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      Quick guide: Low-cost computing devices and initiatives for the developing world

      The projects and products included in this idiosyncratic list run the gamut from small research projects at universities to field-based experiments run by NGOs to commercial products from small start-ups and large multinationals... Read more>>
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      Future of online `textbooks' and modules

      Textbooks have long been crucial to providing the content of education because they organize information and make it convenient and manageable for learners. The printed textbook, however, is becoming overly expensive for American students, not to mention the world's poor -who desperately need better learning... Read more>>
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      How can the Internet make the world a better place?

      The OECD is a global forum for new ideas to create prosperity in developed and developing countries. (Contains Youtube Video)... Read more>>
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      The Education Clip Library

      Education Clip Library is designed to fulfil the growing demand for high quality video from educational business users worldwide to incorporate into their products, services and courses which are aimed at learners aged 3-19 and their teachers... Read more>>
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      Using document management software in education

      Document management software is used to track and store electronic documents and images of paper documents. This software can be used by administrators, teachers and other educators to ensure that they keep their work organised and to facilitate rapid retrieval of useful documents and resources... Read more>>

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      Featured blog of the month for May

      Our latest featured blog of the month is Anthony Gaughan's 'Teacher Training Unplugged'. Anthony works as an English language teacher and teacher trainer in Hamburg, Germany.

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      British Council Turkey: Story sharing conference - Call for proposals

      Telling, reading, sharing... unlock your students' imaginations!

      British Council Turkey are hosting their first Story Sharing Web Conference on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February 2013. This 2 day web conference will include a range of innovative interactive sessions from Turkish and overseas experts that will actively involve teachers from mainly across the country, in real-time.

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      UNESCO celebrates the power of literacy, September 8

      An awards ceremony and the launch of a touring classroom in a truck form part of UNESCO’s International Literacy Day celebrations in Paris.

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      Personalized Intelligent Mobile Learning System for Supporting Effective English Learning

      Since English has been an international language, how to enhance English levels of people by useful computer assisted learning forms or tools is a critical issue in non-English speaking countries because it definitely affects the overall competition ability of a country... Read more >>
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      Understanding the Net Generation's Texts

      Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors... Read more >>