Heilbronn (GER), Dezember 2016 - Stefan Strobel is Managing Director of cirosec GmbH. He has twenty years of experience in consulting large companies with very high security requirements and in the formulation of concepts and policies. At LEARNTEC, Stefan Strobel will address the question of how security vulnerabilities that may result from the use of mobile devices and applications can be avoided or resolved.

Bensheim (GER), Dezember 2016 - With the advances in digitalization, modern workplace learning is increasingly becoming a focus of theories on the transformation of learning processes in companies. To make the successful leap from theory to practice, though, our beloved learning and teaching habits have to be reexamined and changed. Digital learning designer Hedwig Seipel will give her views on how this can be done constructively at the LEARNTEC congress.

Paris (F), October 2016 – (by Sally-Ann Moore, iLearning Forum) We have been talking to users who bought an LMS: few were very happy with their purchase once deployed; many shared useful experience with us. This article summarizes our findings. 

Saarbrücken (GER), May 2016 - Some experts involved in digital training say that producing costly eLearning content is a thing of the past: creating hours of training in movie quality is simply too expensive. Target audiences consisting of young learners need little bites of training that present content in a concise and easy-to-grasp manner. But will these bites, which are known as learning nuggets, be sufficient to reflect complex learning needs? And what concept will future learning content be based on in order to engage and motivate learners, while meeting the increasingly complex requirements of organizations in terms of on-the-job training at the same time? Christian Wachter, CEO of IMC AG in Saarbrücken, Germany, and Sven R. Becker, Sales Professional at IMC, talk about learning contents of the future and stand up for high-quality eLearning content. 

Stuttgart, December 2015 - German training providers are to export their services to China on a commercial basis. Under the name DRAGON, six organizations have joined forces in a project funded by Germany's Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to establish a training system for production management and production technology in the world's most populous land. At LEARNTEC 2016, Jürgen Wilke, project coordinator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), which is a participant, will report on the project. » MORE

Frankfurt, December 2015 - Over the years, further technical training for the approximately 700 employees of the fund-services company Union Investment has predominantly been offered as face-to-face events. At the beginning of 2015, however, a decision was made and implemented to increase the use eLearning. This approach was completely new to many participants, and they had to be convinced of its usefulness. At LEARNTEC 2016, Ingo Schneider, Group Leader Business Performance in the Segment Control and Development of Fund Services Department, will report on the initial situation, the challenges, and the experience gathered during this change project. » MORE

Amsterdam (NL), December 2015 - Nick van Dam Ph.D. is Global Chief Learning Officer at McKinsey & Company. He is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and speaker, as well as the founder of the eLearning for Kids Foundation and a thought leader on corporate learning and leadership development. At OEB 2015, he will speak on Friday, 04 December in the session "MOOCs at Work" from 12:00 to 13:30. » MORE

Oulu (FI), December 2015 - Eric Rousselle is CEO at Discendum and has contributed to the development of online learning solutions in both the academic and corporate worlds for over two decades. His topic at OEB will be "Open Badge Passport - Reinventing the ePortfolio with Open Badges" in the session on Friday, 04 December2015 from 16:30 to 17:30. » MORE

Milano (I), November 2015 - Stefano Menon, from the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, will present "PLAY4GUIDANCE: A New Way to Evaluation and Guidance through Business Games". The session in which Stefano will participate at OEB answers the question "Student + Gamification = Engagement?". The meeting (SOL53) takes place Friday, 04 December 2015 from 14:15 to 15:30. » MORE

Kühlungsborn, December, 2014 - The company "Sicher-im-Inter.net eG" deals with a variety of eLearning issues, but its focus is on eLearning software that provides data security. With go-xAPI.com, its own version of the Experience API, the company completes its offerings of "unite" education, making available the most comprehensive and secure eLearning package in Germany. According Thomas Pilz, xAPI software developer, with the right technology, it is possible to collect large amounts of data in eLearning and to use it in a safe, responsible way. » MORE