http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews from The Digital Education Enhancement Project Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:34:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Late last month, the DEEP team, in particular our South African colleagues, presented to a conference given by Imbewu - a DFID-funded NGO in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. In addition to a review of DEEP's early work, educators talked about their more recent experiences, and early outcomes of the ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=14 Late last month, the DEEP team were able to take the first prototype mobile classroom out in to the field and work with educators and learners in a rural school in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. With continued support from OU students and staff via the OU Development Office, and working ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=11 This week, the DEEP Team were invited to participate in a symposium on ICT for Development, Disruption and Debate as part of the Computer Assisted Learning conference in Dublin on 26-28th March. The symposium revolved around case studies of practice in projects related to the ICT for Development strand, all three ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=10 Earlier this month, the DEEP team were able to combine work with the Eastern Cape Department of Education and the University of Fort Hare alongside further work with some of the DEEP schools. As a result of generous donation from OU students and staff, and an ongoing relationship with the eRanger ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=8 Jenny Leach and John Traxler (University of Wolverhampton) will be presenting a paper at the 4th IEEE workshop of WMUTE in Athens, Greece on 16-17th November. Their paper is to be presented in Session 6, entitled Innovative and Sustainable Mobile Learning in Africa http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=7 http://futurelab.org.uk/ Spaces, Places and Future Learning: Using innovative technology and practice to re-imagine learning spaces 1-2 November 2006, Rich Mix, London http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=6 http://beraconference.clarocada.com/ The DEEP team have taken part in two Special Interest Group sessions on Comparative and International Education and New Technologies in Education: Paper 1: Is there a role for information and communication technologies in rural schools and their communities? Findings from the digital education enhancement project (DEEP) Paper 2: Using suites of ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=5 http://www.elearning-africa.com/ 832 participants from 80 countries were gathered at the first eLearning Africa conference from May 24 – 26, 2006 in the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, making it the largest event on educational technologies and development ever to have taken place on the continent. 13 pre-conference workshops, five ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=4 DEEP IMPACT published March 2006 Does technology enhance teaching and learning in resource poor environments? This is the question that the research report DEEP IMPACT, an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the global south, published this month by the Department for International Development (DFID) ... http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/DEEPNews/?p=3