Michelle Obama has egg on her face, and other stories Around the World, our weekly round-up of international education news, is back with more stories from near and far. This week big data hits the global healines – click here for our own interview with big data e... Read More August 29, 2013 News
A walk down Silicon Allee Another one of Berlin's excellent uses of silicon San Francisco has Silicon Valley. Tel Aviv has Silicon Wadi. London’s tech start-ups cluster round Old Street tube station, a place known with typical Engli... Read More August 28, 2013 News
“We urgently need to safeguard free will in the age of big data” Dr Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. The focus of his research is the role of information in a networked economy, and he has published ... Read More August 27, 2013 News
Communication, Collaboration and Interaction: an interview with Eilif Trondsen Eilif Trondsen is Research Director at Strategic Business Insights, formerly Stanford Research Institute. He describes himself as a “Scandihoovian” – originally from Norway, he went to California to visit Silic... Read More August 27, 2013 News
The underlying inequality of MOOCs Anybody who has been paying any small amount of attention to educational headlines in the past few years will be well rehearsed in the proposed benefits of MOOCs. A cursory online search will provide you with e... Read More August 22, 2013 News
India’s tech sector is (literally) ballooning – and other stories As technology-supported learning becomes ever more international, it’s important to stay on top of what’s happening in education worldwide. ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the sector’s largest global conference, presents ... Read More August 22, 2013 News
Japan’s schools of fish, and other stories As the largest global conference on technology-assisted learning, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN unites e-learning practitioners from around the world. In a new weekly feature celebrating these international credentials, ... Read More August 15, 2013 News
In Memory: Prof. Casper J. H. Schutte Casper Jan Hendrik Schutte, former Professor of Physical Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of South Africa, award-winning chemist and enthusiastic supporter and member of the ONLINE... Read More August 8, 2013 News
Online Courses and Student Engagement: an unhappy marriage? Free large-scale access to educational resources and teaching, through MOOCs and other online courses, certainly has the potential to change education forever. By reaching out globally to all those for whom... Read More July 26, 2013 News
Gamification: just passing Go or already bankrupt? Gamification – broadly, the application of game mechanics outside of the gaming world – is becoming a powerful concept in education, fostering engagement, competitiveness and altruism in learners. Enhancing the... Read More July 26, 2013 News
