The 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2015, focused on the development of advanced, reliable intelligent environments, as well as newly emerging and rapidly evolving topics. The conference included the Symposium on Future Intelligent Educational Environments and Learning 2015 (SOFIEEe’15), as well as thee 4th International Workshop on Smart Offices and Other Workplaces (SOOW’15); the 4th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE’15); and the 1st immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN’15). More...
The online journal IxD&A publishes five papers focused on technology-enhanced learning
IxD&A, the International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s), has just made available online its issue number 24, “Peer-to-Peer Exchange and the Sharing Economy: Analysis, Designs, and Implications”. More...
The NMC Horizon Report identifies six key trends accelerating K-12 education technology
The NMC and CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) presented the “NMC Horizon Report > 2015 K-12 Edition” during a special session at the annual ISTE Conference in Philadelphia, on June 29. More...
Code of practice for learning analytics published by JISC
British organisation JISC has just released the document “Code of practice for learning analytics”, providing guidance on the key legal, ethical and logistical issues that universities and colleges might face when they embark on learning analytics. More...
TALOE presents report on implementation of its e-assessment platform for teachers
TALOE (Time to Assess Learning Outcomes in E-learning) has developed a web-based platform to help teachers and trainers decide on the e-assessment strategies to use in their online courses. More...
The IDEAL project publishes report on who is interested in taking distance education courses
The IDEAL (Impact of Distance Education on Adult Learning) project has published the report “Distance education in European higher education – the potential’, which examines the profile of potential adult learners and looks at who is interested in taking distance education courses, their motivations and the main barriers to taking up studies. More...
The ODS Summer Academy encourages teachers to embrace innovation and open learning
Thirty four teachers and heads of schools from all over Europe participated this year in the Open Discovery Space International Summer Academy, held in Mati (Greece) from 12 to 17 July. More...
OpenMEd: Opening-up education in South Mediterranean countries
Five partners from Europe and nine from South Mediterranean Countries will soon start working together to widening participation and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a bottom-up approach to support the modernisation of HEIs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan. More...
More than 1,700 European MOOCs listed in the new scoreboard
Are you looking for MOOCs or institutions that offer free online courses? The MOOCs Scoreboard lists more than 1,700 MOOCs taking place all around Europe, 178 of them starting as from August 2015. More...
A new issue of the eLearning Papers on “Applied Games and Gamification” has been just published
The online journal eLearning Papers has just released its issue number 43 which explores different approaches and models that spark creative potential of people and bring together interdisciplinary teams to collaborate and produce applied games and gamified apps. More...