VSAT Field Engineering Training Course, 18 - 20 June 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
 Training on dish setup for Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) increases in Africa Invitation to attend an Intensive VSAT Field Engineering Training Course, 18-20 June 2008, AeRC Centre, Nairobi. African eDevelopment Resource Center (AeRC) in collaboration with COMSATPRO (Communications Satellite Projects) of South Africa would like to invite delegates to a 3 day Intensive VSAT Training course to be held on the 18-20 June 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya.
AeRC is a not-for-profit organization championing ICT for capacity development initiatives in the region through knowled more... |
June 4, 2008
26 Learning Games to Change the World
Mission to Learn Blog Features Article: "26 Learning Games to Change the World" By jtcobb on Apr 29, 2008 in Games & Widgets
Jeff Cobb has a fantastic web site called Mission to Learn. Among the myriad of useful articles and discussions featured on Mission to Learn is an article that lists 26 educational video games you can get for free online (only one costs money). The amazing thing about these games is that more... |
May 9, 2008
SAKAI Online Collaboration and Learning Environment
Free to Use, Free to Develop, Freedom for Education
SAKAI is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.
Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers more... |
May 1, 2008
eLearning Africa 2008: May 28 to 30 in Accra, Ghana
The eLearning Africa 2008 conference programme is now online. With more than 240 speakers from 51 countries, 4 plenary sessions, 66 sessions in 11 parallel conference strands, 48 demonstrations and best practice examples, 13 workshops and a number of exciting new features, the event will again be a landmark in pan-African capacity-building for ICT-enhanced education and training.
The 3rd International Conference o more... |
April 9, 2008
Free Reading Lessons for Young Readers
Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing project. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1 and for at-risk students in later grades.
The main goals of Free-reading are:
- To help educators worldwide teach kids to read
- To make quality, research-based, explicit and systematic in more...
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March 19, 2008
The elearning-reviews Web Site Provides Repository of Relevant Publications
While E-learning is continually being evaluated and transformed, with new insights and emerging technologies, it can be hard to sift through the stream of information to find the most relevant and reliable resources. This web site has a diverse and extensive library of articles and journals to help guide you to success with E-learning. In addition, there are dozens of people listed as contributors, reviewers and information specialists.
The site is for professionals who are seri more... |
March 6, 2008
One Laptop Per Child Connects Children Worldwide
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) provides children around the world with inexpensive laptop computers that help connect them to online resources and allow them to have off-line computing power and class interconnectivity. Utilizing open source software, the durable green machines bypass many of the obstacles associated with for-sale software such as costs, license restrictions, international tech support, and rapid distribution, among others.
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February 8, 2008
Open and Distance Leaning (ODL) in South Asia
In 2006 the International Research Foundation for Open Learning (IRFOL) has published an Educational Paper untitled ‘Using Distance Education for Skills Development’. This very complete research paper is being part of a larger project, the 'Skills for Development Project' funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID). The publication examined ODL institutions in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and more generally the region of South Asia. < more... |
December 2, 2007
eLearning Papers n° 5 by Elearningpapers.eu: Communities of practice (CoPs)
Elearningpapers.eu, an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture, has recently published a series of eLearning papers focusing on Communities of Practice, known as CoPs. According to the Editorial, the notion of Communities of Practice (CoPs) "has come a long way since it was coined in the 1990s", and the advent of technology "has meant that communities can be increasingly distributed and niche communities can be developed, as p more... |
October 31, 2007
Get involved: Discuss "E-Learning in developing countries" at SCoPE
SCoPE Web site was launched in 2005 to bring together individuals who share an interest in educational research and practice and to offer opportunities for dialogue. SCoPE is supported by the Learning and Instructional Development Centre at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver - Canada).
Core activity in SCoPE is scheduled seminar discussions facilitated by volunteers. Nellie Deutsch recently contacted the E-Learning dgCommunity to introduce an ongoing discussion of high interest for e- more... |
October 15, 2007
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