“We have a great responsibility to educate this generation to use technology for the greater good” Together with cognitive-psychology professor Harold Bekkering from the Radboud University in the Netherlands, Rector Muhammed Şahin from the MEF University is scheduled to speak at the OEB MidSummit in a sessio... Read More March 16, 2017 News
Touching the Future: Augmenting Reality in Education – talking to Tryggvi Thayer The future is a big place, and the use of technology in learning makes it even bigger. Tryggvi Thayer from the University of Iceland and Karl Friðriksson from the Innovation Center Iceland will present a worksh... Read More March 15, 2017 News
Makerspaces and Learning Places: Challenging the Status Quo By Helen Keegan, Makerspaces are part of a broader cultural trend around DIY culture where tinkering, creating and collaboration take place in informal cross-disciplinary spaces. Makerspaces (also ... Read More February 7, 2017 News
“Students have their own goals, communities their own needs”: an interview with Roger Schank Roger Schank is known as one of traditional education’s harshest critics. A professor himself for over three decades, he quit in 2000 to run his own company and since then has been busy tearing up the education... Read More February 7, 2017 News
How do we make education a “practice of freedom”? – talking to Audrey Watters Audrey Watters is an education writer, author, and self-confessed troublemaker – “ed-tech’s Cassandra”. Since 2010, her blog and her website Hack Education have been chronicling the ups and downs of the e-learn... Read More February 7, 2017 News
Follow The Leader: The Creative Guide The inaugural OEB MidSummit conference in Iceland this June presents a new opportunity to stimulate ideas, creativity and learning. Bert De Coutere from the Centre for Creative Leadership will talk about how th... Read More February 7, 2017 News
Top tweets from #OEB16 In the lead-up, during and after OEB 2016, the #OEB16 hashtag was alive with thousands of people sharing their ideas, opinions and favourite conference moments. See how far the messages reached and... Read More December 21, 2016 News
The Voice of the Learner In today’s higher education climate, students have a more powerful voice on the quality and value of their learning. High quality teaching has a correlation with students’ willingness to learn independently, so... Read More December 1, 2016 News
“Digital literacy has to be the key thing” – in conversation with Mark Surman Firefox has been one of the internet’s household names since the mid-noughties, when this free, open-source browser successfully broke the monopoly of Internet Explorer. Behind the software, and its plucky vulp... Read More November 17, 2016 News
Higher education and the refugee crisis Countries emerging from a period of conflict are in dire need of their graduates. When people flee their homelands due to conflict, they often leave their education behind them – degrees unfinished, documen... Read More November 16, 2016 News
