ICDE KNOWLEDGE HUB: TECHNOLOGY

UCO: Why is the Demand for Instructional Designers so High?

Our member, University of Cincinnati Online (UCO), recently wrote a blog post on Industrial Design and Technology (IDT) and their new Master’s degree in IDT.

Global guidelines: Ethics in Learning Analytics

The aim of the Guidelines is to identify which core principles relating to ethics are core to all, and where there is legitimate differentiation due to separate legal or more broadly cultural environments.

ICDE Working Group on the Present and Future of Alternative Digital Credentials

ICDE invited members to submit an Expression of Interest for participating in the Working Group on the Present and Future of Alternative Digital Credentials. The working group has been appointed.

New Reports and Findings: Job Destruction is Hyped

Three new reports provide important findings and suggestions on the impact from Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive technologies. 

Open University China Launches Next Generation Open Learning Platform - Online Credit Bank To Boost Lifelong Learning

The next generation open learning platform, the joint OUC, Research Institute of New Education, and Chaoxing Group’s Online Credit Bank, was officially opened, marking the credit bank’s entrance into a brand new development phase with MOOCs as its core application model.

LAIS: Multidisciplinary meeting discusses the use of technology in health, at Natal

1ª International Conference on Technological Innovation in Health from LAIS brings together European and Brazilian researches to discuss solutions for the area.

UNESCO IITE co-organised the Global Expert Meeting “Multilingualism in Cyberspace for Inclusive Sustainable Development”

On June 5–9 2017 Khanty-Mansiysk successfully hosted the World Expert Meeting on Multilingualism in Cyberspace for Inclusive Sustainable Development.

International Forum on ICT and Education 2030,  on global facilitation for inclusive, flexible, quality learning and teaching in the digital age

More than 400 delegates from 80 countries gathered at the International Forum on ICT and Education 2030 organised by UNESCO from 10 to 11 July 2017 in Qingdao, the People's Republic of China.

ICDE Inspiration seminar webinar highlights the internationalisation of the online open, distance, technology enhanced learning community

CDE would like to thank participants and the speakers who yesterday, took part in the Inspiration seminar webinar to mark the occasion of the move to new offices. 200 participants registered from over 66 countries.

ICDE partners with Drexel University Online (DUO) to share curated content

ICDE has partnered with Drexel University Online (DUO) to share curated content, designed to provide an easy way for professionals to become familiar with the technologies and applications that are transforming online, open and flexible learning around the world.

Digital risks and digital chances

The internet and globalization are changing our world and ways to communicate, learn and live together. They are offering huge opportunities but also challenges that the special Conference "Digital Risks - Digital Chances" is addressing.

The encompassing digital transformation of CNED

CNED is a member of ICDE (Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance).CNED has a long and proud history as the public distance education provider of France, with activity dating back to 1939.

Assisting increasing demands on Distance Education in Latin America with a wider remote laboratories network based on VISIR

A number of Higher Education Institutions in Latin America (LA) are currently installing a remote laboratory named Virtual Instrument System in Reality (VISIR), with the assistance of European partners.

ICDE present at the UNESCO IITE-2016 International Conference

The Secretary General of ICDE gave an opening speech and presentation at the UNESCO IITE-2016 International Conference “ICT in Education: Innovation for Quality, Openness and Inclusion”.

Learning Analytics Introduction

Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. 

UOC experts find that open-source software projects do not operate democratically

The purpose of the open-source software movement is to advocate open (the code is public), collaborative (the community participates in the development process) software development.

ICDE Member UoC To Lead Major EU Project TeSLA, ICDE Connected Through The Advisory Board

The project is led by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and funded by the European Commission within the European framework programme Horizon 2020.

European Schoolnet Observatory blog

The European Schoolnet Observatory is primarily designed to provide evidence about the use of technology to improve teaching and learning for decision makers in Ministries of Education, practitioners in schools and other ICT in education professionals at national, regional or local level across Europe.

Internet World Stats latest estimations on internet users

Internet World Stats latest estimations indicate 3,345,832,772 verified Internet users in the world as of November 2015. This corresponds to an Internet penetration rate of 46.1%. In other words, nearly half of all the people in the world have access to the Internet.

New UNESCO Chair established in Slovenia

A UNESCO Chair in Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning has been established at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljublijana, Slovenia.

BRICS – ministers sign the Declaration of Brasília

Experts and representatives of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries met in Brazil on 2 March this year to discuss proposals for cooperation in professional and technological education, higher education, and joint methodologies for educational metrics.

How to choose a MOOC for learning about ICT in education

The HANDSON project, including representatives from ICDE member institutions Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain and Open Universiteit, the Netherlands, has released a benchmarking analysis of MOOCs for the continuous professional development of educators.

Foresight in ICT in Higher Education

The objectives of the project is to review critical trends in the use of ICT and to contribute to shaping future global education policies, in particular for higher education.