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Wikis and Blogs as Part of Language Education
Padua (Italy), November 2006 - At the University of Padua, Sarah Guth works as an English language teacher in a team that is carrying out action research on the use of freely accessible wikis and blogs that use remote servers to substitute for the more complex proprietary VLEs currently used for online and blended language learning. » MORE
Towards a Middle-East of Knowledge
Beirut (Lebanon), November 2006 - Lebanon's Saint Joseph Université has started a "CoP" with "Master's in Management" graduates. The aim is highly ambitious. Former students from home and abroad are being sought in order to play a key-role in developing the crisis- Dr. Joseph Mezher hit country by being a "proposal force". CHECKoint eLearning spoke with Dr. Joseph Mezher, Head of the University's ICT learning program and eLearning program development, about the challenges, successes, and future perspectives. » MORE
Simulation of Crisis as a Learning Context
Hedmark (Norway), November 2006 - As the student-assessment component of the Hedmark University College's seminar-based course "Crisis Management, Communication and Collaboration", a one-week simulation is conducted at the Norwegian Army Command and Staff Trainer. Students from call-out services such as fire, police, and ambulance departments, as well as army staff and security employees from large private corporations or governmental organizations get prepared for action. » MORE
One Number Tells It All
Poitiers, July 2006 - The Contact centre of the French national centre for distance education (Cned) has developed a single-phone-number service for the benefit of the partners within the EduContact project. It will advise students worldwide by answering their phone calls to +33 5 49 49 98 98 as well as e-mails in French, English, German, and Spanish. » MORE
Online Education in the Arab World
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. » MORE
ICDL Offers Arabic Braille
Dubai, June 2006 - 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. » MORE
Estonian e-University
Tallinn, April 2006 - (by Ene Tammeoru, Head of the Estonian e-University) The scene of Estonian higher education (HE) is changing towards more flexible ways of providing both higher and continuing education. The number of adult students in continuing education and retraining programmes will grow, and the number of high school graduates decrease. This void is being filled by the three-year-old Estonian e-University - a consortium of higher education institutions (HEI) with the goal to instigate and facilitate inter-university cooperation in implementing eLearning based on the principles of lifelong learning. » MORE
Failure of a Prestigious Venture
Oxford, April 2006 - The AllLearn project, a consortium among Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities to research online learning, has come to a close. The eLearning joint venture has folded because it failed to attract enough students. » MORE
A True Center of Learning
Brighton, April 2006 - The newly established OKI Printing Solutions Business School and its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Sales Academy is starting an ambitious eLearning training program. Brighton-based Futuremedia will develop the first in a series of Sales Product Training modules, as an initial component of a wider EMEA Sales Academy program. » MORE
eLearning at Saudi University
Dubai, April 2006 - (by Umme Salma Mujtaba ) The King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) was officially established by Royal Decree in September 1963. With the new emerging information and instructional technologies and their influence on teaching and learning, the campus has sought to equip faculty members with the necessary skills to cope with these developments and utilize their benefits in teaching and learning. » MORE
