Craig Weiss: the e-learning industry’s most prolific psychic “The biggest problem facing online learning is boring content,” Craig Weiss said during a lecture at this year's ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN. One of the most influential voices in the e-learning industry, Weiss believe... Read More December 18, 2013 News
Achieving and Sustaining Operational and Strategic Excellence As defined by the EFQM, Excellent organizations achieve and sustain outstanding levels of performance that meet or exceed the expectations of all their stakeholders, extending strategic excellence to operationa... Read More December 18, 2013 News
Opening up Education A recent study of 200 European universities has shown that while one third of them were considering implementing a form of massive open online course, a further third of them did not even know what a MOOC was. ... Read More December 18, 2013 News
Trends: MOOCs, big data and the quality of education When you go to good educational conferences like ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, you meet people who know that – in most cases – the current way of educating students does not work. You also get to see many examples of go... Read More December 18, 2013 News
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
