'Full Time Students Will Become a Rare Breed.'

Educational technology has moved on, in both quality and availability. It's no longer about merely transferring information to digital form. Institutions are getting to grips with its vast potential for collaborative learning.

The First Free Online University

The University of the People is a free online college that was founded in 2009 as a revolutionary approach designed to break through the traditional barriers of higher education. As this college is the first of its kind, many schools and scholars are watching carefully to see if free higher education programs can actually succeed.

The Secret to

eLearning

Online courses are on the rise as firms continue to cut training budgets and the newly redundant update their skill sets. You could spend your meal break browsing a book from the New York public library, absorbing an Oxford University lecture on the fall of the Roman empire or taking a short course to enhance your mastery of Excel.

Online Learning Beats the Classroom

A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”

 Rural Internet Kiosks Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide

Rural Internet Kiosks are currently mushrooming throughout rural areas in, providing Africans who were previously cut-off from the digital world with Internet connections.

 Ethiopia Bans Distance Education, Cracks Down on Private Universities

Ethiopia has banned off-campus education, and ordered private universities to close degree programs in law and education.

A directive issued by Ethiopia's Education Ministry describes distance learning at off-campus sites as "unnecessary at this stage" and orders all such operations to stop enrolling new students immediately.

 Learning Languages at Work: The Best Case Scenario

Traditional language training at the workplace is “expensive and ineffective,” says the Cologne-based company SKYLIGHT, which has developed a new blended methodology that makes language learning directly relevant to the business. 

 HowToMoodle releases its top tips for Moodle use

Specialist training and consultancy firm, HowToMoodle, is making top tips in the use of the popular open source course management system available to users via its blog and Twitter account. HowToMoodle was the first company in the world set up exclusively to offer training and "front end" Moodle consultancy.

 UK and China sign e-learning deal

 UK education companies have been strengthening links with China.  An online education initiative between the UK and China is being launched - with plans to provide "e-learning" for 20 million Chinese students. The deal will see the UK's LP+ group building a system for delivering online lessons in China.

Textbooks Terminated – Schools go Online

California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched an initiative to ban textbooks from high school classrooms and replace them with digital material.  His state initiative is the first of its kind in the US, but it highlights the trend for more and more US schools and universities to go online.

 eLearning Down Under

As a country dominated by space and renowned for its self-sufficiency, distance education has been part of Australia’s educational landscape for a long time. But does it necessarily mean that the nation is also at the forefront of e-learning development?

 Elearning in the 'Perfect Storm' of Africa

A lack of hardware, infrastructure, internet speed, and even access to mains electricity in Africa has led to creative elearning and mlearning solutions.