Volume V, Issue XXVIII, August 23, 2010, Weekly eNewsletter

   FEATURED INTERVIEW
Giving an Edge Over English,
Interview with Vivek Agarwal
An MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Vivek is also a visiting faculty to the International Management Institute. Committed to exploring how technology can be used to make high quality education and training available to the billions of people at a cost that they can afford and at a place they can reach...

 FEATURED STORY
ICT-Enabled Education as a Right to Education:
An Imperative


This paper argues that Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled education should be an integral part of the Right to Education Act (2009) passed by the Parliament of India...
K 12 NEWS
Project-based learning and tele-collaboration in
Chinese Schools by UNESCO

UNESCO organised a workshop at Bangkok - ICT in Education Programme - under the Facilitating ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project took place in Guangzhou, China during July 27-30, 2010, in collaboration with South China Normal University and the Educational Information Centre of Guang dong Province...
Best CCE school award by CBSE
Soon, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is to institute two awards for schools all over India so as to encourage the implementation of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) as well as the Mentoring and Monitoring System...
HIGHER EDUCATION
NIIT launches GNIIT for engineers in Delhi
NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia's largest IT trainer, today, launched the 'industry endorsed' multiple track GNIIT for Engineers in Delhi...
8 varsities by ICFAI with INR 400 crore
Known for its chain of B Schools, the ICFAI Group, is planning to set up eight universities in as many states in the next two years with an investment of INR 400 crore...
CORPORATE NEWS
Deal strikes between K12 Inc. and Greenfield Public Schools to open Virtual Academy, Herndon
One of the America's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online school programmes for students in schools, K12 Inc.has announced on August 18, 2010, a new partnership with Greenfield Public Schools to launch Massachusetts' first full-time, statewide online public school...
Microsoft, JEI partner to launch First Innovative Education Forum in Jordan
Under the aegis of Dr Khaled Al Karaky, the Minister of Education, Microsoft Jordan has launched the 1st annual local Innovative Education Forum (IEF) in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) ...

UPCOMING EVENTS


Open Education Conference
Barcelona, Spain
2 to 4 November 2010

AFRICACAMPUS 2010
Dakar, Senegal
29 to 30 November 2010

European Conference for Academic Disciplines
Gottenheim near Freiburg, Germany
28 November to 3 December 2010

IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society 2010
Perth, Australia
29 November to 1 December 2010


ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN
Berlin, Germany
1 to 3 December 2010

CITEM - Conference on International Trade, Education and Marketing
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
7 to 10 December 2010

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