Thursday, November 6, 2008

Summary of LEARNING TIMES


LearningTimes is a web site which brings forth online communities and online conferences in the leading position. It is a partner to some institutions, organizations, and groups related to education.
As it is given in the home page of http://www.learningtimes/.net, LearningTimes is a private organization that is concerned with designing learning programs, communities, platforms, environments, applications etc. The LearningTime Network includes online learning communities. It is stated that the ones who want to join LearningTimes can join at no charge, end joining is very quick. The LearningTimes Network of communities is also built to set the members’ own e-mail preferences that allow them to connect to the sites which they want.
In the Conferences page of http://www.learningtimes.net/, three types of feature related to online conferences are shown and mentioned in a detailed way. They are titled as Completely Online, Hybrid Conference, and Conference Community in the page. Some featured conferences are also included in the Conferences page. Some of them are LearningTimes Australia (LTA), ACRL Virtual Conference, Training Live and Online, LearningTimes Library Online Conference, League for Innovation in the Community College etc.
In the Communities page of http://www.learningtimes.net/, some featured communities are aligned. LearningTimes Australia (LTA), Ohio Learning Network, ICT Literacy, The World Bank / IFC Education Forum, and LearningTimes Library Online Community are some of the given featured communities. Featured workshops such as Online Learning Certificate Programs / VNU Learning, and Certification in Online Community Facilitation are also included in the Workshops page.
The web site also shows its tools which enhance the online experience of the participants in LT Tools Page, and its services which serve to organizations with a learning-related mission in LT Services page.

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