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User-Generated Content in Higher Education
Erlangen (GER), July 2010 - Very much due to its success, user-generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions. Web2.0 and the corresponding tools enable learners to develop and publish learning content independently from experts' knowledge and institutional frameworks. This development has led to questions as to whether the traditional concept of "authority" is still appropriate at universities and to suggestions for the "ivory tower" of higher education to be opened to the wider world. » MORE
The Readiness of Traditional Universities for Quality
Brussels (BE), July 2010 - Traditional universities have been more than slow in integrating ICT in their teaching and learning. The reasons for this are linked to strategic and organizational change issues rather than technological or budgetary ones. Successful eLearning indeed requires new organizational and pedagogical models. This conflicts with the historical model that has shaped the culture of our traditional universities. » MORE
Luminosity eLearning Software Available to Universities
Bristol (UK), July 2010 - CM Group has announced that it is making Luminosity, the distance learning authoring software, available to the university and higher-education sector. Following its success in the private sector, universities and colleges can now benefit from the product to experience significant increases in the scale and scope of their use of eLearning. » MORE
Business College Signs Contract with Fronter
Oslo (NO)/Copenhagen (DK), July 2010 - Fronter has announced that Niels Brock Business College has just signed a three-year contract with the company. Niels Brock had an older solution but realized that their demands and expectations of a modern learning platform were not being met. » MORE
Higher Education: ePortfolios Enter a New Era
Telfod (UK), July 2010 - Catherine Dhanjal interviews two users about their views on the personal learning system PebblePad. In the enquiry, she explores the way that ePortfolios have evolved from being tools exclusively for personal development planning to sophisticated interactive portfolios. Her interview partners are Moira Savage, the University of Worcester's Senior Lecturer in Primary Initial Teacher Training and Primary Information and Communication Technology Coordinator and Julie Hughes, a Principal Lecturer PCE in the School of Education at the University of Wolverhampton. » MORE
Giunti Labs' eLearning Helps Women Survive Eclampsia
Florence (IT), July 2010 - Giunti Labs is combining its expertise with that of specialists at the University of Oxford to help to reduce problems associated with pre-eclampsia in pregnant women in the developing world. » MORE
Quality in eLearning in a Cultural Context
Gothenburg (SE), July 2010 - Since higher education is booming in developing countries, so is eLearning. In a case study on Iran, a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows how culture can shape quality in higher education in general and in eLearning in particular. » MORE
Action Learning Programme for MBA Students
London (UK), July 2010 - Even before receiving their MBA degrees, students at Hult International Business School must showcase their hard-earned strategic mettle. Hult's Action Learning Program (ALP) lets students flex their management muscle by providing blue-chip corporations with practical solutions to existing problems. » MORE
Empower European Universities
Brussels (BE), July 2010 - Twenty eminent thinkers and practitioners of higher education cried out in Brussels for urgent change in higher education. In a manifesto entitled "Empower European Universities", they plead to let the European garden of higher education and research grow in accordance with the basic principles of gardening: variety, empowerment through autonomy, proper nourishment, and internationalization. » MORE
iPads Revolutionize Learning in the IMD Classroom
Lausanne (CH), June 2010 - Following its recent launch, the iPad has proven to be an instant hit for millions of consumers. It has also been a great success in the classrooms of Swiss Business School IMD. "After having piloted the iPad in a partnership programme with Allianz Global Investors at the beginning of May, I am convinced that this device will revolutionize executive education", states IMD Professor Bettina Büchel. "The feedback from IMD Faculty, staff, and the participants was overwhelmingly positive." » MORE
