eLearningworld News from Denmark The Danish Ministry of Education is launching four new digital tools for pupils age 15-16 years old that suppose to form a bridge to the prospects on the labour market after school. Tool 1. My school-achievement that focus on study-skills and result. Tool 2. My strengths …
eLearningworld News from the World “Humans are underrated” is the title of a new book by the journalist Geoff Colvin, which focus on how robots taking over jobs that traditionally has been in the hands of humans. And in which fields humans still outperform robots. The title of the book …
eLearningworld News from the UK In October 8 publishers in UK starting their assault on the Chistmas book market by releasing more than 500 new books on the same day. The event can be seen as a nationwide exhibition for the book industry and a possibility for book-readers to stay …
eLearningworld News from the US “Our biggest goal is to inspire the next generation of students to solve the problems that plague our education system.” This is the motto of HackingEDU that according to the organizers is the world´s largest Hackathon for education. The event takes place October 23-25, 2015, …
eLearningworld News from UK UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new direction and structure of the whole school-system in order to improve the performance. He said that power should be in the hands of headteachers and teachers, not bureaucrats. This will be made possible by transforming the traditional structure …
eLearningworld News from UK A survey from the research company FreePint shows that businesses use of eBooks is now growing dramatically after a slow start. 35% of the respondents announced a significant increase of use during the past two years. At the same as 40% of respondents predict a significant …
eLearningworld News from Finland The Finnish Museum of Modern Art is opening the School of Disobedience in September. The learning environment consists of a programme to teach young people to become social activists. The founder of the school is controversial artist Janni Leinonen that has invited a crowd of cultural …
Digitalization is transforming the book publishing industry. The days are gone when the author had to rely on that a publishing house would accept his or her work. Since the walls to the book market were too high to be entered in any other way. The publisher took care of …
eLearningworld News from India What has Microsoft, Nokia, Mastercard and Pepsi in common? The answer is that they are all run by people with degrees from Indian Universities. For instance, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft and Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia have both degrees from Manipal Institute of Technology. Now …
eLearningworld News from the World The seven year downturn of printed books has come to an end according to Nielsen’s TCM. At the same time as the recent boom market for eBooks is now transforming into a mature stage. However, the format of both printed books and ebooks are basically …
