Adapting to Agile EdTech Development: A Case Study of University of Pretoria’s e-Education Team The impact of agile development, particularly prevalent in the realm of cloud-based EdTech systems, requires instructional designers (IDs) to exhibit a higher level of commitment and adaptability. These pr... Read More November 6, 2023 Community Resources, News
Embracing a Future Mindset for Global Change In a world characterized by relentless transformation and global challenges, the imperative for radical systemic change, coupled with the right tools such as education, is unequivocal. This presentation de... Read More October 17, 2023 Community Resources, News
Three Ways That Designing Curricula Differs from Designing Courses In most educational contexts, individual courses link together to form a curriculum: the map of courses and other experiences in a program of study. In addition to focusing on the design of individual cou... Read More October 17, 2023 Community Resources, News
Join the Learning Design Revolution at OEB: enABLing Team-Based Approaches to Learning Design Workshop Get ready to ignite your passion for education and embrace the future of learning design at OEB 2023. Return from Berlin – fully enabled to support innovation approaches in learning design. Why sh... Read More October 16, 2023 Community Resources, News
Spacing Out to Level Up: Embrace Drips, Bots & Blogs to Reinforce Learning OEB 2023, scheduled in Berlin from 22-24 November, is set to feature a pivotal session on "Spaced Learning." Guided by Shannon Tipton, the founder of Learning Rebels, the session aims to equip learning pro... Read More October 16, 2023 Community Resources, News
On Good and Evil, and the Mistaken Idea that Technology is Ever Neutral The lively debate about the ethical impact of digital technologies, from social media to artificial intelligence (AI), is having many interesting side effects. Philosophically, it is forcing us to consider... Read More October 4, 2023 Community Resources, News
Examples of Everyday Digital Oppression Digital tech is increasingly being designed and used to shift the expenditure of labour from the top downwards, and from the centre to the periphery. Tim Unwin, OEB23 speaker, shares key examples of t... Read More October 4, 2023 Community Resources, News
An Ed-Tech tragedy? OEB will host an interview with Mark West about UNESCO’s new and critically-acclaimed book about ed-tech experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The New York Times said the book “challenges views ... Read More October 4, 2023 Community Resources, News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Career Guidance: Transformation or Extinction? The Coming Age of the Robo-Careers Advisers AI is supposed to make life easier when it comes to finding information, advice and guidance (IAG) to support individuals and their decision making. Traditionally, IAG has been provided by human careers ad... Read More September 11, 2023 Community Resources, News
Making European Universities Work Together Brace yourselves; we are going to dive into a topic that’s long been hard to grasp. European Universities are funded to work together as alliances so that they can offer better digital learning and teachin... Read More September 11, 2023 Community Resources, News
