January 22, 2013
The third edition of the Handbook of Distance Education has recently been published. It provides a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance education, arguably the most significant development in education over the past three decades. While the book deals with education that uses technology, the focus is on teaching and learning and… » read more
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December 5, 2012
Due to begin on the 26th November, the The University of Miami Global Academy (UMGA) has launched a massive open online course (MOOC) for high school students. There is clearly growing international traction for the MOOC model and these are exciting times for the eLearning sector. “Students who sign up for the courses will be… » read more
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Trunity Holdings, a global leader in the provision of eLearning solutions has announced the launch of its South Asian arm as it looks to tap into the burgeoning $60bn market that exists in this region. There is scope for huge new markets to be tapped in the likes of Burma, Bangladesh and most obviously, India.… » read more
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Mylearningworx, a joint venture between Ascot Communications and Bizmedia Ltd, publishers of e.learning age and organisers of the E-Learning Awards, came up with a beta version of the UK’s first crowd sourced learning hub. The aim is to make learning ‘created by the crowd, for the crowd’ available to the entire internet users community. The… » read more
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On the 8th of November the Superior College of Engineering in Cadiz, Spain will organize an Open Discovery Space visionary workshop along in conjunction with the EvalFor team, authors of EvalComix. This exciting event will take place in Campus de la Asunción, Jerez de la Frontera, and will feature an exclusive presentation on Open Disovery… » read more
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The Spanish National Distance University (UNED) will be a pioneer in Spain as it will allow free and open access to all its teaching and research material. Online courses, audio and video material, e-books, radio programmes, PhD theses, scientific journals, etc. The UNED will offer open access to its resources, having the possibility to reach… » read more
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Open Discovery Space is proud to introduce the Odysseus competition, firing the imagination of European children through the challenge of space exploration. The project targets 14-18 year olds, challenging them to design a space exploration project. Winners can expect an all expenses paid trip to the Space Expo and international exposure for their project. To… » read more
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e-learning entrepreneur Steve Dineen fused business and education with eLearning. His aim was to digitise the best teachers in the world and provide access to anyone, anywhere – for free. The result is a new social enterprise, Fusion Universal, and what Dineen calls a global “virtual school”. Dineen adopted a Cloud-based approach focussed on collaborative… » read more
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With the aim to bring together the experience of academics, teachers and educators from all over Europe, the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) winter conference 2013 in its upcoming edition will focus on Learning & Teaching with Media and Technology. Held in Genoa, Italy from 7 – 9 March 2013 the conference should… » read more
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Open to all – educational scientists, councillors, education experts, teachers but also graduate students and civil society organizations – the fifth edition of the World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES) promises to be a wide-ranging event with all major topics in educational science to be addressed. Next to the more traditional educational science issues, the… » read more
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Open Discovery Space addresses the challenge of modernising school education by engaging teachers, students, parents and policymakers in a first of its kind effort to create a pan-European eLearning environment to promote more flexible and creative ways o
