Meet the OEB2019 Speakers: Laura Czerniewicz OEB plenary keynote Laura Czerniewicz is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has worked in education in numerous r... Read More May 10, 2019 Meet the OEB Speakers, News
To Improve Education – Focus on Pedagogy Not Technology It’s an exciting time for technology in education. Global tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are promoting adaptive teaching systems to give each student a personal tutor that responds to ... Read More May 10, 2019 News
The Changed and Changing Role of L&D Functions From intervention delivery to performance support and growth enablement Changing times require an adaptive way of enabling people to perform. Unfortunately today’s way of developing people focus on tale... Read More May 10, 2019 News
The Usefulness of “Useless Knowledge” In 1939, Alexander Flexner wrote an article in Harper’s magazine entitled The usefulness of useless knowledge. Flexner is a famous education reformer and founder and first director of the Institute for Adv... Read More May 10, 2019 News
Now, AI Makes Online Courses Even Smarter The educational system is broken - and unfair. For decades, learning was limited by geographic location and finding the means to continue with higher education. Online learning and massive open online cour... Read More May 10, 2019 Industry Insights, News
The skills Germany needs most in 2019 – and how to learn them McKinsey predicts that 46% of workplace activities across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain could be automated by 2025. It estimates that 6 million low-qualified jobs could disappear in the proces... Read More May 7, 2019 Industry Insights, News
DGEW Challenge – Digital German Expats Wanted In other sectors it’s quite common to search for expats working all over the globe to contribute their valuable experience and knowledge into German working environments. However, in the field of learning ... Read More May 10, 2019 News
The Teleology of Ed-Tech There is a certain teleology to the way in which the history of education technology gets told. Its developments are often laid out in a narrative that posits that, as time has passed, education has become... Read More April 11, 2019 Community Resources, News
Innovation Provides the Key for Higher Education to Reform and Change Having been involved in higher education as a student, researcher, manager, Professor and executive, for over twenty years, and having worked with government on national policy, and then having worked and ... Read More April 11, 2019 News
Changing Corporate Learning Culture One Small Step at a Time This year I have been taking a fresh interest in an age-old challenge for workplace learning – learning culture, or rather the lack of it! Increasingly I hear poor learning culture being blamed for the sti... Read More April 11, 2019 News
