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South Africa: Improving Education in the Country

Take your pick in the national education blame game. Your choices would include teachers’ trade unions, an ideological curriculum unsuited to South Africa, the National Treasury because it does not adequately fund schools or even just the principal at your local school. Of course, these stakeholders participate in the blame game too, each pointing the [...]

Webinar Recording Now Available: Producing Quality Open Education Resources

You can now view the recording of the Webinar held on 15th March 2011 and co-organized by the Open CourseWare Consortium (OCWC) www.ocwconsortium.org and the African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org. The Webinar was well attended with participants from four continents. Speaker: Dr Bakary Diallo, Rector of the AVU. Title: Producing quality OERs and building an [...]

How does the University of Phoenix measure up?

We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: University of Phoenix (2010) 2010 Annual Academic Report University of Phoenix AZ: University of Phoenix This is third academic annual report from the University of Phoenix (UofPx). There are at least three different ways to assess the University of Phoenix, besides the obvious [...]

Hope and despair: managing technological change

We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: In a very funny low budget British movie called ‘Clockwise’, John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked to give a keynote at a conference. By mistake, he gets on the wrong train, and the rest of [...]

Arab states to cooperate on upgrading education quality

Seventeen Arab states agreed upon the urgent need to improve the quality of education across the region and implement a system of evaluating the performance of schools, teachers and students. Results are to be made public and shared among participating countries. These steps towards the improvement of education quality are formalized through the Doha Declaration [...]

EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2010: Overview

This year’s EFQUEL Innovation Forum, the fourth in the highly successful series of European gatherings, will take place in Lisbon, Portugal in collaboration with the Catholic University of Portugal and the National Institute for Public Administration of Portugal. From September 8-10, 2010, in the Palace of the former Marquises of Pombal, in Oeiras, Lisbon, and [...]

In search of quality in e-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 [...]