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Wikipedia's Rival Citizendium: a Start with Obstacles |
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Columbus, Ohio (USA), February 2007 - Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders
of Wikipedia, who left the project in 2002, announced his counter-project
Citizendium at the Wizard of OS 4 conference in September last year in
Berlin, and the new platform recently opened its doors. But it was a start
with obstacles.
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| Lotus Connection |
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IBM Announces Networking Software at Work |
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New York (USA), February 2007 – Among students and teenagers, social
networking - using tools like MySpace or Facebook - has been a hit for
quite some time. IBM now intends to offer a software package for companies
to support their internal social networking with blogs, idea-and-knowledge
sharing, and an expert search, thus increasing their productivity.
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| eLearning for Kids |
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To Provide Children with Education Anywhere |
 Ardmore,
OK (USA), February 2007 – Nick van Dam Ph.D. is the Global Chief Learning
Officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He is an internationally recognized
thought leader in Learning and Human Resources Development and the author
of "The eLearning Fieldbook" (2004 and Mandarin edition, 2006) and "The
Business Impact of eLearning" (2005). CHECKpoint eLearning met up
with Nick at the Online Educa Berlin conference, which he attended in
support of eLearning for Kids (EFK), a non-profit organization he founded
in 2004. Nick was kind enough to answer several questions for us.
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| Scott McNealy's Idea |
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Curruki: the Wikipedia of Curricula |
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Washington D.C. (USA), February 2007 – In recent years, the World Wide Web
has been transformed by collaborative tools that help many people create
and develop resources online. These implements are known collectively as
'wikis', and they represent the leading edge of what many Web experts and
analysts call 'Web 2.0.' The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia, the
collaboratively authored encyclopedia. Now there's a new wiki dedicated
entirely to teaching resources and curriculum development. It's called
Curriki.
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| Draft Bill |
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Spanish Bloggers Fear Being Censored |
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Madrid (Spain), February 2007 – The Spanish Internet community is enflamed
by a draft bill: Ley de Impulso de la Sociedad de la Información
(the Law of "Impulse of the Information Society") proposes to allow the
regional governments to close websites viewed as objectionable without a
court order.
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| Knowledge Centers |
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Digital Literacy for Romanian Schools |
 Bucharest (RO), February
2007 – (by Elena Lita) Between 2007 and 2010, 251 Romanian
communities will benefit from Local Communities Electronic Networks
(LCEN), as knowledge centers for offering citizens information and online
services through the Knowledge Economy Project. The new rural and small
urban communities will join the already-existing nine pilot communities.
The project was initiated by the Romanian government with the support of
the World Bank and coordinated by the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology. Diana Voicu, Knowledge Economy Project Management
Unit Director, talks about the goals of the project she coordinates.
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| From Level to Level |
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eAcademy for Companies from MyKnowledgeMap |
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York (UK), February 2007 - MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) has introduced a version of
its eAcademy system, enabling companies to manage staff skills and
development needs ranging from day-to-day productivity to discovering and
achieving relevant qualifications.
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| Leap forward |
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Atlantic Link Launches Mobile Rapid eLearning |
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Nottingham (UK), February 2007 – Atlantic Link's groundbreaking rapid
eLearning authoring tools have taken a hugely significant leap forward.
The software now allows courses to be designed specifically for the small
screens of Windows Mobile devices. This means that courses are not only
able to be run directly on Windows Mobile devices, but also look superb as
all the functionality of the innovative authoring tools can be applied to
small screen design.
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| Ambitious |
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Negroponte's Dream: a Laptop for Each Child |
 Munich (GER), February 2007 – Nicholas Negroponte, founder
and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, has a
challenging vision: He wants to provide all children in developing
countries with a laptop and free Internet access to support them in
learning. In his eyes, this project isn't just a laptop project but an
educational project. Many problems in the world, like the population
explosion and the climate crisis, are connected with education. "Some
important people have said it cannot be done; some said it should not be
done. Both are wrong. We are doing it", Negroponte said. "Education is the
key to solve those problems."
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| Free Forum |
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How Can Social Networking Support Learning? |
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London (UK), February 2007 - Social networking is the next step in informal
learning, according to learning-solutions provider QA-IQ and is the focus
of its Learning & Development Forum this February. Senior learning
professionals will give insight into the latest trends.
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| eLearning Papers |
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Executive summaries in Nineteen Languages |
 Brussels (BE), February
2007 – The European Commission's portal elearningeuropa.info has launched
a new digital publication on eLearning entitled eLearning Papers. An
executive summary of each article is available in nineteen languages. The
full texts are available in their original languages in PDF format.
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| Student Mobility |
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Specialist Conference in Conjunction with StudyWorld 2007 |
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Berlin (GER), February 2007 – "go out! studieren weltweit" is the title of
a conference for experts on the international mobility of German students
that is being held in Berlin on May 10, 2007, organised by the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF). The event is taking place in conjunction with StudyWorld
2007, the second annual international fair on higher and continuing
education that takes place on May 11 – 12, 2007 in Berlin’s Russian House
of Science and Culture.
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