ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the international hub for exchanging ideas and experiences on ICT supported education & training, is expecting over 2000 participants from a record number of nearly 100 countries. No other conference in this field covers such a wide spectrum. The wide range of topics for 2010 includes ICT education initiatives in the Middle [...]
Five hundred medical students at Leeds University School of Medicine will be equipped with iPhones so that their skills can be assessed online. The large-scale project is one of several ePortfolio initiatives being presented at OEB 2010 by delegates from Germany, Italy, Finland and the United Kingdom. OEBookmark
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 [...]
Thomson Reuters is, by the company’s own definition, “the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals”. It was created when the Canadian Thomson Corporation purchased the news agency Reuters in 2008. In this environment, information and learning are in constant and rapid flux. Accordingly, the company has launched a major change programme [...]
Helen Keegan, Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at Salford University in England will report to OEB on how she teaches new media to her students using the mobile phones in their pockets to make short films. Accustomed to classic video-sharing web sites like YouTube, students collaborated to explore mobile film making and demonstrate their digital [...]
Creating content collaboratively is a crucial part of innovative learning. It offers significant opportunities for bringing together experts from various backgrounds in different geographical locations to exchange and create knowledge which can then be passed on to others. But what are the best ways to ensure that open content production works in practice? The Finnish [...]
Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton, played heroically by Dennis Quaid in Joe Dante’s 1987 sci-fi blockbuster “Innerspace”, pilots a miniaturised team in an unforgettable adventure inside a human body. Two decades later, Jan Gejel of the Aarhus Social and Health Care College presents at OEB the BODYexplorer, a new web-based learning game for disadvantaged citizens that takes [...]
Spies, rebel insurgents and war criminals have been discovered hacking into the sensitive databases of the world’s humanitarian relief agencies. Geoffrey Okoa, Chief IT Security Officer of the World Food Programme, with personal experience of cyber attacks in Africa, will warn delegates at Security and Defence Learning, the international forum on security training at OEB [...]
“The Daily What News” is Scotland’s – and the world’s – first online news service for schools. It is based on a daily live story output, around which students aged nine to sixteen, teachers and parents interact as part of the curriculum. Launched this autumn, the service represents one of the toughest content production challenges [...]
Need to know how to engage students with your mobile strategy? Join Aaron Wasserman of Blackboard Mobile in one of the Friday plenary sessions at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010, where he will focus on leading universities working on the edge of the mobile revolution and addressing the expectations that today’s students have. Aaron will highlight [...]