eLearningworld News from Luxembourg At a press conference March 23, 2016, the Luxembourg Minister of Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, introduced the concept of multilingual education that the government will set up in kindergartens. The vision is based on the fact that children during the first years of their …
eLearningworld News from Sweden SchoolApply.com is a new search engine where students can find courses of their choice among 4000 universities worldwide. By the end of 2016 the company hopes to have 20 000 schools listed. The search engine filters e.g. program level, academic discipline, tuition fees, school ranking and …
eLearningworld News from the World Central Connecticut State University in New Britain has conducted research on the literacy in 200 countries. However, the method of the research is differing from e.g. the Pisa study, since it instead of measuring reading skills focus on “literate behaviour characteristics”. This means everything from …
eLearningworld News from Scotland The entrepreneur and philanthropist sir Tom Hunter was interviewed by BBC about improvement of school education with focus on Scotland’s low performance. His conclusion is both vital and universal e.g. one-size-fits-all education do not work anymore (has it ever?), he explains: “Our education system must be …
eLearningworld News from Czech Republic Mendel Grammar School in the Czech Republic connected an Oculus Rift to seven of its computers the outcome now almost two years later is the World of Comenius. This is an interactive hands on form of learning where the student can touch, transform and become …
eLearningworld News from Norway The Norwegian Government launches a new online learning portal to improve the learning-process for refugee children to learn Norwegian and other school subjects. Skolekassa.no includes textbooks that already being used in the Norwegian school, but they are translated to several other languages. This will improve the …
eLearningworld News from UK Ian Livingstone, one of the founders of Games Workshop, open 2 new free schools specialising in computer science, technology and the arts. This is a part of the UK government’s plan that 500 new free schools should be launched. Ian Livingstone that participated in revamping of …
eLearningworld News from Switzerland “Data is the new currency of this fourth industrial revolution.” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft “Technology itself will not determine the future we get. Our choices will. Leadership will.” Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada “We need societies that acknowledge diversity as a source of strength …
eLearningworld News from OECD The project leader of “The Trends Shaping Education”-report from OECD, Tracy Burns, says the following about which skills that is necessary on todays and the future labour market in an interview with Huffington Post: “These include 21st century skills such as global languages, advanced digital skills, …
eLearningworld News from the World According to ICEF Monitor 35 million people enrolled in MOOCs during 2015 in approximately 4200 courses offered by 500 universities. This means that the amount of learners doubled last year in comparison with the year before. The MOOC-providing companies were also more focused on revenue …
