The recent announcement by the Gauteng provincial government to initiate a paperless classroom project as well as the Western Cape government’s commitment to spend R1.2-billion to implement e-learning in 1 250 local schools, is a big step towards bridging the education gap in South Africa, according to Athol Wesselink, Chief
Read MoreEden 2015: Expanding Learning Scenarios
A conference to check out — PhD´ers: An interesting network to begin with, the EDEN network hosts an annual conference that is well worth looking into for future learners in the Nordic region. There are tons of great conferences out there. This one is a favorite because it combines two
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Wired classroom: What the evidence says
After President Obama´s State of the Union address in mid January 2015, the reflection below by Susan Pinker, printed in New York Times on January 30th, stands out. In the address, Obama envisioned open Internet in every classroom, providing access of information to everyone and especially otherwise disadvantaged students. But according
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Digital learning landscapes
An interesting video from TedTalks: We´ve also added a new blog page for more video postings. Here is the link. [youtube id=”kcnRKRlCCf4″ align=”center” mode=”lazyload” maxwidth=”850″]
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Upcoming spring Roundtable
Here is a note on the upcoming Spring Roundtable on the globalization of learning, hosted by Future Learning Lab, HStar Institute Stanford University and Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto. The Roundtable will ideally organize between 50 100 people from Silicon Valley and invited guests. The event is booked for a
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Mid November 2015: Following up on our September – October 2014 workshop at Stanford University, the Future Learning Network will be hosting our annual 2015 conference around the same time and theme: Imagine Classrooms of Tomorrow. At the workshop in 2014, we invited a range of different perspectives – brought
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