Argentina has a Digital Agenda

According to CLAD, Argentina's President, Dra. Cristina Fernandez signed Bill (512/09) approving the Digital Agenda for Argentina. This agenda addresses national sectors in which IT could improve the the overall development of the nation; that is, the digital agenda includes policies for health, education, commerce and governance

If you want to learn more about it, please, visit
Agenda Digital Argentina

Open Access to Scientific Knowledge

I am pleased to inform my readers that the European Community is allocating resources to support a multi-year initiative for the growth and development of Scientific knowledge, available for al.

Details can be found atScientific Open Knowledge

New Director of COL

On September 26, The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) a consortium of the British Comonwealth with the mission of supporting open learning and distance education in the member countries, has recently appointed Burchell Whiteman, as New Chair of Commonwealth of Learning. You can read about this at: New COL Chairman

Second Life Embassies

On September 5, the Second Life of Sweden video streamed a conference on E-learning 2.0. The developer is going to offer free courses of Swedish language and give visitors the opportunity of developing their own Avatars
You can visit this interesting site at
Second House of Sweden

The New York Times as a Repository for Real Case Studies

An innovative way to bring into distance education a set of case studies has been developed by Professor Matt Cookson at the University of New Hampshire. Professor Cookson uses The New York Times as a vast learning repository posing real life dilemmas. The powerful search engines of this important newspaper help the students to track the chosen case. For the full story visit Inside HigherEd at:

insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/09/epsilen

Learn Music at a distance

A group congregated under the name Magister music has put together an interesting site, open to the world, for whoever wants to learn music. Authors, instruments and techniques are easy to find after registering as members of this learning community.

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