Anti-poverty targets in Africa will not be met, UN warns
Anti-poverty targets in Africa will not be met, UN warns · Millennium goals within reach for much of world · Unsafe water undermines educational reforms Recommende reading: http://business.guardian.c o.uk/story/0,,2116107,00.h tml

ICT in Africa still haunted
ICT Policy in Africa taken from > http://www.sangonet.org.za /conference2007/index.php? option=com_content&task=vi ew&id=75&Itemid=1 The demons of the past will remain the evils that will continue cursing the development of ICT in...

Columbia --> Conference for Quality in E-Learning in Higher Education
I am involved in a project which is establishing cooperations between European Higher education institutions and latin American higher education institutions: WINDS-LA. Now I am invited to talk about European Higher Eudcation Quality policies in Columbia,...

"Today is an important decision day for Darfur - and for change" --> recomended reading...
Speech to the United Nations in New York 31 July 2007 Speaking at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the UK PM said that "today is an important decision day for Darfur - and for change". Read the transcript It is a pleasure to be here...

SAIDE to develop an OER portal for the African Virtual University
SAIDE to develop an OER portal for the African Virtual University The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has signed an agreement to develop an open educational resources (OER) portal for the African Virtual University (AVU). The project...

Learning Impact 2007 Report --> by IMS
This report is provided to the general public of leaders and decision makers around the world focused on the same thing that IMS GLC is focused on: improving learning and education with the support of technology. It does not represent the views of any...

Share experiences! UNESCO launches ICT-in-Education online community
As part of a new “Knowledge Communities” project, UNESCO Office in Bangkok has launched an online ICT-in-Education community: an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators, policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions...

FECONE-Project: Creating value for Learners
It is good to see that pedagogy is focussed again. I think this project is an escellent example of how reflective learning can be build into content development and quality strategies. ------ The project is based on the premises that learning is socially...

NEW ::: OECD Study: Open Educational Resources
The OECD has released a new study about open Educational resourses: Definition, Actors, Quality. Even the sustainability issues is touched. great! http://213.253.134 .43/oecd/pdfs/browseit/960 7041E.pdf

An global overview on accreditation and quality matters for Higher Education
Two interesting report on quality for HE and Online Education: 1. Written by the Australian Agency for Accreditation, the global report gives interesting insight into the state-of-the-art of accreditation and quality for Higher education, esp. in the...