Network lifting learning curve
The rise of network computing will further drive demand for e-learning, a senior Sun Microsystems executive has predicted. Kim Jones, vice-president of academic and research computing for the Palo...
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Scrolla set to boost ICT study
Three universities have joined together to set up the Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning (Scrolla), whose aims include strengthening links between online teaching researchers and the...
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Ranks of web wise burgeon in Israel
Israel is using the net to the full with its innovative learning programmes. Helena Flusfeder reports. Although the internet has widespread applications in Israeli universities, there are very few...
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Setting the teaching world alight
Business software developer Gael aims to help the global learning market "work smarter, not harder". The United Kingdom-based company has developed Ygnite, a commercial software tool that will allow...
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Attack on apartheid in learning
Radical government plans are set to overhaul distance learning in South Africa. Karen MacGregor reports. Post-apartheid change has been a relatively long time coming to distance learning in South...
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China expands net-based education
China's ministry of education allowed 25 more major universities to carry out online education or education via the internet trials in the past year. That brings to 31 the number of Chinese...
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It's not who you know, but what you know
The Commonwealth of Learning backs access to knowledge, explains Gajaraj Dhanarajan While the Education and Training for All challenge, agreed to by the international community, is largely the same...
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Evolution not an e-revolution
Online learning has not replaced traditional styles of distance education, but Sir John Daniel believes it still has the potential to shake things up During last year's dotcom frenzy, there was a...
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The usual rules apply online
To succeed, the e-U must ignore technomania, ensure high-quality provision and encourage the best possible terms and conditions for staff, argues Rob Copeland. Plans for a UK e-University (e-U)...
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It all started with late-night telly...
Italian distance learning is proving popular in places such as Sardinia and is growing fast. Paul Bompard looks at what's being offered. The past couple of years have seen a flowering of online...
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Punch-drunk set starts to sober up
Canadian universities have realised that e-learning is not about a fast buck and a camera in the classroom, says Philip Fine. Lowered profit expectations and a call for more instructional design have...
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Building bloc of clicks 'n' mortar
Online courses offered by a consortium of universities are attracting much interest in Asia and Europe. Geoff Maslen, in Melbourne, reports. The first specially developed courses to be delivered...
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Cleo Lab funds e-learning research
The Open University and Carnegie Mellon University will be funded for e-learning research projects by the Customised Learning Experience Online Lab. The lab is a one-year research collaboration...
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Electronic design software goes online for students
The Institute for System Level Integration in Scotland is claiming a world first for online engineering tuition as its masters and doctoral students met their tutors for the first time after...
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Laurie Taylor Column
How many have you got left to do? About 78 methods, 97 theories, 46 semiotics and 26 film studies. And you? Much the same. Did you get stuck in last weekend? I knocked off a couple of dozen theories...