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
New ideas driving the global edtech boom By the OEB News Team Innovative start-ups, technological advancements and the demand for additional skills continue to fuel the growth of the global edtech industry. According to a whitepaper by Am... Read More July 21, 2016 News
Independent market news and analysis By Bob Little With the online learning technologies developing faster than ever before and being influenced by technologies that are newcomers to the sector, it’s no wonder that those in this secto... Read More July 21, 2016 News
How technology can actually change education By Roger Schank You can’t read something about education these days without reading about how technology will change everything. Sorry to be a downer, but technology will change nothin... Read More July 21, 2016 News
Digital society at a crossroads: Do we want learners or consumers? Digital literacy is just as important as reading, writing and maths. This is the message the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organisation supporting open source projects, wants to spread as it powers forward... Read More March 9, 2016 News
