrap a Kindle 3 this period(currently, “free kindle books” is trending at number 9). As such, we thought we’d alert you to some of the following resources for getting free Kindle books on your new device (as well [...]
Google Editions, the Internet giant’s book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such as Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBookStore. Instead of purchasing books through a single online store, [...]
Areeb School is a new non-profit educational project for the Arab world, which aims to provide good education for all Arabic speakers, at different stages of their lives and covering various topics and natural sciences. The site aims to explain the various scientific subjects of mathematics, physics, chemistry and others in a simplified and easy [...]
In the framework of the recent reorganization of Special Needs Education in Portugal, aiming at the inclusion of children and youth, with permanent special needs, in mainstream schools, several measures were undertaken to support this ongoing process. Human and material resources were assigned to schools, setting up special units for multiple disabilities, for autism spectrum [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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