Learners increasingly outpace their teachers, mentors and trainers when it comes to the use of new technology in the classroom. How can education and training adapt? How can technology give learners the freedom to choose, and can it offer a more inclusive future for lifelong learning? OEBookmark
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, [...]
The backdrop to each ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is a bustling exhibition where participants are given a taste of new developments to come in the technology and e-learning arena. At OEB 2011, 89 exhibitors from 29 countries presented an assortment of new products and services including software for managed learning environments; language learning applications; tools for [...]
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 [...]
On Thursday December 1st, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Dr. med. Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi, officially opened the exhibition booth of Saudi Arabia’s National Center for e-Learning and Distance Learning at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN. The Deputy Minister of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia, Dr Mohammad Al-Ohali, welcomed the Ambassador to the stand [...]
Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions perhaps more than others rely on innovative thinking in the development and implementation of e-learning programmes for their large student bodies. International collaboration is a vital part of an ODL institution’s success story. The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), the global member body for ODL institutions, [...]
English is a foreign language for 95% of the world’s children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed [...]
