Browsing news: Education

    • Tata Interactive Systems announces white paper on Instructional Design models

      MPS Interactive Systems | Mumbai |

      Explores learning models and approaches for the connected, networked learners in a complex world; Provides an overview of models like Pervasive Learning, Flipped Learning, Evidence-based Learning, Adaptive Learning Systems, and 70:20:10, with a few case studies.

    • DuPont Sustainable Solutions Delivers a New Safety Orientation Training Program

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Safety Orientation: A New Way of Thinking, a new safety orientation training program that provides an overview of various workplace safety topics, including personal protective equipment (PPE), bloodborne pathogens (BBPs), fire safety, electrical safety, and slips, trips, and falls.

    • DuPont Sustainable Solutions Addresses Off-the-Job Safety in New Training Program

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released a new training program that emphasizes the importance for employees to protect themselves and their loved ones at home. Take Safety Home shows that employees are three times more likely to get hurt off the job than on it and 11 times more likely to die from a non-work related injury than a job-related one.

    • DuPont Launches New Soft Skills Training Series for Supervisors

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released a new leadership development offering, Supervisor on the Scene, to help supervisors develop six critical soft skills: communication, conflict resolution, coaching, decision making, meeting effectiveness and job training.

    • Big Data Knows Why You’re Failing Biology

      OEB Learning Technologies Europe | Berlin |

      Taking their cues from sites like Amazon and Google, universities are now utilising big data to provide students with recommended courses and majors. But after recent revelations involving government snooping, how can we trust educational institutions and service providers to use large amounts of data ethically?

    • DuPont Sustainable Solutions Cooks Up 10-Part Food Safety Training Series

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has launched a new food safety series consisting of 10 safety training courses that present an up-to-date look at the various aspects of food safety, from hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCPs) and sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs) to sanitation, hygiene and facility security.

    • DuPont Sustainable Solutions Releases Workplace Etiquette Training Program

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, Virginia |

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions has launched It’s Not Working: Workplace Etiquette, a new training program that reviews the six simple rules of office etiquette and helps organizations address a growing issue in the 21st century workplace.

    • eLearning Industry Charity announces its launch at Learning Technologies

      Learn Appeal |

      The eLearning Industry Charity will be a newly registered UK charity with the aim of harnessing the charitable work that many eLearning companies already do into a focused, well-planned endeavour to raise substantial funds for large-scale projects that have a learning connotation. The newly formed charity is enjoying its official launch at Learning Technologies 2013. Come to Stand 4 to learn more about the charity and to find out how to get involved

    • AAT Renews Assessment Partnership with BTL for a Further Five Years

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading, independent provider of assessment solutions, is delighted to announce that the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) have renewed their partnership with BTL, to license the Surpass® Assessment Platform for a further five years.

    • iSpring Announces Free QuizMaker

      iSpring Solutions | New York, NY |

      iSpring Solutions, a vendor of professional e-Learning authoring software, announces the new Free QuizMaker, a freeware for creating quizzes and surveys.

    • ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011 to unleash new cultures of learning

      OEB Learning Technologies Europe | Berlin, Germany |

      ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011 will explore radically innovative approaches to learning in the digital age. The world's largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors will be presenting the latest examples of best practice in ICT-enhanced learning from November 30th to December 2nd in Berlin.

    • Yorkshire businesses succeeding through innovation

      Webanywhere | Leeds, United Kingdom |

      A mobile boardroom, created by Bradford University School of Management, has helped 15 business leaders with ideas to innovate in their own organisations.

    • BTL Launches Surpass® at African Education Week – 6th to 8th July 2011

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions, is proud to be launching their Surpass® e-Assessment Platform in Africa during the Education Week Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Surpass® is trusted by some of the world’s leading exam and certification bodies to develop and deliver their global e-Assessment programmes.

    • Open University engineering degrees receive IMechE accreditation

      The Open University | Milton Keynes |

      The Open University has just received accreditation from The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for its engineering degrees. This is in addition to their recent re-accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Professional membership of engineering institutions requires formal assessment and recognition of the level of experience and qualifications achieved.

    • New technology to help young children's reading

      The Open University | Milton Keynes |

      Researchers at The Open University have created a free 'app' to help parents teach their children to read.
      Our Story has been designed to be used on mobile devices, such as the iphone or iPad. The app incorporates research findings and theory to provide the experiences known to develop the abilities and motivation for reading. Parents can easily create their own personal picture books, stories and games and in doing so support vocabulary development and reading skills.

    • Kineo announces an extended fee-free e-portfolio service for New Zealand schools

      Kineo | Brighton, UK |

      Kineo Pacific delighted to announce the continuation of the free MyPortfolio service, to all New Zealand schools, until (at least) the end of 2013. 'We're very excited to have the support and be working with the Ministry of Education on truly 21st century learning technologies. To our knowledge, a nationally provided e-portfolio and social learning network for schools is a world first', said Kineo Pacific Director, Richard Wyles.

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