Failed Schoolgirl Returns to School Sixteen years old and having failed at school, Zenna Atkins launched her first social enterprise. She aspired to help people who appeared to share her fate: a dismal future due to a lack of academic qualific... Read More September 10, 2009 News
E-Learning Down Under As a country dominated by space and renowned for its self-sufficiency, distance education has been part of Australia’s educational landscape for a long time. But does it necessarily mean that the nation is ... Read More September 10, 2009 News
Textbooks Terminated – Schools go Online ©Inacio Pires - Fotolia.com California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched an initiative to ban textbooks from high school classrooms and replace them with digital material. Traditional book... Read More September 8, 2009 News
Top Security Training Meeting John Geates Some of the biggest "names" in security training will be in Berlin on December 2nd for this year’s Security and Defence Learning, the annual forum at which the worlds of security and technology-... Read More September 5, 2009 News
E-Learning Supports European Customs in Fight Against Drug Traffickers The fight against illegal drugs is a high priority for governments and citizens of the EU. The frontline of this campaign involves officers of the EU Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD), who use intelligence, an... Read More September 5, 2009 News
Giving Voice to People – Even the Voice of Homer Simpson Lizbeth Goodman Even Homer Simpson can help to make technology more accessible. At least, that is the view of one of the keynote speakers at this year’s OEB. ”I have always worked towards empowering people ... Read More August 20, 2009 News
The Future of Knowledge Workers It was in 1959 when Peter F. Drucker, the “man who invented management”, coined the term “knowledge worker” in his groundbreaking publication Landmarks of Tomorrow. OEB is delighted to be a pa... Read More August 12, 2009 News
Keynote Speakers and the ONLINE EDUCA Debate © OEB World-class experts will outline their ideas on the current state and future of e-learning in plenaries at OEB. Their presentations promise to be inspiring, provocative and full of food ... Read More August 12, 2009 News
E-Learning in Retail As Head of E-Learning and Knowledge Management at the German supermarket chain real,- SB-Warenhaus GmbH, Olaf Bursian is responsible for implementing an e-learning project for 50,000 employees... Read More August 10, 2009 News
The Expansion of Moodle Martin Dougiamas, best known for being “the guy who started Moodle”, understands better than most the challenges and opportunities associated with distance learning. Growing up in the remote Australian ... Read More August 7, 2009 News