Full Coverage: educational innovations

02.05.2008 Environmental website kidsRgreen is in the final rounds for the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award 2008. Promoting environmental awareness, this unique educational initiative by India based Centre for Environment Education takes young minds beyond classroom teaching by engaging them in various interesting learning tools.

30.04.2008 The Department of Education in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, an Indian Union Territory, is introducing IT hobby centres in 24 schools during the summer vacation. The free of cost centres will encourage use of computers in the learning process.

25.04.2008 With BBC World Trust launching its most ambitious project called ‘English in Action’, Bangladeshis will soon be able to learn a truly global language on television and mobiles. This will help all sections of society acquire English language skills and increase their prospects in the job market.

16.04.2008 Project Gutenberg (PG), an online source of books is a unique initiative to combine traditional printing with digital technology. Gregory Newby, the CEO, PG and Michael Hart, the founder-editor of the project highlight their new ventures and overall management of e-Books.

18.12.2007 UNICEF along with Google and One Laptop per Child has recently launched “Our Stories” project. By sharing stories online, children of the world will be able to understand different countries, their cultures, religious traditions and languages.

29.11.2007 Universal Library project has now digitised more than 1.5 million published books in 20 different languages of the world and continues to scan thousands more daily. All these books in Chinese, English, Arabic, Telugu, etc. are now available on internet – free of cost.

22.11.2007 In an innovative way to address several issues plaguing higher education, the lecture videos and course material of the seven prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology and the Banglore-based Indian Institute of Science will soon be made available online to the students and faculty members.

03.11.2007 After changing the lives of one billion of its customers, Microsoft will reach out to the five billion and more for whom the opportunity to connect, create and succeed has remained elusive. Microsoft's Unlimited Potential program, in partnership with governments, NGOs, partners and academics, will make technologies affordable and accessible for creating new avenues for social and economic empowerment.

09.10.2007 YouTube is all set to move beyond entertainment. The University of California (UC), Berkeley has become the first university to make its entire course lectures and special events available to viewers on YouTube. The university’s recently launched educational technology services (ETS) delivers course and event content as podcasts and streaming videos.

23.08.2007 The President of Bangladesh has launched on-line Electronic University U21 Global, which compiles 19 world leading universities to provide on-line education and training to the students, academicians and researchers.

20.08.2007 The Brunei Ministry of Education has allocated US$5.9 million fund for Information Technology project, which will connect students in Brunei schools.

09.08.2007 As part of the new “Knowledge Communities” project, UNESCO Bangkok launched an online ICT-in-Education community: an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators and policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions on topics relating to the use of ICT in education.

31.07.2007 UNESCO handed over 82 pieces of equipment, granted under a US$2.5 million project, funded by Italy, to create a new TV studio aimed at developing educational broadcasting in Afghanistan. The project started in 2003, and helped the Ministry of Education to achieve its goal of providing education to Afghans in all parts of the country.

25.07.2007 Intel Pakistan has introduced the Intel-Powered Classmate PC, which will provide affordable, collaborative learning environments for the students of some government schools in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.

24.07.2007 The first International Conference ONLINE EDUCA MOSCOW 2007 that will take place in Moscow from September 30 - October 3, 2007 will showcase e-learning technologies, experiences and development in the field of education.

23.07.2007 The Global E-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) invites written Expressions of Interest (EoI) from consulting firms, consultants and other organisations for the provision of the following services: Baseline Study of Schools supported under the Rajasthan Education Initiative (REI) till July 30th 2007.

23.07.2007 Paul Horwitz who directs the Computer-Assisted Performance Assessment project, recommends coming up with new educational tools to help the students in more creative way.

17.07.2007 Nandula Raghuram, a biologist at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in India, is giving budding biotechnologists a solid foundation for a biotech career by providing them with a teaching laboratory that is low-cost.

16.07.2007 Vision Ed’s Stonington Retreat in New York City will host a four-day intensive workshop on how best to integrate creative technology into classrooms. The retreat will help teachers, parents and administrators to start or continue a technology program at their schools or organizations. The retreat will take place from July 31st – August 3rd, 2007 at NYU’s Kimmel Center.

06.07.2007 The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India, has opened up online admissions for Indian students from 2007 to facilitate the learners in directly accessing NIOS.