A fascinating read from Michael Trucano, of World Bank's blog EduTech. Big educational laptop and tablet projects -- Ten countries to learn from. Many countries across the world have been exploring the 1 laptop per child policy for a number of years now but what Michael observes is that this has been overtaken by a tablets [...]
This weekend sees two IATEFL online events. The first on Saturday 15th June is BESIG’s (Business English Special Interest Group) Online Conference, the first for the SIG. Featuring plenty of online workshops, talks and seminars as well as the plenaries from Evan Frendo and Vicki Hollett. So if you are part of the Business English Speaking/Learning [...]
Sophie will be visiting BETT 2013 next week. If you want to see how emc design can help you produce eye-catching educational material then drop her a line to arrange a chat over coffee during or after the show. Or why not arrange a time to come and meet our fantastic creative team at our [...]
Cambridge University Press and the Williams F1 team collaborated in 2009 to create Race to Learn, a fun, engaging educational programme that fits into the national curriculum. I asked Alastair Horne, who was the project lead for Cambridge, about it. Can you give us a brief insight into what the project is, who’s it for [...]
Five years ago Oxford University Press initiated a project to transform the way old texts could be accessed, read and re-purposed online. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online finally launched last week and I caught up with the Project Director Sophie Goldsworthy. For those of us who are completely new to OSEO can you explain what it [...]
Our article for BookMachine was originally posted on Monday 6th August here. We keep hearing that America is a few years ahead of us in terms of technology. If this is the case then UK Publishers, Schools and Educators take note. A recent report from the The Consortium for School Networking in America has highlighted [...]