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Now here is another topic that is close to my heart. Once again, I'm in the session by Darren Rowse of Problogger fame. This time he is talking about Monetization of a blog. He has a extensive mind map on the screen. Below are the options as he sees them.
(Virtual e-books and online courses seem to be the best right now.)
Ad Networks
Cost Per Impression
CPA – Lead Generation
CPC – Cost Per Click
Sponsorships – Fixed length
Text Links
Pay Per Post
Job Boards / Classifieds
Newsletter Advertising
RSS Advertising
Individual Programs
Premium Content
Software / Plugins / Apps
Growing Online Business
Finding a Job
Each blogger will have a different spread of what works for them. Affiliate marketing works very well with Darren because of his high trust value with his readers. Genuine recommendations and personal endorsements within posts work very well for him.
He also creates "best seller" lists of what his readers are buying. He looks through Amazon reports to see what their readers are buying via affiliate links.
To promote an e-book, below is a sequence he used…
(Much of this was done in one day.)
Reader survey
Guest Posts
Launch Post – Overview of product, fast action special
Social Media Promotions
Interview with Product Creator
Newsletter Mention
End of Promotion Post
How do you get good advertisers? Build a good blog. Let them find you. Be contactable. Build an advertiser page and/or pdf media kit. Explain what type of readers you have. List other opportunities such as Twitter account & Facebook accounts. Offer a package deal. Know your metrics. Know how well your ads convert.
Start with small advertisers. When Darren was starting out, he contacted local camera stores and they paid $30 per month. Over time, larger advertisers and more money can be obtained.
Find other bloggers in your niche and offer advertising across all these sites. (More exposure and opportunity for the advertiser.)
Interestingly, Darren used to work as a minister in Australia. He mentions that building a good online community is not that different than offline. It's about caring, listening, and relationship skills. This session on how to make a good community is basically about being a good human being.
Adding community and user engagement makes your site more useful and provides social proof. It also creates increased page views, which can assist with advertising income. When you have a community, your readers become advocates. Your users generate content, which adds value.
When you begin, you have a very small community. You should email them directly and try to stay engaged with them individually. The next stage is that your readers become advocates that start bringing in other readers. At this point, the community become self-sustaining. You can actually take a step back.
Early on, it's important to BE the community. People will follow your lead. If you are positive, people will be positive. If you are snarky, they will follow your lead. Ask questions, invite interaction. Early on, ask questions to people in person. Ask them to comment on your posts.
To help build community, Darren often asks readers if they have a blog. He will create a post that asks them to leave a link to their blog in the comments. He asks readers to give advice or tips on subjects. This gets readers involved. Recently, on his photo blog, he had someone ask if they should take pictures of a person that is about to die or at a funeral if asked. He turned it around and asked his community. Many people had similar experiences and offered their advice.
Start offsite community areas. Darren started a Flickr community, which led to a forum. He got regular commenters to start the forum before launching it to everyone else. He also uses Twitter and Facebook and sends traffic to those areas and back again. He keeps people moving between them. This builds social proof.
Write in a personal and engaging tone, yet relative to your audience. He has had guest bloggers talk about personal things as it relates to his audience. He has also created videos that show him with his newborn child, for example. He often talks to his blog readers as "you". Yet, in his newsletters, he uses the word "us" and "we".
He encourages creating a page that explains how to "join" the community. He uses RSS, RSS to email, email newsletter, Facebook, & Twitter. List all these methods on one page so they can choose the one they like best.
Darren has asked his readers to create educational YouTube videos. Those that did had their videos posted on the blog. He occasionally gives them homework like this. He also involves readers before making changes to the site. He also asks advanced readers that are not happy with beginner posts to help others by guest posting.
Darren uses Ustream to answer questions live on a weekly basis. This limits questions from being asked so frequently via email.
Don't respond to trolls and haters. (This seems to be a common theme today.) To the contrary, be sure to reward good behavior. If someone leaves a really good comment, email them directly. You can also turn a good comment into it's own post.
After the keynote address, I went into a couple different sessions and walked out. It seems as if today is mostly about social media as opposed to creating content. Both sessions were pretty weak.
HOWEVER, I eventually ended up in the Problogger series that Darren Rowse is taking the lead in. His content has been fantastic.
He stated early on that a successful blog basically tends to find the sweet spot between four areas – Content, Finding Readers, Building Community, and Monetization.
Here are some quick notes from the session on FINDING READERS…
Take the time to identify who your target audience is. Create a reader profile with picture and include demographics, needs/challenges, how they use the web, motivations for reading, experience level, dreams, and financial situation. Improve these profiles (personnas) by surveying your new subscribers. Set an auto-responder that will ask subscribers three months after subscribing "what have you not found that you wanted"?
Give your readers a reason to subscribe. Anticipation works very well. One of the best things he has done is letting people know that a series of posts is coming. They should subscribe to not miss any.
Darren encourages creating a page that links to the deeper content on your site. He calls this a "sneeze" page. He then puts this page as an option in the primary navigation.
Regarding increasing readership, Darren also discussed some of the primary drivers, including controversy, social proof, and event-based content.
Lastly, he encourages linking to specific posts in your email signature and even your link in your twitter profile. Speak specifically to those that came from there.
It is time for the opening keynote address at Blog World Expo 2010. I've already gotten to meet some very interesting people before it started.
Scott's keynote is named "Stand up, Stand out, Stand together". It is about the importance of blogging with passion and emotion.
Who is Scott Stratten? He is the author of the book "Unmarketing – Stop Marketing, Start Engaging". He goes by the same name on Twitter. He is giving a opening keynote address with a T-shirt and sandals on. (That is the nature of Blog World Expo. It is fun.)
"Marketing is not a task." It is not a department. It is every time anyone has a touch with you or your company. The individuals that are at your "front counter" are your marketing.
How do we get people to spread our blog posts? Make something awesome. People spread awesome. Don't mistake frequency of blogging with quality. Blog when you have something to say. If you aren't passionate about what you blog, don't blog. When you don't blog awesome, you stop people reading your blog. "People don't spread meh". If your post is just "meh", it does not get spread.
The reason people spread things has not changed. People spread emotion. HOW they spread things changes. Some use Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. These things can get you traffic. Social bookmarking still works, for example.
People ask me what is the next big thing? I say that the things we do now suck. Let's get better at what's now. We have had great tools for years. Stop being so fancy pants and get better at what is available today. Social media is about talking. People talk about what's awesome. It's that easy.
"It is not my job to tell people how to consume my product, I just want them to consume it." Stop pushing your RSS feed icon. People use email. Also, if you do not have your blog mobile-enabled, you are losing readers. (Over 150 of the 500 million facebook users use it via mobile regularly.) Pull your blog up on your phone, then pull it up on other phones you don't own. Make sure that works.
He is now lecturing us on not to write just for SEO, not to use AdWords (it causes people to leave), don't use difficult captha codes, and not to include popups when your visitors go to leave your site. (He is making people laugh and I guess most people here do need to hear this stuff.) No offense, but it's a bit elementary to me.
