eLearningworld News from Germany “Microelectronics from Germany – innovation driver of digitalisation” is a new framework program with focus on the development of technologies within the field of microelectronics in the general progress of Industry 4.0. This means areas such as sensor technology, power transmission, construction- and connection technology or …
eLearningworld News from France France is now implementing its grand digitalisation plan for school. This plan is based on the lessons learned from the large-scale experiments during recent years. The French government will invest 1 billion euros over the next 3 years for digital education development with focus on teacher …
Digitalisation is transforming the whole publishing industry, new business models that profoundly decreasing the dependency of the old is appearing and getting consolidated. In this spirit the publishing companies is streamlining their cost structures, strengthening their balance sheets and restructuring their portfolios. The revenues for newspapers is becoming more diversified …
eLearningworld’s Weekly Review Carlos Moedas, EU Research Commissioner, claimed this week that the public should have open access to government funded research. He stresses that science journal publishing companies should reshape their business models to fit an open access system. Moedas said: “There is a revolution happening in the way …
eLearningworld News from Finland The Finnish Government is directing €300 million to educational projects and competence development in order to meet the challenges of the future. New learning environments with digital learning content and tools will be integrated in primary school increasingly. This will renew the pedagogy and also serve …
eLearningworld News from South Africa Prime Minister Helen Zille of the South African province Western Cape launched the initiative eLearning “Game-Changer” 8 September 2015. This Game Changer will provide free high-speed internet access to all Western Cape schools by the end of 2016. At the same time the Western Cape …
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 Poland Polish judges from the Constitutional Tribunal claims that the rule of “tax neutrality” that rejects different taxes on the same product may be applicable on the different VAT-levels of printed books (5%) and ebooks (23%) in Poland. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal thereby has asked this case …
eLearningworld News from UK BBC will be giving away mini-computers to eleven-year-old children across the UK as a part of a broader digitalisation initiative. The computer is called One million Micro Bits and is similar to a Raspberry Pi. It will be given to all pupils starting secondary school in …
eLearningworld News from Denmark: All pupils receive their own laptop in Faarborg-Midtfyn municipality on the Fyn island. The driving force is to create a general education-improvement in the municipality. At the same time the pupils are free to use their own IT-equipment if they like. Source: Jydske Vestkysten
