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CIDA City Campus partners with SAP University Alliances

CIDA ICT Academy has provided SAP ERP training to more than 150 students with the vast majority employed by companies that run SAP. The SAP Africa and CIDA City Campus partnership was sealed in form of an agreement in presence of Max Fuzani, SAP Africa's University Alliances Manager, and Wiseman Jack, acting Executive Dean of CIDA City Campus. Students of CIDA City Campus students are to have a full access to the SAP University Alliances TERP10 training course following the signing yesterday of an agreement. The agreement aims to introduce the programme as part of the CIDA Bachelor of Business Administration curriculum.

The signing ceremony was hosted at the CIDA City Campus, Johannesburg and attended by senior CIDA staff members and students, as well as senior SAP executives. Offered in more than 30 countries as a part of SAP's education and training initiatives, the TERI 10 course aims to equip students with a deeper understanding of all functional areas within SAP software and thereby better prepare them to advance their careers in the fields of ICT and business management. The course not only introduces students to the principles behind business process, but exposes them to SAP ERP by working on functional versions of the software in simulated environments.

Kerela Government and Intel launch a regional version of Skoool Learning

As a part of a collaboration, Kerela government and Intel on February 20, 2010, launched a regional version of the Skoool Learning and Teaching Technologies educational website. This website is an e-platform to help teachers and students learn key concepts in mathematics and science. Thus, Kerala gets to be the first state in the country to deploy Skoool content in all schools. The website (http://kerala.skoool.in/) can be accessed free on the Internet.

Peter Hamilton, the worldwide Director of the Intel Skoool programme, mentioned that the aim of the programme is to benefit societies by encouraging learning with help of technologies. The Skoool web technologies are designed for use on all personal computers. The online resource, an initiative of IT@School Project of the General Education Department of Kerala government, is designed specifically for students and teachers of mathematics and science, and provides resources in English and Malayalam to enhance their understanding of these subjects.

Online quizzes of no help to students, says a research

According to a new research study, online quizzes are not helping students learn their subject. It was shown through a study done by Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Brian Grinder of Eastern Washington University, Spokane and Erik Joost de Bruijn of University of Twente, The Netherlands, that for students of operations management course, online quizzes are not as useful as some educators might think.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the educational environment fall into two distinct categories. In the first, ICT is used for instructional purposes. In the second, for testing. As a part of the latter, online quizzes are increasingly popular as tools for testing student knowledge and skills and also as formative tools to help teachers mould the curriculum to fit the learning progress of the students. Howver, the above mentioned team discovered that students perceive such quizzes as helpful, but they may not be as useful to learning as both students and educators believe. The team investigated the behaviour and performance of students using online quizzes. They found that overall student grades were not improved by the formative online quizzes. The details of findings were published in the International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education.

Certiport with ETS announce the development of iCritical Thinking Certification

In response to the growing need for digitally literate workers and students with in-demand, applied ICT skills, Educational Testing Service and Certiport, the acknowledged leaders in educational assessment and certification, have developed a new certification program: iCritical Thinking Certification powered by ETS. The core of the iCritical Thinking Certification program is an outcomes-based examination that can be used to assess and validate critical thinking and problem solving skills in technology-enabled academic and workplace environments. The iCritical Thinking Certification exam measures the range of cognitive and applied ICT literacy skills aligned with the nationally recognized Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) standards and is endorsed by the Global Digital Literacy Council (GDLC). iCritical Thinking features real-time, simulated, scenario-based exam items; a marketable certification credential; independent credential verification; and individual and group reporting.

The exam itself takes about an hour to complete. It is designed and suitable for students in grades 10 through college, teachers, employers, the adult workforce and those seeking employment. Content areas reflect real-world academic and workplace scenarios. The iCritical Thinking Certification exam provides a clear understanding of how test takers incorporate and integrate these technologies while performing ICT literacy tasks that require them to define, access, evaluate, manage, integrate, create and communicate information. iCritical Thinking Certification may be taken as a stand-alone certification exam, or it may be paired with other Certiport digital literacy, desktop computing, or desktop publishing programs to create certification solutions aligned with specific market needs. When paired with other programs such as Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC

CBSE makes its helpline free of cost

A toll free helpline which provides support to students before the board exams has been introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE). The 52 counselors across the country are just one call away. Now students can avail help from any part of the country at 1800-11-7002 instead of different numbers, free of cost. The operators of the helpline will answer the general queries of students and will also transfer their calls to the counselors for psychological counseling.