"Social Media Success Doesn't Exist." Social media is just a vehicle. If your product sucks, social media makes it suck worse. If your stuff is great, it makes it better. It simply makes what you do louder. If you hate people, social media is a bad place to be. If you hate your target market, don't talk to them. Social media is just conversations.
People do business with those they Know, Like, & Trust. (One of my favorite quotes.) So true.
Scott did about 7,000 tweets in one month a couple years ago. (That's over 200 per day.) About 75% were replies. He ended up with thousands of followers. (No real surprise there, either. However, I personally think that worked better a year or two ago. Quantity does not work as well as quality, now.
He is now explaining how to handle trolls. For those that say mean things to you online, don't reply to them. They have few followers and if you engage them, you are giving them attention they don't deserve. Let them hate.
Blog with passion. Ignore the haters.
MY COMMENTS: Overall, it was a nice keynote. The content was a little elementary to me. But then again, there are probably a lot of newbies here. Scott seems to be a little cocky and extreme. Then again, that is what works well online.
At the end of September, I had a great opportunity to speak at Charlotte events, namely ProNet (which helps professionals in career transition) and SCORE (which provides counseling for small businesses). For the SCORE event, I was one of two speakers and Charlotte's Mayor Anthony Foxx opened the event with a keynote speech. (That was cool.)
Then, my wife and I spent the past 10 days visiting family and friends in New York and Massachusetts. I got back to NC on Sunday.
But now (Wednesday) I am off to Vegas for BLOG WORLD EXPO!!!
This has got to be my favorite event of the year! It is my third time going. (I missed last year, so I'm especially excited about attending tomorrow.)
Interestingly, my non-geek friends have a hard time understanding why anyone would want to attend a conference for bloggers. But for those of us that are in the industry of creating content online, this conference is amazing. Some of the best tips for blogging, podcasting, and creating video online can be found here.
Why do I personally love attending BLOG WORLD EXPO?
Unlike most heavy conference attendees, I don't go just for the networking (aka drinking). I actually go to listen to the keynotes and sessions. I go to learn. I do enjoy meeting other bloggers and inevitably have very interesting conversations at lunch, etc. But my main goal is to learn something. I want to learn from the sessions and speakers.
When I get on the plane pretty soon, I'll be trying to make a list of specific things I want to accomplish. But for now, I'm just excited to be attending again. One of my best clients will be there too, so that should make it especially interesting.
Are you attending?
If so, please say hello to me. I'll be the one typically in one of the front rows with an iPad and wireless keyboard. (Probably not the only one, though.)
As of this week, Yahoo is now starting to show Bing results.
The merger was in the news many months ago, but it didn't actually happen until just this week. Yahoo natural search is now "powered by Bing" which is exactly what it says at the bottom of it's Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
The paid listings have not completely changed over, but they will soon.
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What should you do?
If you have a Yahoo Search Marketing account and do PPC marketing on Yahoo search, keep in mind that it will die soon. If you use Microsoft AdCenter to do PPC marketing on Bing, keep in mind that those ads will soon be able to show on Yahoo search too.
(Chances are that you may not use either. After all, the share of search for both Bing and Yahoo is still less than half of what Google offers. Google is the major player in search, by far. Individually, each of these did not have much to offer.)
However, with the merger happening it may be a good time to try something more than AdWords. In fact, if you start a new Microsoft AdCenter account and already own an effective Google AdWords account, you might want to try importing it.
I imported an AdWords account into Microsoft AdCenter the other day and it worked fairly well.
Remember the good ole days?
At one time, these 3 were barely competitors (especially Google). But those days are over now. All three seem to be wanting to do everything possible, especially if the other two are involved in it already.
Why do they race to be the same?
I'm sure you have your opinion. So please leave a comment below.
But first, check out the chart below for proof.
(It's just a matter of time before those blank boxes get filled in.)
I welcome your opinions. Please leave a comment below.
At the beginning of the month I announced to my subscribers that I am no longer going to teach classes after next month. But I forgot to post it here.
(Why? Because I combined the announcement with a special discount that was primarily for my subscribers.)
So here are the details as I announced them earlier this month. (For those of you that subscribe to my newsletter, none of this is new.)
The History of our classes…
In June 2007, my wife and I moved to Charlotte. One of the main reasons I did so was to start teaching classes about Internet marketing. We felt Charlotte was a bigger and better market to do so than Asheville, NC.
It proved true. Starting in early 2008, I have taught about 30 classes. It's been a real pleasure for me to meet so many incredibly interesting people and to hear about their jobs and businesses. I continue to keep in touch with many of them.
But now it's time for a change.
I'm stopping my classes…
I'll probably never stop teaching. I enjoy it too much. But I am stopping my classes.
(What will replace them? You'll have to watch for future newsletters to learn that.)
As of today, I've decided that I'm only teaching two more classes.
Thanks for your support…
The last three years or so have been a real thrill for me. I love the atmosphere of a classroom filled with students that are eager to learn a subject (Internet marketing) that I love so much.
But the work I have to do on my own business is taking priority this year. Next year, I'll be announcing some newer, bigger, better initiatives.
So stay tuned!
Want to keep up on our new initiatives?
Be sure to signup for our newsletter. We'll be announcing them there.
NOTE: This offer is now over. For future offers, please signup for our newsletter.
Yesterday, Jason Keath and I announced that we are doing a special offer to anyone that wants to learn more about Social Media and Search Engine Optimization in Charlotte.
(You can read the press release here.)
If you're like me, you love learning about this stuff and going to conferences. But unfortunately, they tend to be expensive – and far away. So this is your chance!
Both opportunities are in Charlotte. You don't need to travel. You don't need a hotel. And we've made the price unbeatable.
Jason is offering a one-day ticket to Social Fresh and I'm offering a two-day in person training program. Each of these normally costs about $400. But for a very limited time, we are offering both for $397. I hope you jump on this.
Here's the details…
Social Fresh Conference – August 16 in Charlotte, NC. Details here.
SEO Training by HIPPO – September 23, 24 in Huntersville, NC. Details here.
The rules…
Jason and I both wanted to do something a little extra special for Charlotte this year. But it's not fair to open it up to everyone. So we decided to keep it very limited.
Therefore, the offer is available for only 48 hours or until supplies last.
You will be able to signup starting at noon on Wednesday, August 4, 2010. I only have ten spots available for this class and two are already taken. Once their gone, their gone!
How to get both…
Simply register at the address listed below.
Once you do, I will pass your contact info on to Social Fresh and you will get confirmation that you are registered to attend both events.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Corey Creed
HIPPO Internet Marketing Training
PS: Registration will open on noon Wednesday, August 4, 2010. If you'd like a reminder, please signup for our newsletter here.
Once again, here's the signup page…
Harris Teeter
As some of you may know by now, Harris Teeter (headquartered in Charlotte) has hired me on contract to assist them in getting going with social media. At this point, we're just meeting together periodically to do the typical stuff, like building a social media policy and plan.
To their credit, the main marketing guys at Harris Teeter are wanting to get more involved in social media and new media in general. But like many companies, they are a bit hesitant and want to make sure they "do it right". That's normal. They have plans to get involved in Twitter, Facebook, etc soon. (Stay tuned for more on that.)
