ACA Conference: A claim for Developping a New University
Begin of the week I attended the Annual Conference of the Academic Cooperation Association ACA. The themne of the two day conference in Berlin was "The many faces of Internationalisation". It was the first time for me in this community and I found it...

Keynote in Vilach @ ICL2007
This year is quite Austrian... :-) Very nice, since I like the mountains! In SEPT 07 I will be holding a keynote presentation at the 10th International Conference on Interactive Computer-Aided Learning (ICL2007) in Villach, Austria. The Conference on...

Workshop Moderation in Innsbruck (Austria) @ Microlearning 2007
I was asked to take over a workshop moderation for an interactive - Learning Cafe type of - workshop at this years Conference on Microcontents: Microlearning.org in Innsbruck. I look forward to discussing the concept of Quality and Evaluation for Microcontent...

New: Abstracts of "Handbook on Quality and Standardisation" available
Now the abstracts of my last book Ehlers/ Pawlowski (2006): Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in E-Learning. Springer Verlag. Heidelberg are available on the net: http://www.springerlink. com/content/r8j857/

Almost double the number of teachers needed to reach MDGs
Interesting finding which highlites the importance and the potential of ICT in developping Countries, esp. in sub saharan Africa. -------- Accordi ng to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), to get children into...

Das ist interessant: DIPF entwickelt computerbasierte Testverfahren
((Gesehen in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw - Pressemitteilung)) Neues DIPF-Projekt entwickelt computerbasierte Testverfahren für den Bildungsbereich. Die empirische Bildungsforschung der letzten zehn Jahre ist geprägt von Arbeiten im Bereich...

PROMOTION OF THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION
I just found a very interesting UNESCO initiative which we will now try to set up cooperations with and link it to our recently granted DAAD fund for organising eLearning workshops in the east African Region. Here some more info: ------------------- --------- http://www.avlc -science.org/new/promotion s.htm Since...

Borderless Higher Education - Perspectives and Challenges
cross order higher education is an increasing development. there is a good article by Svava Bjarnason from the Observatory of Borderless higher edcation on this issue - from a Commonwealth perspective...: Four ‘modes of supply’ are categorised and analysed,...

Benefits Of E-Learning Benchmarks: Australian
Case Studies illustrate ways in which Vocational Education... http://www.e jel.org/Volume-5/v5-i1/Cho y.pdf