Projects using mobile phones in class, ICT to get kids away from ICT, mobile sensors, ePortfolios and blended learning enthused an audience of around 30 Christchurch teachers and administrators this week.

CORE Education invites you to attend a symposia on e-learning in education and training with International keynote speaker:

Dr Tony Bates an internationally recognised authority on e-learning and learning technologies.
Tony will provide insights into the current trends in e-learning and learning technologies internationally and their impact on vocational education and training.

He will also comment on current New Zealand activities and address a range of issues associated with e-learning resources and learning technologies in education on and off the Web.Tony Bates is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd, a private company specialising in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education

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EDUCATION LEADERS FORUM 2008
Fresh Perspectives

22 & 23 October 2008
Terrace Downs High Country Resort

The New Zealand-developed web editor may have missed out on the big awards at a major US education conference this month, but it ran away with the now-compulsory “People’s Choice” gong.The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe), a tool for developing educational content for websites without the need to know web languages, was vying with other technologies at the Learning Impact conference in Austin, Texas. eXe won a consolation “learning impact leadership award” at the conference but also ran away with the People’s Choice award.

The eXe software is an environment for authoring web-based e-learning content and is freely available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It has been downloaded thousands of times and is available in more than two dozen language translations.