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Establishment of IT Colleges in Kurdistan
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Graz (A), July 2008 - The Ministry of Education of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq has commissioned bit media eLearning solution GmbH with the establishment of IT colleges in three cities in Kurdistan. The project comprises general consulting, development of curricula, development and delivery of learning material, and teacher education. It was started in March 2006 and is ongoing. This article summarizes impressions of bit media's experts. » MORE
Norway Sets Examples in eLearning Activities
Stavanger (NO), July 2008 - The University of Finance and Management in Bialystok, Poland, is currently in discussions with the Norwegian RKK concerning possible collaboration on the transfer of Norwegian eLearning models to Poland. A system for covering management training programs for the Republic of Kazakhstan is also in planning. » MORE
Presentation of the DAD project on 5th June in Vienna
Vienna (A), May 2008 - Webducation has extended an open invitation to the international conference on "How fathers-to-be discover parenting" and the presentation of the DAD project to be made there. Speakers from Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Sweden will give an international perspective on topics such as motivating fathers to engage in baby care and the influence and acceptance of paternity leave. » MORE
Online Survey Seeks Participants
Athens (GR), April 2008 - Organic.Edunet is a European initiative that aims to raise awareness about organic agriculture and agroecology in agricultural universities and schools around Europe. Organic.Edunet wants to facilitate access, usage, and exploitation of digital educational content for teaching relevant topics. In this context, an online survey has been launched. » MORE
Giunti Labs Hosts an International Training Event
Sestri Levante (I), April 2008 - More than one hundred teachers and trainers involved in 'eLearning for teachers and trainers in the MEDA region', an important European initiative in eLearning for North African and Middle East countries, have taken part in an international training event hosted by Giunti Labs. » MORE
The European Programm ALFA III
Brussels (BE), April 2008 - Networks of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other relevant cooperation institutions are invited to prepare applications for grant funding under the new programme on higher education cooperation for Latin America. Projects will include "Joint Partnerships" of European and Latin American institutions and "Structural Measures" that aim to reform education systems in Latin America. » MORE
The Best Way to Interface with Standards
Brussels (BE), April 2008 - All research projects and research centres wishing to liaise with the CEN system now have an easy route: research@cen.eu. An email sent to this address will put them into direct contact with the Research Helpdesk of the European Committee for Standardization. » MORE
Submit a Learning 2.0 Project to the Database!
Brussels (BE), April 2008 - The Seville, Spain-based Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) is conducting a research project on the impact of web 2.0 innovations on education and training, in collaboration with the EU's Directorate-General foe Education and Culture (DG EAC). » MORE
WoLLNET Project to Use BTL eAssessment Tools
Shipley (UK), March 2008 - BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK supplier of technology solutions for learning and assessment has announced that has been selected as the 'technology partner' in the Workplace Literacy, Language and Numeracy Evaluation Toolkit Project (WoLLNET). » MORE
Training Farmers in Organic Agriculture
Brussels (BE), March 2008 - Organic Agriculture (OA) has come to the fore as an agricultural approach that cannot only produce safer products but is environmentally sound, too. The Working Group on Global Learning of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning EFQUEL recently launched an initiative called "Certify-Organic". Headed by Ulf Ehlers, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany, this project aims to establish a quality-certified training process on the dispersed training efforts that exist regarding Organic Agriculture. » MORE
