CEDICT: Communication, Education and Development using ICT

2015-02-19

What It’s Like to Try Magic Leap’s Take on Virtual Reality | MIT Technology Review

A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.Availability: 1-3 years

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2015-02-18

Frontrunners in ICT: Kenyan runners using smartphones

The primary aim of this research was to study how mobile technology shapes, changes, and develops informal learning outside the classroom and school environment. In this study we provided each of the 30 Kenyan elite runners with a simple Android smartphone and free Internet for one year.

2015-02-16

Commonwealth Scholarships in low and middle income countries - Masters and PhDs

The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is a unique programme. Since its establishment in 1959, it has provided opportunities for over 30,000 citizens of all Commonwealth countries to study in other member countries.

Since the scholarships have traditionally been supported by host governments, the overwhelming majority have been hosted by developed Commonwealth countries. Now, following the establishment of the CSFP endowment fund in 2009, a new strand of Commonwealth Scholarships located in low and middle income countries is available.

How To Find Openly Licensed Educational Resources You Can Use [Infographic]

Most of us turn to the internet when we are looking for resources to use for a presentation, report or article. The internet holds the key to so many robust resources.

Yet how many of these resources can you legally use for free? How many of them can you adapt?

That’s where Open Educational Resources (OER) can help. Here’s an infographic from the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (at the University of Texas at Austin) that can help.

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2015-02-10

The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Education

From inspiring life-long learning to empowering teachers, these organizations are taking the education business to school.

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2015-02-09

Blogging in the foreign language classroom

This study, by Dorota Domalewska, Rangsit University, Thailand, examined the phenomenon of blogging as a technologically enhanced support to develop interaction and interrelatedness among learners in a foreign language course.

Swazi king to wed 15th wife

Swaziland’s King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 15th wife.

Mswati, a 45-year-old who is sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, introduced Sindiswa Dlamini at a Reed Dance celebration over the weekend, Mtetwa told AFP. She wore red feathers on her head — a sign of royalty.

2015-02-07

Free Access to ICT in Education for Development Journal - Masters and PhDs

Volume 10 Issue 4 of the International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) was published at the end of December, 2014. You can read, print and share all the articles free of charge.

2015-02-06

MOOC Workshop - Stephen Downes

“Walk away with a plan to integrate MOOCs within your higher education learning environments.” What would such a plan look like? What do we need to support MOOCs? What would such a plan look like? What does content look like in a MOOC? What would we consider ‘MOOC Pedagogy’?

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2015-02-02

Kenyan grandmother at school with her great-great-grandchildren

A 90-year-old Kenyan woman who goes to class with six of her great-great-grandchildren is believed to be the oldest primary school pupil in the world. She joined Leaders Vision Preparatory School five years ago.