Languages & Business Forum: in conversation with Ian McMaster and Timothy Phillips The Languages & Business Forum promises to be one of the most original events taking place in connection with ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2013. Its facilitators, Tim Phillips and Ian McMaster, have thrown ordinary ... Read More September 24, 2013 News
Malta’s wiki projects falter: and other stories Around the World is your first port of call for international e-learning news. With a mix of stories from across the globe, we aim to reflect the diversity and ingenuity of online education. This week, universi... Read More September 19, 2013 News
India’s menstrual mythbusters, and other stories Here at Around the World, we often find that the most unusual and interesting innovations are not to be found in the obvious places. That's just one of the reasons we are always on the lookout for interesting s... Read More September 12, 2013 News
Other people’s apples are no longer forbidden fruit – and other stories Around the World returns with a selection of five top education stories from the last week – and one more frivolous offering. Whether in e-learning, e-health, e-government or e-anything else, new initiatives ar... Read More September 5, 2013 News
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
