eLearningworld News from US New research from Michigan State University shows that school’s that give pupils a laptop and accurate teacher support shows significant improvement in achievement. Binbin Zheng, assistant professor of educational technology, has analyzed years of studies on “one-to-one” laptop programs where the outcome is higher test scores …
eLearningworld News from Turkey Turkey’s statitstical institute, TurkStat, statitistics of the national book market for 2015 shows an immense growth for educational books in all formats as well as for eBooks in general. The number of educational publications was 15 548, which is an increase of 25.6% in comparison with …
eLearningworld News from Nigeria The general goal is to empower women and girls in literacy where the first step is to educate 100 teachers to use mobile learning. The project is run by UNESCO in co-operation with Nigerian authorities and the media company NAN. The eLearning lessons focus on Basic …
eLearningworld News from Sweden The Norrbotten-region in the northern part of Sweden is investing in a new eSport League for youth with the purpose to improve school-results. This is a joint project including local authorities and game-developer businesses within the region. The vision is that the project will lead to …
eLearningworld News from Denmark Denmark is no1 of the Nordic Countries when it comes to school ICT maturity. Now the final report has been published of a big research project with focus on how the use of ICT in primary school empowers pupils for the future society. The result shows …
eLearningworld News from Germany How can digitization improve higher education? This is what the new research field “Digital University Teaching” is going to answer. Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka comments: “We want to find the most promising way for the use of new media in higher education. As a basis …
eLearningworld News from India On the receipt of the quality of the Indian higher education system e.g. says that it has produced the current CEO of Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Mastercard and Pepsi. At the same time only 2% of the 1.2 billion population is part of the skilled working force, …
eLearningworld News from US MIT is launching the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) that is directed on a significant expansion of the Institute’s programs in learning research with a special focus on online and digital education. Mitchel Resnick, the LEGO Professor of Learning Research in the MIT Media Lab comments: …
eLearningworld News from Global According to a new market research report from Technavio corporate eLearning World market is predicted to reach close to €28,5 billion in revenue by the end of 2020. This means a growth of 11% by 2020. “The corporate e-learning market is mainly driven by the rise …
eLearningworld News from El Salvador UNICEF has joined hand with El Salvador’s largest telecom-company, Tigo and some other telecom-companies, in order to improve education in public schools through digitalisation. This means providing the schools with connectivity, equipment, leadership training and workshops. In an interview with the Guardian Karla Maria Rivas …
