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THE FIELD of HRD training is undergoing a sea-change. There is an increasing shift in emphasis from `training’ to `learning’. As a result, training professionals are now moving from the role of trainers to that of facilitators of the learning process.
At Birmingham-based American College of Computer and Information Services, distance education constitutes the entire college experience.
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has developed new postgraduate courses to take advantage of the interest in, and nurture the development of, e-learning.
Schoolnet India has developed an education portal that will function as a framework for technology-enabled learning. By using the Web to impart education, it will overcome the problems of social infrastructure that most Indian schools face now.
Lagos (This Day, January 17, 2001) – A new policy on distance learning and operation of the controversial satellite campuses of universities will be unveiled tomorrow in Abuja by the National University Commission, NUC.
University Park, Pa. — An innovative web-based course on African, African American art, culture and history is now in development by Penn State and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana and eventually will be available to students world-wide.
Pupils could soon be using the internet to learn Japanese in one of a series of computer initiatives announced by the Learning and Technology Minister, Michael Wills.
TORONTO, Jan. 9 /CNW/ – The Ontario Government will establish a centre for excellence in lifelong learning to expand the range of flexible, high- quality learning programs available to students of all ages, Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Dianne Cunningham and Janet Ecker, Minister of Education, announced today. The centre will align the content expertise […]
FOR RELEASE: January 8, 2001 Contact: Melinda Ulloa (202) 205-8811 As part of a continuing effort to highlight and expand international educational opportunities, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley is participating in a joint U.S.- Brazil education conference in Atlanta. The conference focuses on educational challenges and innovations in high schools, colleges and universities […]
The first pan-Arab open university is being set up with its headquarters in Kuwait and is expected to start enrolling students next year.
