Today’s Technology: A help or hindrance to learning? Before entering the world of professional development in higher education, I spent many years as a lecturer in physics, teaching amongst other things the development and applications of solid-state electro... Read More November 8, 2024 Community Resources, News
Navigating the Learning Technology Odyssey: 2010-2024 — Weathering the Waves The years 2010 to 2024 have brought a turbulent current of technological shifts in education, with few calm harbours in sight. Like Odysseus, we’ve encountered alluring new lands and unanticipated challeng... Read More November 8, 2024 Community Resources, News
Digital Credential Interoperability: Unblocking Universal Adoption Digital credential standards and services are perceived to be the most powerful facilitators of bridging the gap between skills supplied by education providers and the skill sets demanded by the job market... Read More November 8, 2024 Community Resources, News
The future of digital learning in the age of AI Admitting it might be a bit uncomfortable, but many decisions in digital learning content are still based on theory and intuition. Whilst theory is valuable, some of it remains unproven. Intuition, on the ... Read More October 30, 2024 Community Resources, News
Navigating the Learning Technology Odyssey: The 2000s – Charting New Territories in Learning In 1999, Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, predicted that “education over the Internet is going to be so big, that it is going to make e mail look like a rounding error”. As we celebrated the millennium an... Read More October 30, 2024 Community Resources, News
Out of the box – revisiting the art of great conversation The Marlene Bar at the Hotel Intercontinental is the beating heart of learning for those attending OEB. It always has been for the past 30 years. It’s here that we engage freely with fresh thinking, new pe... Read More October 30, 2024 Community Resources, News
AI in L&D: The Immaturity Model Adoption rates for AI in L&D are growing. But what does that mean? The adoption of AI for L&D takes many different forms. Our research shows that the greatest area of use is for the internal effici... Read More October 30, 2024 Community Resources, News
Striking the Right Balance: Big Data and Educational Data Mining under GDPR and the AI Act For over a decade in higher education, I’ve seen first-hand how digitalisation is transforming data governance. From digital assessments and automated grading to sophisticated plagiarism detection, the wor... Read More October 30, 2024 Community Resources, News
Education Unchained “Failure to unchain is an option!” Jef Staes This year, I will host a Spotlight Session titled Education Unchained at Online Educa Berlin. Drawing from my background as a Software Designer in Digital Te... Read More October 16, 2024 Community Resources, News
Learning Analytics and AI: Questions of Ethics and Trust For most of my career with USA state government I was housed in, under, or adjacent to the Human Resources (HR) department. I found this to a bit of both blessing and curse. The curse: Much of my work had... Read More October 16, 2024 Community Resources, News