Blackboard makes major investment to support online learning in China
Acquisition of CerBibo Enhances Company’s Ability to Invest in One of the World’s Fastest-Growing Markets

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WASHINGTON—November 9, 2011—Blackboard has made a major investment to support online learning in China, by acquiring full ownership of CerBibo, a company that has brought its online learning solution to hundreds of institutions in China, the company announced today. The move enhances the company’s ability to make deeper investments to support greater use of online learning in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets.

Blackboard has seen strong momentum in China with CerBibo, a joint venture launched in 2003 in partnership with CERNET, a public-private organization that provides technology and information services to Chinese education institutions. The venture has brought Blackboard’s online teaching and learning solution to over 270 Chinese higher education and K-12 institutions including Peking University, Renmin University, Sun Yat-Sen University and the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

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The Economist World in Figures 2011 Edition -- by The Economist

 

— Originally saw at Gerd Leonhard’s blog

 

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Oslo Lux 2011

was a one day seminar (held back in January 2011) with associated art exhibition that explores the intersections of light, space and interaction.

image (c) Eddie Clemens 2011

 

 

Per Anthony Rowe:

The next LUX event is confirmed as taking place on 8-10 July 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. The format will be similar to Oslo Lux – a mix of local and international artists, researchers, designers and architects will map out the overlaps of light, space and interaction. The event will take place over 2 1/2 days, and is timed to coincide with Te Aomarama, a Maori festival of light. See http://www.lux.org.nz/ for more information.

 

http://wellingtonlux.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/antivj03.jpg

 

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Two swans below fireworks projected onto fountain at Odaiba Water Show (Tokyo).

 

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Kinetische Skulptur — slick!

Kinetische Skulptur — from artcom.de
BMW Museum München, 2008

 

 

 

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School of art brings a new slant to the rooftop garden — from gizmag.com by Bridget Borgobello

 

School of art brings a new slant to the rooftop garden

 

The School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University campus in Singap...

 

School of art brings a new slant to the rooftop garden

 

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The physical is virtual – from TrendBird.biz and Aurasma

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China-Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties — from universityworldnews.com by  Yojana Sharma

One of the little-publicised sections of China’s economic plan for the next five years includes Hong Kong for the first time since the former British colony’s handover to China in 1997. However, Hong Kong and southern China have already been forging higher education ties with a view to creating a common higher education space in the not-too distant future.

“For the first time Hong Kong is included in China’s latest five year plan, giving us a strategic role in the development of the Pearl River Delta,” Tony Chan, President of Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology, told a conference in Hong Kong in March.

 

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India -- The next university superpower? -- from BBC News in March 2011

IEEE Dest 2011 -- Conference on Digital Ecosystems.

Note some of the topics in the call for papers/proposals:

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Toshiba’s AirSwing

Toshiba's AirSwing

Asia Society

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