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Commercial e-learning platform launched in Nigeria

Wakoba, S. (2014) Tutor.ng, an online tutoring platform with a marketplace for teachers launches to disrupt online learning in Africa, TechMoran, January 27 I have...

e-learning trends from South Africa

Chadwick, K. (2014) e-Learning Trends for 2014 Bizcommunity.com This is an interesting perspective on corporate e-learning trends from Kirsty Chadwick in South Africa. I've focused...

Top movers and shakers in corporate e-learning

Image:  © Allen Interactions, 2014 Bob Little (2104) The fifth annual, top ten e-learning movers and shakers Industry Today, January 2 It is interesting to note...

Innovation, quality and digital resources: the LINQ 2013 conference

No - it's not Anita Ekberg in front of the Trevi fountain - it's Rory McGreal! The LINQ 2013 conference, held in May in Rome,...

IRRODL, Vol. 14, No. 1 now available

IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning), Volume 14, Number 1 is now available, for free downloading as open educational resources. This...

Movers and shakers in corporate e-learning

Bob Little Press and PR (2013) The Fourth Annual Top Ten e-Learning Movers and Shakers, Training Press Releases, January 2 We in post-secondary education could...

A personal view of the use of learning technologies in teacher education in Argentina

Ileana Farré is a professor at a Teacher Training Institute (Instituto Superior de Formación Docente 803) in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, Argentina. I have asked...

Better than a MOOC? Free online vocational training

Bornstein, D. (2012) Open education for a global economy New York Times, July 11 I wrote earlier about ALISON, the world's largest supplier of free...

A new online learning environment from the corporate training sector

SkillSoft (2012) SkillSoft Introduces SkillPort 8® - A Revolutionary Learning Experience Orlando FA/Nashua NH: SkillSoft, May 1 Is the higher education system learning enough from the...

The world’s largest supplier of free online learning? (updated, March 22, 2021)

Who do you think is the largest supplier of free online learning? MIT? Stanford? Carnegie Mellon's Open Learn Initiative? iTunesU? The UK's OpenLearn? The...