“Students have their own goals, communities their own needs”: an interview with Roger Schank Roger Schank is known as one of traditional education’s harshest critics. A professor himself for over three decades, he quit in 2000 to run his own company and since then has been busy tearing up the education... Read More February 7, 2017 News
How do we make education a “practice of freedom”? – talking to Audrey Watters Audrey Watters is an education writer, author, and self-confessed troublemaker – “ed-tech’s Cassandra”. Since 2010, her blog and her website Hack Education have been chronicling the ups and downs of the e-learn... Read More February 7, 2017 News
Follow The Leader: The Creative Guide The inaugural OEB MidSummit conference in Iceland this June presents a new opportunity to stimulate ideas, creativity and learning. Bert De Coutere from the Centre for Creative Leadership will talk about how th... Read More February 7, 2017 News
Top tweets from #OEB16 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 December 21, 2016 News
The Voice of the Learner 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 December 1, 2016 News
“Digital literacy has to be the key thing” – in conversation with Mark Surman 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 November 17, 2016 News
Higher education and the refugee crisis 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 November 16, 2016 News
How to revolutionise workplace learning 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 November 16, 2016 News
Upgrading Human Learning: Perspective Shifting 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 November 16, 2016 News
“This house believes AI could, should and will replace teachers” 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 October 28, 2016 News