eLearningworld News from US New research from Michigan State University shows that school’s that give pupils a laptop and accurate teacher support shows significant improvement in achievement. Binbin Zheng, assistant professor of educational technology, has analyzed years of studies on “one-to-one” laptop programs where the outcome is higher test scores …
eLearningworld News from the World A new national survey from Chinese Academy of Press and Publication shows that 64 percent of the adults in China read eBooks in 2015, which is an increase by 5.9 percentage points. At the same time 58.4 percent read printed books. This is still an …
eLearningworld News from US To be able to predict future problems with reading even before a child begin to go to school would be ground-breaking for her or his future. This is a challenge that Sara Laszlo’s research at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is trying to find …
eLearningworld News from US It is more authentic to listening to vinyl or sitting by a desk and writing with a pen on a paper in comparison with digital developments within the field is still a common view. The Stanford scholar Vanessa Chang’s research within this field of human interaction …
eLearningworld News from Denmark Denmark is no1 of the Nordic Countries when it comes to school ICT maturity. Now the final report has been published of a big research project with focus on how the use of ICT in primary school empowers pupils for the future society. The result shows …
eLearningworld News from Sweden SchoolApply.com is a new search engine where students can find courses of their choice among 4000 universities worldwide. By the end of 2016 the company hopes to have 20 000 schools listed. The search engine filters e.g. program level, academic discipline, tuition fees, school ranking and …
eLearningworld News from the World Central Connecticut State University in New Britain has conducted research on the literacy in 200 countries. However, the method of the research is differing from e.g. the Pisa study, since it instead of measuring reading skills focus on “literate behaviour characteristics”. This means everything from …
eLearningworld News from US A new virtual reality laboratory opens for researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC). The purpose is that they from real world scenarios can study a soldier’s cognitive abilities and performance in operational situations. “This capability brings our tightly controlled …
eLearningworld News from Italy New research from Sapienza University in Rome shows that playing games boost connections between neurons that has an important role in the mental decline suffered by MS patients. “This means even a widespread and common use tool like video games can promote brain plasticity and can aid …
eLearningworld News from US One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is the lack of reliable information in order to identify which regions’ where aid is mostly needed. Especially since these regions often is hard to reach. A new poverty mapping-technique developed by interdisciplinary researchers at Stanford now offers …
