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Slips, Trips, and Falls

DuPont Sustainable Solutions Releases New Training

Virginia Beach, VA (USA), February 2011 - DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released the new training programme "Slips, Trips and Falls: Educate Yourself" to raise awareness among school faculty and staff about the risks of slips, trips, and falls and to help them avoid the injuries these mishaps can cause. » MORE

Global Challenges

YouTube Backs Open University Appeal for Africa

Milton Keynes (UK), January 2011 - The Open University (OU) is participating in YouTube's Project for Awesome 2010 - an initiative to promote international charities addressing global challenges on the video-sharing website. The OU has created two films within the theme of 'Innovation in Education'. » MORE

Low-cost Computers

Bridging the Digital Divide

Calgary, AB (CA), January 2011 - Userful Corporation has released Userful MultiSeat Linux 2011. The software turns one PC into eleven, enabling up to eleven students to use different applications at the same time from one host computer. All students are equipped with their own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. » MORE

Open University

eSkills Programme Features High Participation of Women

Milton Keynes (UK), December 2010 - Almost one third of IT professionals taking e-skills UK's new industry-designed postgraduate programme at The Open University are women - more than double the industry average. Designed by the Sector Skills Council for Business and IT in conjunction with leading employers, the e-skills Professional Programme is open to anyone in work and is ideally suited to people who have recently undertaken an IT- professional role regardless of their background. » MORE

EFMD Global Focus

The Path Ahead and Excellence in Practice

Brussels (BE), December 2010 - The latest issue of Global Focus titled "The Path Ahead" is out now, stressing two distinct but interlinked themes: the current state of business schools as businesses and the challenges of producing a new generation of business leaders. A special issue on "Excellence in Practice" is also available, with contents covering outstanding and impactful partnerships between businesses and educational organisations. » MORE

Saudi Arabia

The "Treasure Chest" Digital Marketplace Project

Riyadh (SA)/Sestri Levante (IT), December 2010 - The Saudi National Centre for eLearning (NCEL) and eXact learning solutions, formerly known as Giunti Labs, have shared details of Saudi Arabia's Maknaz (Treasure Chest) Project, the largest learning content digital marketplace implementation in the Arab world. » MORE

White Paper

More Students Engaged in Unique Ways of Learning

Boston, MA (USA), November 2010 - The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) recently released a white paper entitled "Enabled By Broadband, Education Enters A New Frontier." The paper highlights the successes and growth of distance learning and suggests policy measures to ensure that barriers to continued growth are removed. » MORE

Master Defenses in Adobe

Live Online Communication at the University

Kopenhagen (DK), November 2010 - A web-conference systems is providing new and powerful possibilities to support the synchronous aspects of blended learning in a Danish university, where it gives the students new flexibility to meet and collaborate on group work activities live online. Christopher Kjær, eLearn Project Coordinator at the University of Southern Denmark, shares his experiences in the session "The Future Is Blended". » MORE

Using SMS in class

How to Regain Learners' Attention

Groningen (NL), November 2010 - Koos Winnips is a researcher and consultant in the area of educational technology. At Online Educa Berlin, he will present models and results of the use of SMS to increase interaction in large lectures at universities. Than students reported being able to maintain attention for a longer time and being more actively involved during lectures. » MORE

Profiling the Content

No More "All You Can Eat"

Ljubljana (SI), November 2010 - Davor Orliè is Publication Manager at VideoLectures.NET, which is run by the Centre for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies at the Josef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. At Online Educa, he will speak about "Knowledge Technologies Are the Next Step in Education" and will try to explain how learners get what they really need. » MORE