Ease of Doing Business - ranked by country

Barriers may be ranked differently by country?

Compare All Ease of Doing Business Index (Worldbank)

e-Learning Materials Development

Here's an overview of the e-Learning Materials Development (using Cmap).

Click on the image to see it larger.

A new tool (Mind42) that allows COLLABORATIVE use of a mindmap. Below is a mindmap (based on the Pearltree of this topic) that I just started concerning the actual e-Learning materials, such as texts, videos and links, that will be provided on the SUPORT website for learners.
Click, hold and move the slider to the left to make the image smaller. You can also click, hold and move the cursor to navigate around the mind map. Give it a try!

Making Innovation Happen, on a Deadline

Based on a NYT article I ask myself what benefits a "Rapid Results" approach would have on the SUPORT project and, especially, the training course and e-Learning components. See these links for the institute and a book.

What do you think? Mid-October might be a good point to launch ourselves on a 100-day project!

G.E. to Produce Short Films About Innovation

The idea is to join Cinelan, a publisher of videos that tell stories within three minutes or less, in generating very short movies about world-changing innovation, through a project that has yet to be titled, according to both Mr. Spurlock and Karol Martesko-Fenster, a Cinelan founding director.


http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/g-e-to-produce-short-films-about-innovation/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210

Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive innovations fundamentally transform a sector by replacing expensive, complicated and inaccessible products or services with much less expensive, simpler and more convenient alternatives.



Blended learning is a disruptive innovation in education that can take many forms. Here, we look at what blended learning is, why it’s spreading, and how it works in real and virtual classrooms. Join the conversation on blended learning and how it might be used in the SUPORT project below - just add your comments.


source: Knewton Blended Learning

[Sources] OpenScout

Thierry Nabeth mentioned OpenScout as one possible source of content for the SUPORT project's e-Learning platform. See their site here. 


OpenScout stands for "Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training". OpenScout is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus Programme as a Targeted Project in the area of Educational Content (Grant ECP 2008 EDU 428016). OpenScout started in September 2009 and has a duration of three years.

OpenScout aims at providing an education service in the internet that enables users to easily find, access, use and exchange open content for management education and training.

OpenScout can be used by learners directly but also by training and education institutions that search for learning content to be integrated into their learning offerings.