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 October 19, 2016 News
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 October 19, 2016 News
Silicon Vikings: Connecting the Nordics with Silicon Valley By Eilif Trondsen (Silicon Viking Board Member and Chair, Special Interest Group for Entrepreneurship and Learning) Nordic Tech and Entrepreneurship Leif Erikson and the Vikings made t... Read More October 16, 2016 News
“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 September 21, 2016 News
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 September 12, 2016 News
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 September 12, 2016 News
10 ways Blockchain could be used in education By Donald Clark What is blockchain? Can it be used in education? In 2001, I designed and implemented a Napster-like system with no central storage or control that distributes learning content acros... Read More September 12, 2016 News
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 September 12, 2016 News
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 July 26, 2016 News
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 July 25, 2016 News