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 [...]
Friday, June 17, 2011
Experts on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Africa have challenged African universities and other learning institutions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies and use social media for teaching. At eLearning Africa 2011, they agreed that institutions can reduce running costs, mobilise learning resources and expand research capacity with social media. The experts presented papers in a [...]
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Hydro Aluminium Høyanger Verk has won HR Norway’s Competence Development Award 2011 (Kompetanseprisen) for its competence development programmes which were supported with a range of e-learning solutions from Edvantage group. Faced with tight economic pressure Høyanger Verk looked to improve the execution of business processes that could impact bottom-line results. It established and carried out [...]
Thursday, May 26, 2011
We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: Lokken, F. (2011) Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges: 2010 Distance Education Survey Results Washington DC: Instructional Technology Council. This carefully conducted survey by the Instructional Technology Council of community colleges in the USA is the latest in [...]
Monday, May 23, 2011
One of the hot topics at eLearning Africa this year is certain to be the educational implications of the rise of social media. There will undoubtedly be a great deal of ideas, innovation and speculation regarding the future of the sector. If you want to combine this energy with some substantive analysis regarding the social [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
AEL Data partners with e-Taalim, an electronic Magazine specialized in the fields of e-Learning and Blended Learning to bring its global expertise and experience in the Middle East and Africa. e-Taalim has been involved in providing expertise information, latest news, trends and initiatives in the field of eLearning to bridge the digital divide and close [...]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
A great way to find out what does and does not work in eLearning is to listen to those that have been conducting longitudinal research and developing empirical evidence over many years. Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz, director of the Centre for Educational Technology and Cheryl Brown, an award-winning [...]
Friday, March 18, 2011
The second International Conference on e-Learning was held in Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, last week, with the hope of boosting the concept of e-learning in the region, writes zawya.com. According to one of the international keynote speakers, Professor Curtis Bonk of Indiana University, Saudi Arabia is taking a lead in the field [...]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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 [...]
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Ministry of Education is studying a proposal to donate Sh60,000 to needy schools for e-learning. If approved, the proposal will benefit 20 schools in each constituency and will be the first step in rolling out e-learning in the newly created counties. “The amount of money might not be adequate but it would make a [...]
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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