For those of you that are not familiar with iJustine, you can check out her site here or learn more about her on Wikipedia under Justine Ezarik. But to say that she is a web celebrity is an understatement. Her primary YouTube channel has over 600K subscribers and over 111 MILLION total views.
The iJustine & Harris Teeter History
As Justine stated in her most recent video:
" …every year, my family and I, we go on vacation to North Carolina and there's this grocery store called Harris Teeter. And since last year, I started doing music videos in the store."
Apparently, this year's video is not her favorite as per her recent tweet. Yet, within 24 hours, it has gotten almost 90K views. (Then again, some of her others have gotten over 500K within a few days.) Also, last year's video about Harris Teeter got around 275K.
iJustine's Thoughts on Harris Teeter
Obviously, iJustine likes Harris Teeter. (At least she likes making fun videos there.) Last year's video ended with a screen that stated in part…
I don't know why I love this store but I do..
No this isn't an ad
No they did NOT pay me to make this!!!
This video is in no way
affiliated with Harris Teeter at all.
Harris Teeter's Thoughts on iJustine
NOTE: I am in no way a spokesman for Harris Teeter. Nor, am I authorized to speak in behalf of the company.
Yet, I can confirm her comments above that she is not associated with them in any way.
Also, I know that the top marketing people in Harris Teeter have enjoyed watching the videos. In fact, they find them rather amusing. Obviously, they are happy to get the extra attention to their company and the Harris Teeter brand.
I also know that they have tried to reach out to her in the past. They would still greatly appreciate an opportunity to talk with her to thank her.
What's next?
Personally, I think it would be great for Harris Teeter to offer to sponsor her to come visit Harris Teeter HQ and/or a local Charlotte event of some sort.
(Hint: They seem willing.)
Are you reading this?
So here's my message to iJustine:
If you are reading this, please let me know. Catch me on Twitter (DM) or any other way. I'd be honored to connect you with the good people at Harris Teeter HQ so they can express their thanks.
Charlotte is a great city. We'd love to have you visit us.
And here's my message to Charlotte:
If you'd like to have iJustine come visit, please mention it to her on Twitter (@iJustine). Maybe we'll catch her attention.
And for all you social media gurus:
I'd love to get some ideas from you. How would you recommend Harris Teeter reach out to iJustine and show their appreciation for the extra attention she is bringing to their 192 stores in the southeast?
Drop your ideas in the comments below. If we use your ideas, I'll be sure to get you the credit you deserve.


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Pros: Price/performance ratio is great - as long as it works.
Cons: Failed just outside of return period with Newegg, now I need to RMA. Reboots randomly trash data.
Other Thoughts: Normally I wouldn't write a negative review after a drive failure, because hey, it happens. But with this product, given all of the other negative experiences people have shared, it's starting to look like a trend.READ FULL REVIEW
This review is from: SAMSUNG 470 Series 2.5" 64GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-5PA064/US
Pros: * Pretty fast
* Pretty looks
* Good price/performance/reliability ratio
Cons: * Maybe not as fast as sandforce
* No mounting hardware
Other Thoughts: I added this drive to my home storage server for use as l2arc. In this configuration it sits in front of a spinning rust raidz to serve as cache for random reads.
I have absolutely no complaints about this drive; it works as expected. When the cache is warm and reads are mostly coming off the SSD, I seem to max out around 100 MB/second which is a substantial improvement over uncached read speeds (which can dip very low for random workloads). Now this is somewhat slower than I had anticipated, and I'm guessing it's a limitation of my oldish system board + sata controller combination.
Given that, I wouldn't draw general performance conclusions from this; it's entirely possible you'll see better performance in a more typical configuration. At any rate, 100 MB/s is darn near the theoretical throughput of NFS on gigabit ethernet, so it's more than adequate as an l2arc cache drive in such a configuration.
This drive didn't include mounting hardware. I just velcro'd it to my case.
This review is from: ASUS P1-AH2 AMD Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 2 x 240Pin DIMM GeForce 6150 Black Barebone
Pros: A nice, solid machine with a slim form factor and sleek looks. Capable of supporting Athlon X2 5400+ (at least) despite what the documentation claims. Mini jack, S/PDIF, gigabit ethernet, S-Video, DVI, VGA, firewire, card reader all on board - there are very few small form factor bare bones with all of these integrated. Fairly quiet during normal operation. The case is straightforward to work with. No problems whatsoever after a month of operation.
Cons: There's nothing really "wrong" with the Pundit, but it does have several limitations (mainly due to form factor). Some full-height PCI cards will not fit without modification. Lying flat, the left side of the case ("bottom" if oriented vertically) is bare, grey metal instead of painted black. The CPU fan can be a little loud under high load (HD playback, compiling kernel, etc). Only one hard drive bay (unless you're willing to sacrifice the optical drive). 2 GB RAM limit.
For some reason, the S/PDIF jack is in the front of the case instead of the back, which requires the front "door" to be open - or removed - when using optical audio. I have no idea why they placed this here.
Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace a full-sized box as my MythTV system. I have 2 PCI tuners, so I needed a system with onboard S-Video, DVI, gigabit ethernet, and S/PDIF audio. This little box is the only one I could find on newegg that met all of these requirements.
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The LEDs are blinding, especially at night. I covered mine with electrical tape, and they're still visible - sharpie or black nail polish might be even better.
The hardware all functions under Linux - if building your own kernel, you'll need CONFIG_SATA_NV (SATA), CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX (IDE), CONFIG_FORCEDETH (ethernet), and CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL (sound).


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OEB 2016 Pre-Conference Workshops
Sign up to one of our pre-conference workshops for a chance to develop practical skills, in-depth insights and specialised knowledge.
FD1 Full-day Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 320.00 € Status: places available
Serious e-Learning: Integrating Learning Science with Experience Design
Workshop leader
This workshop takes learning design beyond the basics, and dives deep into the learning sciences to add substance to each of the elements of a learning experience. Participants will come away with specific steps along the design process to develop and deliver elearning that has a real impact on the ability to do. Too much of e-learning is being developed as content presentation and knowledge test, and the evidence is that such experiences don't lead to persistent and real changes. Yet with simple changes to processes, learning can tap into what's know about how our brains work in ways that will yield real outcomes.
