Problem-Based Learning: The Benefits to Students and Organisations
Good overview of Problem-Based learning (PBL), including a definition, set of assumptions. List of eight tasks around which PBL is based. Survey of the benefits of PBL and some examples. More...
Travelling Elk Project
From the European Schoolnet Newsletter: "A Swedish school is looking for schools from all around the world to host their "elk" for a couple of weeks. We have this teddy bear (teddy elk to be correct) and we have given him the mission to travel all around the world to find answers to different questions and learn more about different cultures. More...
Space for Species
This is very cool. It is a joint project of the Canadian Space Agency, the Canadian Wildlife Federation, the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, and the Canadian Wildlife Service. The idea of Space for Species is to allow students to cooperate online with researchers tracking migratory patterns. More...
Europe Catches Up on E-learning
The headline really has nothing to do with the story, which is about the creation of the eLearning Industry Group, a coalition of 15 European companies which met for the first time last week. More...
EU Copyright Directive Finally on the Road
The EU Council of Ministers has adopted the European Copyright Directive (ECD) giving member countries until 2003 to adopt the legislation. The directive impacts on a number of previously free uses of copyright information including quoting and deep linking. More...
Create Change - Challenging the Crisis in Scholarly Communication
This website created by the University of Glasgow is intended to address the crisis in the process by which researchers publish their work and access the work of others. More...
Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property Newsletter
Just launched and still displaying its inaugural issue, this newsletter may change its name as a result of an email (posted) from Richard Stallman suggesting that "intellectual property" is "a propaganda term" (I am inclined to agree with him). More...
Today's newsletter is coming to you from the Community Connect conference in Fredericton. So far it has been all bandwidth and data networks. More...
Nineteen academics from nine African countries have been selected for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship programme aimed at providing newly graduated African doctoral students with the means to put their research and ideas into practice on home soil and raise the profile of African research. More...The Human Resource Development Ministry has told the Lok Sabha that there was no move to increase the tuition fees at central universities "at present", writes Prakash Kumar for DH News Service. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
