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India gets Techno Legal Education Boost

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There apparently, is a urgent need for India to take up educational and legal reforms. Under this reform attention is required for the amalgamation of legal education with information and communication technology (ICT). An example of latter includes cyber law, which is an important facet of such an interaction of technology and law. Being more academic than professional, Indian education system seems to lag somewhat at the performance front. There is a shortage in India of the institutions that can impart good techno-legal skill development education, training and coaching.

Launching the first ever 'Techno-Legal Online Coaching, Training and Education Centre' in India, Perry4Law and PTLB, targets at developing the skill and talent of the students and professionals seeking a good career in cyber law and allied fields. The initiative proposed looks at inviting interested students, teachers and partners from all the educational streams, encouraging them to be enrolled and contacting Perry4Law at earliest. The contemporary skill requirements are multidisciplinary in nature where a computer science student or professional must also have basic level of legal knowledge.

Black Cube ICT Mart to support Entrepreneurship in Malaysia

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With start of Black Cube ICT Marts in institutions of higher education, it is hoped that the marts are to provide glimpse of entrepreneurship to students, in addition to offering Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) products at reasonable rates. Encouraging the use of Black Cube, Higher Education Minister, Datuk Seri Mohamad Khaled Nordin told that in order to draw attention of students towards entrepreneurship, the management of the institutions should look into ways to use the Black Cube concept that is based on franchising.

An agreement was signed amongst Black Cube management, MyDistributor (M) Sdn Bhd and Koperasi UPM (Kuputra) as well as several other ICT companies involved in the concept, in presence of Mohamed Khaled. Mohamed Khaled who welcomed the concept hoped the opening of the Black Cube ICT Mart in UPM can be a platform for more such outlets to be opened in other institutions of higher education. The aim now is that Black Cube should be replicated in all local IPT campuses and is expected to create more value-added services to universities. Black Cube is the first in Malaysia to be awarded with the 'Authorized Service Provider' ICT centre on-campus.

Amity University partners with EMCs Academic Alliance Programme to Advance ISM Curriculum

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EMC, leader in Information Infrastructure Solutions, today announced the appointment of Amity University, NOIDA as the Uttar Pradesh's first Nodal Academy under the EMC Academic Alliance (EAA) Program. Amity University, Noida has also officially become India's first university to include Information Storage and Management (ISM) course as a mandatory part of curriculum for IT and Computer Science engineering students. The EMC Academic Alliance (EAA) program is an EMC initiative that aims to collaborate with the leading educational institutions around the world to address the emerging knowledge gap in storage technologies by developing a resource pool of skilled, certified and industry-ready storage professionals. This is the only program in the industry that offers an 'open course' on ISM for students. So far, EMC has forged alliances with over 150+ education institutions on other course programs in India that have reached out to over 9,500+ students.

Under the program, Amity University will offer a course on ISM to 500+ students who are expected to enroll into the ISM curriculum starting from the 2010-2011 academic year. The course will be part of the engineering curriculum for students in the seventh semester Computer Science and eighth semester IT Engineering. As a nodal university for EMC, Amity University becomes a member of the EAA industry council and the regional centre for all EAA activities in UttarPradesh including faculty readiness seminars, regional storage conferences and ISM-related course. In addition, EMC will be donating textbooks to the Amity University library and Amity University will be eligible for discounted EMC products and services. 'There is an increasing demand for skilled professionals from the IT sector. The Information Storage and Management course is designed to provide aspiring students, a thorough understanding of latest and specialized technologies,' says Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Amity University.


CIDA City Campus partners with SAP University Alliances

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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