Most of e-learning is failing in matching what's known about learning science. From the wrong objectives, through content presentation and under-explored examples to abstract and inappropriate practice, what we know from learning science isn't adequately dealt with. To compound matters, most e-learning is also missing the emotional component, addressing learner motivation, anxiety, and confidence. And that's not to mention the social aspect. Yet, e-learning could be a powerful tool for achieving real impacts on the ability of individuals to acquire new abilities and skills. The opportunity is there, even under real world constraints, but the knowledge to design and develop such e-learning isn't sufficiently spread. In this workshop, the intent is to go deeper than surface e-learning, unpacking the science behind each of the elements, and developing a process that can systematically, reliably, and repeatedly deliver learning experiences that engage and are effective educationally.
|1 hour
|Cognitive Science 101: Understanding learning
|1 hour
|Developing Meaningful Objectives: working with SMEs
|1 hour
|Practice Developing Practice: making learners do
|1 hour
|'Content' that connects: Designing Concepts and Examples
|1 hour
|Emotional Enhancement: Elements that Engage
|1 hour
|Putting it together: Designing Processes
Target Audience
All sectors, HE, Corp, Gov, even K12
Prerequisite Knowledge
Learners ideally will have experience with basic Instructional Design
The workshop will start with getting meaningful objectives, move to designing practice that engages the necessary cognitive processes, talk about the power of models as the basis for action and the methods to get them, and unpack the necessary elements that create effective examples. In addition, creating introductions and closings that prepare the learner affectively as well as cognitively for the learning experience, and close it as well, will be covered. The goal is to take participants from a rote understanding of learning design to real learning engineering; applying science to create learning that makes a difference.
FD2 Full-day Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 320.00 € Status: places available
GBSN Summit on Experiential eLearning. Training Global Leaders through Practice and Partnership
Workshop leaders
Today's students want to be active participants in the learning experience, whether they are in the classroom or learning online. They are looking for an education that will translate fluidly into their working lives on day one. Employers need to hire and train knowledgeable managers who can work in an increasingly multi-cultural environment, doing business across borders and utilizing multiple platforms to get the job done. As these students and employers look more and more to online education options, innovative educators are using technology to transform the experiential learning techniques that are used at leading business schools around the globe for the eLearning environment.
Technology gives students access to more than just knowledge and connections. It can provide unprecedented opportunities for real-world experiences and engagement that enhance knowledge development, skills retention and intercultural fluency. What's more, eLearning platforms are expanding access to world-class education in developing countries, facilitating not only information transfer, but cross-border dialogue and knowledge sharing among students around the globe.
This interactive one-day summit organized by the Global Business School Network will explore how educators can apply innovations in technology to enable experiential learning and expand international partnerships.
|9:00 – 9:30
|Introductions and Icebreaker
|9:30 – 11:00
|Innovations in Experiential Learning Through Technology
|Panel discussion on how institutions use advancements in technology to enable access to more than just knowledge and connections, but also real engagement and experiences that can enhance their learning, as well intercultural fluency.
|11:00 – 11:15
|Educators/Sponsors Showcase
|11:15 – 11:30
|Tea Break
|11:30 – 1:00
|Working with Industry: The Role of Technology in Developing Business Leaders
|Panel discussion on how advances in technology are preparing students to be innovative leaders in a global market.
|1:00 – 2:00
|Networking Lunch
|2:00 – 3:15
|Small Group Discussions: Expanding access to educational best practice
|Share your interest and experience with experiential eLearning; Discover new collaborative opportunities and explore how you can apply innovative techniques to your own institution or business.
|3:15 – 4:00
|Report Back and Final Thoughts
Target audience
- Faculty, administrators and program directors from business schools and universities around the world
- Education professionals interested in experiential education and management skills development
- Online education entrepreneurs focused on the business, management end entrepreneurship education markets
- International aid and government officials working to expand access to quality education and facilitate cross-border partnerships
The summit will feature interactive panel discussions with leading innovators in technology and in business education from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Participants will have the opportunity to meet in small working groups to share their experiences and develop ideas for using technology to enhance and expand their own educational programs.
GBSN Summit Participants will:
- Discover ways technology is enabling experiential education
- Explore how schools utilize tools and advancements in technology to develop partnerships across borders
- Engage with international peers to discuss what technology's role is in developing workforce readiness
- Discuss how technology is enabling access and connections to emerging markets
FD3 Full-day Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: places available
Speexx Exchange Reality Check
Workshop leaders
Please note that this event is targeted at HR & L&D Professionals; your registration for this event is subject to confirmation by the event organisers.
Reality check – the state of the e-learning industry
|Breakfast and registration
|"Modernizing learning - how to get the edge in business" by Laura Overton (Managing Director of Towards Maturity)
|Presentation 2
|Coffee and Networking
|Presentation 3 & 4
|Lunch and Networking
|Reality Check - Speexx Exchange 2015 Live Survey
|Presentation 5 & 6
|Coffee and Networking
|Reality Check - Speexx Exchange 2015 Live Survey
|World Café and Crowdsourcing activity
|Refreshments and networking
Target audience
HR and L&D Directors
Prerequisite knowledge
Strategic HR, L&D
Network with senior HR and L&D peers from all over the world and a range of industry backgrounds. Gain a deep understanding of what the most successful organisations our there are doing in terms of their HR, learning and talent management strategies. Get practical ideas and best practice tips which can be implemented in the workplace right away. Witness exclusive research results and case studies which will help you drive performance in your organisation.
M1 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
Reconceptualising and Embedding Graduate Attributes for Enhanced Employability
Workshop leaders
Participants of the workshop are expected to bring their own internet-enabled devices (tablets or laptops).
At the University of Northampton, the imperatives of student recruitment, retention and progression in an "uncapped" UK sector is being addressed through wholesale pedagogic change. We are seeking to make best use of technological disruptions and carve out an identifiable niche in an increasingly undifferentiated market. The lecture model, for centuries the hallmark of University learning and teaching models, is being reconceptualised around a more active, engaged, blended and personalised pedagogy that situates the dissemination of knowledge as only one step in a learning process that focuses more on what a learner does with that knowledge than it does on the knowledge itself.
Other disruptions, identified clearly in the Ernst and Young 2012 report on the University of the Future (Bokor, 2012), mean that adding value to a University experience is vital for survival. At Northampton, we do this best through our institutional mission to transform lives and inspire change, whether within the University, the local community or more widely within society. Broadly conceptualised through being a 'Changemaker' (defined most simply as seeing a social problem and doing something about it), and embedding this understanding across all programmes and courses, means that our students will graduate from Northampton better prepared to meet these challenges.
The 'Changemaker' difference will become tangible as our students understand traditional notions of selfdirection, change management, collaboration and integrity in new ways, to embody social innovation and enterprise within a higher education environment. Our ChANGE initiative - Changemaker Attributes at Northampton for Graduate Employability – seeks to consciously embed identified aspects of 'character education' (Matthews, 2016), across all academic programmes. This innovative approach provides each student with a meaningful entitlement to engage with our Changemaker agenda throughout the duration of their studies.
- Welcome, introductions and overview: 'blended as the new normal' at the University of Northampton
- Group identification of key, transferable and lifelong learning skills
- Alignment of identified skills to the ChANGE model, with a rationale (employability, Changemaker and digital fluency)
- Alignment of identified skills to models brought by participants
- Critique of the model – what's missing, what would you change?
- Consider the skills and attributes definitions as expressed in the University of Northampton framework for final year undergraduates
- Revise own framework in the light of the discussions: come up with revised versions
- Share with colleagues, who will provide feedback
- Next steps – projects and collaboration
- Reflection: what have we learned?
Target audience
This session is designed for middle and senior university management and those involved in leading pedagogic change initiatives within their institutions with an eye on employability and graduate outcomes. It will offer an opportunity to engage with different frameworks of graduate attributes from across the participant audience, with a view to redefining and reconceptualising these accordingly. Scope will exist for reframing the graduate attribute conversation around 'changemaker attributes', identifying areas of commonality and synergy potentially culminating in consideration of a project to develop a framework for use in national or even international contexts.
