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Moodle Integration

The Open University Selects Elluminate Live!

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA), April 2008 - Elluminate, Inc., a provider of live eLearning and web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, has announced that the Open University (OU), the largest university in the United Kingdom and a pioneer of large-scale distance learning, has selected Elluminate Live!® as their enterprise synchronous collaboration solution. In addition, the OU will also integrate the virtual classroom with its chosen learning management system, Moodle™. » MORE

Leadership role

ELearning Boom in Colombia

Bogota (CO) / Duisburg (GER), March 2008 - ELearning is the booming educational topic in Colombia. This month the country joined SC36, the leading international eLearning standardization committee, making it the first Latin American land to do so. » MORE

First Bremen eLearning Fo

Preparing Universities for the Ne(x)t Generation

Bremen (GER), March 2008 - The first Bremen eLearning Forum will neither be a conference nor a convention, but a day-and-a-half occasion for discussing and exploring the issues faced by European universities in meeting the needs and expectations of the "Net generation" as well as those of the next generation of students. The Bremen Forum will take place on April 17th and 18th as part of the eLene-Teaching and Learning Centre's activities. » MORE

IDOL Platform

Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden

Cambridge (UK) / San Francisco, CA (USA), March 2008 - Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, has announced that the Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, has selected its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part of the Swedish government's initiative to promote research, eLearning, and collaboration within Sweden's education system. » MORE

The EuroPACE Approach

European Networking and Learning for the Future

Heverlee (BE), February 2008 - EuroPACE is a European nonprofit association of universities and their partners in education and training. Its main objective is to foster networked eLearning for virtual mobility, internationalisation of higher education, knowledge creation and sharing, and for lifelong learning. The book "European Networking and Learning for the Future", edited by Annemie Bonen and Wim Van Petegem, collects articles from various authors involved in the development of the EuroPACE network. » MORE

ENQA-EADTU

Collaboration on Quality Assurance in eLearning

Heerlen (NL), February 2008 - Quality assurance in eLearning is of growing interest. Not only has eLearning grown into a mainstream means of providing of education in open universities as well as traditional universities; it is also becoming the main instrument of internationalisation in education. » MORE

Agreement

The Open University UK joins Santander Universities

London (UK), January, 2008 - The Open University has signed an agreement with Abbey, part of the Santander Group, to join Santander Universities, an international scheme that already supports 575 universities in Spain, the United States, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom. » MORE

MIT Interview

"Education Can Be Open"

Barcelona (Spain) / Cambridge, MA (USA), December 2007 - (by Manuel Aineto) Vijay Kumar is working on the interface between technology and education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology. He attended the recent University Campus Workshop in Barcelona, where the future of open content universities was debated, and in the following, Mr. Kumar shares his vision on how students, researchers, and teachers can take advantage of the new initiatives in relation to digital technologies. Descended from several generations of musicians, he explains passionately the way technology will assist other fields such as transportation, medicine, or communications in the future. » MORE

Doctoral Programme

E-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning

Lancaster (UK), December 2007 - In January 2008, the Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning Technology, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK, launches a new structured, part-time Doctoral Programme in E-Research and Technology- Enhanced Learning. This innovative programme combines a limited number of face-to-face residential meetings with considerable online learning and will be available to anyone in the world wishing to develop eLearning research and practice. » MORE

Learning Environment

Meeting in Real and Virtual Worlds

Coventry (UK), December 2007 - Coventry University has collaborated with Cisco® and Giunti Labs to create a highly innovative learning environment that blends mobile learning and virtual-learning-worlds technologies. The University wanted to help give its Serious Games Institute (SGI) a technology platform on which to build a digital model of the campus building so that students' movements in both the real building and its virtual reconstruction trigger location-based access to learning content and experiences. This means that content can be pushed to students by the most suitable method for their location and the device they are using. » MORE