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Facebook fight: why we banned laptops, iPads and smartphones in lectures
I recently invited a top management consultant to give a guest lecture at my course at Copenhagen Business School. I went to sit among the students during the talk. They had been instructed to take notes, since the consultant was to be case material for their exam. Despite this, I watched a student sitting less than one metre in front of me spend almost the entire two-hour lecture on Facebook and private email.
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An open letter to Nicky Morgan
A teacher in England writes anonymously to the UK’s new Secretary of State for Education.
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Assessment teacher professional development and education content reforms in Armenia
Since 2009, one of OSF-Armenia’s priorities in its general education strategy has been to achieve policy change by piloting and improving subject standards and curricula.
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This boy of Zambian origin is the first student to become a Microsoft certified professional
Fifteen-year-old Samkeliso Kimbinyi of Zambian origin but based in the United Kingdom, is creating a buzz in the information and communication technology (ICT) world by becoming one of the youngest Microsoft Qualified Professionals in Europe.
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Tajikistan: Big brother has eyes in the classroom and beyond
Mehrinisso loves teaching, but finds the closed-circuit surveillance cameras in her classroom unsettling.
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Can technology transform education in Trinidad & Tobago?
Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Education recently co-hosted the second Virtual Educa Caribbean forum, a two-day workshop which explored different ways in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can have an impact on education.
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The 400 classes
Improving educational quality: renewing teaching through the use of high quality audio-visual materials.
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Really open education, reflections from the CC policy debate
Almost 40 experts and stakeholders from a range of educational projects, national schooling systems, and national and international non-governmental organizations across Europe came together for the ROE debate.
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A Plan to Conquer the Digital Divide, or a Technological Leap of Faith?
A policy brief titled “Turkey’s FATIH Project” suggests ways in which this important investment in educational technology can lead to the best possible learning outcomes for all students in Turkey.
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New report on the state of Open Educational Resources in Poland published
UNESCO Institute for Informational Technologies in Education (IITE) has published a new country report on the state and challenges of the Open Educational Resources (OER) in Poland, titled Open Educational […]
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