| 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...] |
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| 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.
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| 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...] |
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| Next Generation |
| Digital Tools and Content Give Students More Control |
 Chicago, IL, (USA), November 2011 - "Education of the future" is the slogan of the OEB conference track in which Rick Noble, CEO of Edline Holdings, participate. Edline Holdings, Inc. provides technology solutions that help schools improve student performance. The title of his speech is "Engage Me! - Students Take Control". In the following he composes his picture of learning scenarios for the next generation. [more...] |
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| Education For All |
| The Status of ICT in Cambodia in 2011 |
 Phnom Penh (KH), November 2011 - Does ICT integration in teacher training work in developing countries? This is one of the questions of the OEB interactive learning café session with examples from three continents. David Dionys, Programme Coordinator ICT in education, presents here the current stand of ICT in Cambodia, where the education system has been reconstructed over the last three decades.
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| Curriculum Browsing |
| A New Way of Presenting Educational Information |
 Amsterdam (NL), November 2011 - The media industry is forging ahead in the development of compelling content, drawing on a fast-changing range of digital content tools. Jacob Molenaar, Advies en Projectleiding, The Netherlands, explains why the Semantic Web technology and information concepts promise to make heterogeneous information resources more easily accessible and where its would be expedient for presenting educational information. [more...] |
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| The UNIQUe project |
| ELearning Quality Management in Russia |
 Moscow (RU), November 2011 - AKKORK is an independent professional agency in the field of consultancy, conduct of reviews, accreditation, and certification of educational institutions in Russia. It seeks to contribute to the development of these institutions and the whole education system. Erika Soboleva, Head of the International Office in the Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development, will introduce the agency and its work in the OEB session "Ensuring Quality of Learning Delivery". Here, she kindly summarizes her presentation for CHECK.point eLearning. [more...] |
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| Virtual Medical Campus |
| A Virtual Microscope Integrated into an eLearning Platform |
 Graz (A), November 2011 - The Medical University Graz has made a virtual microscope available to its students for nearly ten years, meaning that they have collected considerable experience in a practical solution to a specific learning challenge. Recently, the University procured a new one with especial teaching attributes. Dr. Herwig Rehatschek will explain it in detail in the OEB session "Practical Real-World Tips for Learning Challenges". [more...] |
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| 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.
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| 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...] |
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| Master Defenses in Adobe |
| Live Online Communication at the University |
 Kopenhagen (DK), November 2010 - A web-conference systems is providing new and powerful possibilities to support the synchronous aspects of blended learning in a Danish university, where it gives the students new flexibility to meet and collaborate on group work activities live online. Christopher Kjær, eLearn Project Coordinator at the University of Southern Denmark, shares his experiences in the session "The Future Is Blended". [more...] |
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| Using SMS in class |
| How to Regain Learners’ Attention |
 Groningen (NL), November 2010 - Koos Winnips is a researcher and consultant in the area of educational technology. At Online Educa Berlin, he will present models and results of the use of SMS to increase interaction in large lectures at universities. Than students reported being able to maintain attention for a longer time and being more actively involved during lectures. [more...] |
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| Profiling the Content |
| No More "All You Can Eat" |
 Ljubljana (SI), November 2010 - Davor Orliè is Publication Manager at VideoLectures.NET, which is run by the Centre for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies at the Josef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. At Online Educa, he will speak about "Knowledge Technologies Are the Next Step in Education" and will try to explain how learners get what they really need. [more...] |
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| 'How to think' |
| Conflict and Learning in the Security Environment |
 Warsaw, November 2010 - Capt. (Navy) ret. Piotr Gawliczek is Assoc. Prof. graduated from Naval Academy Gdynia in Poland. He is currently on the National Defence University (NDU) in Warsaw Rector's Representative for the Innovation and Head of the Rector-Commandant's Office. From his point of view ICT tools are important, but to him a new approach of learning is needed. Aside the main factor while aiming at the innovative approach is the motivation and strong will to implement elearning principles. [more...] |
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| Autonomous Acting |
| Digital Storytelling: a Critical Reflection by Jean-Claude Callens |
 Brussels, November 2010 - As a teacher and consultant for the project "Impact of Learner Control and Approach to Reflect on Critical Reflection" in Leuven, The Netherlands, Jean-Claude Callens is concerned with the method of digital storytelling as a mediation tool to support critical reflection. He explains where this idea came from and the drive it can achieve. [more...] |
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