eLearningworld News from the EU The post-industrial society has often been termed the knowledge-based society, from Eurostat has published statistics that shows the level of education in European cities. The winner with the highest degree of concentration of graduates is by far London. BBC concluding with a question: Is London going …
eLearningworld News from Finland The quality of Finland’s educational system is admired all over the world. Now the Finnish Government is preparing a new law that makes it possible to export vocational training services including degrees. The focus is to export the flexible independent graduation method where students can graduate …
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 Israel Israel Edtech Summit 2016 that takes place June 8-9 in Tel Aviv includes besides leading people from Israel education and edtech community and an edtech delegation from China also several other prominent international guests like the founder of Steve Jobs Schools, Maurice de Hond. One of …
eLearningworld News from US New research from Michigan State University shows that school’s that give pupils a laptop and accurate teacher support shows significant improvement in achievement. Binbin Zheng, assistant professor of educational technology, has analyzed years of studies on “one-to-one” laptop programs where the outcome is higher test scores …
eLearningworld News from Turkey Turkey’s statitstical institute, TurkStat, statitistics of the national book market for 2015 shows an immense growth for educational books in all formats as well as for eBooks in general. The number of educational publications was 15 548, which is an increase of 25.6% in comparison with …
eLearningworld News from Germany A new app from the German government is being launched for refugees to faster get recognition of their professional qualifications from their home-countries. Federal Education Minister Johanna Wanka comments: “After the first housing and care of the refugees, attention is now more on their education and …
eLearningworld News from US To be able to predict future problems with reading even before a child begin to go to school would be ground-breaking for her or his future. This is a challenge that Sara Laszlo’s research at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is trying to find …
eLearningworld News from US “Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results.” With this background it is time to rethink education is some of the main conclusions in the “Design in Tech Report 2016”. This should be seen in the light that 89% of the companies …
eLearningworld News from Sweden You can try to stop bullying by teaching about statistics as well tell stories about different cases and consequences but the effect is not always the preferred. To improve the teaching environment within this field the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, UR, has developed a virtual reality …
