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
CiCi: Fulfilling the Promise of Career Chatbots The world has changed dramatically in the last year. Societies everywhere have had to adapt and find new ways to prosper during the pandemic. Video conferencing, Zoom calls, Facebook and more regular use o... Read More April 15, 2021 News
Help Students Consider the Impact of Digital Technologies How do we responsibly design a corona contact tracing app? Does a digital representation of a deceased person (a griefbot) help alleviate suffering? Is an app that listens to your baby and categorises its ... Read More April 15, 2021 News
Standing a Good Chance with Digital Ethics? In the midst of the Corona-crisis and the shut down after March this year many universities, schools and workplaces have had to act before thinking, and they may have chosen digital alternatives that they ... Read More November 27, 2020 News