Now 20 years old, Online Educa Berlin (OEB) brings together the corporate and academic worlds, along with representatives from the public sector, to explore the latest developments in online learning. This year - on 4th December - I made my debut as an OEB speaker – arguing, amid evidence of continuing change in the world [...]
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were among the key topics discussed at the recent ELIG Annual Conference – held, this year, in London. Andy Lane, Professor of Environmental Systems at The Open University, revealed that studies show that MOOC students tend to be drawn from the already privileged in society. Those signing up for MOOCs [...]
The Learning and Performance Institute is to provide local operations and support to L&D communities in Australia and New Zealand. Today the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), the global body for professional skills development and research in L&D, announced it will provide local operations and support for individuals and organisations in Australia and New [...]
Informal Learning at Work By: Paul Matthews Publisher/ Price: Three Faces Publishing / £14.97 ISBN: 978-1-909552-00-5 Given that the way we now work – and learn at work - has changed, and that the only real differences between organisations are in the people who work for them, rather than in the technologies they [...]
The E-Learning Centre, a long established information resource about e-learning and learning technologies for business education, not-for-profit or the public sector, has been re-launched with the new e-learning Content Store. In addition to the information and the many resources that are freely available on the site, the e-learning Content Store contains a vast [...]
eXact learning solutions (ELS) is launching the latest version of its award-winning Learning Content Management Solutions (LCMS). This new version is further enriched with features designed to optimize the development and improve the quality of learning content. The new version – v. 11 – of the eXact learning LCMS: · Contains an enhanced workflow [...]
The 16th international conference on ‘Human Capital and Investments in Education’ takes place on 10th October in the Congress Centre of Prague’s University of Finance and Administration – and it’s there that the results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will be revealed. PIAAC focuses on the skills people [...]
Valerie Hannon, Sarah Gillinson and Leonie Shanks Published by: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing ISBN: 978-99921-95-55-0 ‘Learning’ is not a topic that has attracted many ‘coffee table books’ but Learning a Living fits the category perfectly. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Reza Deghati, the book explores ways to rebuild the relationship between education and the [...]
There’s a Dutch saying that ‘windmills are placed where there’s wind’. In a similar vein, there will always be places where human beings want to go in order to learn. This may well be because humans who’ve been exposed to any formal education process have become conditioned to this. So, for example, they’ll want [...]
Increasing demand for its products globally has prompted goFLUENT, a provider of Business English training which works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the world, to begin a recruiting drive for British-based native English speakers. They will augment goFLUENT’s existing team of 400 or so trainers, who are based in the USA, Canada [...]
