Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Richard Straub OEB Plenary Keynote Speaker Richard Straub is Founder and President of the Peter Drucker Society Europe and of the Global Peter Drucker Forum. He is also Associate Director of EFMD, a leading network of Bu... Read More June 14, 2019 Meet the OEB Speakers, News
Looking Ahead to 2040 and Beyond: Some Hesitation Thinking about forecasting, here’s a draft section from Bryan Alexander’s upcoming book. Consider it with some throat-clearing and/or humility: If exploring the near- and medium-term futures of col... Read More June 14, 2019 News
Are We so Busy in Today’s Workplace that Learning is Losing Out? Have we become so busy that there is always something that takes priority over our own development? Last year, when I was doing interviews with testers of our learning prototypes, it felt like this was the... Read More June 14, 2019 News
Blockchain: The Move from Freedom to the Rigid, Dominant System in Learning In this post Inge de Waard gives an overview of current Blockchain options from industry and looks at its impact on universities as well as philosophies on its future. Background and project As I am ... Read More June 14, 2019 News
The Virtual Classroom Journey Carin de Weme, Senior Global L&D adviser at AkzoNobel, describes in this article how she introduced and improved virtual classrooms at AkzoNobel and why virtual classrooms should be part of the toolset... Read More June 13, 2019 Community Resources, News
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
Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Laura Czerniewicz OEB plenary keynote Laura Czerniewicz is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has worked in education in numerous r... Read More May 10, 2019 Meet the OEB Speakers, 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
