eLearning Africa. Hoy lunes comienza

Ya hemos hablado anteriormente de eLearning Africa , entre otros, aquí tenéis algunos enlaces:
1) el jueves 15 de febrero de 2007 Interview with Faith Macharia, National Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Kenya Chapter;

2) el lunes 5 de junio de 2006 [not] Ethiopia: India Will Contribute to E-Learning Africa: Minister Ethiopia to Be First Beneficiary of E-Network Project;

3) el jueves 25 de mayo de 2006 [ent] Dr. Speranza Ndege on ICT Education in Kenya

4) el sábado 20 de mayo de 2006 [ent] Interview with Iginio Gagliardone, Project Officer at the UNESCO International

5) viernes 17 de marzo de 2006 [ent] The African Virtual University | Interview with the Rector, Mr. Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo.

Pero el hecho es que el lunes comienza; deparará ríos de textos y letras, porque el programa es exhaustivo.

The Conference Programme is Online

The complete eLearning Africa 2007 programme has now been posted on the conference website. With more than 250 speakers, 49 sessions in seven parallel conference strands, fourteen 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.

This year, the hosting country, Kenya, will particularly benefit from eLearning Africa. The Ministry of Education and the Kenyan national Advisory Committee have not only been engaged in the programme preparation, but also in the mobilisation of the Kenyan educational community to participate actively at the event through country-wide awareness building and the establishment of new mechanisms for outreach and capacity building.(leer más…)

Fuente: [elearning Africa]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning, eLearningAfrica, Kenya, Africa

ThirdForce enters US market with acquisition of Mindleaders. .. in a deal worth $18 million.

ThirdForce plc

21-May-2007 » Training Press Releases » ThirdForce PLC, a major e-learning provider to governments, schools, colleges and commercial organizations in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East and Australia, has acquired Mindleaders Inc., a leading US e-learning company, in a deal worth $18 million.

ThirdForce is a provider of IT education to the UK, where it also leads the market in the fast growing Catering and Healthcare sectors. Clients include University for Industry, ECDL, BP, Whitbread and Care UK.

Based in Ohio, USA, Mindleaders has a 25 year track record in personalized learning, offering 2000 courses to approx. 850 organisations, including blue chip brands such as Federal Express and Perot Systems, State and local government and the wider education market across the US and Canada.

(leer más…) Fuente: [trainingpressreleases]

(leer más…) Fuente: [MindLeaders]

tags: e-learning, Mindleaders Inc., web2.0, social software, ThirdForce PLC, eLearning

Open University expands e-learning capabilities

Students will collaborate in real time

Tom Young, Computing, 10 May 2007

Sclater: Students will communicate outside lessons

The Open University (OU) is to extend its e-learning scheme and introduce real-time forums.

The university has 200,000 students and already uses e-learning tools, but will introduce new technology to allow real-time interaction between students.

‘Most courses have forums, but this system will be for real-time communication rather than forums where people post at different times,’ said Niall Sclater, director of the OU’s virtual learning environment programme.

‘It will allow students to communicate with each other outside of scheduled sessions,’ he said. (leer más…)

Fuente: [itweeks]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning, open university, comunicación

E-learning making progress in Morocco.Le e-learning se développe au Maroc

Many private and public institutions are beginning to see the benefit e-learning brings to students and employees.

Magharebia
The News & Views of the Maghreb

By Adam Mahdi for Magharebia in Casablanca – 10/05/2007

Despite numerous technical and publishing challenges, distance learning or e-learning is gaining momentum in Morocco in both the public and private sectors. Short-term forecasts show that 15% of private companies’ training budgets will soon be dedicated to distance learning programmes.

