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Monday, 24 November 2008

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ONLINE EDUCA, of December 3, 2008 in Berlin, German

The world conference on the e-learning for the companies, the mediums of education and the public office will gather next December more than 2,000 professionals of the whole world.
This year, the conference will relate to? The serious plays? personalization?, ?the networks social? and ?the tools of tomorrow?.
General topics for 2008:

To meet the educational needs for the Generation Y
To learn on a total scale
Competences of teaching and formation at the 21st century
Management and organization of the systems of e-learning
Share experiments
Serious plays
The mobile training
Tools and technologies of the future
Personalization and adaptation
Design at the numerical era
Video and the use of the imagery
Social Web 2.0 and networks
Accreditation and standards of quality
To transform the organizations
Creation and personalization of contents

ICELW 2009 will be held at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York from June 10th-12th, 2009. The ICELW 2009 Call for Proposals is available

ICELW is an international conference focused on e-learning in the workplace.
With researchers and practitioners coming from around the globe--and from university and business settings--the ICELW community works to improve online learning so that it makes a measurable difference in workplace performance and morale.    By uniting the corporate and academic worlds, ICELW is creating a new synergy--one with the unique    capability to realize the vast potential of e-learning in business and industry.
Compelling Topics
The ICELW program will explore a broad spectrum of topics relating to e-learning in the workplace. Our aim is to present the most    relevant and promising ideas in research and practice, then build on them to bring about excellence and innovation in workplace e-learning.
Engaging Formats
To convey e-learning knowledge and show its application in the workplace, ICELW will be using a variety of    engaging formats: presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, mini-seminars, case studies, interviews, brainstorming sessions, and more!    By offering this "active" structure for the conference, we hope to encourage lively discussion among participants, as well as inspire meaningful action.

Internet a more important information medium than TV, radio or print

The World Internet project recently released its Australian report (PDF), providing a mid-2007 view on how Australians access and use the internet.

The report indicates that, at August 2007, 72 percent of Australians used the internet (increasing to 86% when considering those in full employment), and highlights known divides in usage based on income and residential location, it also provides an interesting view on which media are most important to Australians.

The study found that 68.5 percent of users regarded the internet as an 'important' or 'very important' source of information.

In comparison only 32.6 percent gave the same indication for television, 46.6 percent for newspapers and 45.9 percent for radio.

From the report,
The difference is even more marked when we look just at the ‘very important’ rating. The proportion of users rating the internet as ‘very important’ (36.6%) is more than double that for radio (14.5%), newspapers (13.8%) and more than four times the figure for television (8.5%).

41.3 percent of users thought that most information provided by newspapers was accurate, compared to 38.6 percent for online information and only 29.5 percent for television.

The report also provides some interesting patterns as to how people use the internet to source information - with it being a key channel when stories where breaking, raising the need for organisations to ensure that their websites are updated quickly and regularly during news events.

Finally the report indicated that over 30 percent of internet users believe that the internet can give citizens more say about what government does - however largely citizens were skeptical that public officials cared about what people said online, which showed some disillusionment at how effectively government has used the internet to consult citizens thus far.


Monday, 24 November 2008
	National News International News
	ONLINE EDUCA, of December 3, 2008 in Berlin, German
		The world conference on the e-learning for the companies, the mediums of education and the public office will gather next December more than 2,000 professionals of the whole world. This year, the conference will relate to? The serious plays? personalization?, ?the networks social? and ?the tools of tomorrow?. General topics for 2008: To meet the educational needs for the Generation Y To learn on a total scale Competences of teaching and formation at the 21st century Management and organization of the systems of e-learning Share experiments Serious plays The mobile training Tools and technologies of the future Personalization and adaptation Design at the numerical era Video and the use of the imagery Social Web 2.0 and networks Accreditation and standards of quality To transform the organizations Creation and personalization of contents
	ICELW 2009 will be held at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York from June 10th-12th, 2009. The ICELW 2009 Call for Proposals is available
		ICELW is an international conference focused on e-learning in the workplace. With researchers and practitioners coming from around the globe--and from university and business settings--the ICELW community works to improve online learning so that it makes a measurable difference in workplace performance and morale. By uniting the corporate and academic worlds, ICELW is creating a new synergy--one with the unique capability to realize the vast potential of e-learning in business and industry. Compelling Topics The ICELW program will explore a broad spectrum of topics relating to e-learning in the workplace. Our aim is to present the most relevant and promising ideas in research and practice, then build on them to bring about excellence and innovation in workplace e-learning. Engaging Formats To convey e-learning knowledge and show its application in the workplace, ICELW will be using a variety of engaging formats: presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, mini-seminars, case studies, interviews, brainstorming sessions, and more! By offering this "active" structure for the conference, we hope to encourage lively discussion among participants, as well as inspire meaningful action.
	Internet a more important information medium than TV, radio or print
		The World Internet project recently released its Australian report (PDF), providing a mid-2007 view on how Australians access and use the internet. The report indicates that, at August 2007, 72 percent of Australians used the internet (increasing to 86% when considering those in full employment), and highlights known divides in usage based on income and residential location, it also provides an interesting view on which media are most important to Australians. The study found that 68.5 percent of users regarded the internet as an 'important' or 'very important' source of information. In comparison only 32.6 percent gave the same indication for television, 46.6 percent for newspapers and 45.9 percent for radio. From the report, The difference is even more marked when we look just at the ‘very important’ rating. The proportion of users rating the internet as ‘very important’ (36.6%) is more than double that for radio (14.5%), newspapers (13.8%) and more than four times the figure for television (8.5%). 41.3 percent of users thought that most information provided by newspapers was accurate, compared to 38.6 percent for online information and only 29.5 percent for television. The report also provides some interesting patterns as to how people use the internet to source information - with it being a key channel when stories where breaking, raising the need for organisations to ensure that their websites are updated quickly and regularly during news events. Finally the report indicated that over 30 percent of internet users believe that the internet can give citizens more say about what government does - however largely citizens were skeptical that public officials cared about what people said online, which showed some disillusionment at how effectively government has used the internet to consult citizens thus far.