Mois : juillet 2009

inovative solutions for global poverty

Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, fights global poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance—small loans and other financial tools for self-empowerment—where it is needed most. We seek out and partner with young, high-potential microfinance institutions (small banking organizations that serve the poor, often called MFIs), helping them build capacity, attract capital, and unite with our network to achieve rapid, sustainable growth … (Mission 1/2).

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Quick facts; a video; FAQs; MFI; Join; Give; Newsletter; latest news; Press;
Addresses: Unitus US Headquarter, 220 W Mercer Street, Suite W-500, Seattle, WA 98119, USA;
Unitus India Office, No. 9/3, Kaiser-E-Hind, 1st Floor, Richmond Road, Bangalore, 560 025, India;
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Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars

• Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
• As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.
• We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
• We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.
• … (Overview).

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Address: Academic Earth, Inc., 419 Lafayette St, Fl 2, New York, NY 10003, USA;
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About /Mission: Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education!  Continuer la lecture de « Academic Earth »

(in many European languages)

• The Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian.
• These courses are designed for students who have had an initial introduction in one of the languages and who wish to progress from a basic survival level to a higher competency (A2 of the Common European Framework) The project results are for Language schools and Colleges. more
• The partners in this project are experts in language education and technology in education, from across Europe … (full text Homepage).

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About: Overview:  The project has been conceived and funded as part of the European Union Socrates Lingua programme that concerns motivating the learning of all European languages, and the less widely used languages in particular. With a vision to promote plurilingualism and appreciation of the diversity of languages in the European Union and beyond.   Continuer la lecture de « Autonomous Language Learning ALL »

A community website in several European languages

Dokeos is an e-learning and course management web application. It is free software (GNU GPL) and its development is an international, collaborative effort. Dokeos focus points: userfriendliness and consistency, simplicity, flexibility, a tool for good learning, interoperability. (Introduction 1/2).

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Documentation; Downloads; worldwide; Groups; Forum; Contribute; Using Dokeos 1.8 course tools;
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What is Dokeos and DokeosPlanet /Introduction 2/2: … This website (http://www.dokeosplanet.org/) is the place where the community of Dokeos users, developers and other contributors gather to meet, change stories and discuss the future of the product.  Continuer la lecture de « DOKEOS Planet »

the people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice

With over 30 years of publishing under its belt, and more than 60,000 subscribers worldwide, the New Internationalist is renowned for its radical, campaigning stance on a range of world issues, from the cynical marketing of babymilk in the Majority World to human rights in Burma. (About 1/2).

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Addresses: Tower House, Lathkill Street, Market Harborough, LE16 9EF, UK;
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About /a communications co-operative 2/2:
… Independent: Publications from the New Internationalist are produced by an independent trust working as a not-for-profit cooperative. Originally the group was sponsored by Oxfam, Christian Aid and the Cadbury and Rowntree Trusts, but since the early 1980s sponsorship has no longer been needed. Continuer la lecture de « New Internationalist »