The increased availability and functionality of information technology (IT) has brought new teaching tools to the Moroccan market, including mobile phones, video-conferencing, e-mail, discussion forums, chat software and document sharing. (leer más…)

Fuente: [magharebia]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, Maroc, Marruecos, Morocco, eLearning

SumTotal, HP Education Services deploy learning system. e-learning en prisiones

Don Quijote representa la juventud de una civilización: él se inventaba acontecimientos; nosotros no sabemos como escapar a los que nos acosan.
Cioran

SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, and HP Education Services have deployed SumTotal TotalLMS? 7.2 for Singapore Prison Service (SPS). TotalLMS is an enterprise software system for delivering and analyzing learning over the Internet. The SPS also purchased TotalCollaboration?, which is SumTotal’s software for capturing and disseminating knowledge.

As part of Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, SPS provides for the safe custody and rehabilitation of offenders as well as education designed to prevent recidivism. The service consists of uniformed officers and civilian staff, including psychologists, counselors and medical personnel.

With e-learning delivered via SumTotal’s software, prison staff ? spread across 14 correctional institutions ? has online access to not only prison procedures and doctrines but also best practices designed to boost employee performance. The SPS felt that e-learning could supplant some classroom training and help maximize returns on the service’s budget.

(leer más…)Fuente: [money control]

(leer más…)Fuente: [businesswire]

[imagen1 vía visitas guiadas, camino a guantánamo]

[imagen2 vía informativos telecinco]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, e-learning prisiones, e-learning prison

Making Online Learning Mandatory. Universidades comienzan a requerir que los estudiantes tomen cursos en línea

Vía Digizen, un blog interesantísimo que leo hace mucho (y al que hacía tiempo no referenciábamos)- subtitulado «Nadie puede parar una idea cuyo tiempo ha llegado. (Víctor Hugo)»-, leemos la siguiente entrada en su post: «Universidades comienzan a requerir que los estudiantes tomen cursos en línea«. Clara, concisa y un ejemplo para darle a algunos periodistas de como escribir (opinión, con información…) veamos el inicio del post:

«Mientras algunas universidades hacen lo indecible para no ofrecer cursos en línea, hay otras que han comenzado a poner los cursos a distancia como requisito de graduación. Un ejemplo de esto es Northwest State Community College, que ha adoptado este requisito como una forma de desarrollar independencia y auto-motivación en los estudiantes. «

Después de esta entrada, me pregunto ¿dónde queda nuestro estupendo espacio europeo de educación superior?
En fin… a la noticia:

Making Online Learning Mandatory

Starting this fall, all students at Northwest State Community College, in Archbold, Ohio, will be required to take at least one online course to graduate.

More than 60 percent of last year’s graduates already took one or more online courses, but administrators and college trustees want all students to be well versed in independent research and discovery — skills that employers demand, they say — and feel that online education is one way to accomplish that.

“Businesses are moving toward online training, and students have to learn to be self-motivated,” said Linda Carr, chief learning officer at the college. “In the workplace, you are responsible for doing what you need to do on your own time.”(leer más…)

Fuente: [insidehighered, vía digizen]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, eLearning, Universidad

Correctores-web X.0: e-TQM College welcomes The University of Phoenix to Dubai

Aquí tenéis la siguiente noticia sobre e-TQM, University of Phoenix, Dubai, College, aparte del contenido lo que me ha llamado la atención es que se pueda uno equivocar en el titular y no corregirlo diez segundos después por algún corrector de web, reclamo la necesidad de los antigüos correctores de imprenta, a los que llamaremos «correctores- web X.0». No es University of Pheonix sino University of Phoenix

e-TQM College, the Dubai based pioneers in e-learning education recently welcomed representatives from the University of Phoenix, USA to Dubai for an immersion tour and important meeting at the College.

From Left to Right: Serine El Salhat, Head of Branding & Public Relations, e-TQM College; Dr. Narimane Hadj-Hamou, Dean for Learning & Technologies, e-TQM College; Daniel P. Litteral, Vice President for University Legal Services and General Counsel of University of Phoenix; Mr. Peter Martinez, Vice President of International Division of University of Phoenix; Mr. Bill Pepicello, President of University of Phoenix; Dr. Mansoor Al Awar, Vice President, e-TQM College; Ibrahim Mahmood, Assistant Vice President for Business & Administrative Affairs, e-TQM College; Fahad Al Saadi, Business Development Manager, e-TQM College.

