Events

London (UK), September 2007 - The Virtual Economic Forum, the independent think tank for virtual worlds business, is organizing the first European Virtual Worlds Forum. The conference is to take place in London, October 24th - 25th 2007, to provide a forum for business leaders to discuss and evaluate the different opportunities of virtual worlds and their impact on business, converging media and corporate collaboration, as well as brand marketing and consumer engagement. » MORE

Nottingham (UK), 2007 - Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Research, presented the 2007 Learning Technologist of the Year Awards at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conference. The aim of the competition is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the application of technology to teaching and learning. » MORE

Genoa (IT), September 2007 - In Narrative Learning Environments (NLEs), students engage in technology-mediated activities where stories and narrations play a central role to support learning. From 27 September until 2 October 2007, the first online working conference on NLE will take place. This event is organized by the NLE Special Interest Groups of the European network of excellence, Kaleidoscope. » MORE

Milton Keynes (UK), September 2007 - The Open University is setting a challenge to educators worldwide to reuse and remix their study materials. The aim is to inspire creativity, collaboration, and cost reduction in course production, enabling wider access to education for all. Published under a Creative Commons license, all materials can be downloaded to be reused as they are in a different educational environment, or amended to create something new that can be shared with others. » MORE