Posted by Nick | July 31st, 2009
In America Colleges and Universities are offering online courses in every subject you can think off, from some of their oldest professors
In fact Youtube have created an educational hub where universities and colleges can add their online learning material in video format!
Many Universities have chosen to upload education videos to Youtube including members of [...]
Posted by Nick | July 30th, 2009
Internet Technology has improved greatly over the past few years making teleconferencing a more viable option for the modern business. Teleconferencing nowadays can display voice and video and are now often used in meetings, and have been used to secure countless large business deals
The same technology nowadays is even now being used in education, some [...]
Posted by Nick | July 21st, 2009
Teachers in the UK will benefit from £5.6 million from the government to improve technology skills. The money will be used to increase technology skills from primary schools to secondary schools.
It is important that the young students in the UK keep up to date with the latest technology developments, so they don’t get left behind. [...]
Posted by Loiuse | July 20th, 2009
The government has stated that it will be making another 10,000 higher education places available for this year. They have also said they are attempting to reduce the time it takes for the average student to pay back the loans for their university courses.
The costs for the new courses such as technology, science and maths [...]
Posted by Nick | July 19th, 2009
Learning in the 21at century requires the use of modern technology, most students nowadays will use a combination of their laptops, phones, ipods and the universities network to complete their studies.
The universities in Wales have now had a year with £1 million pound grants each to meet learning objectives through technology. This money has been [...]
Posted by Nick | July 16th, 2009
Gordon Brown has stated that there will be more university places next year. Gordon brown has made the startling promise but has not put a figure on how much it is going to cost.
Applications for university are 10% higher than last year which may leave thousands of wannabe students disappointed. In fact around 50,000 [...]
Posted by Nick | July 15th, 2009
Ethipoia one of the third world countries is rolling out a cool 250,000 laptops to its schoolteachers, the computers will all be running Azure a platform by Microsoft
The laptops will help improve education around the whole of Ethiopia, and will be using the cloud computing network from Microsoft. The software on the laptop will be [...]
Posted by Nick | July 13th, 2009
Nasa recently announced that they will be funding education by putting money into several US science centers and museums. In fact there will be over $6 million available.
The proposal will use NASA resources to help further enhance the existing education programs in the museums. NASA is unique in the fact that they have excellent facilities [...]
Posted by Nick | July 12th, 2009
With today’s technology learning is longer confined to the traditional children’s classrooms. Nowadays there are laptops, PDAs and other modern digital equipment which is helping to bring the world into the classroom.
Modern technology is making a great different in education and is allowing children to learn more quicker. Recently the US education department did an [...]
Posted by Nick | July 9th, 2009
The new digital decade has changed the way that teenagers read and listed to music, most teenagers these days won’t play games in the street or go to the library. They spend more than 57% of their time on watching TV, going on the internet or playing on their Playstation
A survey in New Jersey stated [...]