E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the e-learning business activities. The valuation of e-learning business activities is a challenging...

E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the e-learning business activities.Real options applications to risk management and investment...

Universitas 21 Global was formed by 16 internationally focused research universities to provide a laboratory for online learning and to provide the highest quality learning to underserved populations globally. Accordingly, the paper will provide the background and history for the U21 Global...

Access to education has long been considered an important vehicle for poverty alleviation and tremendous efforts (national as well as international) have been made to broaden such access in LDCs. The ICT revolution in the past decade has greatly facilitated such efforts as education can now be...

This document provides an overview of the discussion that took place 31 March - 1 April at IPTS, Seville, Spain, in the validation workshop of the interim results of the project on Innovations in new ICT facilitated learning communities. This report presents the main messages from the workshop...

In 2008, as part of its policy support for DG Education and Culture, IPTS launched a study to explore the innovative social and pedagogical approaches to learning that are emerging in new ICT-enabled collaborative settings. This is the final report on the project. Lifelong learning plays a...

Dieses Arbeitspapier gibt einen Überblick über die in den Jahren 2008 und 2009 an der NORDAKADEMIE durchgeführten Aktivitäten des Projektes NORDPOL (NORDakademie Programmierunterricht OnLine). Dies betrifft insbesondere fünf elementare Lernaktivitäten, die die Vorlesung ergänzen und den...

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird gezeigt, wie kooperative Lernformen durch Benutzung von Wikis unterstützt werden können. Technisch gesehen ist die Bereitstellung von Wikis in die Lernplattform moodle integriert. Die fachliche Fragestellung lautet: Kann der Lernerfolg der Studierenden dadurch...