New Horizons for Learning's open learning community on the Internet is called the Building - more a verb than a noun, as it continues to grow daily.
Two web-based resources were identified in Ukraine ( www.sexualeducation.org.ua) and Russia ( www.teen-info.ru) to serve as an open learning space for adolescents and young people seeking reproductive health and HIV related information.
Open Discovery Space (ODS), funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, is the result of collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), is associated with the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project, funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, resulting of the collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.
The school uses open "learning centres" rather than traditional classrooms and boasts a fitness suite with state-of-the-art sports equipment.
Instructors who taught last summer said students were engaged and open to learning.
Both countries can acknowledge that there is a problem and be open to learning from nations that have encouraged female leadership and success to blossom.
Inaugurated by Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, the conference explored ways to increase access to sustainable and learner-centred quality education and equip secondary school students with vocational skills through open distance learning.
The selected NGOs will open 18 Community Learning Centers in Dahuk, Sulaymaniyah, and Erbil.
What they promise is open and free learning and a new way of making some good in the world.
Search engines such as Google have ushered in the era of open-source learning.
This conference noted that open and distance learning, and specifically OERs, present opportunities to widen access to quality education.
Search engines such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) have ushered in the era of open-source learning.
Edutools compares open source and proprietary learning content management systems in terms of their features.
The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software with the first release in July 2004.
But some nonprofits have been very intentional to build a culture in their organizations that is open to failure and learning.
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This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.
And yet the success of that engagement depends upon understanding -- on sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one another.
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The key, he says, is not just being in different cultures, but being open to immersion: learning the language, adapting to an alternate way of life.
Mr. Frings, age 52, says he especially enjoyed meeting the winery's owner, Hugh Davies, and learning to open a bottle of bubbly with a saber, a technique Napoleon's army is said to have used when celebrating battlefield victories.
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain and released with an open license (such as Creative Commons).
By utilizing both mobile and cloud-based technology, the SMILE Consortium provides an open platform for creating new learning environments that enable Classroom 3.0.
That was the precursor to my learning how to open high security locks and provided invaluable lessons in logic, analytical thinking, mechanics, patience and persistence.
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We also know if there is too much order, where everything is structured, the child may close up and not be open to information and to learning.
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An educational outreach and learning centre will open next year.
The two founders of CoderDojo are just as inspirational, 20-year old James Wheltan and his business partner, Bill Liao created the open source coding movement out of nothing except a belief that learning, especially programming, should be free and open, oh and the world needs more programmers.
In June, Kiko launched what it calls the open-source model for online learning.
In short, the Learning Registry has created open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow publishers and others to quickly publish metadata and paradata about their content.
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