The courses shall discuss various real-time issues and their possible solutions. These STTPs for engineering teachers have been designed to train them in emerging fields of engineering, familiarising them with new trends in modern engineering, getting hands on experience with various tools and technologies and cultivating interest in research and awareness of the use of simulators in academics and industries. 'The various STTPs that will be conducted include emerging trends in earthquake resistant design and construction of structures, robotics, web services and service oriented computing and other topics covering the electronic, mathematics and chemistry departments,' said Sehgal.
Nirma University to host inter-disciplinary workshop
Free education for blind to be offered at Punjab University
The Panjab University (PU) on Monday announced that it will provide free education to blind students from the next academic session. 'This decision has been taken as we want to fulfil our commitment towards the visually impaired students. There would be no tuition fees for the 100 % visually impaired. The university will also provide them free stay and food at subsidised rates in the hostels,' Naval Kishore, dean of students' welfare, told sources on Monday. 'Both new and old students of the university can avail this opportunity. This is probably for the first time in the country that any university has come up with such an initiative.'
In various departments of PU, seats are already reserved for single girl children and for cancer and AIDS patients. 'It is a very generous gesture of the PU towards blind students. Normally there are only a few seats reserved for us in the departments, but free education, food and stay is quite extraordinary,' said Brijesh Thakur, a blind student studying in the PU.
NIT and Tata sign MoU for building knowledge pool and resources
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal and the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hyderabad. V. Rajanna, General Manager and Regional Head, TCS and Y. V. Rao, Director, NIT, signed the MoU to envisage building technical knowledge pool and development of skilled human resources. As per MoU, training facilities will be provided to students and faculties of the computer science and engineering department of NIT. There would be two-way transfer of technology information and knowledge through collaborative programme such as internships, guest lectures, seminar and symposia.
Exchange of visits of technical people of the industry to institute and vice-versa, provide access to knowledge resources of the institute to the industry and vice versa will be a part of it. Apart from this, pooling up of knowledge and expertise of technical people of the industry and development of computer science and engineering on mutually agreed subject areas will also be provided. 'We have been pioneering in industry and academicians collaboration and have been working together since early 1980s,' said V. Rajanna.
DMP2009
DMP2009 is a portable HDD media player built in with personal video recorder. As small as a DVD case, it has a built in SATA Hard disk capacity of 320 GB. DMP2009
The device is useful even for recording EDUSAT programmes or any satellite based programmes in colleges for later telecast. Moreover, it is an economical solution as it replaces the PC, TV, tuner card and the manpower needed to record programmes. It also eliminates consumables like DVD's for saving the content.
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DMP2009 has NAS functions which enable you to manage and exchange files between the media player and PC through network. The media player can identify all the media files on the network and can run those files on to the TV. You could run movies or programmes on TV anywhere in the canteen or hostel, provided the programmes are available on the server or any PC in the network. It has both Ethernet connectivity as well as WiFi for network access.
It is a true personal device as one could copy movies, music, and photos from PC to DMP2009 and enjoy the multimedia content with the family on TV. One can even use this device to watch movies while on the move. DMP2009 is available at INR 12,000 + taxes with one year warranty.
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Bangladesh receives $81 mln from World Bank to develop higher education
Bangladesh receives $81 mln from World Bank to develop higher education
A WB release said the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project will support both innovation and accountability within public and private universities and enhance the technical and institutional capacity of the higher education sector in Bangladesh.
Japanese Education ministry announces additional package
Among the measures are the outfitting of every public elementary and junior high school in the country with an interactive white board, upgrades to televisions, computers and networks as part of the school information and communication technologies plan, and a 1 billion yen English program for elementary school teachers. Training teachers in charge of English for 5th and 6th year elementary school students is the other major part of the new package.
MSU scholars to help reform Pakistan's teacher-education system
A team of education experts from Michigan State University will play a key role in a US$ 75 million effort to improve basic education in Pakistan by improving teachers' training and skills over the next five years. MSU researchers will support the Pakistan Higher Education Commission's initiative to create a standard curriculum for a four-year baccalaureate of education degree at Pakistan universities.
