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Kiron Open Higher Education Uses tt knowledge force
Heidelberg (GER), May 2016 - Refugees have a hard time getting access to higher education. They have to wait for their right of residence to be determined, and their documents often go missing during flight. Berlin’s Kiron Open Higher Education wants to provide a remedy to this situation and is enabling displaced people from around the world to pursue a course of study right through to a recognized degree qualification - free of cost. Participants complete online foundation courses over two years while learning German.
» MOREUnconscious Bias Training Programmes in Higher Education
London (UK), April 2016 - Marshall, the equality and diversity specialist eLearning consultancy, have launched a new training course that looks at the student context of unconscious bias, available now to universities across the UK.
» MOREVideo Assignments that Assess More than Knowledge
New York, NY (USA), April 2016 - Today's students are expected to know more than just facts; being able to communicate that information is just as important. How can their instructors evaluate both knowledge and skills simultaneously without increasing their own workloads?
» MOREPrevent Duty eLearning Course for Universities and Colleges
Bath (UK), April 2016 - Developed with a leading HE institute, Cylix's new eLearning course provides staff with a practical guide to implementing the Prevent Duty sensitively and effectively.
» MOREFully Customisable and Adaptive Online Platforms
Hampshire (UK), April 2016 - Addressing higher education institutions and faculty concerns around student outcomes, feedback, and engagement has meant publishing products have evolved swiftly to supply learning resources in an array of formats – from traditional print to fully customisable and adaptive online platforms. In the following, Dr Andrew Ashwin, Head of Higher & Vocational Education Publishing for the EMEA region at global education company Cengage Learning, shares his thoughts on the many benefits this brings to students and lecturers alike.
» MOREStudents Invent First Device to Monitor Wine Maturation
Paris (F), April 2016 - The first portable device to monitor wine as it matures has been developed by a team of students from Université Paris-Saclay. The students adapted blood-analysis technology invented by biotech start-up Archimej Technology into a unique device allowing real-time control of wine quality, eliminating the huge financial costs and vast quantities of wine that are lost from biological phenomena.
» MOREFree eLearning to Support Cancer Care in the Community
Plymouth (UK), March 2016 - A free eLearning programme is being launched to help health and social care workers broaden their knowledge of cancer care in the community. The Royal Marsden School, which has a national and international reputation for excellence in cancer education, has commissioned eLearning provider Sponge UK to create the new healthcare training.
» MOREJournal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
Barcelona (E), March 2016 - The publication formerly known as “Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del conocimiento” (RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal) has been renamed the “International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education” (ETHE). On 31 August 2015, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), editors of the journal, entered into an agreement with the prestigious Springer publishing group for RUSC’s publication.
» MOREA Great Variety of MOOCs
Brussels (BE), March 2016 - EMMA is a thirty-month pilot action supported by the European Union. EMMA offers free, open, online courses in multiple languages (e.g. English, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Estonian, Dutch, French, and Portuguese) from various European universities to help preserve Europe's rich cultural, educational, and linguistic heritage and to promote cross-cultural and multi-lingual learning. Becoming an EMMA student is easy: Once you've registered, find the MOOC that interests you, click on the "enrol" button, and start learning! » MORE
Virtual College's Online Patient-Safety Training
Ilkley (UK), March 2016 - A doctor from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has become the 300,000th National Patient Safety Suite learner. Developed by Virtual College in partnership with NHS England, the National Patient Safety Suite is comprised currently of sixteen patient-safety eLearning courses, including Safe Use of Insulin. Ninety-six per cent of learners would recommend these courses to a colleague. » MORE
