New report to stimulate conversation between business and education As this year's ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN approaches, TrainingZone is excited to announce the release of its latest report, 'Business and education: collaborating for success,’ created in association with OEB. &nbs... Read More November 21, 2014 News
George Siemens: ‘Students need to take ownership of their learning’ George Siemens George Siemens is an internationally renowned and highly respected professor and researcher of technology, networks, analytics, and openness in education. Currently the Executive Director of ... Read More November 19, 2014 News
Learning the language of video November 5, 2014 News Adam filming for the BBC in Southern Iraq From Hollywood to YouTube, watching movies will make your learning videos more engaging and effective. That’s the message Adam Salkeld, filmmaker and media executive, will highlight in this year’s VIDEO EDUCA Maste... Read More
Experts unite to create connected learning network Helen Keegan What happens when a group of “leaders in open education” (including the likes of Howard Rheingold, Helen Keegan, Michael Wesch and Mimi Ito) get together to share best practices and thrash out... Read More October 7, 2014 News
Learning to love the camera At ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN in 2011, renowned e-learning expert Jay Cross declared that “video is the new language of learning”. Video has since become one of the most ubiquitous and effective online learning tools.... Read More October 6, 2014 News
Stephen Downes: ‘This is the next era of learning’ September 24, 2014 News Image: Stephen Downes, courtesy of Stephen's web In this guest post, Stephen Downes, Senior Researcher for the National Research Council of Canada and pioneer of major e-learning developments – such as MOOCs, syndicated learning and the concept of connecti... Read More
Learning to drive lifelong success McKinsey and Company’s Global Chief Learning Officer Dr Nick van Dam Organisations around the world are experiencing sweeping, rapid changes in what they do, how they do it and even why they do it. Masteri... Read More July 16, 2014 News
The OEB debate 2013 from left: Crispin Weston, Gianpiero Petriglieri, chairman Harold Elletson, Johannes Heinlein and Pierre Dillenbourg On the evening of Thursday, 5 December, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN participants flocked to the p... Read More December 18, 2013 News
Opening up Education December 18, 2013 News 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. by Pauline Bugler This l... Read More
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