Prerequisite knowledge
This session offers an opportunity to engage with our ChANGE framework for yourself, compare it to your own approaches to graduate attributes and explore synergies. By the end of this workshop you will have had an opportunity to:
- Critique your institutional graduate attribute statement in relation to alternative models
- Capture key graduate attributes relevant to your own context in a visually appealing, transferable, reusable artefact, suitable for further consideration, adaptation and implementation at institutional level
- Align those attributes to key institutional values
- Receive feedback on your draft framework from colleagues
- Provide feedback for action on frameworks developed by colleagues at the workshop.
M2 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
Research Revealed: Using Academic Video to Impact Blended Teaching and Learning
Workshop leader
Participants will develop hands on experience examining a variety of technological and didactic aspects. Research findings will be presented that show perspectives on lecturers making videos of their teaching and the stages they and organisations go through. Student preference for recorded lectures will be examined along with their experiences of participating in more interactive classes. Participants will experiment with the ideas presented and reflect on teaching and learning processes by recording a short video reflection. This video will be discussed in small groups to understand challenges facing educators when using video in their teaching and using technology in class to support learning. A Padlet and Mentimeter will be used to collect key ideas generated by the group. Consequences and repercussions for educational organisations moving into blended learning will be discussed.
- Overview and discussion of some of the ways video is being used in higher education.
- Outline of steps an organisation goes through when including more video in blended format.
- Examination of consequences (teachers/students/org.) of moving into a blended format.
- Each participant will make a short video interview recording using their smart phone.
- These will be reviewed and reflected on in pairs.
- Ideas shared back to the group and posted on Padlet.
- Impact of teaching 'through' video will be examined and how that impacts the relationship between the educator and their students, and their own role as an educator.
- In discussion groups, sections of a traditional course will be re-imaged to incorporate different technological and didactic approaches.
- Different forms of video technology will be used demonstrated from web lectures to 360 cameras.
Target audience
Educators, curriculum planners, IT departments, education specialists
Prerequisite knowledge
Background understanding of changes and trends in education from the perspective of technology and didactic approaches. Interest and insight in impact of technology on didactic approaches. Basic knowledge of making videos on smart phones and making and editing video clips. Experience of course planning and curriculum design useful.
- Educators and IT departments will be able to place their own organisations in the curve of technology development.
- A set of tools and ideas on how to plan and prepare for the next stages of organizational development moving into increased use of teaching via video.
- Understanding of the impact of blended learning (with video) on the role of the educator.
- Participants will gain a set of approaches and ideas to creating interactive educational courses with video as part of a blended learning approach.
M3 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: places available
A Knowledge Exchange on Open Education
Workshop leaders
Pursuant to Socratic maieutic principles, several influencers such as Sugata Mitra (https://www.ted.com/speakers/sugata_mitra) believe pupils should be given "only" pedagogical contents and psychological supports to learn at school.
However, despite some successful experiments for young pupils, the reality of most of Western countries young adults is to go to university and study in a more or less "traditional" way more or less "traditional" courses. They can trust mostly only their own motivation and support. However, with the development of OER (Open Educational Resources), including MOOCs, produced by public higher education institutions or private companies, professors and students are able to find top quality contents.
French Ministry for Higher Education has been supporting the development of OER for more than 10 years and reaches in 2016 a certain degree of maturity on the subject, with more than 30.000 pedagogical resources available through the innovative portal www.sup-numerique.gouv.fr.
Nevertheless, in Europe in particular, more and more voices speak for a sustainable model for open educational resources.
The actual presentation aims to propose the following: OER will be still accessible for everyone. But when indexed with LOM or MLR and therefore registered in a sort of "streaming platform", a global fee will be proposed to any company interested in their commercial use. The payment would be possible in euros and bitcoin, based on the blockchain technology.
The session will propose to the participants to join the association of authors of digital pedagogical contents, open or not, dealing with the intellectual property rights of the authors but also of the producers, only when the contents are used for a commercial purpose.
- Description of the existing and proposed sustainable models for the creation and use of Open Education Resources (one hour):
- French governmental Platform www.sup-numerique.gouv.fr and its extension to be a "streaming platform" to OER for commercial purpose, Perrine de Coëtlogon
- The need for sustainability, a problem for public institutions and private companies producing OER, Sotiris Makrygiannis
- The existing sustainable models in Europe, Alek Tarkowski
- Open Education Consortium's Point of view, Sophie Touzé
- Co-design workshop for one to three sustainable models for OER (two hours)
Target audience
All public of OEB16, in particular the producers of Open Educational Resources
Prerequisite knowledge
One picture of the existing sustainable models for OER and one to three R&D projects for a sustainable model for OER and their networks
M4 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
"Be a Game Changer!" Making Learning Addictive Using Game Design Thinking and Practices
Workshop leaders
In this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to several Game Changers projects including the escape room-influenced EscapED, the card game What's Your Story, the pedagogical toolkit Flipped In A Box - and of course the Game Changers Open Course (including Web TV). These case studies will be presented both for inspiration and also to demystify the development process. Participants will be guided on how to develop engaging game-based learning solutions that are focused on the message 'technology enhanced, not technology led'. Embodying this message, the workshop will shed light on how to assess the learner's needs and to adopt the right technology accordingly. The workshop will also discuss some of the most commonly used methods and tools for developing digital games that participants can look to apply in their own gameful developments.
Using a design sprint methodology, participants will develop core skills in collaborative and interactive games design and by the end of the workshop will have developed blueprints for their own gameful and/or playful learning experiences.
The Workshop will help participants in furthering their understanding of playful and gameful approaches to learning and, more in general, demystify the process of game design and development as something strictly hi-tech based (and therefore hardly accessible to many learners and teachers). This will in turn facilitate the development of participants' game ideas, be they for serious games or for any other kind of playful implementation, and provide them with basic toolkits and frameworks for designing and implementing playful learning experiences, therefore promoting the emergence of a more playful, creative culture in their everyday contexts.
PART ONE – setting the scene
- Introduction to Game Changers
- Game Changers holistic approach (the 4 layer model for game design considerations)
PART TWO – in practice
- Back to basics: paper based approach (storytelling and interactive fiction)
- Co-design teacher/student experience (digital tech example – setting scene for a hybrid approach)
- Hybrid approach: escapED (leading to a design framework to be used for the sprint)
PART THREE – hands on development
- Sprint
- Elevator pitch
- Voting
Target audience
- Educators who are interested in implementing playful/gameful approaches to their teaching and learning practice.
- Facilitators of organizational learning.
Prerequisite knowledge
The Workshop is oriented at giving even complete newcomers to game design a hands-on experience of how this systemic, iterative process works. The workshop will highlight the inherent value of collaborative game design thinking and practices as pedagogical and heuristic approaches, their deep potential for community and team building, and will explore their possible applications in a variety of learning/organisational contexts and through a plurality of transmedial technological supports and environments.
