Brussels Welcomed Launch of First Pan-European MOOCs Initiative
Brussels Welcomed Launch of First Pan-European MOOCs Initiative
Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to launch the first pan-European ‘MOOCs’ (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, with the support of the European Commission. Around 40 courses, covering a wide variety of subjects, will[…]
About Girls, Skills and Jobs, and MOOCs
Today around 7 million people work in the ICT sector. However, out of the ICT workforce only 30% are women. Women are under–represented at all levels in the ICT sector, especially in decision-making positions. The[…]
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Beta Launched
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project with the aim to bring together and make freely available to the world the incredibly rich resources from America’s libraries, archives and museums. The[…]
American Colleges Face a New Shake-Up: Competency-Based System
The President’s State of the Union address on Feb.12, 2013 made a strong call for workforce tailored higher education reform in the areas of cost and access. This reform would imply extensive changes to the[…]
MOOC plot thickens: Three’s Company
Stanford University is teaming up with edX to work together to develop edX’s software platform, which will soon be freely available to developers across the world (a key part of its software is already freely[…]
Programa de Becas UNESCO-L´ORÉAL para mujeres en el campo de las Ciencias de la Vida
Una vez más, como en años anteriores, se pone en marcha la iniciativa conjunta entre la UNESCO y la Fundación Empresarial L’ ORÉAL con el fin de promover la presencia de la mujer en el[…]
IX International Seminar – Edited Videos Released
We are releasing the final edited version of the video sessions of the last IX International Seminar: Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, which was held last November in Barcelona at the Media-TIC building. You[…]
Contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship”
For faculty who might be inspired by opportunities offered by MOOCs but do not have resources to try their ideas out: Essen and Berlin, Germany, 11 March 2013 – Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.info), one of Germany’s leading[…]
Private Capital in Education growing
• At South by Southwest Education Event, Tensions Divide Entrepreneurs and Educators J.Young reports from Austin, Tex: Who should lead innovation in education—teachers or entrepreneurs? That key question was in the air here at 2013[…]
New forms of digital divide
Bandwidh divide could bar some people from online learning The digital divide had been a hot topic during years. Developed countries and regions are now noticing the rise of another kind of divide: a “bandwidth[…]