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

Category: Stories & News Service

Latest News: Co-Founder of Apple believes Artificial Intelligence will replace teachers

eLearningworld News from the World The co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak visited Sweden this week. In an interview with idg.se he pointed out his concerns with the educational system and the need to modernise it. To make it effective a one-to-one pedagogy is required where each pupil will have its …

Latest News: Higher Education Organisations launch Edtech Sweden

eLearningworld News from the Sweden Edtech Sweden is an initiative with purpose to accelerate the edtech development in Sweden. The focus is set develop a long-term strategy and vision that according to the initiators of the project has been non-existent during the past decade. While countries in the northern Europe …

Latest News: ICT transforming economies in a revolutionary spirit but is inequally distributed

eLearningworld News from the World The 2015 edition of World Economic Forum’s The Global Information Technology Report  summarize the development as follows: The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has the potential to transform economies and societies, and become part of the solution of many global challenges, but the revolution …

Latest News: Intel launches EdTech Business Accelerator

eLearningworld News from USA Intel offers promising edtech startup’s mentorship, funding and insights for growth in the Silicon Valley. Companies that are selected for the Intel Education Accelerator program will receive customized guidance and up to $100,000 from Intel Capital. In the first step successful applicants will receive $50,000 up …

Latest News: Online course on how schools can work against net-bullying

eLearningworld News from Sweden The NGO, BRIS (Children’s Rights in Society), and Gothia Fortbildning is launching an online course on how to prevent and handle net-bullying. The course consists of approximately two hours of videos with experts and case studies as well as download-material for self-studies and material for discussions. The …

Latest News: German Government launching new platform for digitization of the economy

eLearningworld News from Germany On the Hannover Messe the German government is launching the Joint Industry 4.0 platform that is a collaborative space for politics, industry, associations, academia and trade unions to embrace digitization of the economy. Industry 4.0 was launched 2011 and today the concept is the standard for …

Latest News: Motivation in a Workplace according to Neuroscience

eLearningworld News from USA A highly motivated workforce is the key to become more profiatble, gain higher levels of customer satisfaction and makes employees not want to leave.  Research shows that extrinsic rewards like money and gifts can not explain human motivation, instead the scientific focus is directed on intrinsic …

Latest News: Research shows how Games can work for childen’s development

eLearningworld News from Denmark A research study from Denmark shows that when children from four to six years old was asked if they preferred to play games on an iPad or play with other children, two of three would choose to play with the iPad. However, Klaus Thestrup, reseacher at …

Latest News: The performance of MOOC according to a MIT and Harvard report

eLearningworld News from USA MIT and Harvard has researched the performance of their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from 2012 to 2014. Data from totally 68 courses, 1.7 million participants, 10 million participant-hours, and 1.1 billion logged events are the source of the report. Some of the key findings were …

Latest News: Report on how Online Learning transforming Higher Education

eLearningworld News from Sweden and USA In a report from the independent Research Institute, Ratio that is based in Stockholm, the researchers goes beyond MOOCs to find which additional parts the general digitalisation trend of higher education consist of. The conclusions include that the digitalisation will produce a massive transformation …