After the Workshop participants will be able to recognise and implement basic game design patterns and techniques, independently from the specifics of context and the technologies at hand, and to employ their newfound gaming literacy in the reframing of everyday organisational and educational issues. Participants will also be expected to be able to autonomously replicate (and promote transmedially) the experience in their own workplaces or teaching/learning contexts, promoting the emergence of playful/gameful cultures, conducive to innovative problem framing and solving practices.
M5 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: places available
Key Steps to Creating and Implementing a Learning Analytics Policy
Workshop leaders
Learning Analytics (LA) is currently a very active topic in education, but its implementation is beset with potential pitfalls for an organisation wishing to develop extensive use of it. Building upon international experience and local knowledge, the EC-funded SHEILA Project (Jan 2016-June 2018) is creating a policy framework for higher education institutions to enable them to design and enact an LA policy for themselves, using an innovative concept mapping approach (ROMA) combined with interviews of key stakeholders in several European countries. It is a partnership of the Universities of Edinburgh (coordinator), Tallinn, Open University NL and Carlos III Madrid, with Brussels Education Services, Erasmus Student Network and European Quality Assurance Network (ENQA).
The project will be at a key stage of development and OEB 2016 offers an opportunity for us to present our interim findings for comment and advice from participants, both novice and expert, in other words a reality check for the project, and also enables participants to take away lessons from other organisations plus a draft LA framework to support discussions in their own universities and organisations.
We shall discuss with participants our interim data from:
- interviews from senior HEI leaders charged with the implementation of learning analytics to understand the current processes, barriers, and opportunities;
- concept mapping by international expert panel to identify critical concerns for learning analytics policy;
- benchmark of the learning analytics sophistication in the European HE sector by administering a survey to members of the EUA.
The workshop aligns with the themes of Learning and Investment (by learners, by organisations) and Learning and Design (of educational opportunities). LA is focused on enhancing the learning experience of learners and at the same time on enabling education providers to design and modify their offerings to be more effective and fit for purpose.
The workshop will have max. 15 min. presentations by each speaker, each followed by a 15 min. group discussion session with feedback to enable participants reactions, suggestions, ranking of importance etc. for the points made and the questions posed to them about creating learning analytics policy and implementing it. After the 4 sections of the workshop, a plenary discussion will be held to enable participants to offer further input, to create an overall ranking of policy and implementation factors and to share any further experiences. The workshop will conclude with a short feedback evaluation.
Target Audience
Members of universities, higher education ministries and their agencies, with an interest in learning analytics, especially those charged with developing policy for LA
Prerequisite Knowledge
Some basic understanding and awareness of LA but direct experience or advanced knowledge is not necessary
The session will enable participants to learn at first hand the lessons about learning analytics policy and implementation from a wide range of European universities and educational agencies/ministries. As active participants they will be able to add their own experiences and share these with others, help us to rank and rate critical challenges and solutions in LA policy and implementation and explore the draft LA policy framework which they can take and trial in their own universities.
M6 Morning Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 160.00 € Status: places available
Social Media for Learning Clinic
Workshop leader
Participants of the workshop are expected to bring laptops (not tablets or phones) from which they can access public social sites like Twitter or Facebook (not work computers which are often configured to block such websites).
In this clinic we will take a look at defining and differentiating ideas like "social learning" and "social media". We will then work with some popular public social tools -- Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, a photo-based tool, and bookmarking tool -- to examine ways of enhancing and extending our practice as L&D professionals, particularly through use of collaborative approaches.
Please note that this is not a "Social Media 101" course. The goal of this program is to demystify tools a bit and help participants feel more comfortable in choosing and using them to extend their practice. To this end the workshop offers a similar activity repeated with the same framework. Depending on the tool each iteration takes about 25 minutes. Examples used are pulled from the world of workplace training (ie, Customer Service, Leadership, Safety) rather than academia. This format repeats throughout the program. We will likely also do a photo-based tool like Instagram, a bookmarking tool like Pinterest, and Twitter. The idea is that information about, say, Twitter, can mostly apply to similar messaging tools like Yammer.
Depending on time and the interests of the group we can have some conversation around policy, implementation, and measurement. I do need to stress that this is not a 'change management' workshop. I can address it but it will not be the focus.
Opener: Discussion of social learning vs. social tools, conversation about ways people learn at work apart from formal instruction
Explore some examples of (blogs)
- Set up a blog
- Groups work together to write an initial post and upload this with a photo
- Discussion of uses of blogs to extend our practice: prework, postwork, guest posts, providing a course base site, supporting initiatives/departments, etc., specific activities tied to training topics.
Explore examples of wikis or collaborative Google documents
- Discuss difference between blogs and wikis, how they might be used differently
- Set up a Google Doc (or wiki)
- Participate in a collaborative activity with all participants contributing to the document
- Discussion of uses of wikis or other collaborative tool for extending our practice
Explore examples of (Facebook groups)
- Discuss uses of groups as compared to tools like blogs or wikis
- Explore ideas around nurturing community
Closing: Action plan for applying ideas to specific problems/tasks at work. Immediate post-workshop assignment is to use assorted platforms of choice -- blog, conference Twitter backchannel, etc. to post comments or images or whatnot about what they are doing at the event.
Target audience
The target audience for this preconference event uses social tools for learning, training and development in the workplace, government or corporate environments (rather than in an academic environment)
Prerequisite knowledge
Learners have some experience and interest in supporting social learning in the workplace, and are willing to try and use new methods and tools
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define social learning as distinct from tools and programs
- Explore application of social tools to extend practice through means other than broadcasting
- Identify basics of choosing tools for particular types of activities
- Recognize the different forms online interactions can take, from private conversations to interconnected communities
A1 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: fully booked
Creating a New Mobile User Experience for Delivering Online Learning and Teaching
Workshop leaders
Considering what the user wants within web design is not something revolutionary, but within an increasingly competitive and continually changing marketplace, in online distance education, researching and identifying key design principles to deliver a cutting edge and user-led study experience is central to retaining and offering students a stimulating and efficient interaction with their online learning and teaching. The Open University has recently evaluated its entire online student experience and reviewed whether it would continue to be fit for purpose within the current changing higher education and online landscape. The workshop will focus on explaining the process the OU has taken to evaluate, design and develop a new online environment for learning and teaching, using a three stage user-centred iterative design process. It will, through a series of workshop activities, invite participants to consider their own online environments and then explore methods to help discover, design and develop a new online space for their students.
- Introduction and overview
- Exploring an iterative discovery, design and development process (Presentation)
- Discovering user-centred requirements for an online learning environment (Group Work and discussion)
- What are the key capabilities for an online learning environment?
- Who are your students?
- How to define an online student journey?
- Coffee Break
- Designing an online learning environment (Group Work and discussion)
- What is the ideal user interface for your new online learning environment?
- How would students use the interface on mobile devices?
- How does this interface meet your students' needs and expectations?
- Developing an online learning environment (Presentation and Discussion)
- What are the challenges when implementing a new online learning environment?
