- Twelve Year Sentence for Watching TV
We spend twelve years of our lives watching TV. It is implicated in half of all violent crime, and causes health and developmental problems for children. Focus Radio is launching a new course for Churches, home groups, cell groups, and individual Christians to understand how TV influences us and how we can respond positively.
(Filed: Tue Mar 20 2007)
- Futurelab challenges ‘factory-style’ schools
‘Factory-style’ schooling with a one-size-fits-all approach to learning must be challenged if we are to achieve a fully personalised education system.
(Filed: Wed Feb 28 2007)
- Learning platform helps London junior school to personalise learning
Pupils at Ardleigh Green Junior School in Havering, Essex are having their lessons truly personalised using the school’s learning platform. Children can be seen creating their own web pages, taking part in video conferencing and sharing revision materials with each other and schools across the country.
(Filed: Wed Feb 28 2007)
- French and British experts to analyse riots
Urban riots in Paris and northern England in recent years are set to be examined by international experts in a bid to address today's growing concerns around immigration, integration and identity.
(Filed: Mon Feb 12 2007)
- BECTA approval for comic-strip learning
BECTA, the Government agency supporting UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments, has approved the use of interactive comic-strip software program, Storywriter Toolkit.
(Filed: Wed Feb 07 2007)
- Shining innovation secures University double
Industrial innovation, including a project to develop a ground-breaking anti-tarnish silver, has won Sheffield Hallam University two prestigious awards.
(Filed: Fri Feb 02 2007)
- Brainvisa partners with LearnScapes to offer RapideL in South Africa
Brainvisa (www.brainvisa.com) a provider of end to end Learning solutions based out of US, UK, India and Australia, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Learnscapes in South Africa, to sell RapideL, the rapid eLearning content authoring solution and its services in the South African market.
(Filed: Thu Feb 01 2007)
- The Real Game
School children in the UK can now learn key life skills and improve their prospects online
(Filed: Tue Jan 23 2007)
- Tribal to train Early Years workers for Professional Status
Education and training specialist, Tribal Group, has won a contract to become a training provider for the new Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) in three regions: London, East England and South East England.
(Filed: Tue Jan 23 2007)
- Lasher joins Hall and Masie as a recognised learning ‘expert’
Trainer1’s Neil Lasher, has joined Brandon Hall, Elliott Masie, Bob Mosher, Fred Harburg and Jeanne C Meister as one of six experts who have each contributed an article to the January 2007 edition of the prestigious US-based Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine.
(Filed: Mon Jan 08 2007)
- Lasher speaks on informal learning – in the UK and USA
Neil Lasher, of Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading learning consultancies, and the developer of the ‘Five ‘A’s of learning’ instructional design model that relates specifically to informal, task-based and workflow e-learning materials, is to speak at both the Learning Technologies conference, being held at Olympia, London, on 31st January and 1st February 2007, and at the ASTD 2007 International Conference & Exposition, being held from 3rd to 6th June 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(Filed: Mon Dec 18 2006)
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