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Videos on Learning 2.0

We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: The European Links-up Project interviewed five experts on Learning 2.0 at the recent EDEN Annual Conference in Dublin. The experts were asked three questions: 1. Is learning 2.0 really supporting inclusive life-long learning? 2. Can isolated experiments be mainstreamed? 3. Is learning 2.0 [...]

India : Intel launches e-learning

As part of making education more engaging and inclusive, Intel India and Karnataka Government’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan today launched the Computers On Wheels, an e-learning pilot programme, in five districts of the state. The pilot programme include digital instruction materials from ‘Educomp’. A total of five Government Higher Primary Schools in Karwar, Mysore, Davanagere, Yadgir [...]

Google lends hand to new MIT Center for Mobile Learning

Needless to say, it’s been a big week for Google’s mobile interests. However, this time the news doesn’t include Motorola Mobility — at least not directly. The Goog is reaffirming its “long-standing relationship” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by collaborating on the new MIT Center for Mobile Learning. Hal Abelson, a professor of computer [...]

Element K Recognised as Official Provider of Microsoft Official e-Learning

Global learning solutions provider Element K has expanded its long-standing relationship with Microsoft and is now recognised as its Official Provider of Microsoft Official E-Learning. This designation enables Element K to provide worldwide sales and distribution of the Microsoft Official E-Learning courses and virtual labs, supporting both direct and reseller channels. Paul Krause, President and [...]

Makers: Free your hardware with OHANDA

The Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance (OHANDA) aims to do for hardware what the Creative Commons does for intellectual property and the GPL does for software: open it up. By applying open source principles to trademarks, OHANDA hopes to free devices from some restrictions imposed by patent law and foster “sustainable sharing of open [...]

Mobile learning technology gets a boost from eXact learning solutions

eXact learning solutions – one of the world’s leading providers of learning content management systems (LCMS) and digital repository (DR) solutions – also discussed the latest trends in mobile learning at its booth at the mlearn exhibition as well as running a master class on 21st June (from 10.45 to 11.30am), entitled ‘eXact Mobile 2.0: [...]

Google Places Two Bets on a Post-PC World

The latest Android tablets and Chromebooks suggest different “post-PC” worlds, both more complicated than the one Apple is going for. Two gadgets that began shipping last week represent assaults from Google on the dominant model of computing, in which we use a cursor and a keyboard to manipulate boxes and windows on a virtual desktop. [...]

More Africans learn by mobile phone

The eLearning Africa 2011 conference highlighted the worldwide phenomenon of distance learning by mobile phone. There are more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa now, up from 246 million in 2008, according to industry estimates. Presenting his paper on “New Technologies in Restricted Environment”, Gerald Henzinger, a lecturer at the Catholic University of [...]

iEducate promotes and enables elearning to vocational teachers across Europe

The purpose of this project – funded by the EU programme Leonardo da Vinci – is to educate vocational teachers in a range of e-learning methods, innovations and technologies to better prepare them for a rapidly changing workplace and, hence, to connect them with a new generation of learners. The iEducate project transfers learning technology [...]

elearningeuropa.info launches new user-centered portal

elearningeuropa.info, the European reference portal on education and technology, launched on Thursday May 12, 2011 its new platform. It is designed and built user-centered and it contains participatory tools to communicate, share and discuss. The new platform is the result of a year’s work of careful planning and design, from the elearningeuropa.info team, with a [...]