Global Learning: World Education Market 2001
The Global Learning supplement was published with The THES on 18 May 2001 and distributed at World Education Market (Vancouver, Canada: May 21-24, 2001). A challenge for our times With 872...
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A challenge for our times
With 872 million illiterate adults in the world, Unesco's dream of education for all is a distant one. Koichiro Matsuura details the realistic objectives ahead. A year ago, representatives from most...
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Thinkniks: trad v. fad
In educating the knowledge workers of the future, or the 'thinknik' class, e-learning efforts must put a premium on hard work and human interaction, argues Michael Zastrocky. In the past decade, the...
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Campus champs tackle heavies
Universities must act quickly to grasp the opportunities IT offers for education or risk losing market share to non-traditional providers, warns Richard Katz. Sales of CD singles fell by 14 per cent...
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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...