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Ingolstadt / Essen (GER), December 2018 - "Corporate Learning 2025 - Are we making ourselves superfluous as trainers?" With this provocative question, Christian Böhler from innogy Se and Tobias Pickl from Audi will take the stage at LEARNTEC on 29 January 2019 at 16:30. This year, 2018, several representatives of large companies got together to reflect on how their situation as trainers in large corporations might look in 2025. They came up with several hypotheses that would appear to have predictive authority for corporate learning in 2025. » MORE

St. Augustin (GER), December 2018 - Blockchain is considered the technology of the future when it comes to data transparency and security. One year after the original hype, however, there are still only a few use cases in Germany. Blockchain is the technology that makes, e.g., Bitcoin possible. The cryptocurrency made headlines in 2018 with its rapid development as a digital currency. » MORE

Dresden (GER), December 2018 - Jens Hofmann is a trainer and project manager at SBG Dresden, one of eastern Germany’s largest corporate training providers for the chemistry and pharmaceutical industries. Jens is responsible for the design and testing of new teaching and learning methods in basic and advanced vocational training. He will talk about his experience with augmented reality at the LEARNTEC Congress on 30 January 2019 at 16:15 in the session "Ready for ARBT? - Teaching and Learning Scenarios for Augmented Reality Based Training in the Field of Vocational Education". » MORE

Königswinter (GER), December 2018 - Torsten Hardieß has investigated the issue of how "Alexa, chatbots, and similar tools individualize learning and improve transfer". The psychologist and his team are undertaking research into how human-machine interactions can be used successfully in the development of personnel and their individual personalities. He will speak at the LEARNTEC Congress, 31 January 2019 at 10:45. » MORE

Hagen (DE), November 2018 - Mobile learning can no longer be regarded as a trend; it has become an integral part and a set standard of learning media in the digital age. SMEs, however, often still have some catching up to do. The day-to-day business has priority and, as Dr. Erich Behrendt, head of Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum eStandards (SMEs 4.0 Competence Center for eStandards) explains, "Decision-makers have to deal with learning issues in the ongoing work process." Dr. Behrendt will talk about the advantages and developments of mobile learning for SMEs on 30 January 2019 at 11:30 at the LEARNTEC Congress. » MORE

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. » MORE