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Themen

Follow the Sun

Learning Futures Festival Online 2011

Leicester (UK)/Brisbane (AUS), February 2011 - The Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester is collaborating with the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland to offer a non-stop, two-day global online conference on the future of technology-enhanced learning. Registration is now open for the Conference, to be held 13-15 April 2011, and ICDE members are eligible for a discounted registration rate. » MORE

User Conference

Plateau Insights Europe 2011

London (UK)/Rome (IT), January 2011 - Registration is now open for Plateau Insights Europe 2011, the European edition of Plateau's talent-management user conference, taking place 28-29 March 2011 at the Westin Excelsior Hotel in Rome, Italy. » MORE

Networking

Fourth Annual Global Learning Summit

Singapore (SG), January 2011 - SALVO Global's fourth annual Global Learning Summit 2011 is being held 23rd - 25 February 2011 in Singapore. More than fifteen senior executives from leading organisations will present their take on the latest strategies and the required blend of methodologies that are necessary to meet the challenges and requirements of learning needs in the light of a recovering economy. » MORE

OECD Conference

Higher Education in Cities and Regions

Seville (ES), January 2011 - This conference brings together policy makers and practitioners; public and private organizations concerned with regional development; leaders and managers of higher education institutions (HEIs); and those responsible for knowledge transfer, regional development, and community liaison at HEIs. It is convening 10-11 February 2011 in Seville, Spain. » MORE

Providing Opportunities

Technology-enhanced Learning: Summer School

Crete (GR), January 2011 - The seventh Joint European Summer School on Technology-enhanced Learning will take place 30 May-03 June 2011 on the Greek Island of Crete. Pre-summer school activities have been organized for the entire day of 29 May. » MORE

Learning Technologies

Announcing the Opening and Closing Speeches

London (UK), January 2011 - Learning visionary Roger Schank will open this January's Learning Technologies Conference by asking why workplace learning so often insists on repeating the errors of the educational system and will offer the L&D community an alternative. Professor Mike Campbell OBE, Director of Research and Policy, UK Commission for Employment and Skills, will deliver the closing address by considering how well the UK is developing its skills for the future, the role of L&D professionals, and what will need to change. » MORE

OER

Call for Submissions: Fostering Creativity

Budapest (HU), December 2010 - The European Journal of Open, Distance, and ELearning has announced a special issue for the summer of 2011 entitled "Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources". In this special issue, the editors are interested in exploring the nature of creativity in more depth and how this might be understood and used to better harness the potential of OER. » MORE

Future Planning

First Announcement and Call for Papers for ICL2011

PieÅ¡tany (SK), December 2010 - The fourteenth International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL2011) will be held 21-23 September 2011 in PieÅ¡tany, Slovakia. The interdisciplinary conference focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results, as well as the presentation of practical experiences in interactive computer-aided learning in higher education as well as in the corporate context. » MORE

Networking Platform

The Premier eLearning Expo and Conference

Johannesburg (ZA), December 2010 - The Premier eLearning Expo & Conference will be held 23-24 March 2011 at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Johannesburg. The event is designed for anyone involved in enterprise-wide eLearning efforts. » MORE

Trends

eLearning Can Help Economies Remain Competitive

Sestri Levante (IT), December 2010 - Carin Martell, International Alliances Manager at the leading learning-content-management (LCMS) and digital-repository (DR) solution provider, eXact learning solutions, was one of the keynote speakers at the European eLearning Summit, held in Sheffield in November. Presenting "A European Perspective", Martell outlined world population and economic trends - to set a context for the future development - and value - of eLearning. » MORE