- Plenary
Target audience
Those involved in thinking about or actively changing their institution's online environment as at this workshop participants will gain an insight into the methodology used by the OU to evaluate their learning systems and will gain skills in eliciting and implementing change.
Prerequisite knowledge
None required
This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to explore the process the Open University has taken to evaluate their online student experience, and share in the outcome of this work. Participants will be invited to take part in a series of activities involving exploration of the three key stages, discovery, design and delivery, of the Open University user-centered iterative design process. Participants will leave with an understanding of the capabilities they have identified as key for their online environment, and be able to map the online student journey for their institution and create example personas that they can use and take away to help start thinking about what an optimal online environment/experience would be for their students. They will also leave with an understanding of how using user centered design approaches can help develop an online environment that will help connect their students and enable mobile learning.
A2 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 160.00 € Status: places available
Creating a Personal Learning Infrastructure
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This workshop will map the technological infrastructure for a personal learning network. It will describe the major protocols supporting personal learning and describe how third party applications (such as simulation engines or learning management systems) interact with personal learning environments. It will draw on the technology developed by the National Research Council's 'Learning and Performance Support Systems' to create a testbed technology environment.
|14:30 – 15:00
|Introductions / Overview of the Concept of PLEs
|15:00 – 15:30
|Why a personal learning environment? (Interactive exercise to identify the underlying value propositions)
|15:30 – 16:00
|What is a PLE? Elements of a personal learning environment (interactive exercise to define major elements, e.g. resource network, personal learning record, learning assistant, analytics)
|16:00 – 16:30
|16:30 – 17:00
|Core interaction elements in cloud technologies (APIs, REST.JSON, OAuth, and related core technologies)
|17:00 – 18:00
|Building the PLE environment: with knowledge of e-learning interoperability technologies, we will 'moot' a PLE infrastructure
Target audience
Web technology developers, commercial e-learning technology providers, learning content providers, learning management specialists
Prerequisite knowledge
General understanding of internet and e-learning technologies (browsers, servers, LMSs, etc.)
We will develop an understanding of the overall architecture of e-learning technology support for a personal learning infrastructure, and will develop a first-draft map of this infrastructure.
A3 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: places available
DistancE-Learning in Europe - Exchanging Experiences and Knowledge
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With the preconference within the framework of the Online Educa Berlin the organizers intend to create an opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing for individuals and institutions who offer programs for lifelong learning and vocational education using distance learning methods.
The intention is to establish an international forum enabling the participants to develop and find a position regarding the variety of technological developments for digital teaching and learning programs in the field of distance learning.
A special focus is put on the services which distance learning providers can offer to volunteers who want to improve their knowledge to engage professional in providing optimal support for refugees in Germany.
- Presentation # 1: "Blended Learning as Solution for Dealing Effectively with Diversity in Higher Education" by Marjolein Zweekhorst, VU Amsterdam
- Presentation # 2: "Blended Learning – Practice Orientation and Heterogenous Learning Groups" by Claudia Bremer, Frankfurt University
- Presentation # 3: "Helping The Helpers – Professionalizing Volunteer Work for Refugees" – A Blended Learning Concept presented by Kirsten Huter, ILS Hamburg
Target audience
This Pre-Conference is for Distance Education experts who want to expand their network and share their knowledge with others and for anyone who is interested in distance learning methods as well. The Pre-Conference is especially for those who work in the adult education business.
With the presentation of the non-Profit course program "Help the helpers" it is intended to pull the idea of educating volunteer helpers of refugees with a blended learning concept in the focus and to inspire others to work in this field.
- The goal is to provide information and to initialize discussions about the presented topics. The last two years showed that the format of the pre-conference with the combination of presentations with following discussion is ideal to reach the goal.
- To receive information about blended learning concepts to solve pedagogical problems such as heterogeneous target groups.
- Better Networking with other distance learning experts in an international Framework.
- Get ideas to aid volunteer helpers of refugees.
A4 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 160.00 € Status: places available
More Than Blended Learning: Designing Effective Workplace Learning
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Blended learning is right now the strategy of choice for most major employers and for many educational institutions, whether or not they describe their approach as 'blended learning'. The blended learning of today is broad in scope, extending well beyond formal courses to include all sorts of online business communications, from webinars to videos, as well as social and collaborative learning, the use of performance support materials and providing opportunities for accelerated on-job learning.
Employers recognise that learning at work takes place continuously, whether or not it is formally planned. They understand that courses are not enough to change behaviour and increase performance. As a result, they increasingly expect more far-reaching solutions that go well beyond the presentation of information and half-hearted attempts at providing opportunities for practice. They want learning solutions that deliver and that places fresh demands on the designers of those solutions.
This workshop provides you with an opportunity to explore a new approach to the design of learning interventions that goes well beyond conventional views on blended learning. This approach stresses the need for end-to-end solutions that blur the boundaries between formal and informal learning.
- Defining blended learning
- Determining the underlying need
- Analysing the situation in terms of the Learning, the Learners and the Logistics (the three Ls)
- Structuring blended solutions using the Preparation, Input, Application, Follow-up model (PIAF)
- Selecting methods to maximise effectiveness
- Selecting media to maximise efficiencies (cost, time, accessibility, scalability, flexibility)
Target audience
The workshop is aimed at anyone who designs learning interventions for adults and who wants to deliver greater value to the organisations that they serve.
Prerequisite knowledge
Everyone will take something different from the workshop, depending on their previous experience and their interests. However, you should expect to become more capable at:
- analysing and responding to requirements
- determining genuine priorities
- structuring blended solutions
- selecting appropriate learning and teaching methods to maximise the effectiveness of the solution
- selecting appropriate media to maximise the efficiency of the solution
A5 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
The Electricity of Learning
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The world is changing faster and faster. From a flat 2D-World to a chaotic and ever changing 3D-World. Organizations, companies, schools and regions have to adapt to a 3D-World that is flooded with information and need to increase their power to learn and innovate dramatically. In order to become sustainable we need to discover the best of us.
Today's educational system and companies however are not able to create the right learning and working environment that enables and energizes disruptive innovation by using the passion and talents of students and employees. We unintentionally transformed talented adults and children into passionless sheep. We have to boldly go for a new balance between education and work. We have to disrupt the organization of working and learning.
This session is a plea for a dramatic change in the organization of work and education. After this session 2D, 3D, 2D-Sheep, 3D-Smarts, 3D-Learning Power and 3D-Management will be branded in your brain. You will become disrupted.
- Switch-3D, the disruptive evolution from Information Shortage to Information luxury.
- The Global 3D-Smart Wave and the battle of the species.
- The impact of 3D-Smarting on Learning, Motivation, Competence Development and Innovation.
- The extinction of 2D-Smarts (Sheep) and 2D-Diploma Addiction.
- Organizations in Search of a New Balance. No more Sheeping!
- The Competence Playlist and Social Validation. A new deal between Education and Work.
- Jeff's Law and the Electricity of Learning. A new paradigm for Learning Power.
- 3D-Management Style as the next step in management evolution.
- Your next step …
Target audience
Everyone who is interested in evolution in working and learning.
Prerequisite knowledge
Open minded. Willingness to disrupt existing paradigms.
