eLearningworld News from Germany How can digitization improve higher education? This is what the new research field “Digital University Teaching” is going to answer. Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka comments: “We want to find the most promising way for the use of new media in higher education. As a basis …
eLearningworld News from US “Mind and hand” is MITs motto and one of programmes that in both parts fully live up to this motto is the “SuperUROP” programme at the MIT School of Engineering. The programme started in 2012 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), but …
eLearningworld News from Germany Around 300 000 young people have benefited from first Educational Package Learn German so far that are funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education. For young refugees there are also additional projects available. Now the government is launching a second package in order to make …
eLearningworld News from France The University of Paris Descartes is offering a two-year interdisciplinary program with focus on EdTech that includes topics related to education, innovation, digital entrepreneurship and research. The university is the first university in France dedicated to training EdTech and it seems also to be a pioneer …
eLearningworld News from Germany The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) are launching a new research program that includes three focus areas: Smart mobility, digital society and healthy life. Focus will be set e.g. on digital technologies for modern knowledge acquisition in the practical university education and service …
eLearningworld News from Poland The Polish Government will provide financial support for Warsaw University to build new interdisciplinary research centres with focus on digital humanities, advanced methods of data analysis, economic sciences and psychology.The investment of totally more than €230 million (more than 1 billion Polish Zloty) during the coming …
eLearningworld News from Rwanda Worldwide e-Learning Campus, an agency connected to Rwanda’s Ministry of Education, is launching a progressive programme to develop and improve ICT student’s skills across Rwanda in collaboration with Ericsson. The program starts November 1 and is focused on a blended learning approach where Ericsson’s Online Academy …
eLearningworld News from Benin The vision of “eLearning Benin” was born in a group of young professionals working for the World Bank Group where some are from Benin. The basic ideas of introducing online learning in Benin’s higher education is to solve the problem with increased amount of student enrolment, …
eLearningworld News from US How can students’ best be educated in the 21st Century? To explore this subject profoundly the project Year of Learning starting with an event October 2 at Stanford. The project is hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. The project is …
eLearningworld News from Denmark New research from the Danish Centre of Public Innovation shows the connection between the amount of innovation in different units of the public administration and the employees’ level of education. The result shows that the larger amount of employees with high education the better prospect of …