Currently, teacher education programmes in Pakistan vary widely and are often subpar, said Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, asso-ciate professor in MSU's College of Education and the project's principal investigator. MSU will collaborate with 15 universities from Pakistan's four provinces to improve their training and certification programs for instructors who will teach at the high-school level.
growing demand for Private education in Singapore
The private education sector in Singapore has seen growing demand as more people seek additional training. The East Asia Institute of Management (EASB) is seeing a significant jump in student enrolment and has plans to roll out more degree programmes.
EASB said it has admitted 30% more students in the last six months, especially into the MBA programme. Principal of EASB, Andrew Chua, said: 'Students and working adults who are retrenched recently are taking the opportunity to improve themselves for better paying jobs when the recovery takes place.
Students get laptops in Dadeldhura, Nepal
With the aim of improving education quality and access, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal has provided laptop computers to 180 school children and teachers (grade 2 and 3) of three public schools in Dadeldhura district. The project is carried out in partnership with Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) and Department of Education.
WFP Country Representative Richard Ragan said, 'The laptop project will improve the quality of teaching and provide teachers and students with new learning opportunities and resources, in an attempt to bridge the inequalities across Nepal's different socio-economic populations.'
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MS Cloud Computing to be launched in Thailand in 2,000 schools Cloud computing, in simple terms, can be seen as offering computing as a utility service, like electricity, where instead of purchasing expensive capacity and software, clients pay only for what they use by connecting with a cloud platform via the Internet. |
Preparing students for 21st Century
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn”
– Alvin Toffler
This is when it becomes important for us to develop responsible global citizens and leaders by providing a world-class international education by nurturing, developing and guiding our current and future manpower. Here, The Indian Heights School, Dwarka is trying to change the face of education in this fast moving interconnected world by making the children familiar with a range of learning styles, including their own, with appropriate use of learning resources including technology.
Brainchild of well known publishers Arya Book Depot, and founded by Bhagwati Devi Foundation, The Indian Heights is distinguished by its attitude and values towards learning, and its commitment towards providing quality education. The Indian Heights School has leveraged the best of both traditional and contemporary schools of education, aspiring to be the best progressive school in India.
The school focuses on excellence in academics and on nurturing pupils to develop their full potential so that they May face future challenges with confidence and enthusiasm. The Indian Heights School is unique in its weave of inventive thinking, multiple intelligences and differentiated learning. Simmi Kher, Director, The Indian Heights School, says, “We recognise the need to prepare the children for the challenges of the world, and we are committed to nurture creativity in each child of our school. The curriculum is based on the education system that stimulates children to use their multiple faculties through broad-based activities programme.”
The Indian Heights incorporates the best practices of our heritage by combining globalisation and intimacy for education, social inclusiveness and a sustainable future for humanity, collaboration as a vehicle for change, technology as a lever of transformation and having an open system which would foster innovation through its unique features.
Every classroom is connected to the Wi-Fi network, therefore making the campus student-friendly, with universal access to Internet and other technological support, students become aware from the outset that learning can and should be ‘Anywhere-Anytime’
Tradition
The curriculum ensures that the children are exposed to the rich heritage of Indian history, folklore, literature, art, and culture. The classical languages and Yoga are therefore an integral part of the curriculum. Above all, it is the constant endeavour of the staff to sensitise the students not only to the traditional Indian values but also universal values that epitomise our Indian culture.
Technology
The advent of the new technological era has redefined the very parameters of the educational process. While recognising this basic fact The Indian Heights School has kept the teacher as the pinnacle of the learning process-but with a difference. The teacher is no longer the ‘provider’ of all knowledge. He or she is a ‘facilitator’, who uses the new technology to motivate the students to explore for themselves the world of knowledge.
Technology is extensively used as a learning tool. Every classroom is connected to the Wi-Fi network, therefore making the campus student-friendly, with universal access to Internet and other technological support, students become aware from the outset that learning can and should be ‘Anywhere-Anytime’.
