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USDLA Members Benefit from the Citrix Suite
Boston, MA (USA), March 2014 - The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), a global provider supporting and developing all applications of distance learning including all technologies and remote-work best practices, has announced Citrix as a vendor sponsor of the USDLA. » MORE
Kaltura Releases Video App for Canvas
New York, NY (USA), March 2014 - Kaltura, the open-source video platform, has announced the release of its new Canvas Video App. Kaltura's extension combines the company's market-leading platform for educational video with Instructure's learning-management system. The result is a seamless user experience that leverages video to dramatically improve teaching and learning, as well as engagement and collaboration between faculty and students. » MORE
Harvard Business School Launches Online Offering
Boston, MA (USA), March 2014 - Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School's reach and deepening its impact. In HBX the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings, including HBX CORe, a primer on the fundamentals of business. » MORE
New MOOC on openHPI
Potsdam (GER), March 2014 - A comprehensive look at the complex world of Internet technology is given in the free online course offered on the international learning platform of Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). Starting 31 March, Institute director, Prof. Christoph Meinel will be instructing the course in English on the technical foundations of the "network of networks." » MORE
HEC Paris Joins Global Network for Advanced Management
Jouy en Josas (F), March 2014 - HEC Paris has joined the Global Network for Advanced Management, whose primary aim is to develop innovative projects in the field of global business studies. This MBA and academic-cooperation platform, established by the YALE School of Management with founding members INSEAD and NUS Business School, counts 25 leading institutions on five continents. » MORE
HPI Offers First Free Open Online Courses in China
Potsdam (GER), February 2014 - Effective immediately, Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is offering its free online courses in Chinese. On 18 February HPI Director Prof. Christoph Meinel launched the first course of the new platform at an event in the Chinese industrial metropolis of Shanghai. » MORE
Learning Light Customers Access Virtual College Courses
Sheffield (UK), February 2014 - A raft of online learning courses from Virtual College is now available to customers of The eLearning Centre website. » MORE
The Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT
Barcelona (E), February 2014 - The Open University of Catalonia, UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is a fully accredited online university based in Barcelona and serving over 60,000 students worldwide. The eLearn Center is its research centre focusing on eLearning. The University and the research centre welcome doctoral students who want to develop their research in a highly qualified and international setting and in a doctoral programme that forms part of the Bologna process. » MORE
The World's Top 50 LMS Systems
Los Angeles, CA (US)/ London (UK), February 2014 - A thorough analysis of 582 of the world's leading learning-management systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing 50. » MORE
What CIOs in Education Should Have on Their Checklist
New York, NY (USA), January 2014 - (by Dr. Shay David, Co-Founder at Online Video Platform Kaltura) As they prioritise their to-dos for 2014, CIOs are putting the planning and deployment of a central media strategy and rich media repository at the top of the list. While video is permeating almost every aspect of campus life – from teaching and learning to marketing, development, communications, and admissions - the approach has generally been haphazard, resulting in silos of content that lack a coherent framework. » MORE
