UN e-learning Kampus

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UN Staff College initiated a United Nations knowledge campus last week in order to share knowledge and experiences on technology enhanced learning in the different UN agencies. The on-line campus hosts a catalogue of e-learning courses available within the UN system and highlights some interesting e-learning exhibits. This week several discussions will be organised on specific topics including:

– The pedagogical potential of blogging.
– Serious gaming as learning and development.
– Learning in the Web2.0 area. Integrating social software in blended learning programmes.
– Developing a LMS in UN system organizations. Best practices.
– Techniques to deliver real added value in the web2.0 area.

Go to www.unkampus.org and join the discussion !

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E-Learning Africa

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Last week ITC-ILO participated in the annual E-Learning Africa conference, held in Dakar this year. It is the opportunity to share the latest insights and trends on technology enhanced learning used in projects all over Africa. 1315 participants from 85 different countries ensured a rich input and interesting conversations. DELTA moderated and presented at two sessions, focusing on game-based learning and on designing, developing and managing virtual learning environments.

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a cloud of relevant itc-ilo tags

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Wordle: ITC-ILO blog

mobile learning

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Mobile voice and data communication is more and more accessible and affordable in developing countries. Only in Africa there are more than 280 million mobile phone subscriptions. People who had never access to a phone landline, a computer, or a car own now a mobile phone. Organisations take this communication channel serious and start to connect :

– The UN Foundation recently published an inspiring report on m-Health for Development titled: The opportunity of Mobile technology for Healthcare in the Developing World.
– Unicef Innovation launched a platform for data collection, logistics coordination and communication allowing any mobile phone to interact with the web.
– Kiwanja.net specialises in helping out organizations to use mobile applications for social change. Frontline sms and NgOMobile are good illustrations of this.
– MobileActive is a growing community that documents interesting practices on how to effectively use mobile phones for social change.

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Shift happens

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What does it all mean for ITC-ILO in the way we should design and deliver training?

L&T blog over 30 articles and 2000 visitors

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The L&T blog continues in 2009 to blog about new developments at ITC-ILO related to innovative learning methodology and learning technology. This knowledge sharing excercise has lead so far to more than 30 in-house  articles read by more than 2000 people. We have scanned them to discover the main concepts and this leads to the following visual overview. Click on it to see the large version.
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Learning and visitor nr. 1000

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The cloud of words this month is completely focused on LEARNING. This means that one of the keywords of this blog is fully integrated in most of your contributions and reflections. The last months have generated more than 20 articles from different colleagues and the blog is reaching visitor nr. 1000.

Blog action day : “Poverty”

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Thousand of bloggers will unite today to discuss a single issue: ‘Poverty’; the main objective of the Blog Action Day 08. Join and contribute your ideas !


keywords

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After an initial pilot phase of this blog it might be interesting to explore some of the keywords which are reflected in this blog. We have generated a cloud of tagwords with Wordl and the result is the following:

The Learning Lab of last week inspired us and  a lot of new ideas will be presented soon on the L&T blog in the upcoming weeks. So, the current word cloud may change in a few weeks. Any comment, feedback or suggestions on the Learning Lab are more than welcome. Just post your replies on this post !

Learning Lab on innovative training design

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From Tuesday 09/09 until 11/09 ITC-ILO will host a LearningLab in collaboration with Architects of Group Genius . This three day workshop will focus on innovative, collaborative and interactive learning and training experiences. An excellent opportunity to review our own training practice, find some inspiration and explore innovative ideas. We will use this moment to introduce this T&L blog to all ITC-ILO colleagues. These three days will create an opportunity for knowledge sharing. The T&L blog will continue that knowledge sharing experience before, during and after the workshop.

To prepare for the LearningLab, we ask you to bring an object, symbol or image that represents a powerful, unusual, meaningful learning experience that you have had. The following image might be a good start to jump into this new kind of learning experience.

What is yours?

Click here for a visual overview of the entire learning lab.