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| CHECKPOINT-elearning.com - European eLearning Newsletter An interview with Dr. Nidhal Guessoum, UAE
The public sector gets top marks in technology adoption Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) Saudi Arabia's public sector is making world-leading use of IT and network technologies to improve services to citizens, a survey has found. The study was sponsored by Cisco Systems® and was done under the patronage of the Saudi Ministry for Communications and Information Technology. [more...] An insight into ITEP - for a new knowledge-based economy
IT education project by HH Sheikh Mohammed strikes again
Collaboration has engendered outstanding results
eLearning research in Europe Middle East and Africa Dubai June 2006, (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) Over the past five years, various companies have conducted several major research studies into eLearning. Findings from the latest piece of research by SkillSoft identify the perceptions of eLearning amongst over 200 employees within organisations across EMEA who are actually using eLearning as an integral part of their development. Sixteen organisations participated in this study and made their employees available during the research phase. [more...] Digital Transformation Initiative reaches milestone Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba ) Intel Corporation’s vaunted Digital Transformation Initiative for the Middle East has reached an important milestone in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the announcement of an internship programme aimed at some of the Kingdom’s brightest science brains. [more...] Imprint This newsletter has been forwarded to you. Would you like to receive it periodically? Then please register here for the regular editions. You are interested in placing an advertisement? Please ask for our media data here. Even though we did an intensive research for all our information, we do not guarantee the correctness of the information provided. | ||||||||||||
Dubai, June 2006 (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) Dr. Nidhal Guessoum is an astrophysicist; he graduated with a Ph.D. from UCSD in 1988, spent a total of 8 years in the US, then went back to his home country Algeria, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses and finally left for Kuwait where he has been teaching Physics and Astronomy at the College of Technological Studies. Nidhal has gotten involved in projects that deal with multimedia and online approaches to teaching. Today he teaches as Associate Professor of Physics at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. 
Dubai, June 2006 – (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) ITEP was created six years ago as part of the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to promote IT literacy in the UAE. Its goal is to help Emirati industry and society face the challenges of the new knowledge-based economy. 
Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) ITEP, HH Sheikh Mohammed IT Education Project, has joined forces with Tamkeen, the UAE training centre for the visually impaired, to announce the availability of the world’s first Arabic International Computer Driving License (ICDL) courseware. This is part of ITEP’s efforts as an organisation devoted to enhancing IT literacy in the UAE. 
Dubai, June 2006 - (by UmmeSalma Mujtaba) The ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority of the International Computer Driving License (ICDL) programme in the Gulf region, has announced that its partnership with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum IT Education Project (ITEP) has generated outstanding results in advancing the United Arab Emirates towards becoming a digital society.