eLearningworld News from OECD The new report from OECD with focus on assessment of digital skills shows that schools in general still not taking advantage of using technology in the classroom and beyond. The report “Students, Computers and Learning: Making The Connection” concludes “that even countries which have invested heavily …
eLearningworld News from US Most of us are familiar with the speech recognition on today’s smartphones that basically is algorithms based on training data from human experts. MIT researchers’ are now taking the next step when developing a system that is unsupervised, which means it acts directly on raw speech …
eLearningworld News from UN UN unveils a plan to get Syrian 1 million refugee-children to school. The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, today said: “While the recent focus has rightly been on refugees entering Europe, there are 4 million refugees – 2 million of them children …
eLearningworld News from South Africa Prime Minister Helen Zille of the South African province Western Cape launched the initiative eLearning “Game-Changer” 8 September 2015. This Game Changer will provide free high-speed internet access to all Western Cape schools by the end of 2016. At the same time the Western Cape …
eLearningworld News from Germany Federal and state governments want the next ten years to significantly improve the literacy skills of adults in Germany. Adults will receive more offers than before, which will help them improve writing and reqading skills. Totally the Federal Ministry of Education has 180 million euros to …
eLearningworld News from Denmark New research from the Danish Centre of Public Innovation shows the connection between the amount of innovation in different units of the public administration and the employees’ level of education. The result shows that the larger amount of employees with high education the better prospect of …
eLearningworld News from UNESCO Literacy is a fundamental human right and today September 8 the International Literacy Day is celebrated all over the world. In Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters an event to celebrate the Literacy Day is taking place that includes an award ceremony and meetings to form a …
eLearningworld News from EU The new Eurobarometer “Cross-border access to online content” shows that the demand to use online service for digital content cross borders in the EU is high, especially in younger generations. Those aged 15-24 65% found this important and the group aged 25-39 50%, while the group …
eLearningworld News from UK The new online tool the Parent Info toolkit give advice to parents on preparing their children for adult- and digital life. The tool is funded by the UK Government and the Secretary of State for Education, Nicky Morgan, comment in the following way: “The internet is …
eLearningworld News from Cameroon The Cameroon Government is starting a project to fight illiteracy i villages on the countryside. The tool is eLearning and the method is to build 200 computer-centers across the country to promote educational technology. This should be seen in the light of that according to Cameroons …
