Driving the future Dr Jeff Borden is director of the Center for Online Learning at Pearson's Research & Innovation Network. He has just returned from ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, one of world's largest e-learning events, where he del... Read More December 17, 2013 News
Focus on Africa With ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN over, it’s time to look forward to its sister Conference: eLearning Africa 2014. From the 28 – 30 May next year, this leading pan-African event will gather over 1,400 e-learning profes... Read More December 12, 2013 News
OEB reviews: Friday Plenaries In the first of the two morning plenaries, speakers Chris Bishop, Rick Van Sant, Sann Rene Glaza and Eva Majewski discussed the science of learning, tween texting habits and the future of work traini... Read More December 9, 2013 News
The world in Berlin Around the World has been travelling the globe in search of e-learning stories for several months now. This week it's a bit different: the world has come to us! More than 90 different countries are represented ... Read More December 6, 2013 News
“Universities are like supertankers – they’re very difficult to turn around” These are the words of Gilly Salmon of Swinburne University, Australia. She is one of the proponents of public-private partnerships in education - which have helped her institution with the setting up of Swinbu... Read More December 6, 2013 News
Flipping the classroom in Abu Dhabi YouTube uploaders - who have an average age of 24 - have increased their activity by 200% in the last year. Anjli Narwani of the Masdar Institute, UAE, sought to benefit from this rapid growth among a young pop... Read More December 6, 2013 News
Innovative ideas in the corporate sector Christian Kuhna is currently involved in bringing the MOOC model of online learning into Adidas' corporate training. "We want to integrate the great stuff on the internet into our learning offerings", he said. ... Read More December 6, 2013 News
Opening up education Education in Europe is being hit by a storm amid increased demand for higher education despite costs constraints, skills mismatches and knowledge gaps. Twenty ministers from as many states aim to open up their ... Read More December 6, 2013 News
The falling cost of fibre-optic cables in Uganda Ten years ago, Uganda was coughing up 4,000 US dollars per megabyte of fibre-optic cables. In 2013, the country is paying just one-tenth of that figure. However, at 400 dollars per megabyte, fibre optic cables ... Read More December 6, 2013 News
Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013 Nelson Mandela for decades served as the inspirational leader of worldwide opposition to one of the most roundly vilified systems of political racism the world has seen. His lifelong struggle against aparth... Read More December 6, 2013 News