Laboratories are fully equipped with learning aids for the assigned subjects in addition to video screens, LCD projectors, interactive white boards and networked computer terminals. Teachers use their computers to draw in the appropriate levels of new research in lesson plans. A rich digital library, in addition to the conventional library, provides comprehensive resource material to the teacher and student to prepare their lessons.
e-Learning has become part of education and is improving the quality of learning through using interactive computers, online communications, and information systems.Video conferencing is another such powerful tool. The class one students of the school have been video conferencing with their counterparts in Lenah Valley School, Australia.
Excellence
The school recognises the fact that teach child must feel that soul-lifting joy that comes with the recognition ‘I did my best!’ This search for excellence is conducted in a very positive environment where every child revels in the scaling of greater heights.
Learning by doing
Understanding of cultures, developing creative ways of looking at problems and guided tours to places of everyday interest arouses the child’s innate curiosity to learn and discover. This way child gets to apply knowledge which not only cements understanding but also makes him/her confident, life long learner and hands on person.
Collaboration
It is the firm belief of the school that its students can grow only if the ambience, in which they live and work, is shaped by a genuine collaboration amongst all stakeholders; students, teachers, parents, management, and the local community. The school has adopted a slum school ‘Anugrah’ in Bhartpur so students not only empathise with the needs of the lesser privileged, but also to ‘give back’ to the community in which they live.
Multiple Intelligences
The children learn in myriad ways and demonstrate intelligences beyond mere language and mathematical abilities. The school encourages the exploration, demonstration and excellence of these intelligences. The curriculum provides opportunities for children to learn, and demonstrate their learning in multiple ways.
International Understanding
School to School exchange programmes all over the world and educational tours are orgainsed to various parts of the world with an aim of sensitising students to different cultures. Children from overseas study here and many international festivals, camps and activities are organised incorporating a global dimension into the curriculum.
The Director
Simmi Kher,the Director is an educator par excellence both towards pedagogy as well as establishing sound school management systems. She has teaching and administrative experience and joined the school from Springdales School, Pusa Road where she worked as coordinator Computer Resource Center. She combines her instruction, administrative and consulting experience with a deep understanding of meaningful know-how in education and pedagogy. She brings with her rich experience of Indian and Global education systems. She is a recipient of the several prestigious awards both at International and National levels, Vidyahree Award for excellence in Education, Digital Learning Power School Award, Mondialogo School Award, Environmental Award, to name a few.
AMSI takes over the Lebanese School in Qatar
AMSI takes over the Lebanese School in Qatar
Established in 1975, The Lebanese School has over 1600 students studying in both English and French mediums. 'We shall better the academic delivery, enhance the student perception of standard programmes and take full advantage of technology and advances in occupational fields to improve the school performance with total commitment to social development and welfare,' announced CEO Adonis Nasr.
Brunei students as tech savvy as their peers elsewhere
This was revealed by Awang Haji Abdul Rahim bin Derus, the Acting Director of the department during the official launching of Microsoft Live@Edu for Chung Hwa Middle School (CHMS), BSB. He added, 'Towards this end, we are providing the resources and support to assist students and teachers in this digital journey that promises to transform the teaching and learning environment.
HELP set to achieve RM 100 mln revenue
Driven by increasing student numbers, higher fees and a plethora of new product offerings, HELP International Corp Bhd is set to achieve about RM100 mln revenue in this fiscal year ending October 31. 'We want to hit more than RM 100 mln in turnover and we are very confident of reaching our target, buoyed by these factors,' President Datuk Dr Paul Chan Tuck Hoong said.
The university college operator in Malaysia is well-known for its economics, business and psychology courses. Datuk Hoong said HELP aimed to recruit up to 3,500 students this year. The market potential for international students remains huge with as many as 72,000 pursuing higher tertiary studies in Malaysia last year, a 40% increase from 2007.
