Getting Serious about e-Learning

By Clark Quinn,    e-Learning is no longer new, but it has not yet fully arrived.  While e-Learning exists, by and large it has not lived up to its potential.  We are extending university courses and... Read More

Berlin, world city

For over 100 years Berlin has, whether it liked it or not, been at the centre of European history. Situated in the middle of a great plain stretching from the Pyrenees to the Urals, this German capital with... Read More

“We learn by living in the world.”

Startup Stock Photos OEB’s pre-Conference workshops are the place to get hands-on experience with the practical side of e-learning. They’re also the place to share and learn new specialist knowledge and to ... Read More

New tricks for over-65s

There is a rather persistent, often cartoonish, stereotype about the elderly being incapable of dealing with modern life. “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, runs the cliché or, more incomprehensible, “you... Read More

Relearning Privacy

By Kate Green   There has always been a close relationship between my formal learning and digital technology, certainly from the mid 2000s. I was told to use a search engine to find information onlin... Read More

Learning analytics offers big opportunities

Carlos Delgado Kloos is Professor of Telematics Engineering at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and holder of that university’s UNESCO Chair on “Scalable Digital Education for All”. His work as a pro... Read More

Create your own app LAB

Diana Knodel is the founder of App Camps, a non-profit organisation that aims to bring coding and digital skills to the classroom. Teachers across the world use App Camps’ teaching content and thousands of youn... Read More

Prisons, a new frontier for edtech?

Edtech is furthering the reaches of education, which is now available to more people in more remote areas for less money as a result. MOOCs from leading universities around the world have reached thousands ... Read More