Torching the Fog: “Educators’ Visions for Learning Futures at OEB24” As 2025 dawns, we find ourselves a quarter-century into the "new" millennium—yes, really! And 30 years since the OEB conferences series began. This pivotal moment challenges us to embrace bold new directio... Read More December 16, 2024 Community Resources, News
Beyond borders: Uniting Global Voices for International Collaboration The main challenges explored by OEB 2024 share key commonalities: their global, borderless nature, demand for innovative thinking and call for brave exploration into the unknown. The exact solution to thes... Read More November 18, 2024 Community Resources, News
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
AI Unleashed: Redefining the Learning Experience Işıl Boy Ergül, the founder of TeacherX & ETZ, will be a speaker at the upcoming OEB conference, where she will be presenting: AI-Driven Learning to Shape the Future of Education | Thursday, Novembe... Read More November 11, 2024 Community Resources, News
Enabling educators to assess authentic student work in the age of Generative AI When I was a teacher with around 25 students, I could often tell if students handed in work that was not original based on my knowledge of their writing style. When in doubt, I had a conversation to measur... Read More November 11, 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