ICT training for 145 schools in Uganda
An agreement for this was signed between the government and the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation in January to implement the 16-month project. Dr. Jane Egau Okou, a member of the project steering committee, said the project would also create a master pool of trainers in ICT.
Prescriptive national curriculum restricts teachers in UK
Teachers are expected to adhere so strictly to the national curriculum that they do not have the freedom to respond to the needs of pupils, says Julian Chapman, president of NASUWT – the largest teachers' union in the UK.
Addressing the Union Annual Conference in Bournemouth, he said, students' concentration span appears to have been tailored to the sound and vision bite, rather than having to undergo the more rigorous process of in-depth learning. 'One solution … might lie in allowing greater freedom for teachers to make professional decisions as to what and how, and even when, they teach, within much less restrictive guidelines.'
New Zealand's reannz worth $200 million a year
Investing in an advanced national research and education network will deliver at least $4 of economic benefits for every tax dollar spent by 2015, a recent study suggests. The study, undertaken by Temple: Capital Investment Specialists, assessed the value of REANNZ (Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand) to the New Zealand economy.
REANNZ is a crown-owned company that operates KAREN (Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network), linking New Zealand's tertiary institutions, research organisations, libraries, schools and museums. The government is pouring $51 million a year into REANNZ. The study suggests that economic benefits from the investment will rise steadily, reaching $200 million a year by 2015.
IIM Calcutta launches programme for Indian Railway Service officers
IIM Calcutta launches programme for Indian Railway Service officers
IIM Calcutta has been commissioned by the Railway Board of India to conduct a 12-week executive general management programme for 60 officers, as part of the regular 18-month training programme for Indian Railway Service probationer officers. The general management programme will cover topics in economics, human resource management, management information systems, public policy, behavioural sciences, finance and accounting, etc.
EU to help India for skill development
'The aim is to support the objectives of skill development in India where majority of the workforce lack expertise,' said Daniele Smadja, Ambassador and head of Delegation of the European Commission to India, Bhutan and Nepal.
NKC proposes undergraduate board for colleges
The National Knowledge Commission has proposed an undergraduate board to set the colleges free from the university rule and regulate all the administrative affairs for the smooth sailing of the colleges. The undergraduate board will look into curriculum, exams, degrees, etc for colleges. Once the undergraduate board comes into force, universities can lay emphasis on higher education and research work.
The NKC has received spontaneous reaction from several states including Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan and the Union Territory of Puducherry. All these states and UT have already started drafting a bill on the same.
Five out of six new IITs to have own campuses
Bowing to resistance from existing IITs, the government has decided that five of the six new institutes of excellence will have to set up their campuses separately from the coming session. The decision was taken at a meeting held between Directors of seven IITs and Higher Education Secretary R P Agarwal to decide on the issue which has been a matter of controversy after the government suggested that the new institutes should be mentored by the existing ones till they find their own space.
Accordingly, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Punjab, which are functioning at their mentoring IITs in Kharagpur and Delhi at present, will be shifted to their own campuses from the coming academic session. Three others, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Patna, are already running from temporary campuses.
JSWS to offer Leeds courses and degrees in India
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Jagran Social Welfare Society (JSWS), Bhopal have entered into a partnership to start offering the former's courses and degrees in India through the Leeds Met India, Bhopal campus. The campus will begin its first academic year from September 2009 by offering Leeds Metropolitan University's undergraduate courses in the field of business studies, retail marketing management, international business and business and HRM among others.
It also plans to roll out post-graduate courses by 2010 including MBA and MSc in various disciplines as well as new undergraduate courses including events management and marketing and advertising management. All the courses will be approved by AICTE.
