The eleventh International Fair for Higher and Continuing Education concluded successfully on April 23rd in Berlin. A total of 8,046 visitors attended the two-day exhibition to acquire information about national and international bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as facts regarding opportunities for internships and semesters abroad. Once again this year, exhibitors from around the ...

Ownership is the new buzz-word in education. Tomorrow’s learning is about ownership. We will own our learning. We will control what, where, when and how we learn. We will access, link, combine, interpret and interact with knowledge. We will be empowered as never before. We will make learning work for us. Increasingly, it is the ...

More than 1200 international education and technology experts, advisers and investors will gather in Cairo in May to discuss how to turn the African Union’s vision of a “transformed continent” into reality. They will look at how developments in technology could enable education and training to boost growth and transform the lives and prospects of ...

Expolingua Berlin, the leading international exhibition for languages and cultures, is amongst the winners of the third edition of the Language Industry Awards. Expolingua Berlin was awarded as the “Best Learning and Networking Event 2015” after winning 32% of the votes. As the LIA team explained, a total of forty nominees for the eight Awards ...

The eLearning Africa Through your Lens Photo Competition is back this year for its seventh edition, promoted by the eLearning Africa 2016 conference. Under the theme of ‘ICT Vision for Africa’, budding photographers are invited to submit pictures depicting how ICTs are improving relationships between family, group or country members in Africa. Photography and eLearning ...

Across all sectors, personalised, on-demand service is no longer a luxury, but an expectation. When consuming media, users are looking for accessible, quality content across all platforms, at all times, in all languages. For the audiovisual translation sector this presents a huge challenge, but also a great opportunity. Never before has there been such high ...

African education experts want to hear from anyone with innovative ideas about how technology can help transform the continent. The experts will be at eLearning Africa 2016, Africa’s leading conference on technology assisted learning, where they will discuss the role of technology in achieving the African Union’s vision of a “transformed continent.” The theme for ...

EXPOLINGUA Berlin, the 28th International Fair for Languages and Cultures, provided a forum for visitors to discover and immerse themselves in the world of languages and cultures. 9,651 language enthusiasts visited the exhibition on November 21 – 22 to explore a broad spectrum of foreign language learning and teaching methods. 144 exhibitors from 27 countries ...

“Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische. Frische Fische…” Tongue twisters are a popular way to practice a foreign language. ‘Tre Tigre’ (Three Tigers) in Italian, for example, is a fun and effective way to get used to rolling ‘Rs’. But tongue twisters, the often nonsensical, rapid sequence of rhyming words, can trip up even the most ...

Over 200 international speakers presenting in more than 70 sessions across two days: the OEB 2015 programme is now online! OEB 2015, Europe’s leading conference on digital education, will discuss the potential for a new age of global learning and creativity in which “everything is possible.” Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of conference organisers ICWE GmbH, ...