Themen

Towards Maturity

Benchmark to boost business bottom line

Laura OvertonLondon (UK), June 2013 - Organisations can't afford to stand still - and neither can the L&D managers who support them. Acclaimed learning technologies expert Laura Overton will be explaining why benchmarking is so critical to Learning innovation, and ultimately business success, in a webinar on 14 June. » MORE

Complementary Approaches

Virtual Coach Further Education

Hamburg (GER), June 2013 - (by Prof. Dr. Harald Geissler) On 13 - 14 May 2013, the KIC (Karlsruhe Institute for Coaching) carried out the foundation module -œVirtual coach further education-œ for the first time. Next implementations of this module are planned for 01 - 02 July 2013. The seminar focused on four distinct but complementary approaches to virtual coaching. » MORE

Free Webinar

Performance Support Works!

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), June 2013 - On 26 June 2013 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, the eLearning Guild is offering a free webinar with four experts: Bob Mosher of Ontuitive, Beth Daniel of Bank of America, Frank Nguyen of American Express, and Molly Petroff of Saint Vincent's Health System. Their topic is performance support. » MORE

Educational Sessions

To Identify and Monitor Compliance Risks

Minneapolis, MN (USA), May 2013 - The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) has announced the twelfth Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute Risk Track, being held 06-09 October 2013 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. Since a key aspect of a compliance and ethics professional's work is to identify, assess, and monitor compliance risks, each year the Institute offers specific "risk-related" educational sessions in its program. » MORE

Possibilities

Learning Pool Live on Tour

London (UK), May 2013 - ELearning supplier Learning Pool has announced that Denise Hudson-Lawson, Head of Online Services for Parliamentary ICT, and Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University, will headline the agenda at each of the three Learning Pool Live events in October. » MORE

Ed-app Development

Consortium Launch the LTI App Bounty

San Diego, CA (USA), May 2013 - Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, announced at the IMS Global Conference that it is partnering with Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and the IMS Global Learning Consortium to encourage development of new LTI® apps for education. As part of the "LTI App Bounty," Instructure is offering a $250 reward for each qualifying LTI app submitted by 10 June, plus an additional $1,000 for the best apps selected by an expert panel of judges from Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Remote-Learner, IMS Global, Brown University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Hack Education. » MORE

Encouraging Innovation

MEDEA Awards for 2013 Categories Announced

MEDEA AwardBrussels (BE), May 2013 - The time has come to consider entering this year's MEDEA Awards with the announcement of the categories for 2013 by the MEDEA Awards Secretariat. The aim of this awards scheme is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics and animation) in education. The awards also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources and are particularly open to entries from European practitioners, organisations and production facilities. » MORE

eLearning Africa Debate

Four Experts Will Take Part in "a Bare-knuckle Fight"

Windhoek (NA) / Berlin (GER), May 2013 - Outspoken Scottish entrepreneur and blogger Donald Clark and Namibian teacher and eLearning expert Maggy Beukes-Amiss will square up to "mobile technology crusaders" Adele Botha and Angelo Gitonga of the ICT for Education Unit of Kenya's Ministry for Education at the annual war of words. They'll be arguing about whether too much attention has been paid to innovation in education and not enough to sustainability. » MORE

Managing Complexity

Drucker Challenge Essay and Video Contest

Vienna (A), May 2013 - Introduced in 2010, the Drucker Challenge was conceived as an essay contest to raise awareness of the works and ideas of Peter Drucker among young people - the new generation poised to build on a management philosophy that puts the human being at its center. In 2013 the Drucker Challenge is expanding with a new option: The Drucker Challenge Video Contest. The hope is that submissions in this lively format will bring a fresh infusion of energy and inspiration, as well as new clarity to what can be complex and abstract concepts. » MORE