Events

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), August 2016 - Leaning in the workplace is changing, and sessions for learning leaders are being developed for Elliott Masie's Learning 2016 event, to be held in Orlando, Florida, 23-26 October. Over 1,500 corporate-learning leaders from around the world will participate in these sessions. Keynote speakers include Anderson Cooper (anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°); U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly; Twitter CLO Melissa Daimler; actor George Takei, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, MIT's Sanjay Sarma, and other thought leaders.

Brussels (BE), August 2016 - "MOOCs Are Dead! – Long Live MOOCs" is the title of the presentation of Dr. Christian M. Stracke, researcher in open education and innovation at the Welten Institute of the Open University of the Netherlands, at the 2016 edition of the annual European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN) conference. Stracke advocates a shift of focus when discussing MOOCs. He also stresses the importance of a common Quality Reference Framework (QRF) to guide the design and development of MOOCs as well as other open online courses.

Berlin (GER), July 2016 - Momentum behind OEB 2016 is surpassing all preceding years, with eleven leading sponsors already signed up and more than double the number of registered participants in comparison to last year at this time. OEB 2016 Sponsors are Oracle Academy, mediasite by sonicfoundry, Open Assessment Technologies, LPLUS GmbH, speexx, Presentations 2Go, CREATE.21st century, Cengage Learning, Amity Online, smartspokes, and WildFire. The diversity of the group, covering a wide range of specialties, serves as a perfect metaphor for the cross-sector focus of the conference itself. 

Barcelona (E), July 2016 - This first-of-its-kind event is aimed at heads and directors of European higher education institutions – presidents, rectors, vice presidents, deans of faculty and directors of units – who are interested in learning, sharing, and developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for correct decision making regarding the uses of digital technologies in eLearning, distance learning, MOOCs, and educational digital transformation in teaching and learning in the classroom and online. Digital libraries, digital natives, and academic resistance to ICT will be some of the main topics dealt with.