Participants will go home with a completely different view on working and learning.
A6 Afternoon Event
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Price: free of charge Status: places available
Lern- und Arbeitsaufgaben multimedial gestalten - Praxisbeispiele aus der beruflichen Bildung
Workshop leaders
Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt wirkt sich deutlich auf die betriebliche Facharbeit und berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung aus. Es besteht ein großer Bedarf an neuen Formen der Gestaltung von Lernen und Wissenserwerb. Der Einsatz digitaler Medien bietet vielfältige Möglichkeiten Lehr- und Lernangebote multimedial zu präsentieren, zu organisieren, zu erstellen und an die sich stetig ändernden Anforderungen am Arbeitsplatz anzupassen. Die Visualisierung von Lerninhalten, die Vermittlung von komplexen Arbeitsprozessen z.B. mithilfe Augmented Reality Anwendungen und die neuen Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation und Kollaboration zeigen die Potenziale des Einsatzes neuer Lerntechnologien in der beruflichen Bildung. Die Einbettung digitaler Lernszenarien in Lehr-/Lernprozesse ist eine Chance und zugleich eine Herausforderung für Lehrende und Lernende.
Das Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung begleitet Pilotprojekte des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, die den Einsatz von digitalen Medien in der beruflichen Bildung erforschen, digitale Lernumgebungen entwickeln und in unterschiedlichen Anwendungsszenarien erproben.
Im Rahmen dieser Pre-Conference werden drei Pilotprojekte vorgestellt, die erste Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen zum Einsatz digitaler Medien aus verschiedenen Kontexten der Aus- und Weiterbildung präsentieren. Es werden unterschiedliche methodisch-didaktische Vermittlungsformen dargestellt und verschiedene Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten des Lernens im Prozess der Arbeit gezeigt. Wir diskutieren anschließend über die Chancen der Visualisierung von Handlungsabläufen, über die Anforderungen an Lehrende für eine effektive Einbindung von digitalen Lernformaten am Lernort und wie lernortübergreifende Kooperation mithilfe digitaler Medien gelingen kann.
|Begrüßung und Einführung (Isabel García-Wülfing, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung)
|Praxisbeispiel 1: Glassroom – Revolution im Technischen Kundendienst durch Smart Services (Dr. Matthias Bues, Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart)
|Praxisbeispiel 2: Mobiles Lernen vernetzt Lernorte: Digitale Unterstützung für Azubis im Handwerk (Dr. Frederick Schulz, Handwerkskammer des Saarlandes)
|Praxisbeispiel 3: DaviD – Das virtuelle Digitalgebäude (Dr. Holger Schopbach, Bundesbildungszentrum des Zimmerer- u. Ausbaugewerbes GmbH, Bernd Mahrin, TU Berlin)
|Ende der Pre-Conference
Target Audience
Berufsbildungspraxis, Berufschullehrer und Ausbildende, Bildungsanbieter, universitäre Forschungseinrichtungen im Bereich der Aus- und Weiterbildung
Prerequisite Knowledge
Keine Vorkenntnisse.
Der Workshop ist in deutscher Sprache.
Der Workshop gibt Einblick in neue Lernmethoden, wie z.B. Augmented Learning, die zunehmend in der beruflichen Aus- und Weiterbildung eingesetzt werden und stellt Good Practice Beispiele für die multimediale Gestaltung von Lehr-Lernaufgaben vor. Die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen lernen unterschiedliche Lernszenarien kennen, in denen digitale Technologien eingesetzt werden und wie eine effektive Einbindung in ein didaktisches Konzept ermöglicht werden kann.


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Tanzania has moved ahead of other major market s in Sub-Saharan Africa in the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting following the switch off of analogue transmitters in Dar es Salaam on January 1 2013 . This development presents significant investment opportunities in the entire value chain of the broadcasting sector and, perhaps more importantly, strong prospects for investment and growth in next generation wireless broadband technologies.
A framework for the transition to digital broadcasting shows that at least seven regions are expected to complete the migration in H113. The process will be staggered across other regions, which have already been provided with necessary infrastructure for the transition. The other regions will have to wait for the deployment of digital broadcasting infrastructure before making the transition. There is no timeframe for the completion of the process in Tanzania, although we expect the cou ntry to work toward s a December 2013 deadline in line EAC and SADC guidelines on digital migration.
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The launch of the digital broadcasting system in Tanzania amid earlier concerns about the pricing of decoders is testament to the government's resolve regarding implementation of the process. BMI notes that such concerns are largely responsible for the delay in the switch off of analogue broadcasting systems in many other major markets in the region, including Kenya and South Africa. In June 2012, the Tanzanian government abolished value added tax (VAT) on digital decoders as part of a strategy to encourage viewers to migrate to digital services. This appears to have paid off as local media reports, citing dealers and service providers, suggest strong volume sales of decoders and set top boxes in the latter part of 2012. This development creates huge investment opportunities in the entire digital broadcasting value chain, including the production and distribution of consumer and broadcasting equipment.
Arguably the most significant outcome of the migration will be the freeing up of frequencies, potentially for wireless broadband services. The ITU, which set a 2015 deadline for all member countries to complete the migration, has recommended the use of frequencies vacated by analogue broadcasters for next generation wireless broadband technologies, including LTE. Low frequency bands, notably the 800MHz band, are well suited for LTE network deployment in rural areas. With more than 70% of Tanzanians living in rural areas, the availability of spectrum for cost effective deployment of wireless networks is an important step in the government's ICT inclusion strategy. BMI notes that two operators - Smile Telecoms and Telesis - invested in LTE networks based on the 800MHz band during 2012. However, we opined that LTE services are less likely to take off until the country's major mobile operators, including Vodacom, Airtel, and Tigo, venture into the market. We believe the availability of spectrum following the digital migration will be a significant factor in their investment in LTE technology.


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I was bullied as a child. A lot. And every time my schoolyard bullies tormented me, I obeyed the teachings of Jesus and turned the other cheek.
The problem with turning the other cheek is: it doesn't work. Not with bullies. Not even with Catholic school bullies. Because bullies don't consult the "Good Book" before they do bad things.
So, day after day, when I turned my other cheek, my schoolyard bullies saw it as weakness and punched my other cheek.
After years of being terrorized like this, and wishing in vain that my bullies would go away or tire of tormenting me, I finally decided to disobey Jesus and change tactics. I grabbed the biggest, meanest bully by the throat, slammed him against a wall, lifted him off the ground, and breathed my warning into his shocked and trembling face. I can't remember what I said to him. But I knew, from the terrified look in his eyes, that he believed every damn word of it. Because I spoke to him in the language that he understood. The language of the bully.
My years of torment ended in that moment. I was never bullied again.
That was my first big break with the teachings of Jesus. Because turning the other cheek to a bully – whether in a schoolyard or on the world stage – never, ever works.
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition is a prequel to the entire series and explores the shaping of Dante's character leading up to the events of the original game. It was released in 2006 and features a number of enhancements, including the opportunity to play as Dante's twin brother, Vergil, and the addition of the Bloody Palace Mode and the Turbo Mode.
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