Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), January 2019 - Elliott Masie will lead a new, experimental, and experiential Learning Producer LAB at The MASIE Center Learning LAB in Saratoga Springs, NY this March.

Oslo (NO), January 2019 - The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is pleased to announce a Call for Interest for the 29th ICDE World Conference scheduled for 2021. Member institutions are asked to submit declarations of interest for hosting the event. The organization is particular interested in bids from members in South America and the Middle East.

Bremen (GER), January 2019 - The "Radical Ideas in Higher Education Challenge" posed by the Jacobs University and the Jacobs Foundation in partnership with the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) aims to foster collaboration between cross-disciplinary researchers and seed disruptions in higher education and academic learning.

London (UK), December 2018 - At Learning Technologies 2019, a recognised expert on games and learning, Karl Kapp, will help learning professionals to think like game designers and transform stale training into exciting and interesting experiences. The term gamification is thrown around liberally in L&D these days, with the benefits of using game theory in learning now an established principle. But designing engaging and compelling games is an art in its own right, and adding points or leaderboards into learning design simply doesn't do it justice.

Bruges (BE), December 2018 - EDEN is pleased to announce its 28th Annual Conference hosted by the VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, 16-19 June 2019. The title is "Connecting through Educational Technology in Search of Contemporary Learning Environments".

Brussels (BE), December 2018 - The next ELIG event, 11-12 February 2019, is a special partnership with OBA, Amsterdam's Open Public Library. It marks the OBA’s 100th anniversary, which will be celebrated over a period of weeks, with many new learning activities in the city. It presents a perfect opportunity to pose the question: "What makes our cities learning friendly?"

St. Augustin (GER), December 2018 - Blockchain is considered the technology of the future when it comes to data transparency and security. One year after the original hype, however, there are still only a few use cases in Germany. Blockchain is the technology that makes, e.g., Bitcoin possible. The cryptocurrency made headlines in 2018 with its rapid development as a digital currency.

Stuttgart (GER), December 2018 - What changes has the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation brought about for networked learning, and what effects does it, in conjunction with the ePrivacy Regulation, have on the design of learning media? Thomas Trier's workshop (in German) in Conference Room 1 on 29 January 2019 at 11:30 will examine these questions. Thomas Trier studied economics and has been a certified data protection specialist since 2013. Today he is a senior consultant and data protection officer at vitero GmbH.

Valencia (E), November 2018 - After the great success of the previous HEAd conferences, which received submissions from more than fifty countries, the organizers are pleased to announce the Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'19), in Valencia, Spain, 26-28 June 2019.

Liverpool (UK)/ Berlin (GER), November 2018 - At OEB 2018, Collabco, producer of student engagement platform myday, is to offer educators the latest "smart campus" technologies and approaches to increase student engagement.