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Building a knowledge economy through Telecentres in Africa

CTA (2011) A knowledge economy begins at the grass roots eLearning Africa News Portal, December 15 This is an interesting article by staff from the Technical Centre...

Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 3: Public Education ( #oeb11...

Introduction This is the last of three posts on the Online Educa Berlin 2011 conference and here I focus on the three education sessions I...

Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 1 ( #oeb11 )

Why I'm here This will be the first of several posts on this year's Online Educa Berlin conference. This is the first time I have...

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 3

This is obviously my week for reading journals! Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / Revue canadienne de l'apprentissage et de la technologie, Vol 37, No...

From dream to reality: why implementation is as important as goal setting in e-learning

Two recent developments have brought home clearly the need to consider and discuss implementation strategies at the same time as setting educational goals. The...

European report on the future of learning

Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission What the report...

Online enrollments in the USA grow 10% in 2011; OERs becoming accepted

Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2011) Going the Distance: Online Education in the USA 2011 Wellesley MA: Babson Survey Research Group This is the latest...

Key points from OECD’s 2011 ‘Education at a Glance’

OECD (2011) Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators Paris: OECD For those of you interested in educational statistics (and for masochists in general), here's your...

Australia’s national strategy for e-learning in vocational and educational training (VET)

Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (2011) National VET e-Learning Strategy, 2012-2015 Canberra: Government of Australia This document sets out a national strategy for...

Canada cuts funding for the University of the Arctic

I'm just catching up with some of the e-learning news I missed while away in Norway two weeks ago, and ironically I just came...