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Indian students flocking to New Zealand According to Fuller, the percentage of Indian students enrolling in New Zealand institutes has increased nearly 300% in the last six years. 'In 1998, only 150 Indian students enrolled. This figure rose to 1,500 in 2002. In 2008, we registered 6,000 new enrolments from India,' he said. |
Mark your calendar
American Canadian Conference for Academic Disciplines
25 to 28 May 2009
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.internationaljournal.org/torontoconference.html
National Conference on Open Source Software (NCOSS)
25 to 26 May, 2009
Mumbai, India
http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in/
eLearning Africa 2009
27 to 29 May 2009
Dakar, Senegal
http://www.elearning-africa.com
European Conference for Academic Disciplines
1 to 4 June 2009
Bad Hofgastein
Outside Salzburg, Austria
http://www.internationaljournal.org/austriaconf.html
2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (ICCEA 2009)
6 to 8 June 2009
Manila, Philippines
http://www.iccea.org
23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education including the 2009 EADTU Annual Conference
7 to 10 June 2009
Maastricht
Netherlands
http://www.ou.nl/icde2009
eLearn 2009
8 to 11 June 2009
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
http://elearn2009.com
IADIS International Conference e-Learning 2009
17 to 20 June 2009
Algarve, Portugal
http://www.elearning-conf.org/
e-Learning Baltics 2009 (eLBa 2009)
18 to19 June 2009
Rostock, Germany
http://www.e-learning-baltics.de
EDULEARN09 International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
6 to 8 July 2009
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
http://www.iated.org/edulearn09
eduWeb Conference
20 to 22 July 2009
Chicago, IL, United States
http://www.eduwebconference.com
Society for Values in Higher Education
22 to 26 July 2009
Chicago, Illinois, United States
http://www.svhe.org
VIII Iberolatinamerican Conference in Informatics and Special Education
6 to 8 August 2009
San Jos
Vivitek: Learning with vivid visual technology
Technology is changing the way faculty teach and students learn. As technological advances are introduced into the academy, campuses are more and more attracted by the promise and potential of technology for enhancing access and learning. Faculty, staff, and administrators need to understand what technology can and what it cannot do. Technology must be seen as a critical complement to the educational experience, opening more opportunities for the students. The advances in technology has led to Globalisation and increased the power of Knowledge. Students must be aware of the knowledge that is being transmitted to their counterparts in other parts of the world. Hence, the teaching standards have to be as good as anywhere else in the world. Knowledge is important for increasing innovation, competitiveness and entrepreneurship. For this, the use of latest technology in our schools and colleges has become mandatory.
Vivitek offers D8 series of projectors which can enhance the learning experience of students in any classroom. The vivid color wheel technology provides outstanding vivid color suit for all applications. The rapid start and cool down functions assist in saving time and energy. The series also come with upto 3000 hours of lamp life time for extended use.
The world is quickly learning the benefits of adding multimedia capabilities to educational environments. Classroom projectors include component video inputs that allow to network the projector to DVD players, VCRs, and more. By using digital video projectors and multimedia projectors, one can view streaming videos from the Internet, play audio files, and teach in the classroom. This technology offered by Vivitek is the latest in the field of multimedia projection.
Classroom multimedia projectors provide many significant benefits to students such as improving student attention and retention of information, improving presentation quality and ease of presenting the information. Multimedia projectors allow teachers to provide diverse content to all students in the classroom at once, allowing students to have a visual and colourful learning experience during a given lesson.
Vivitek brings a technology solution like Videowall, which helps to present multiple types of information simultaneoulsy, so that cross references can be easily made without the need to scroll or change pages or screens
The projectors are perfect for this generation's visually oriented youth, because they help make abstract concepts easier to understand. Not only do projectors better keep the attention of students, it also provides an easy study guide for absentees. It enables students to take a more active part in the lesson, and teachers to take account of different learning styles, such as the kinaesthetic and the visual.
For higher education, Vivitek plans to work with the responsible oranisations within the government and also private institutions to expose the benefits, which can be derived out of employing new techniques. The educational institutions have suffered from lack of technology, largely due to expensive equipments, which are ill afforded by these institutions of higher learnings. But now Vivitek brings technology, which makes these aids affordable to them. Some of these solutions are Videowalls which help to present multiple types of information simultaneoulsy, so that cross references can be easily made without the need to scroll or change pages or screens. Similarly, other new technologies are also being introduced by Vivitek in India.
