Berlin (GER), February 2019 - The organisers of eLearning Africa, the Continent’s leading conference and exhibition on learning, training, and technology, have issued a Call for Papers from anyone interested in presenting at this year’s event. It will be held in the Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire in Cote d’Ivoire, 23-25 October 2019.

London (UK), January 2019 - StoryTagger, the video storytelling partner of Learning Technologies 2019, has announced its programme of free seminars at the show. Innovative marketing and learning leaders from EDF Energy and Verizon, among the earliest adopters of StoryTagger, will share their experiences of user generated video within the learning and enablement mix at two free seminars.

Oslo (NO), January 2019 - The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is pleased to announce a Call for Interest for the 29th ICDE World Conference scheduled for 2021. Member institutions are asked to submit declarations of interest for hosting the event. The organization is particular interested in bids from members in South America and the Middle East.

New York, NY (USA), January 2019 - Submissions for the 2019 International E-Learning Awards - Business Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA), are now open! The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2019. Submissions for our Academic categories will be accepted beginning in March 2019, with a deadline of 10 June 2019. 

London (UK), December 2018 - At Learning Technologies 2019, a recognised expert on games and learning, Karl Kapp, will help learning professionals to think like game designers and transform stale training into exciting and interesting experiences. The term gamification is thrown around liberally in L&D these days, with the benefits of using game theory in learning now an established principle. But designing engaging and compelling games is an art in its own right, and adding points or leaderboards into learning design simply doesn't do it justice.

Vienna (A), December 2018 - What is the value of academic knowledge and executive education for learning and development in the corporate world? How can L&D leaders bridge academic knowledge and business in practice and build a routine of learning in their organisations? MERIT Summit in Vienna, 16-17 January 2019, will bring together corporate and executive education professionals for debates and collaborative exploration on this topic, among many others.

Brussels (BE), December 2018 - The next ELIG event, 11-12 February 2019, is a special partnership with OBA, Amsterdam's Open Public Library. It marks the OBA’s 100th anniversary, which will be celebrated over a period of weeks, with many new learning activities in the city. It presents a perfect opportunity to pose the question: "What makes our cities learning friendly?"

Valencia (E), December 2018 - After the great success of the previous HEAd conferences, which received submissions from more than 50 countries, the organizers are pleased to announce the Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'19), which will be held 26-28 June 2019 at the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV).

Stuttgart (GER), December 2018 - What changes has the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation brought about for networked learning, and what effects does it, in conjunction with the ePrivacy Regulation, have on the design of learning media? Thomas Trier's workshop (in German) in Conference Room 1 on 29 January 2019 at 11:30 will examine these questions. Thomas Trier studied economics and has been a certified data protection specialist since 2013. Today he is a senior consultant and data protection officer at vitero GmbH.

Winter Garden, FL (USA), November 2018 - The Organizing Committee of the seventeenth International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications wishes to inform potential contributors that the submission deadline has been extended to 12 December 2018. EISTA 2019 will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, 6-9 July 2019.