Category: <span>Stories & News Service</span>

Category: Stories & News Service

Latest News: Global eLearning Market US still no1, India now 2nd

eLearningworld News from India India is one of the most important countries for outsourcing of eLearning projects from US, Australia and Europe. But according to a report from UK-India Business Council India is now also the second largest market to sell eLearning despite its low rate of internet access. India …

Latest News: The Nobel Museum launching research project with 1500 pupils

eLearningworld News from Sweden The Nobel Museum in collaboration with Stockholm University and SICS Swedish ICT has introduced a new research project directed on use of mobile phones and apps. 1500 pupils from the age of 13 to 16 from approximately 30 schools will be a part of the project. …

Latest News: 21st Century School according to Silicon Valley

eLearningworld News from USA Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg, eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar and Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Steve Jobs has invested in AltSchool, while its founder Max Ventilla is a former executive of Google. In this perspective the AltSchool can be seen as a …

Latest News: OECD on Swedish school – Teacher’s conditions and training must improve

eLearningworld News from Sweden No other country that participating in the PISA Assessment has had a steeper fall of results from the year of 2000 until now. The report from OECD on how to improve school performance in Sweden that was released today is with this background one important part …

Latest News: Can technology bridge the Century-long Gap in Education?

eLearningworld News from the World Developing countries still have average levels of education in the 21st Century that were achieved in many western countries by the early decades of the 20th Century. With a business-as-usual approach it would take 100 more years until these countries educational level would catch up …

Latest News: eLearning Conference to improve Entrepreneurship

eLearningworld News from Africa Africa’s leading learning and technology conference is taking place in Ethiopia next month and is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The conference that is co-organised by the African Union will have a special focus on the learning technology’s role in being a growing ground for entrepreneurial skills. …

Latest News: Professor of Philosophy: Liberate school from the politicians!

eLearningworld News from the World Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy, writes in the Spectator, that as long as school has additional goals than being a distributor of knowledge, it will not improve. The solution is to liberate the school from political goals. While leftist additional goal is to make the …