A Column from getAbstract

The Discussion Continues with CEO Thomas Bergen

Thomas BergenLuzern (CH), January 2024 - This is the third segment of my six-part series on a rare commodity that every leader should be more concerned about in these times of hybrid collaboration, talent shortages and increasing volatility: trust. The first two appeared in the 22 November and the 23 December editions of the Checkpoint eLearning Newsletter.

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Leadership Learning Approaches

A Column from getAbstract CEO Thomas Bergen

Thomas BergenLuzern (CH), November 2023 - As an entrepreneur, CEO, husband, and father, I learn a lot daily while encountering many points of view. I learn because I'm curious. And, well, I learn because I can't stand still for long. If I felt comfortable idling, getAbstract wouldn't exist (or wouldn't exist anymore), my wife would be long gone, and my children would have found other caregivers. I'm lucky that I'm a naturally curious person and that other people prefer the presence of guys like me to that of idlers, even in Switzerland…

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About Leadership Learning

A New Column from getAbstract CEO Thomas Bergen

Thomas BergenLuzern (CH), November 2023 - As an entrepreneur, CEO, husband, and father, I learn much daily while encountering many points of view. I learn because I'm curious - and, well, I learn because I can't stand still for long. If I felt comfortable idling, getAbstract wouldn't exist (or wouldn't exist anymore); my wife would be long gone; and my children would have found other caregivers. I'm lucky that I'm a naturally curious person and that other people prefer the presence of guys like me to that of idlers, even in Switzerland.

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EduPLEx_API project

Making Complex Technology as User Friendly as Possible

Thomas KruczinskiBerlin (GER), May 2023 - SMEs should benefit from the advantages of adaptive learning just as much as large companies. Toward this goal, the EduPLEx_API project combines AI approaches for improved personalization with the development of a more powerful API for networking platforms. In this project, Thomas Kruczinski provides the communicative link among the participating departments of WBS TRAINING AG. At the LEARNTEC Convention, he will be speaking on "AI Development for Establishing Adaptive Learning in SMEs", 24 May at 16.15.

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Culture Change

Digital Learning Needs Freedom for Further Development

Cologne (GER), May 2023 - Philip Schwidetzki has over ten years of experience as a trainer, consultant, and coach in human resources and organizational development. With the founding of the firm and learning platform "troodi" and the conception of the concomitant digital learning programs, he is involved in providing organizations with targeted and sustainable support in order to develop their employees’ full potential. This has brought him to the topic "From Traditional Learning Culture to Digital Self-Learning - How to Succeed in Change", which he will present at the LEARNTEC Convention, 25 May, at 10.45.  

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With VR and AR

Customizable Learning Content and Non-Linear Learning Paths

NINEFEBVienna (A), May 2023 - The NINEFEB Group is a service provider of technical documentation and eLearning whose activities are wide ranging, working primarily for technical industries - from machine and facility engineering to railroad and medical technology. At the LEARNTEC Convention on 24 May at 14.30 in the AI Applications series, the team of Dr. Harald Stadlbauer, Martina Schmidt, and Barbara Kalous will discuss "Personalized Learning, Non-Linear Learning Paths, Including Assessment Integration of Virtual and Augmented Reality - also in Legacy Systems".

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In the Learning Process

On the Balance between Human and AI-Supported Interaction

Dr. Jan BeinkeThorsten KrauseOsnabrück (GER), May 2023 - The vision of the Smart Enterprise Engineering Research Department of the DFKI - the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - is leveraging the potentials of the comprehensive provision of information. The approach is, by combining the perspectives of business informatics and artificial intelligence, to take advantage of competitive advantages, especially for medium-sized businesses, through the support and (partial) automation of complex tasks. Dr. Jan Beinke and Thorsten Krause will discuss the concept that "a good learning sequence lives from its didactic value" at the LEARNTEC Convention on 24 May at 15:30. The issue they will address is how didactic requirements can be implemented in automatically generated learning sequences.

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Knowledge Transfer

Corporate Industry Training - How It Has Evolved

Keith Henry, Director, Client Advocate, CambashiCambridge (UK), September 2022 - (by Keith Henry, Director, Client Advocate, Cambashi) They say that knowledge is power, but you need to harness it properly to have real power. For this reason, any company selling products or services into the manufacturing sector needs customer-facing staff who are fluent in the business issues that are of greatest importance to their clients.

