MOOCs Success: Still a Long Road to Go You may have heard from many sources about how unsuccessful Moocs are. Since they became part of the higher education panorama in the beginning of the 2010’s, they all faced a high dropout and a very low c... Read More September 5, 2022 Community Resources, Meet the OEB Speakers, News
OEB 2015 Friday Plenaries The Friday plenaries brought together expert speakers from around the world to share their perspectives on a pertinent issue facing technology supported learning and training, through insightful keynote speeche... Read More December 16, 2015 News
Give me a drone where the buffalo roam… February 20, 2014 News Stories from Ukraine have sobered the widespread adulation previously given by gushing journalists to social and communicative media since the revolutions in the Arab world. We previously reported on the text message sent to Ukrainian protestors, reading “Dear... Read More
This house believes MOOCs are doomed This is the provocative motion of this year’s ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN debate. The event is a perennial favourite at the Conference; year after year, its mixture of incisive analysis, provocative statesmanship, audi... Read More November 28, 2013 News
India’s financial five-year-olds, and other stories Last week, Around the World promised you the very last article you'd ever have to read on MOOCs. Well... we lied – see below for the whole story, along with e-health news from West Africa, e-government developm... Read More October 18, 2013 News
Online Courses and Student Engagement: an unhappy marriage? July 26, 2013 News 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 a traditional university education is not an opti... Read More
Tweets of the week: Monday,October 22nd – Friday,October 26th 2012 To start, a few links about game-based learning and gamification: Excellent article from newmedia.org comprehensively explaining what game-based learning is and why it’s important for educating p... Read More October 26, 2012 News