While both education providers are renowned for offering online e-learning programmes and degrees to young students and professional adults, the University of Phoenix has specialised in this since the early 70’s. University of Phoenix was recognized in 1989 as the first U.S. University to offer their courses online. As of October 2006 University of Phoenix has an estimated 280,000 students attending via the various methods of going to school.
(leer más…)

Fuente: [ameinfo]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, emiratos árabes, e-TQM, University of Phoenix

The Knowledge Tree Call for Contributions

The journal of the 2006 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2006 Framework), The Knowledge Tree: an e-Journal of Learning Innovation, enables the sharing of research and innovation in global e-learning practice.
Contributions must be received by close of business 9 April 2007 for Edition 13, 9 July for Edition 14 and 24 September 2007 for Edition 15. Click to view more information on our Goals and Contribution Guidelines.
Goals
Through The Knowledge Tree e-journal the 2006 Framework aims to:
provoke, foster and capture in-depth knowledge and debate on e-learning issues that stimulate innovation across international schools, vocational and technical education (VTE) and Higher Education systems
provide research on, and illustrate examples of, client engagement, provider flexibility and innovation, and e-learning business models
encourage explanation and critique of policy, regulatory and system issues
keep leaders and practitioners up to date
promote the practice of learning innovation
facilitate international learning innovation networking.(leer más…)

Fuente: ]The Knowledge Tree]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, Australian Flexible Learning Framework

Traducción de Claroline al guaraní

Por la diversidad de las lenguas, objeto y sujeto de cultura de futuro. Claroline (versus otros lms, cms) diversidad y cultura. Vía Biblioteca de las Indias Electrónicas

Mientras preparamos la nueva imagen de la página de la Biblioteca no podemos dejar pasar más tiempo antes de anunciar al mundo entero la existencia de la traducción al guaraní del software de Claroline, la plataforma de e-learning de la Universidad de Lovaina, la más utilizada en nuestro pequeño planeta.

Como podreís recordar leyendo esta página, el año pasado iniciamos una campaña para traducir el software de Claroline a las lenguas nativas americanas partiendo de un fondo de 900 euros donado por la Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas y SinGénerodeDudas para pagar a los que se ofrecieran la realizar la traducción
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Fuente: [biblioteca de las indias electrónicas y claroline]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, Claroline, Biblioteca de las Indias Electrónicas

Launch of The E-learning Awards 2007

The 3rd annual E-learning Awards will take place in November 2007 in London.

The primary objective of the E-learning Awards is to recognise real excellence in the e-learning industry. This may be an e-learning programme, project or strategy that is judged to be the best in that category for that year.

The Awards are judged by the eLearning Network, the industry’s foremost e-learning association. Receiving an Award means that an organisation has made more than a positive contribution to clients’ fortunes. They will have created or produced something that will be looked at years later as something that is a benchmark, to which others in the industry can aspire to.

More importantly those that receive the awards will have excelled and will have been recognised in doing so, by the e-learning industry overall.

Award Categories

The 2007 categories are below. You can enter as many categories as you wish. Click on the individual categories for details of their criteria.

• The most innovative new product in e-learning.
• The most innovative application of learning technology.
• Excellence in the production of learning content.
• Meeting the needs of compliance for an external regulator or an internal workforce.
• The best e-learning project securing widespread adoption.
• The best example of supporting learners online.
• Achieving inclusivity for learners of all aptitudes and abilities.
• The most tangible project ROI.
• The e.learning age young professional of the year award.
• The e.learning age team of the year.
• The e.learning age industry award for outstanding achievement.

Please ensure you have read the Terms and Conditions of entry.

(leer más…)

Fuente: [elearningage]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, e-learning awards 2007