OEB 2011 saw the introduction of a new session format: Ignite. Part of the Business EDUCA programme, the Ignite session, entitled Preparing for the future of learning at work, brought participants together to talk about business issues in an innovative, energising and fun way. Developed in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media, and Bre [...]
At Security & Defence Learning, a forum run alongside ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN on November 30th, 2011, dozens of participants gathered to hear researchers, security experts and military top brass expound on the developments in security training aimed at countering the emerging cyber threats brought on by today’s new security environment. Alan Bruce, the director of [...]
The evolution of e-learning over the past few decades has transformed teaching practices at universities to the extent that the humble online communities of the early 1990s are almost unrecognisable in today’s cloud of social media and Internet access on demand. Keynote speaker Professor Huw Morris, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Salford in the UK, [...]
At OEB 2011, Douglas Thomas, author of “A New Culture of Learning” and professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, delivered a keynote speech about cultivating the imagination and the developing new cultures of learning. Prior to delivering his keynote speech, Douglas Thomas spoke to OEB about his view [...]
The 17th annual ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the world’s largest e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors took place from November 30th to December 2nd, 2011, and with the theme of New Learning Cultures, the conference was fruitful ground for discussing, debating and exploring the technologies and trends that are driving formal and [...]
In spite of the increasingly prevalent role of technology in all facets of our lives, the uptake of learning technologies remains limited. OEB 2011 keynote speaker Jeff Borden argues in favour of the personalisation of education through technology and outlines how education data can help this process. OEBookmark
Teaching hospitals the world over face increasing difficulties in sourcing real patients who exhibit every conceivable ailment which medical students need to learn to diagnose and treat. An e-learning approach using interactive computer simulations known as virtual patients is one way to solve the problem, but in which settings is the use of these virtual [...]
The number of students with mobile phones is multiplying fast. Top institutions are reacting just as quickly. More than 77% of the world’s population has a mobile phone (1). That is over 5.3 billion people. In Europe, mobile phone penetration has surpassed the 100% mark with 741 million mobile phone subscriptions (2). By 2013, mobile [...]
Join primary school teacher of over 25 years and lover of creative technology Tim Rylands as he talks to podcaster Dom Graveson about his top ICT tips. Whether you’re looking for ways in which ICT can help you get creative, enhance learning or simply to facilitate your daily life, Tim’s A – Z of ICT [...]
WeCast is a website that presents news and views on some of the things that make the world go round: music, theatre, sport, studying, nature, and city life. What makes this website stand out though is the fact that this Web 2.0 experience has been crafted by young teens; it is all their own work. [...]
