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The World's Top 50 LMS Systems
Los Angeles, CA (US)/ London (UK), February 2014 - A thorough analysis of 582 of the world's leading learning-management systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing 50. » MORE
What CIOs in Education Should Have on Their Checklist
New York, NY (USA), January 2014 - (by Dr. Shay David, Co-Founder at Online Video Platform Kaltura) As they prioritise their to-dos for 2014, CIOs are putting the planning and deployment of a central media strategy and rich media repository at the top of the list. While video is permeating almost every aspect of campus life – from teaching and learning to marketing, development, communications, and admissions - the approach has generally been haphazard, resulting in silos of content that lack a coherent framework. » MORE
Pebble Learning Announces New Features
Telford (UK), January 2014 - Pebble Learning has added a number of new features and enhancements to its popular PebblePad system and Personal Learning Space, Pebble+ in its January 2014 update. Two new features particularly catch the eye. » MORE
"Social Interaction Is Irreplaceable in the Learning Process"
Braunschweig (GER), January 2014 - Contemporary research on the brain is constantly providing new insights and details regarding the neurobiology of learning. One factor that accentuates the advantages of eLearning is the opportunity it affords for the individualized acquisition of knowledge. Responding as well as possible to the development of the individual learner promotes the learning process. Prof. Martin Korte, brain researcher and learning expert at the University of Braunschweig, elucidates the details. » MORE
Virtual College Partners with the CLC
Ilkley (UK), November 2013 - Virtual College is home to several e-Academies, such as the Housing, Safeguarding, and Healthcare e-Academies, which offer sector-specific courses. These courses have been chosen by the CLC because of their relevance to the growing number of Housing Associations, charities, and not-for-profits. » MORE
OpenEd Launches Public API
Los Gatos, CA (USA), November 2013 - OpenEd® has announced that its catalog of over 250,000 standard-aligned videos and games can now easily be used by other websites or apps using a new publicly available API. This allows any EdTech offering to easily tap into OpenEd's searchable, teacher-curated catalog or contribute its own educational content to OpenEd using a simple API call. » MORE
The Learning Analytics and Knowledge Dataset
Rome (I), November 2013 -"Learning analytics will play an ever greater key role in providing tools and methodologies capable of managing the processes related to eLearning," says Davide Taibi. He is a researcher at Italy's Institute for Educational Technologies at the National Research Council. His research activities mainly focus on the application of innovative technologies in the eLearning field, with particular emphasis on mobile learning, the semantic web, and linked data for eLearning. » MORE
The Mesi MOOC Initiative
Moscow (RU), November 2013 - Dr Maria A. Pannatier is Head of the Chair of ICTs in Education at the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. Under her leadership the professional education programme on Instructional Design and Distance Education was introduced in Russia. At ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, she will present the Mesi MOOC Initiative. » MORE
"Learning Means Committing Information to Memory"
Frankfurt am Main (GER), November 2013 - Jeannette Schmid is a psychologist and the Senior eLearning Administrator at the Computing Center of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the German State of Hessen. She is also a lecturer of blended-learning courses on soft skills for law students. Furthermore, she works as a coach for didactic methods for lawyers and judges at the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers and for the Hessen State Ministries of the Interior and of Law. Her contribution on ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is entitled -œIt's All about Connections". » MORE
Expressing an Identity through Avatars in Virtual Worlds
Coventry (UK), November 2013 - Creating effective serious games requires effective engagement and involvement from a wide range of stakeholders, including educational designers, developers, artists, researchers, subject-matter experts, teachers, and learners. Nicole Steils is an educational researcher at Coventry University, and she has developed a typology of avatars for use in a virtual learning environment that she will present at the OEB pre-conference about serious games. » MORE
