Embrace the change – Preparing Lecturers and Students for Digital Remote Assessments After transforming the sphere of teaching and learning within the 2000s, the effects of a fast-moving world of digitalization have especially impacted the field of university assessments. In German higher ... Read More June 18, 2021 News
Micro-videos; What Are They? How to Make them Sticky? How to Deliver? Good Interface? How to Make Them? What are they? Micro-videos are short videos. How short? Often very short, 15 seconds on TIKTOK, Twitter at 2 mins max, up to 6 minutes or so at most. There is no absolute rule here but the research sug... Read More June 18, 2021 News
“If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.” An Interview with Marleen Stikker OEB21 Opening Keynote speaker and Internet pioneer Marleen Stikker: “We have to help young people understand that the Internet can be designed differently”. As Founder of Waag and Professor of Practice ... Read More May 21, 2021 News
What Taking a MOOC Was Like in 2012, During The Year of the MOOC The Founder of Class Central, a search engine and reviews site for free online courses, describes his MOOC experience back when MOOCs were at their peak popularity. Dhawal Share states: As I’m writing this,... Read More May 21, 2021 News
Five Steps to Connect Master Students with “Real Life” Business Lahti is a growing, medium-sized city in southern Finland (and Europe’s Green Capital in 2021!) with three universities. The city is committed to supporting its universities and offers the institutio... Read More May 21, 2021 News
Designing Blended Learning Assignments to Promote Undergraduate Research at Universities For many students, especially undergraduates, it is a steep learning curve to become confident and competent in conducting academic research. In this article and during my presentation at OEB21, I shall sh... Read More May 21, 2021 News
Hybrid Learning – Insights from Three Countries In view of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions have turned to digital solutions to support the continuity of learning. As such, hybrid learning (HL) has gained popularity, and with it ca... Read More May 21, 2021 News
Meet the OEB21 Speakers: Keynote Rose Luckin Rosemary (Rose) Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab. Her research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and t... Read More April 15, 2021 Meet the OEB Speakers, News
Make the Right Choice! Deciding Between Asynchronous Online Learning, Synchronous Online Learning and Face-to-Face Learning If you design education or a training programme, you have the choice between asynchronous online learning (at a distance or on location), synchronous online learning, face-to-face learning and workplace le... Read More April 15, 2021 News
Platforms of Centres of Vocational Excellence: Building “Skills Ecosystems” for Innovation, Regional Development, Smart Specialisation and Social Inclusion Understanding change - We live in interesting times The combined effects of rapid technological change, digitalization, climate change, demographic trends, and new forms of work, call for innovative ide... Read More April 15, 2021 News
