Recorded in the run-up to ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011 and during the conference itself, the podcasts will introduce you to some of this year’s most exciting speakers and their respective projects and allow you to hear from the experts themselves.

 

 

What stimulates technological innovation?  The Canadian journalist Peter Nowak argues that most of the advances in technology that we enjoy today can be traced back to the industries that cater for our most basic instincts: military, porn, andfast food. The microwave oven, for example, is an adaptation of the radar developed for detecting bombers during World War II.

In this podcast interview with Dom Graveson, Peter Nowak shares some of the “I did not know that” moments he provides in his book "Sex, Bombs and Burgers".  And he explains how technology is driving the demand for 'entrepreneurial learning', the topic of his keynote speech at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011.

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Recorded in the run-up to ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010 and during the conference itself, the podcasts will introduce you to some of this year’s most exciting speakers and their respective projects and allow you to hear from the experts themselves.

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Dr Aimard presented her team's Graphics Recording project where discussions and debates are facilitated through a linear log of the proceedings developing into a cartoon or set of drawings which provide strong visual reminder for use later on. this is particularly effective in a development context and Dr Aimard will be returning to E-learning Africa in 2011 to tell us more.

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Debbie Carter, Director of Research at Training Journal Magazine joins us on Friday morning to tell us about her presentation where she highlights the challenges facing learning and development professionals in today's fast paced changing business environment. Her project, L&D 2020, identifies and addresses key issues and makes practical recommendations as to how practitioners can build in agility and adaptability to their professional development programmes to be fit for the future.

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EDUCA speaks to Jenny Lane from Edith Cown University, Perth, Australia about the challenges of embedding digital technology into teacher education. Jenny, who will be speaking later on 'Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers Today' tells us about how she has found that there are more similarities than differences when training teachers around the world.

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GNSE from Egypt talk about their content authoring and consulting services.
Declan Otaru African Virtual University talks about the AVU's mission in Africa, online educational resources and partnerships for success.
Tom Holland from MyKnowledgeMap introduces their assessment platform for use in schools and the workplace.
Peter Shipley gives us a peek under the hood of the Learning Objects Enterprise Social Platform, and how it can enable a more collaborative e-learning environment.

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Erik Egnt HIST Trondheim, Norway tells us about their project to enable live real time feedback in the classroom using iPads and iPhones.
Andrew and Shaun E-Learning Brothers. Andrew introduces their easy to use e-learning authoring suite.
Dr Peter Reuter Tobii Eye-tracking make an appearance and talk about the importance of user testing in e-learning development.

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Simon Whitby and Tanya Novossiolova from Bradford University have developed a course in applied dual-use bio security. Scientists across the bio- and life- science fields are publishing their research publicly all the time, but are they aware of the risks this information may pose if it falls into the hands of terrorists and rogue states? This course aims to make research institutions aware of the risks and issues allowing them to make informed and responsible decisions, balancing the needs of an open, peer reviewed scientific community with the inherent security security risks that can come with bio science research. Simon and Tanya presented their project to the Security and Defence Learning 2010 forum on Wednesday and explain all in this podcast...

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In our first podcast from this year's Online EDUCA conference, Dom Graveson meets Øivind Høines, who tells us about the NDLA (National Digital Learning Arena of Norway) a project aimed at increasing take-up and sharing of online educational resources in secondary schools across Norway. Øivind is the project's Chef Executive and shares some of the initiative's experiences and challenges with us ahead of his presentation on Thursday.

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How can audio podcasts help to improve the communicative and oral competence of students in multicultural and plurilingual settings? At the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, a team of experts carried out an investigation into ICTs in the classroom, involving teachers from elementary, primary, secondary and higher education. The aim was to design a typology of activities suitable for all educational levels. In this interview, OEB podcaster Dom Graveson talks to Mar Camacho from the project team about the challenges involved.

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High impact employee learning today is no longer determined by the availability of content – in fact, there is even too much content around. Instead it is defined by the “learning culture” of the organisation: the way managers and executives facilitate and support continuous learning. This is one of the findings that Josh Bersin, CEO and President of the research and advisory services of Bersin & Associates, will elaborate on in his keynote speech at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010. In this interview, he talks to OEB podcaster Dom Graveson about management practices that create a culture of learning and high performance.

