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Munich (GER), April 2022 - Professor Eberhard Steiner is the Director of Munich’s Institute for Enterprise and Change Management (UVM Institute), which advises companies and agencies on strategy and innovation processes, change management, agile methods, and work 4.0, as well as aspects of digitalization. He is the editor and co-author of several specialist publications, including "Managing Home Office Employees". Prof. Steiner will be speaking on his area of specialization at the LEARNTEC 2022 Congress, 31 May, at 12:15. » MORE

Amberg-Weiden (GER), April 2022 - The use of a lightboard is still a relatively new technique in the production of explanatory instructional videos. Sandra Hildebrand, a research assistant in the Cybersecurity Learning Lab at Regensburg, Germany’s Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH), spoke with CHECK.point eLearning about the benefits of this video technology and scenarios for its application. She will present the method at the LEARNTEC Congress on 02 June 2022 at 16:15. » MORE

Berlin (GER), January 2022 - The Lufthansa Innovation Hub’s focus is imparting skills and knowledge in the areas of innovation management, digital product and service development, and team and leadership training using cutting-edge working methods. The target groups are both managers and employees, and individual programs are developed for each. Florian Brückner will speak at the LEARNTEC Congress on 31 May 2022, at 12:15. » MORE

Frankfurt/Hagen (GER), April 2022 - In the joint project known as IMPACT, five universities are working together that have outstanding expertise in the area of ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI), as well as practical experience in the didactic use of learning analytics. The effort, whose full title is "Implementation of AI-Based Feedback and Assessment with Trusted Learning Analytics at Universities", is being undertaken by Frankfurt am Main’s Goethe Universität, Berlin’s Humboldt Universität, the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany’s only state distance learning university), the Freie Universität of Berlin, and Universität Bremen. » MORE

Mannheim (GER), April 2022 - Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler is involved in the development and evaluation of AI-based personalization approaches for in-company continuing education in a University of Mannheim project funded by Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research. The effort is called KAMAELEON, the German acronym for "Contact-Based, Adaptive Measures for Effective Learning Support in Continuing Education", and it is also the title of his presentation at the LEARNTEC congress, 01 June at 16:15. » MORE

Salzburg (A), April 2022 - Michael Fally and his "Digital Education and Training" department have been working on the advancement of a modern educational concept at SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG, Austria’s largest grocery retailer, for more than ten years. His co-presenter, Astrid Dürnberger, and he will give a talk entitled "Five Countries, Five Languages, Five Faces: Implementing an LMS for 90,000 Employees at the SPAR Group" at the LEARNTEC congress, 31 May at 16.30. » MORE

Nuernberg (GER), April 2022 - Küchen Quelle GmbH, a Nuremburg-based company whose name means "Kitchen Source", specializes in the retail sale of state-of-the-art kitchens, from planning to installation. Besides its Nuremberg salesroom, the firm offers free planning assistance in the client’s home - anywhere in Germany - supported by 3D and mixed reality technologies. Gabriele Doerfert is Head of Küchen Quelle’s Marketing Academy and Product Management Mixed Reality. In this capacity, she is responsible for training the sales consultants, as well as for the "Digital Academy", which was established in 2020. Despite Corona, the digital training continued because, as Doerfert observes, "for a decentralized sales company, this is the ideal solution even in normal times". Gabriele Doerfert will be speaking at the LEARNTEC Congress, 31 May at 17.15 about "Digital Performance Support: Workflow Learning for Home Consultation." » MORE