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A Freirian Framework for Technology-Based Virtual Field Experiences

During the past three decades the pressures to attend to multicultural issues in teacher education programs have been increasing (Gay, 2000). The origins of these demands can be found in rapidly changing demographics and corresponding efforts by students, business, and government to have their needs met in an increasingly diverse and global society (Giroux, 1997).Read […]

Getting an online degree

The online market in higher education is undergoing electrifying growth. Last year, more than 2 million Americans took college-level courses online.Read the Full Story

Obstacles To Small Business Usage Of ELearning In Europe

I would like to start my article with a few economic facts which could lay a background for the message I want to get across.Read the Full Story

E-Learning: Use it Wisely –There are four basic areas in which e-learning excels

Last year, University of Toyota provided more than 63,000 e-learning module sessions for Scion, Lexus and Toyota. It has become an accepted educational tool in the dealerships today, but that wasn’t so just a few years ago. The biggest draw for e-learning may be in the way it engages students in the act of learning. […]

More e-crime training for UK police

UK police officers are to receive improved training on how to deal with high-tech criminal evidence, using an elearning portal.Read the Full Story

GenY loves degrees, but avoids the classroom

MUMBAI: Call it “earning while learning”. This rather western concept is fast catching up with India’s younger generation, and the serpentine queues at various distance education centres are getting longer at all metropolitan and mega cities in India.Read the Full Story

E-Learning Standards Update

Here’s a non-technical look at evolving e-learning standards, what the standards intend to achieve, the key players involved in developing the standards, and some implications for the future.Read the Full Story

Funding boost for Indigenous e-learning

Almost $500,000 has been made available through the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s Indigenous Engagement Project, to ensure the long-term sustainability of e-learning within Indigenous communities.Read the Full Story

IHRDC [International Human Resources Development Corporation] Announces 16 New e-Learning Certificate Programs in Oil and Gas Technology

(PRWEB) – Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 23, 2005 — These new programs offer flexible, focused learning in six different areas of Exploration and Production Technology: Petroleum Reservoir Management; Reservoir Description and Modeling; Formation Evaluation Methods; Applied Petrophysics; Drilling Engineering and Operations; and Production Engineering and Operations.Read the Full Story

E-Learning Lifecycles: How Communities and Context can affect E-learning Specifications and Tool Design

Abstract The development of a large body of e-learning specifications, such as IMS and SCORM, has led to the proposal for a new way to facilitate content workflow. This involves the movement of educational digital content and the knowledge of pedagogical communities into an online space. Several projects have looked at the theoretical structure of […]