A new issue of Innovate published
Published 13.08.09Innovate, is an open access, refereed, e-journal, focusing on using information technology tools to enhance education. It is published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University.
UNESCO: Initiating and Managing SchoolNets
Published 13.08.09Initiating and Managing SchoolNets is the third volume in the ICT in Education Lessons Learned series. This volume provides an overall summary of the lessons learned during the implementation of the UNESCO SchoolNet project, Strengthening the Use of ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in the ASEAN Context, which was funded by Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT) and the ASEAN Foundation.
IMS Global Learning Consortium Releases Achieving Learning Impact 2007 Report
Published 13.08.09The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) announced August 6 the release of the 2007 version of its new annual report: Achieving Learning Impact 2007: Trends in Learning, Technology, and Standards.
UNESCO launches ICT-in-Education online community
Published 13.08.09As part of a new “Knowledge Communities” project, UNESCO Office in Bangkok has launched an online ICT-in-Education community: an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators, policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions on topics relating to the use of ICT in education.
2007 Open and Distance Learning International Symposium
Published 13.08.09The conference will take place in Denpasar, Bali; November 13-15, 2007.
Knowledge acquisition is changing radically, UNESCO Declaration states
Published 13.08.09Knowledge acquisition and sharing will increasingly be technology mediated, and traditional educational processes will be revolutionized, said experts at a UNESCO organized event in Kronberg, Germany, recently.
WCET's list of recent publications
Published 13.08.09WCET - the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications - is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational technologies. Their mission is to promote and advance the effective use of technology in higher education. WCET actualizes this mission through the cooperative efforts of its member network.
News from UNESCO
Published 13.08.09The Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information of UNESCO, Mr Abdul Waheed Khan, visited Mozambique 22 and 23 August
EduContact Online Catalogue
Published 13.08.09Enter your courses in the EduContact online Catalogue and take advantage of international visibility! European universities are welcome to join the European project EduContact test year and enter a selection of their online courses in EduContact catalogue at the special rate of 100 €, for the period of October 2007 till October 2008.
WCET Partners with China to Promote Open Educational Resources
Published 13.08.09Dr. Fun-Den Wang, Chairman of the China Open Resources for Education (CORE) and WCET Executive Director Louis Fox have renewed an agreement to promote cooperation between the two organizations to advance the use of open courseware in China.
SAIDE to develop an OER portal for the African Virtual University
Published 06.08.09The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has signed an agreement to develop an open educational resources (OER) portal for the African Virtual University (AVU).