Tag: <span>ICT</span>

Tag: ICT

On what Millennials think of 5G and transformation of education

Millennials, the generation born between the 1980s to the beginning of the 21st Century, are more demanding than other generations when it comes to mobile- and internet technology, Ericsson Mobility Report 2017 shows. As this generation does not know a world without ICT they are now taking the lead towards …

Latest News: ICT labour market in reconstruction as the development speeds up

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 …

40 years after the Soweto student uprising – ICT builds educational growth

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 …

Ericsson introduces a global ecosystem for content distribution

The ICT network provider Ericsson is establishing a global market for content distribution in partnership with service providers like Hutchison, Vodafone, Telstra and AIS. It is a unified global delivery network to transform content distribution that initially is supported by Brightcove, DailyMotion, EchoStar, Deluxe, LeTV and QuickPlay. Content providers are …

Latest News: Government launches Makerspaces for Education

eLearningworld News from Luxembourg November 20 the Luxembourg Minister of Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, launched the first six educational makerspaces. The focus is to offer interested young people spaces to use their creativity and experimentation for their own digital projects. These makerspaces are the first pillar of BEE …

Latest News: Curriculum too focused on textbook on behalf of edtech-usage

eLearningworld News from India A nationwide survey from Central Square Foundation in India with 1110 teachers shows that 70% of the respondents are using edtech in class. Mostly edtech is used to show videos or practice skills. 75% of the teachers claimed that poor adaption of curriculum to edtech-resources was …