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Themen

Shared Knowledge

Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds

Prague (CZ), February 2011 - Held at the held at the Mamaison Riverside Hotel in Prague from 20 - 22 March 2011, the aim of this conference is to examine learning - both formal and informal - in virtual worlds in an attempt to explore both its essential characteristics and its future possibilities. » 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

Submission

Call for the International eLearning Awards 2011

New York, NY (USA), December 2010 - The International eLearning Association (IELA) has announced that submissions are now open for the 2011 International eLearning Awards - Business Division. The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site and the deadline for submission is 01 March 2011. » MORE

Further Education

Live Training Sessions in Leipzig in January 2011

Coventry (UK)/Leipzig (GER), December 2010 - After the second round of live training workshops offered to VETPROS in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, iEducate is preparing for the next workshop session - to be held in January 2011 in Leipzig, Germany. This time the thematic areas "Disabilities and Special Needs" and "Self-employment and Entrepreneurship" will be covered. » MORE

MEDEA Awards 2010

BBC News School Report the Overall Winner

Roosbeek/Brussels (BE), December 2010 - The BBC's highly engaging project School Report, which gives eleven-to-fourteen-year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience, was a popular overall winner of this year's MEDEA Awards. Announcing the winner of this year's MEDEA Awards, Kathy Lindekens (VRT) talked about the high quality of the entries and the value of networking amongst all those involved. » 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