digitalLEARNINGMagazine by Elets
Intel India and Microsoft Corporation India have announced an `Affordability Alliance’ to bridge the digital divide in India by creating affordable computing solutions and ensuring easy availability of affordable PCs across the country.
On 16 March, a ceremony at the Kala Kakoli school launched a fifteen center project bringing computers and Internet to schools and their communities in the Chittagong area. The project is part of a nationwide project...
The Nasdaq-listed Red Hat, an open source software provider, has announced its partnership with the southrn Indian city Hyderabad-based Lotus Learning Systems Society to promote open source education in schools.
A new Discovery Channel homework Web site aims to remind parents whose math and history knowledge has gotten rusty how to help their children with the very things they have forgotten.
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India in association with Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, recently organised the
HP Labs India has introduced its pen-based keyboard for Indian languages, including Devanagari (Hindi), Kannada and Tamil.
Teacher absence ranges from 20% to over 50% in different states of India, and makes a mockery of free and universal education. In such circumstances, the government’s plan to double spending on education will simply double...
The new Special Report of Development Gateway- ‘Online Education: What Can It Deliver?’ (http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/onlineeducation) looks at lessons learned, innovations that work, and the future of ICT in education for developing countries. It coincides with related major...
Arul Mozhi, D. Deepa and K. Maunika are first generation learners from hamlets with about 1,000 families in interior Tamil Nadu in southern India but they are among the thousands of primary and elementary school children...
Unlike in the West, audio libraries are rare in India, and “talking books” are rarely available in shops. And in such a situation, 46-year-old Madhu Singhal, herself visually impaired, runs an audio library of 16,000 works...
New guidelines on how to make websites more user-friendly for disabled people have been developed by the British Standards Institution (BSI). The work was sponsored by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) after an investigation in April...
Going to the US is set to become much simpler for students pursuing an advanced degree, such as a masters in physical sciences, technology and engineering thanks to the introduction of a new category of student...