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Performance Support

Workflow Learning for Home Consultation as Mixed Reality

Gabriele DoerfertNuernberg (GER), April 2022 - Küchen Quelle GmbH, a Nuremburg-based company whose name means "Kitchen Source", specializes in the retail sale of state-of-the-art kitchens, from planning to installation. Besides its Nuremberg salesroom, the firm offers free planning assistance in the client’s home - anywhere in Germany - supported by 3D and mixed reality technologies. Gabriele Doerfert is Head of Küchen Quelle’s Marketing Academy and Product Management Mixed Reality. In this capacity, she is responsible for training the sales consultants, as well as for the "Digital Academy", which was established in 2020. Despite Corona, the digital training continued because, as Doerfert observes, "for a decentralized sales company, this is the ideal solution even in normal times". Gabriele Doerfert will be speaking at the LEARNTEC Congress, 31 May at 17.15 about "Digital Performance Support: Workflow Learning for Home Consultation."

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Here to Stay

Dealing With the Special Features of Home Office Work

Prof. Eberhard SteinerMunich (GER), April 2022 - Professor Eberhard Steiner is the Director of Munich’s Institute for Enterprise and Change Management (UVM Institute), which advises companies and agencies on strategy and innovation processes, change management, agile methods, and work 4.0, as well as aspects of digitalization. He is the editor and co-author of several specialist publications, including "Managing Home Office Employees". Prof. Steiner will be speaking on his area of specialization at the LEARNTEC 2022 Congress, 31 May, at 12:15.

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The Lufthansa Innovation Hub

Investing in a New Corporate and Learning Culture

Florian BrücknerBerlin (GER), January 2022 - The Lufthansa Innovation Hub’s focus is imparting skills and knowledge in the areas of innovation management, digital product and service development, and team and leadership training using cutting-edge working methods. The target groups are both managers and employees, and individual programs are developed for each. Florian Brückner will speak at the LEARNTEC Congress on 31 May 2022, at 12:15.

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Austria’s SPAR Group

Specialized Knowledge Tailored Precisely to Learners’ Needs

Astrid DürnbergerMichael FallySalzburg (A), April 2022 - Michael Fally and his "Digital Education and Training" department have been working on the advancement of a modern educational concept at SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG, Austria’s largest grocery retailer, for more than ten years. His co-presenter, Astrid Dürnberger, and he will give a talk entitled "Five Countries, Five Languages, Five Faces: Implementing an LMS for 90,000 Employees at the SPAR Group" at the LEARNTEC congress, 31 May at 16.30.

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Learning Fitness

"We still consume almost the same learning diet"

Rupert WardHuddersfield (UK), November 2021 - Rupert Ward is a former Special Adviser to the Royal Household and Project Lead for iDEA, one of the world's most successful free educational technologies. He is Director of Strategic Partnerships for the International Council on Badges and Credentials, a National Teaching Fellow, and an international keynote speaker. At OEB Global, he will speak about "Learning Fitness: Getting Learning Fit".

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Constructivist Approach

Envisioned Models as Tied Up with Organizational Cultures

Philippe SeynaeveBrussels (BE), November 2021 - Philippe Seynaeve is Implementation and Change Manager for the IT Center of Belgium’s Brussels-Capital Region. Prior to this, he worked as a project manager and change consultant for both private consulting firms and public-sector organisations. From the start, his work has centered on implementations at the intersection of HRM and IT. At OEB Global, his speech is entitled "How to Ensure Successful Delivery and Implementation of Learning".

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atingi and yoma

Technical Solutions Based on Open Source and Global Standards

Dominic OrrBonn (GER), November 2021 – GIZ is a German governmental agency that supports international development through capacity development across the world. The organization is increasingly harnessing learning platforms and platform ecosystems to increase scale and effectiveness of these efforts. At OEB Global, GIZ’s Dominic Orr and Franziska Seiffarth will make a presentation entitled "Innovating along the learning to earning journey - How to empower the next generation – Insights from the atingi and yoma digital platforms".  

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