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Pebble Learning Announces New Features
Telford (UK), January 2014 - Pebble Learning has added a number of new features and enhancements to its popular PebblePad system and Personal Learning Space, Pebble+ in its January 2014 update. Two new features particularly catch the eye. » MORE
"Social Interaction Is Irreplaceable in the Learning Process"
Braunschweig (GER), January 2014 - Contemporary research on the brain is constantly providing new insights and details regarding the neurobiology of learning. One factor that accentuates the advantages of eLearning is the opportunity it affords for the individualized acquisition of knowledge. Responding as well as possible to the development of the individual learner promotes the learning process. Prof. Martin Korte, brain researcher and learning expert at the University of Braunschweig, elucidates the details. » MORE
OpenEd Launches Public API
Los Gatos, CA (USA), November 2013 - OpenEd® has announced that its catalog of over 250,000 standard-aligned videos and games can now easily be used by other websites or apps using a new publicly available API. This allows any EdTech offering to easily tap into OpenEd's searchable, teacher-curated catalog or contribute its own educational content to OpenEd using a simple API call. » MORE
Virtual College Partners with the CLC
Ilkley (UK), November 2013 - Virtual College is home to several e-Academies, such as the Housing, Safeguarding, and Healthcare e-Academies, which offer sector-specific courses. These courses have been chosen by the CLC because of their relevance to the growing number of Housing Associations, charities, and not-for-profits. » MORE
The Learning Analytics and Knowledge Dataset
Rome (I), November 2013 -"Learning analytics will play an ever greater key role in providing tools and methodologies capable of managing the processes related to eLearning," says Davide Taibi. He is a researcher at Italy's Institute for Educational Technologies at the National Research Council. His research activities mainly focus on the application of innovative technologies in the eLearning field, with particular emphasis on mobile learning, the semantic web, and linked data for eLearning. » MORE
The Mesi MOOC Initiative
Moscow (RU), November 2013 - Dr Maria A. Pannatier is Head of the Chair of ICTs in Education at the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. Under her leadership the professional education programme on Instructional Design and Distance Education was introduced in Russia. At ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, she will present the Mesi MOOC Initiative. » MORE
"Learning Means Committing Information to Memory"
Frankfurt am Main (GER), November 2013 - Jeannette Schmid is a psychologist and the Senior eLearning Administrator at the Computing Center of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the German State of Hessen. She is also a lecturer of blended-learning courses on soft skills for law students. Furthermore, she works as a coach for didactic methods for lawyers and judges at the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers and for the Hessen State Ministries of the Interior and of Law. Her contribution on ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is entitled -œIt's All about Connections". » MORE
Expressing an Identity through Avatars in Virtual Worlds
Coventry (UK), November 2013 - Creating effective serious games requires effective engagement and involvement from a wide range of stakeholders, including educational designers, developers, artists, researchers, subject-matter experts, teachers, and learners. Nicole Steils is an educational researcher at Coventry University, and she has developed a typology of avatars for use in a virtual learning environment that she will present at the OEB pre-conference about serious games. » MORE
How Knowledge Is Made Relevant
Oslo (NO), November 2013 - Associate Professor Ingeborg Krange has been working on the design of digital learning environments for more than a decade and has specifically analyzed their use in educational settings. The title of her talk at OEB is -œA Learning Miracle: Improving Conceptual Learning by Designing and Using Digital and Analogue Devices-œ. » MORE
The Evolution of MOOCs: Should We Still Be Interested?
Irvine, CA (USA), November 2013 - Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D., serves as dean of Continuing Education, Distance Learning and Summer Session at UC Irvine. Matkin is responsible for the academic programs and operations of University Extension, Summer Session, and the UCI Distance Learning Center (DLC). He contends, -œMOOCs and OER will be significant contributors to higher education in a more consistent, efficient, and less costly way given their ability to distribute knowledge throughout the world.- » MORE
