Archive for the ‘International Developments’ Category

Maryland company wins Latin American education work

The Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (ILCE), an international organization formed by 13 Latin American countries to enhance education opportunities through technology, issued the award, which was funded by the Mexican Education Ministry. ILCE uses the Internet to offer online education programs to Latin Americans to try to stimulate regional economies. Read the Full […]

Exporting education: Wisconsin can teach the world, and profit by it

In fact, offshore education demand is so strong that sale of academic “sheepskins” is rivaling wool as an Australian export industry.Read the Full Story

UTech offers distance learning project

The programme, known as the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), was launched at UTECH on Monday. It offers a combination of distance learning technologies and methods aimed at facilitating timely and cost-effective knowledge sharing, consulting, co-ordination and training.Read the Full Story

EDUCATION REPORT – Foreign Student Series #4: Online Education

Many students who take classes by computer over the Internet say they like the independence of online education. Students do not have to sit in a classroom and do not have to attend courses at a set time. Professors say they have better communication with students through e-mail than they do in many traditional classes. […]

100 colleges benefited from EDUSAT pilot project

The President, A P J Abdul Kalam, had a glimpse of the pilot project when he visited Bangalore in July and addressed the conference of vice-chancellors. Read the Full Story

India launches world’s first education satellite

India launched the $20 million, 2-tonne EDUSAT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal. The satellite is the heaviest ever launched by an Indian-made rocket – the new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which cost $33 million.Read the Full Story

Online education Web site opens

It is expected to make things easier for students with fewer notes taken in class.Read the Full Story

IBM selected to help Chinese Government build and strengthen China’s software development skills

Economic growth and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization have generated an enormous demand for more skilled workers in virtually every vocation and profession.CEIAEC Director, Mr.Xu Yu, said providing world-class training programs were a challenge due to cost and time constraints.“IBM is a recognized leader in IT training. Our collaboration with IBM enables us […]

Global Education Program Delivers Teacher-Leadership Training in Japan

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 30, 2004 — When Miharu Soyama and Yukiko Asano arrived in the Seattle area in June for a week of training at the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, they represented the vanguard of a new approach to teacher training in Japan that promises to bring valuable information- and communication-technology […]

E-Learning Benchmark Established with Launch of the Institute of Financial Services’ KnowledgeBank

The Institute of Financial Services (ifs) has announced the launch of its e-learning portal, ifs KnowledgeBank. Powered by RetrievalWare(R), Convera’s (NASDAQ:CNVR) intelligent search and categorization software, the ifs KnowledgeBank empowers its 37,000 members with the ability to discover essential knowledge for attaining financial qualifications details online. Read the Full Story