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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

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

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

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

Marcia Conner is a former corporate executive who is now dedicated to “reinventing a vibrant healthy world”. She advises leaders, governments, corporations and schools across the globe on how to reshape their o... Read More

The changing landscape of learning is due in part to a shift in the way technology is used today. OEB keynote speaker Tricia Wang, founder of Constellate Data, says that as a researcher and consultant exploring... Read More

There’s nothing like technology for inspiring unfounded hopes and fears. Think of all those earnest Victorian prophets of doom who thought railways would corrupt both body and soul, or all those equally earnest... Read More

Launched in February 2015, the TraMOOC project aims at providing reliable machine translation for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from English to eleven European and BRIC languages. As the Languages &am... Read More

Today, the need to expand knowledge is being required with increasing frequency both professionally and personally. In the workplace, at school, and at home, we can benefit from the enormous, rapidly growing vo... Read More

It’s inherent in the way educational systems work currently that the big decisions about edTech don’t get made by the people they affect. Governments make plans, civil servants allocate resources, and education... Read More