Themen

Higher Education

Imperial College London Accelerates Learning

London (UK), December 2011 - Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has announced that it is increasing its support to in-house eLearning development teams as a result of demand for online learning. TIS has also shared three steps organisations can take to "turbo-boost" the capacity and capabilities of their in-house eLearning development teams. » MORE

Language Learning

Speexx for Students in Beijing

Munich (GER), December 2011 - dp (digital publishing), a provider of award-winning corporate language training, has announced that it has signed an agreement with the top 10 Chinese University for International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing to deliver language-learning courses in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. » MORE

Creative Commons

Blackboard Launches New Open Education Initiatives

Washington, DC (US), December 2011 - Blackboard Inc. has announced a series of new initiatives to provide greater support for open education efforts. Working with Creative Commons, Blackboard will now support publishing, sharing, and consumption of open educational resources (OER) across its platforms. » MORE

Content Library

Using Data to Inform Teaching Practices

San Francisco, CA (USA), November 2011 - To help educators and administrators improve how they interpret and use learning assessment data to increase student achievement, Teachscape has developed the Data-Driven Instruction Series content library. » MORE

Enterprise 2.0

"We Still Have a Lot to Learn"

Karlsruhe/Leverkusen (GER), November 2011 - How useful are Web 2.0 applications for companies? When does an individual employee benefit? Ellen Trude, an expert on social media training and competence development at Bayer Business Service, will address these questions in her presentation at the LEARNTEC Conference. Her topic is entitled "Enterprise 2.0 - More than Wikis and Blogs". Trude has developed courses that introduce Bayer employees to network-based forms of collaborative work. » MORE

Meta-learning

Connectivism - a Learning Theory for the Future

Karlsruhe/Weserbergland (GER), November 2011 - In the age of Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc., new forms of learning are developing. Gaining in importance is networked, more informal learning with the aid of social media during leisure time - but also in schools, universities, and the working world. Prof. Dr. Volkmar Langer, president of the Weserbergland University, will give a talk entitled "Connectivism as a Learning Model of the Future" at the LEARNTEC Conference on 31 January 2012 in the "Technology 2" session. » MORE

Evaluation

Usability of eLearning Applications

Karlsruhe/Ulm (GER), November 2011 - A workshop on the subject "Usability of eLearning Applications" is scheduled on the LEARNTEC Conference program on 01 February 2012 . Dr. Andreas Lehr, who has worked on this topic for years, has organized the afternoon event in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Broeckl; it focuses on the user-centered design of eLearning applications. In the following, Dr. Lehr explains the current situation and the session's aims. » MORE

Serious Games

Learning by Playing - with Autonomy and the Flow Effect

Karlsruhe/Hamburg (GER), November 2011 - Games will be played at LEARNTEC 2012. Whereas the gaming area invites Conference attendees to an interactive experience zone at the trade fair where they can try out and experience digital learning games, they will also have the opportunity to discuss serious games' outlook and future with Dr. Maren Metz of the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. In the following interview, Dr. Metz explains what distinguishes a "challenging serious game" that can be very probably be solved successfully, producing a flow effect and the related felling of happiness. » MORE

Spend More Time

How Not to Get Lost in the Ocean of Information

Stockholm (S), November 2011 - Ken Larsson's topic at OEB is called "The Challange for Supervision: Mass Individualisation of the Thesis Writing Process with Less Resources". He will present a critical view of students' motivation and the current situation of the approaches to the process of getting a theses done. » MORE

New Environments

Breaking the Silence to Speak openly about HIV

Bellville (ZA), November 2011 - The OEB session "E-Health: From Technologies to Provision of Services and Information in Africa" will touch a series of existential topics. Prof. Tania Vergnani from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa will speak about HIV and ICT. The title "From Icy Cold Technology to Innovations for Collective Transformation" describes a high aspiration. She explains her experiences and her point of view together with her colleague James Lees. » MORE