English is a foreign language for 95% of the world’s children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed [...]
After witnessing first-hand the effects of HIV, AIDS and poverty on South African children, Amy Stokes looked at how technology could be used to create a new way for adults around the world to nurture and support Africa’s children. Since its founding in 2006, Infinite Family has set up computer labs in orphanages, after-school programmes [...]
The Technical University Dortmund is designing an e-learning programme for young people that works equally well for apprentices with disabilities. The plan will bring e-learning to apprentices with visual, cognitive, motor and auditory disabilities and others in vocational training in the transport and warehousing sectors of German industry. Barrier-free training will comply with German and [...]
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh is an extraordinary man, who has built a career as one of the Arab World’s most successful entrepreneurs in the face of adversity and despite overwhelming odds. Since 2009, he has been Chairman of UN GAID (the UN Global Alliance on ICT for Development), and he is passionate about his role in helping [...]
“The interruption of visual laziness” is how Marco Ricco describes the art work he produces in the city of Rome, Italy. “I want to communicate peacefully with the people of my community,” he says, as he explains the motive behind the colorful paitings that he draws on walls, old doors or other left-overs from urban [...]
Sixteen years old and having failed at school, Zenna Atkins launched her first social enterprise. She aspired to help people who appeared to share her fate: a dismal future due to a lack of academic qualifications. Today she leads the UK’s school inspection, Ofsted, successfully runs her own company, and is engaged in a wide [...]
A shared interest to acquaint people with cultural values and backgrounds as highly diverse as Hungary, Turkey and Japan is the motivating force that stands behind the e-learning project Learning Design of Courses Utilising ICT for Promoting Intercultural Dialogue that Dr Kumiko Aoki, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan, and Molnar Pal, Karolu Gaspar University, [...]
Creating learning environments for sightless people poses a significant challenge for content developers, especially when the target group is children. During the whole development process, all stimuli from the visual world have to be suppressed, and innovative approaches need to be found to keep young learners engaged. So how can an exciting learning environment for [...]
