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EDEN Website with New Design and User-friendly Features
Budapest (HU), June 2011 - The website of EDEN - the European Distance and ELearning Network - has undergone a facelift. The portal reflects the Association's commitment to openness and user friendliness for enhanced networking. » MORE
Free Online Screenwriting Course Goes Viral
Falmouth (UK), June 2011 - A free online ten-unit screenwriting course from University College Falmouth's MA Professional Writing is now viral on the internet. The video and audio lectures, along with accompanying course materials, are being featured, shared, re-published, and discussed by screenwriters and filmmakers around the globe. » MORE
Regional Development of Higher Education
Bogota (CO), May 2011 - A consortium of 23 national and international university associations from across Latin America and Europe have joined forces to launch a major three-year project designed to improve mechanisms for modernisation, reform, and harmonisation of education systems in Latin America and to enhance Europe-Latin America university partnership. » MORE
Action Plan for Universities Developing Talent in Europe
Aarhus (DK), May 2011 - The European University Association (EUA) has announced the publication of a political declaration underlining the outcomes of its recent annual conference held at Aarhus University (Denmark), which focused on the role of universities in developing talent in Europe. » MORE
E-Portfolio 2011 Trials Underway
Brisbane (AU), May 2011 - Two trials investigating how e-portfolios support workforce development and lifelong learning are currently underway. A grant of AU$ 18,000 seed funding from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) supports the research. » MORE
PebblePad Keeps Invaluable Portfolios Secure
Telford (UK), May 2011 - The focus in public and private-sector organizations today is on increasing efficiency whilst reducing costs. Customer research shows that universities using award-winning online learning space PebblePad are saving staff and student time and money in areas such as travel, photocopying, and postage. PebblePad allows higher education students and those pursuing continuing professional development to collect, provide evidence, and reflect on their studies in a secure online space and to receive online feedback and marks from tutors and peers in the same space. » MORE
Unique Online Degree Course for Accountants
London/Manchester (UK), May 2011 - Core Learning Services (CLS), a consultancy providing eLearning-related products and services, is helping Manchester Metropolitan University Business School provide a unique degree course for students with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). » MORE
Investment and Autonomy Needed to Develop Talent
Aarhus (DK), May 2011 - Around 450 university leaders and other higher-education stakeholders gathered in April at Aarhus University, Denmark for the European University Association (EUA) Annual Conference on the theme "Investing Today in Talent for Tomorrow". This is a short report from the meeting, provided by the EUA. » MORE
The 2011 International eLearning Awards
New York, NY (USA), May 2011 - The International ELearning Association (IELA) is pleased to remind everyone that submissions are open for the Academic Division of the 2011 International ELearning Awards. The entry-submission page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 01 June 2011. Only entries in the academic division are still being accepted; the 2011 deadline for business entries has passed. » MORE
UNESCO Chair in OER: Building Higher-ed Networks
Athabasca (CA)/Heerlen (NL), May 2011 - ICDE member institutions Athabasca University, Canada, and Open Universiteit, the Netherlands, were recently awarded the UNESCO Chair in open educational resources (OER). The UNESCO Chair in OER is a network that focuses on capacity building on an institutional, national, and international level and undertakes research that will contribute to the growing investigation of the OER phenomenon. » MORE
