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 What is the experience of companies embracing technologies such as wikis and blogs as part of their internal staff Learning & Development programme, and how can you benefit from this? This is the central question of a workshop at this year's Online Educa Berlin, led by Stephen Citron (Informatology, UK) and Jay Cross (Internet Time Group, USA).  Web 2.0 has increasingly acquired importance in learning and training. But what have the sustainable impacts of social software on education been? What have concrete findings and experiences from practical applications of Web 2.0 tools indicated about its value? How can we effectively use blogs and wikis for learning? How can students and teachers benefit from virtual worlds like Second Life? And where do we go from here? Online Educa Berlin 2007 once again was the place to be to get answers to these and other emerging questions on new technologies in the world of e-learning.  European e-learning has definitely left the stage of “bits and pieces initiatives”, according to the experts of the “Lifelong Learning” plenary and session at Online Educa Berlin 2007. What is still needed, however, are policy-making decisions, explicit guidelines and concerted action – on communal, national and international levels. New target groups and implementing strategies have to be envisaged to derive real benefit from Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a driver for lifelong learning. Presenting their sound approaches, Online Educa’s speakers and presenters offered insight into the current debate.  Missed this year's Online Educa Berlin? Or would like to take some time to reflect on the thoughts and points-of-view presented in the Opening Plenary? No problem! You can now listen to this year's keynote speeches in a series of podcasts.
Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana Prof. Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University, UK & Chief Scientist Emeritus, NIIT Ltd., India “The ‘Hole in the Wall’ Experiments: Self-Organising Systems in Primary Education” Patricia Ceysens, Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade, Belgium “The Importance of E-Skills as a Mechanism to Boost Competitiveness and Increase Innovation” Andrew Keen, USA “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Truth” |
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