Earlier this year I have blogged about problems that the Corona-crisis had caused for conferences. In that context I drew attention to the potential of ePosters - powered by Learning Toolbox (LTB) as support for transforming conferences into online events. At that time I was informed by the developers of ...

Yesterday - after a long delay - I got the sad news that my friend of old, professor Gerhard Zimmer had passed away. As I read from the 'In Memoriam' text written by his former colleagues, this has happened already in March this year. At that time I had already ...

In my latest blog I made the point that nowadays - due to the corona-crisis - the education and training providers have to start delivering their teaching and training online. This is no longer something as add-on to the 'ordinary' teaching and training. And as I mentioned, this challenge is ...

In my recent posts I have summarised the results that have been achieved for the EU-funded project TACCLE 4 CPD from the perspective of vocational education and training (VET). In addition I have provided insights into the work with Open Educational Resources (OER) as support for vocational teaching/learning arrangements. Altogether ...

This post is a continuation of my previous post in which I gave a picture of my long-term cooperation with Jenny Hughes who sadly passed away last Sunday. When discussing different themes I mentioned that I would get back to the TACCLE projects in a separate post. This was not ...

Last Sunday we got from Graham Attwell the sad news: Jenny Hughes has passed away. As we know it, Graham is a long-time friend of Jenny over decades. In his blog Graham has already given us a picture what all Jenny has been up to during the years they have ...

The Media in Action project has published its resource bank of hand-picked, tried and tested tools, literature, how-to guides, articles, videos and inspiration. The resources are split into our 7Ws; What - with resources on historical context, the definition and concepts of convergence literacies, pedagogy, and the era of prosumerism. ...

In my previous post I reported on the second transnational meeting of our EU-funded project TACCLE4-CPD and our efforts to develop tools and concepts for continuing  professional development of teachers and trainers. As has been the case with earlier TACCLE projects, we focus on integrating the use of digital tools ...

As I had told in my earlier blog of December 2017, our institute ITB is involved in a new European project TACCLE4-CPD. This project is the fourth one in the TACCLE project family that supports teachers and trainers in integrating the use of digital tools and web resources into teaching ...

In my previous post I wrote down some memories of the so-called Pontydysgu Studio in Bremen, now that that 'studio' has been closed and the Pontydysgu activities are continued mainly in Wales (Pontydysgu Ltd) and in Spain (Pontydysgu SL). With that post I tried to give an overview on the ...