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Can Online Ed Help Overcome the Economic Crisis?
Athens (GR), June 2013 - "The global economic crisis and its consequences on national educational systems: Can online education contribute to overcoming the crisis?" This is the main question the VI International GUIDE Conference 2013 will try to answer in Athens, Greece on 03-04 October 2013. Organized under the patronage of Greece's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, the event will provide a comparative analysis of the effects of governmental policies on new training and research strategies in response to the economic crisis. In particular, the Conference will highlight the role of digital technologies in providing cost-effective equal learning opportunities, while maintaining high-quality university education. » MORE
Opens-source Authoring- tool Project
Brighton (UK), June 2013 - City & Guilds and Kineo are inviting interested organisations to come together to discuss making Adapt, their award-winning multi-device eLearning framework, into an open-source project. The afternoon event takes place from 2-5pm on 02 July at Goldsmiths Centre, 42 Britton Street, London, EC1M 5AD. The organisers will demonstrate the Adapt authoring framework and lead a discussion on turning the product into a collaborative open-source project. » MORE
Spencer Kelly to Speak at LEARNING LIVE
Coventry (UK), June 2013 - Guests of LEARNING LIVE, to convene 11-12 September 2013, are to gain a fascinating insight into business-critical technologies as Spencer Kelly, presenter of a popular weekly news television programme, will be a guest keynote speaker on 12 September. » MORE
"The Security Oscars" Are Open for Nominations
London (UK), June 2013 - The nomination process for the 2013 Security Excellence Awards - organised by UBM Live - is now open. Celebrating its fifteenth year in 2013, this highly prestigious industry-awards scheme is specifically designed to commend and honour the very best professionals, projects, and processes that the UK and international security sectors have to offer. » MORE
Virtual Coach Further Education
Hamburg (GER), June 2013 - (by Prof. Dr. Harald Geissler) On 13 - 14 May 2013, the KIC (Karlsruhe Institute for Coaching) carried out the foundation module -œVirtual coach further education-œ for the first time. Next implementations of this module are planned for 01 - 02 July 2013. The seminar focused on four distinct but complementary approaches to virtual coaching. » MORE
Performance Support Works!
Santa Rosa, CA (USA), June 2013 - On 26 June 2013 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, the eLearning Guild is offering a free webinar with four experts: Bob Mosher of Ontuitive, Beth Daniel of Bank of America, Frank Nguyen of American Express, and Molly Petroff of Saint Vincent's Health System. Their topic is performance support. » MORE
Expert Webinar with Dr. Patricia Wright
New York, NY (USA), June 2013 - Following the release of its new inclusion curriculum last month, Rethink, an educational-technology company headquartered in New York City, has announced an upcoming Expert Access webinar with Dr. Patricia Wright from Easter Seals. Dr. Wright is an educator and longstanding member of Rethink's distinguished Scientific Advisory Board. » MORE
How MOOCs Are Derailing Open Education
Tianjin (CH), June 2013 - A pioneer of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), George Siemens of Athabasca University, Canada, is one of the impressive list of keynote speakers confirmed for ICDE's World Conference to be hosted by Tianjin Open University, China, 16-18 October 2013. Siemens contends that the most prominent MOOCs are failing the ideals of the Open Education movement. » MORE
Hillary Clinton to Keynote Learning 2013
Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), June 2013 - The MASIE Center and Learning CONSORTIUM are pleased to announce that former Secretary of State, the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be the keynote speaker at Elliott Masie's Learning 2013 conference on 04 November in Orlando, Florida. » MORE
Benchmark to boost business bottom line
London (UK), June 2013 - Organisations can't afford to stand still - and neither can the L&D managers who support them. Acclaimed learning technologies expert Laura Overton will be explaining why benchmarking is so critical to Learning innovation, and ultimately business success, in a webinar on 14 June. » MORE
