eLearningworld News from Luxembourg Hack4kids mission is to educate young children from 7-12 years old about ICT and to promote coding in general. The focus is to raise understanding and knowledge about tools and trends within this field, in order to empower the next generations ICT talents and entrepreneurs. Hack4kids …
eLearningworld News from the World The hightech company Ericsson has been recognized “Best corporate Citizen” in the technology, media and telecom category by the New Economy Magazine’s annual awards program. Ericsson is the lead technology partner in Connect to Learn initiative that is a collaboration with Columbia University’s Earth Institute …
eLearningworld News from Denmark Denmark is one of the countries that have invested most in School Digitalization with focus on IT-infrastructure and tools. But training to actually use the new possibilities in teaching and education are still lagging behind according to new research from Aarhus University. Too often the use …
eLearningworld News from Sweden The municipality of Stockholm has become a member of Rebel Learner that is a network to improve and complement teacher-student’s practical skills in Leadership-, Value- and Digitalization. The direct connection to the most highly skilled teacher-students also forms a base to future recruitment. Rebel Learners is …
eLearningworld News from World New York Times reports that many educational websites have security problems, which can allow unauthorized people to steal data like pupils names, files and skill level etc. There is cases where passwords was found unencrypted and some were even available in plain text. However, so far …
eLearningworld News from Turkey The Turkish Family and Social Policy Ministry is now analysing the violence in the game-platform Minecraft. Minecraft allows the players to build, explore and progress to new levels in the game. The platform is also a growing ground for education and learning since the very essence …
eLearningworld News from Netherlands 10 000 people already has registered for the MOOC “Introduction to Dutch” that starts March 2. The MOOC is developed by the Language Centre at Groningen University. The course run over three weeks and introduces the student to the Dutch culture and everyday talk. Today, 15 …
eLearningworld News from Africa The Minister of Education and Technical Education, Kandia Camara, announced that teacher training in information technology is a prioritised area at launch of a three year programme to solve these shortcomings. About 6000 teachers will be included in the programme that is a part of the …
eLearningworld News from Sweden What is the impact of using iPads in education? Will the teaching and the study’s suffer or improve? These questions teachers and pupils is trying to answer in a pilot-project i Frösåkersskolan (grade 7-9) in Uppsala, Sweden. All pupils have their own iPad and the teachers …
eLearningworld News from France In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre the French Ministry of Education is aiming to train 320 000 teachers on secularisation and other civic issues. The Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, has appointed 1000 educators for the purpose. The training is a two day course …
