eLearningworld News from Germany The Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) of Bielefeld University is one of 43 clusters of excellence in Germany. During 8-9 September 2016, CITEC is arranging the conference “Towards the workplace of the future — with virtual reality” where experts will present the latest developments …
eLearningworld News from the World RK Prasad, the founder and CEO of CommLab India, identify in a new article on ATD five basic elements for successful technology enhanced learning design. The first is motivation where the learner needs to know why they should invest time and effort to complete a …
eLearningworld News from EU A new forecast for the e-learning market in Europe from Technavio shows an expected growth of 12% during the period of 2016-2020. The research company identify four main driving forces; 1. Availability of basic digital infrastructure, where one of many triggers is online examinations. Today, more …
eLearningworld News from Dubai In the digital age when the inefficiency of traditional course education becomes increasingly obvious within many fields of subjects, the Dubai Police Department turning to gamification and other edtech solutions. The team in charge of training and education has in this spirit created a virtual classroom …
eLearningworld News from Finland The government of Finland is funding ten universities with totally €1,35 million for courses to retrain people that lost their jobs or risk loosing their jobs in the ICT-sector. The flexible approach of the funding is for courses that support professionals to redirect their competence, productification …
eLearningworld News from Jordan In a collaboration between Libraries Without Borders and eduTechnoz Syrian refugee children in Jordan are now offered language lessons in Arabic. The learning environment is based on the Ideas Box that is a portable multi-media toolkit that is developed by Libraries Without Borders. The toolkit is …
eLearningworld News from UK Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) report “Learning to lead: the digital potential” shows that 97% of managers spending at least one day a year on digital learning and on average they are spending eight days per year. However, the report gives interesting insights of barriers to digital learning …
eLearningworld News from US Higher education courses usually include an extreme amount of reading. The Security Risk Analysis 211: Threat of Terrorism and Crime course at Penn State Worthington Scranton is no exception. This made the instructor Fred Aebli start thinking of how to make the course more fun and …
eLearningworld Weekly Review Yesterday, forty years have past since the Soweto student uprising started. High school students protested against racism and other injustices in school and the change of language in education to Afrikaans, in Bishop Desmond Tutu’s words: “the language of the oppressor”. The 20 000 protesters was met …
eLearningworld News from Germany Digitalisation of education is increasingly speeding up in Germany where a special focus in the over all creative environment is directed on vocational education. “Digital media in VET”-project is funded the German Ministry of Education and the European Social Fund (ESF) where digital media is recaptured …
