More than Human: John Searle, Transhumanism and the Blended Approach

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. ... Read More

June 14, 2019

Industry Insights, News

To Improve Education – Focus on Pedagogy Not Technology

It’s an exciting time for technology in education. Global tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are promoting adaptive teaching systems to give each student a personal tutor that responds to ... Read More

May 10, 2019

News

The Changed and Changing Role of L&D Functions

From intervention delivery to performance support and growth enablement Changing times require an adaptive way of enabling people to perform. Unfortunately today’s way of developing people focus on tale... Read More

May 10, 2019

News

The Usefulness of “Useless Knowledge”

In 1939, Alexander Flexner wrote an article in Harper’s magazine entitled The usefulness of useless knowledge. Flexner is a famous education reformer and founder and first director of the Institute for Adv... Read More

May 10, 2019

News

Now, AI Makes Online Courses Even Smarter

The educational system is broken - and unfair. For decades, learning was limited by geographic location and finding the means to continue with higher education. Online learning and massive open online cour... Read More

May 10, 2019

Industry Insights, News

The skills Germany needs most in 2019 – and how to learn them

McKinsey predicts that 46% of workplace activities across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain could be automated by 2025. It estimates that 6 million low-qualified jobs could disappear in the proces... Read More

May 7, 2019

Industry Insights, News

DGEW Challenge – Digital German Expats Wanted

In other sectors it’s quite common to search for expats working all over the globe to contribute their valuable experience and knowledge into German working environments. However, in the field of learning ... Read More

May 10, 2019

News

The Teleology of Ed-Tech

There is a certain teleology to the way in which the history of education technology gets told. Its developments are often laid out in a narrative that posits that, as time has passed, education has become... Read More

April 11, 2019

News

Innovation Provides the Key for Higher Education to Reform and Change

Having been involved in higher education as a student, researcher, manager, Professor and executive, for over twenty years, and having worked with government on national policy, and then having worked and ... Read More

April 11, 2019

News

Changing Corporate Learning Culture One Small Step at a Time

This year I have been taking a fresh interest in an age-old challenge for workplace learning – learning culture, or rather the lack of it! Increasingly I hear poor learning culture being blamed for the sti... Read More

April 11, 2019

News

Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Laura Czerniewicz

Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Bryan Alexander

Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Richard Straub

Meet the OEB2018 Speakers: Hannah Gore

Meet the OEB2018 Speakers: Geoff Mulgan

Meet the OEB2018 Speakers: Anita Schjøll Brede

Meet the OEB2018 Speakers: Ulrich Boser

Current Trends that Shape up the e-Learning Industry

The ‘Netflixization’ of Corporate e-Learning: Good or Bad Idea?