eLearningworld News A new World Bank report on education focus on fours main themes 1) make the education’s promise a reality; 2) the need to shine a light on learning and its potential; 3) how to make schools work for all learners; and 4) how to make systems work for …
eLearningworld News What is best practice to use technology to improve education? To answer this question MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America has launched a new competition with the focus on the best models and support to identify the most effective uses of educational technology. This …
eLearningworld News European integration is about to speed up again, in this spirit education should follow in its tracks, which the Luxembourgish Minister of Education, Claude Meisch has acknowledged. On 8 December 2017 he presented a new public European education offer in three Luxembourgish secondary schools where the foundation is …
eLearningworld News from the World The new Horizon Report K-12 Edition 2016 identifies six trends that will reshape school towards 21th Century standards. Short-term trends “Coding as a Literacy” and “Students as Creators”. Mid-term trends “Collaborative Learning” and “Deeper Learning Approaches” Long-term trends “Redesigning Learning Spaces” and “Rethinking How Schools …
eLearningworld News from Georgia Georgia’s newly appointed Minister of Education, Alexander Jejelava, is now promoting a gradual replacement of printed books in favour of ebooks in the school-system. “We have already arranged several meetings between local publishers and the companies that produce and develop electronic books abroad. We are going …
eLearningworld News from UK An online app that lets children report bullying will be rolled out to 300 schools and approximately 120 000 pupils in the UK. The method of the antibullying-app is that the pupils take screenshots of abusive messages on social media or even take photographs of bullies …
eLearningworld News from Norway The Norwegian Government is launching a new curriculum for teacher training where the education to become a teacher in primary school will require a master degree with five years of study from 2017. Two of the areas the new curriculum focuses on are a much stronger …
eLearningworld News from Scotland The entrepreneur and philanthropist sir Tom Hunter was interviewed by BBC about improvement of school education with focus on Scotland’s low performance. His conclusion is both vital and universal e.g. one-size-fits-all education do not work anymore (has it ever?), he explains: “Our education system must be …
eLearningworld News from France France is now implementing its grand digitalisation plan for school. This plan is based on the lessons learned from the large-scale experiments during recent years. The French government will invest 1 billion euros over the next 3 years for digital education development with focus on teacher …
eLearningworld News from Sweden UNICEF Sweden is inviting all Swedish schools to participate in the yearly project where pupils leave school for one day and do a day’s work in a workplace. The money that they owe is transferred to help schools in different developing countries. The campaign Operation Day’s …
