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  • Educamp09 and EVOLVE in Partnership!
    Tue 20 Jan 2009
    Yesterday we officially started a partnership between Educamp09 and the EVOLVE Community. This was the first of a series of open online conversations that will be happen on a monthly basis until the face to face Educamp09 meeting in Ilmenau, Germany, this following April. Question: Why are we doing these online sessions when some [...]
  • Thought Fest
    Mon 19 Jan 2009
    Thought Fest is a two-day event being organized by Pontydysgu with the support of the JISC Evolve network and the European Mature-IP project. The event will bring together researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning in an open forum to debate the current issues surrounding educational technologies and discuss how and where research impacts on practice and [...]
  • Open Learning
    Tue 13 Jan 2009
    This is the motto for 2009 as far as EVOLVE is Concerned. It is also the year we will try to connect to more learning initiatives all over Europe and beyond, if possible. As part of our Open Learning approach we are also open to suggestions and new ideas. And to start the year the best way, [...]
  • Evolve Open Seminar Series
    Wed 22 Oct 2008
    This month it's about Moocs and Open Course Models When: 3rd November 2008, at 1800 UK Time (check your local time here) Where: Elluminate (enter here) Speaker: Dave Cormier, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Dave will be speaking about his experiences, so far, of the CCK MOOC and touch on the technological platforms being used to support participants, [...]
  • Upcoming Event - Open Seminar
    Thu 4 Sep 2008
    After the summer, it's time to start warming-up with new discussions. The Open Seminar Sessions @ EVOLVE are back! ;-) This Month is about PLEs. Hopefully a lot of food for thought here!! This month our guest speaker is Scott Wilson from CETIS UK, who will share some thoughts about Personal Learning Environments The idea of a PLE [...]
  • Mentoring and 21st Century Skills
    Thu 3 Jul 2008
    Anne Fox was our Guest speaker for the June topic. The presentation focused on Mentoring and 21st Century Skills. Anne provided us with some quite thought provoking ideas on the new challenges education is facing regarding the demands of the 21st Century Society. Anne advocates the mentoring as key for lifelong learning and ongoing further development, [...]
  • Bee Dieu’s Keynote Session
    Fri 30 May 2008
    Bee Dieu's Session is now available here. We would like to thank Bee and all of those who take part in the Evolve Launch Event. It was great to connect to you all. For those who couldn't make it, you can link to the recording of the session and listen to it (the wonders of technology!). We can't [...]

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    Thu 2 Jul 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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  • National Blog Posting Month
    Thu 2 Jul 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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  • Themes are GPL, too
    Thu 2 Jul 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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  • WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 2
    Fri 26 Jun 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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    Fri 26 Jun 2009 in beyond IT
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  • WordPress 2.8.1 Beta 1
    Sun 21 Jun 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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    Mon 15 Jun 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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  • May Wrap-Up
    Mon 15 Jun 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
    Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new stats charts, comment search, improved comment reply by email, [...]
  • 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets
    Thu 11 Jun 2009 in e-Learning by e-Learning
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