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RSS learning in newsMicrosoft tool helps business assess value for money
News Microsoft on Tuesday launched the Business Value Framework (BVF) tool, which aims to help local authorities around the UK assess the impact of information and communications technology on their business investments. [15 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence to join phishing fight in 2009
News US security company Symantec, German research organisation Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, ISP Tiscali and their partners have pooled their expertise on machine learning, image recognition, text extraction and security to build... [13 Oct 2008]
UK tech Skills Academy needs YOU
News All the employers will be able to contribute "in kind", according to Price - rather than donating money, they could offer time or software licences or open up their in-house e-learning to other employers. [08 Oct 2008]
Exeter Uni set for £5.5m wireless makeover
News A spokesman for the university told silicon.com: "It's certainly not about moving away from needing classrooms but it's just about making sure we can tailor our contact hours and our student experience to the method of... [18 Sep 2008]
OLPC rivals get 'vicious'
News David Cavallo, chief learning architect for the OLPC who gave the keynote at the Association for Learning Technology's annual conference earlier this month, is upbeat about the new entrants into the... [16 Sep 2008]
Peru to test run Windows XO laptop
News Integrating technology into our school curriculum will help to advance our knowledge economy, improve access to information and will generate opportunities for our students, which, through governmental policies, aims to improve the... [16 Sep 2008]
Public sector says no to web 2.0
News The only choice is whether to be in the vanguard, pursuing an exciting path of controlled experiment and learning, or to be dragged along as a reluctant follower with a Luddite reputation in the eyes of your community. [15 Sep 2008]
Vista finds a home on 1,300 Canterbury Uni desktops
News The decision to move to Vista this year was also partly inspired by the opening of a high-tech learning centre in 2009, meaning the tech team would have little time to carry out a desktop migration next summer. [15 Sep 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News Hybrid IT/business courses have also been championed by tech industry skills body e-skills UK, which most recently supported the creation of an Information Technology Management for Business degree which combines tech... [06 Aug 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News The scheme is being run by IT training organisation Zenos, a Microsoft IT Academy partner, with the support of the government's Learning & Skills Council (LSC) and local regeneration organisation the Black Country... [23 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News He said: "There were a number of people who were sceptical during the early stages…but after a week or two of the learning curve they got used to it. The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its employees onto... [23 Jul 2008]
Freedom4 spreads WiMax love to students
News The company, formerly known as Pipex Wireless, has made Warwickshire College its learning partner - so students can now make use of its WiMax network and, it hopes, learn more about the tech. One of the key drivers to... [16 Jul 2008]
University ramps up network bandwidth for e-learning
News City University in London has upgraded its data network to support high bandwidth e-learning technologies such as video podcasts of lectures. The bandwidth upgrade is part of a five-year strategy by the university to... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the University's College of Education and Human Development, said in a statement: "What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually... [23 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Deep technical skills are required to support the IT industry proper, which is not the same as learning the basic ICT skills that employees in all industries need nowadays, said MacKinnon. The teaching of IT in secondary... [17 Jun 2008]
