Journalists throughout Europe who specialise in writing about education and learning technologies are being invited to a special discussion at Online Educa Berlin on 1st December from 2.30pm. The discussion’s organisers promise to revisit 15 years of achievements and challenges in e-learning and discuss the most recent trends and perspectives with international experts in the [...]
The organisers of the Learning Technologies conference, being held in London’s Olympia on 26th and 27th January next year, have now announced the topics and speakers for the event. Although there are a number of ‘new’ names appearing on the speakers list, there is still a preponderance of the well known and established (some [...]
The 2010 Employer E-learning Benchmarking Survey, produced by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, an organisation which supports e-learning opportunities on behalf of the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace relations, has reported that employers’ attitudes to e-learning are broadly consistent with the survey’s findings in previous years. The most significant findings are that [...]
Elections have been in the news recently. There has been the recent General Election in Burma, which has prompted some misgivings among the international community, including Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague. Closer to home, the former immigration minister and Labour MP, Phil Woolas, has lost his seat in Parliament for making false statements against his [...]
In the wake of the mass learning experience that was Learning 2010, the event’s organiser and well known e-learning guru, Elliott Masie has posted his observations about the event. Among these observations was: ‘I realized that none of our main stage speakers and few of the breakout speakers used the word "e-learning". The discussions [...]
Recently, the e-learning guru Elliott Masie wrote: ‘I visited the Panama Canal this week, for the first time in 20 years. One big learning lesson happened while taking a half day transit of this amazing engineering site linking the Pacific to the Atlantic. ‘As each of the huge boats moves through the locks, the [...]
A recent study has revealed that some UK business schools contribute up to £100m a year to their regional economy. Carried out for the Association of Business Schools (ABS) by the Nottingham Economics Centre at Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University, the report looked at the role of business schools as a [...]
According to an article on the Training Journal website (http://www.trainingjournal.com/feature/three-steps-to-becoming-a-confident-speaker/), the New York Times carried out research among Americans about what they feared the most in life. The fear of death came a mere third, with the fear of walking into a room full of strangers coming in at number two. The number one fear, among the [...]
The Guardian newspaper has featured an e-learning programme developed by Learning Light which is helping people in Nigeria to recycle electrical and electronic waste safely. An article by Louise Tickle, published in the Education Guardian on 12th October (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/oct/12/electronic-waste-recycling), explained that people in developing countries who make a living scavenging the dumps of electronic [...]
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions has identified ‘ten commandments of enterprise learning content management in the iPad tablet era’ (http://www.exact-learning.com/en/resources/whitepapers). “The iPad not only makes a ‘mobile learning machine’ affordable and accessible but it also removes the previous limits and frustration of poor visualisation and connectivity,” believes Cardinali. “The iPad is both [...]
