The European Commission at OEB The European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC) and the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) are participating in OEB 2013 with multiple initiatives, presen... Read More November 22, 2013 News
5 tips to increase student engagement with video All faculty, whether they admit it or not, are faced with the challenge of keeping students locked into and focused on the lesson at hand. There’s nothing unique about this challenge – a study by Ralph Burns fo... Read More November 22, 2013 News
Wiki ‘Edit-a-Thon’ at Brown U. Will Add Entries for Women in Science (repost) When she was growing up, Maia Weinstock’s role model was the astronaut Sally Ride. But she really didn’t have any other female role models in science. Ms. Weinstock, a news director at an education... Read More November 21, 2013 News
Explosion of Wireless Devices Strains Campus Networks (repost) A few weeks into the fall semester, Bruce Maas, chief information officer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, received an e-mail from his chancellor: A junior living in campus housing was frustrated with... Read More November 21, 2013 News
Emotional Computers, and other stories Online Learning is by nature a global endeavour. This week’s reports in Around the World show many of e-learning’s international applications – to aid development, promote unity and co-operation, and expand wor... Read More November 21, 2013 News
France Université Numérique, national leadership for digital education Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and Research The digital revolution is under way. The third revolution after the invention of writing and the invention of the printing press,... Read More November 21, 2013 News
Can everyday tasks ever be as satisfying as slaying a dragon in World of Warcraft? The answer is yes, according to those who believe in the potential of gamification. Taking its cues from the land of Angry Birds, gamification applies gaming principles to workplace scenarios in order to increa... Read More November 19, 2013 News
Predicting the 2020 workplace they might not be nuclear-powered, but they can clean elephants With the technological advances that are being made, the workplace – and workplace learning – are certainly going to be very different in the ... Read More November 18, 2013 News
Van Gogh as a source of inspiration The opening quick-fire ignite presentations at this year’s Business EDUCA will highlight how shifting work priorities reshape the delivery of learning in the workplace. A common thread running through the prese... Read More November 18, 2013 News
Redefining Learning: 4 Trends to watch in 2014 “Learning Moves” is the motto of this year’s ONLINE EDUCA, but where is learning going? What will learning look like in the future? And how will new technologies and forward-thinking approaches help us develop ... Read More November 18, 2013 News