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Leif Edvinsson has been called the “grandfather of Intellectual Capital” and initiated the world's first public corporate Intellectual Capital Annual Report in 1994. His new book “National Intellectual Capital – A Comparison of 40 countries” is published on November 1st. OEB podcaster Dom Graveson interviewed Professor Edvinsson, of Lund University, Sweden, and Jiaotong University, China.

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Four hundred organisations, private and public, were surveyed for the November 2010 report. Laura Overton, leader of the Towards Maturity 2010 project at e-Skills UK reveals some preliminary findings in this podcast interview for OEB. A Fellow of the Institute of IT Training and the British Institute of Learning and Development, Laura Overton is author of Linking Learning To Business.

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For the first of this year's ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN podcasts we meet the British social and educational technologist Josie Fraser who will deliver a keynote speech in Friday’s plenary session.

In this interview, Josie tells us about her current work as ‘ICT Strategy Lead’ for one of England’s biggest and most cosmopolitan cities. She explores the connection of virtual communities to the real world and shares the sessions she is looking forward to at this year's OEB.

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Dr Michael Power (00.30), Prof. of Education and Technology at Laval University in Quebec took some time out of his schedule to come and talk to us about geomatics, augmented reality, and how the new breed of location based social technologies offer a fantastic opportunity for bringing learning to life outside the classroom.

‘Battle of the Bloggers’ has been a highlight of the conference for the past couple of years, an opportunity for a group of well-known figures in e-learning to robustly debate their ideas and perspectives in front of a live and on-line audience. We catch up with Ellen Wagner (09.40), Partner of Sage Road Solutions LLP, who was a panellist and find out what its all about.

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In the Friday afternoon edition, we catch up with Sónia Hetzner (00.26) from the Institute for Innovation in Learning, University of Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany, ahead of her presentation on Friday afternoon which explores e-learning applications for the older life-long learner. In particular, she tells us about how personal histories are being captured to be recreated in the plotlines and scenarios of video games.

Karyn Romeis (08.50) from Learning Anorak Ltd, UK, has been examining how the changing needs of business is resulting in new models for e-learning and training in the workplace, and how we, as employees, need to become more empowered and involved in directing and meeting our individual training needs.

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First, we meet Professor Margarida Romero from ESADE Business School (00.49) who is presenting later on Friday as part of a session about the neurology of learning in a technical and collaborative context, and how ICT’s are affecting of the evolution of how we perceive the educational experience.

On Thursday afternoon, there was a session where a group of students from the Humboldt and Nelson Mandela schools in Berlin (10.15) came and spoke about their consumption of e-learning materials and shared their experiences – both beneficial and frustrating – as end users of technology and resources. We caught up with them after the session to discuss the changing relationship between student and teacher, the issue of technology support in schools and how the experience of getting to grips with ed-tech should be a two-way street.

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In the second of Thursday’s casts, we talk to Julie Stoker (00.30) from Arsenal FC’s ‘Double Club’ about how football is bringing language teaching to a whole new and previously hard to reach audience, and we meet Dr Aric Sigman, (06.12) psychologist, author and critic of the overuse of technology in education.

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We meet Silja Guelicher from Nintendo (00.20) who talks about how life long learning is at the heart of Nintendo’s product strategy and how listening to audiences’ desires and habits is key to delivering this. Also we hear from Dale Sheehan from INTERPOL (08.02) about how e-learning platforms are delivering real benefit as part of the international battle against organised crime.

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The first podcast recorded at OEB09 at the Intercontinental in Berlin, we speak to Helen Keegan, Lecturer in Interactive Media at the University of Salford, UK, about how social and participative media is changing the face of learning while at the same time throwing up challenges around privacy and managing one's digital ID.

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In this pre-conference podcast, we invite you to explore the landscape of virtual worlds with Eilif Trondsen, the Research and Program Director of the Virtual Worlds @ Work in California.

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This podcast features keynote speaker Gilly Salmon from the University of Leicester, UK, highlighting the importance of envisaging the future direction of learning.

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This podcast features e-learning experts Jay Cross and Charles Jennings reflecting on the development of training from the traditional model to the new era of corporate learning.

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This podcast features keynote speaker David James Clarke IV discussing the role technology can play in the pedagogic world for both the educator and the student.

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The OEB keynote speaker talks about online communities and the social web, and their effect on the relationship between companies and consumers.

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