The toll free number was operationlised by February 1. The tele-helpline is supposed to serve students queries till April 8, 2010. It is for the first time that the Board has introduced a Centralized Access System akin to that of a call centre this year. Operated by 52 principals and trained counsellors from CBSE affiliated government and private schools along with psychologists and social scientists from 8 a.m. to midnight.

KIE launches EdQual ICT for basic education

Kigali Insititute of Education (KIE) has launched a new research programme for implementing good quality of education in the country.  < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

The research programme named EdQual ICT will especially use for basic education of Science and Mathematics. About 200 educators will discuss the use of ICT in the teaching of Science and Mathematics. The programme is facilitated by four professors of < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK, Chile, South Africa and Rwanda. This is first kind of education programme in Rwanda with the use of ICT. The purpose of Edqual is to generate and promote new knowledge which will improve education quality for the poorest people in the world and raise gender equity. The five year research programme is aimed for designing initiatives, which can be implemented realistically a large scale in sub-Saharan Africa and other low developed countries.

UEW students encouraged to pace up with ICT

The Dean of the Faculty of Science Education, Mawuadem Koku Amedeker mentioned that mounting most of the academic programmes online, the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) , consequently requires that lecturers develop and put their lesson plans, along with assignments on-line for students to access. The need for the hour, therefore, is to ensure that the teacher-trainees of the University become proficient in Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and be accustomed to extensive use of computer. The Dean spoke about above while presenting a co-authored paper by Dr. Issifu Yidana of the department of ICT Education in Winneba and himself.

The title of the paper was, 'Are our teacher-trainees prepared to meet the exigencies of the changes in the policies of course registration, checking of examination results and assessment submissions?' Its findings examined the strengths and weaknesses of undergraduate science teacher-trainees of UEW in ICT skills. It was suggested through the findings that UEW should embark on a more comprehensive ICT programme to enable teacher-trainees to acquire skills in ICT.

Students to get 30 minutes extra for CBSE IX class exams

With aim of reducing stress amongst students during their annual examinations, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made an announcement for class IX students to give half an hour extra. Recently, a circular was sent to all the CBSE schools about the conduct of assessment for class IX students and it was suggested that schools are required not be strict about the time limit, allowing students an extra period of half an hour for performing during examination.

According to the circular, the decision was taken into account keeping in mind that the speed at which students answer vary from one to another. With the recent directive of the Board, the level of anxiety among students has decreased and the news of completing the exam in more than the stipulated time has generated confidence.

A new SRCC awaits students

A unique learning experience awaits students getting enrolled at Delhi University's prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce for the upcoming new academic year. The college is adding two more computer centres by July, taking the total number to three. The college is also going the wi-fi way. Students stepping into any of the 25 classrooms in the college will get to study in an air-conditioned and IT-enabled environment from this year.

The college has also constructed 16 additional faculty rooms in the past couple of years. The tutorials are held in the faculty rooms. In all, there are 54 faculty rooms now, and just like the classrooms they are wi fi-enabled and air-conditioned too. So are the six rooms in the administration block. The financial grant for all these infrastructure development activities came partly from funds released by the University in the wake of the expansion for the Other Backward Classes and partly from liberal donations by the college alumni. The college is also keen that every student should carry a laptop to the campus. Those who can't afford it will be provided with loan facilities from the banks. The Principal has also requested some corporate giants to offer financial aid enabling the students from economically underprivileged background to buy laptops. The college has added 73 seats in view of the increase in the overall intake of students. Out of 551 seats on offer this year, 442 are in B.Com (Honours) and the remaining 109 for Economics (Honours).

IT forum to be hosted by CISCO

Allowing delegates to meet more than 2,000 key technical and business decision makers from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, an event to be hosted by Cisco will be held from March 28 to 31 at the Bahrain International Circuit. Cisco will host its industry-accredited Networkers for the first time in the Middle East.

The event is themed as 'Knowledge is Power'. The objective of the event is training, education and networking. The theme has been developed in collaboration with the Bahrain government under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Economic Development Board chairman. Cisco Networkers Bahrain 2010 will also be an opportunity to meet the engineers who design and develop Cisco solutions.

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