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And the Award goes to ... Learning Layers!
The third European Vocational Skills Week (EVSW) took place this week in Vienna (Wien). The event has been launched by the European Commission to draw attention to the importance of vocational education and training (VET) for education, economy and society. Our European VETNET network has also played a role in ... -
Bringing Learning Toolbox to wider use in training for construction sector
Last week I returned from my long sick leave. And I had immediately the possibility to attend a working meeting at the training centre Bau-ABC Rostrup. With this training centre we had worked in the EU-funded Learning Layers project many years to develop digital tools to support work process -oriented ... -
Remembering Jenny Hughes - Part One: Personal memories on our cooperation
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 ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Four: Insights into different VETNET sessions
With my previous posts I have shaped a series of blogs on the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the first post I reported on the pilot with ePosters powered by the digital toolset Learning Toolbox (LTB). In the second post ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Three: The VETNET network in dialogue with the host country
With my previous posts I started a series of blogs on the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the first post I reported on the pilot with ePosters powered by the digital toolset Learning Toolbox (LTB). In the second post I ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Two: Transfer of Innovation after the Learning Layers Project
In my previous post I started to report on our activities at the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the first post I concentrated on the sessions that focused on the use of Learning Toolbox (LTB) as a digital toolset for ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 - Part One: Bringing Learning Toolbox and ePosters 'home' to ECER
As usual, I have also this year participated in the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). This year the conference was organised in Bolzano-Bozen - in the bilingual South-Tyrolean area next to the Dolomites. But for me and my colleagues this was not at all a touristic mission. In addition ... -
Back to Stockholm - Back to the cruise conference(s)
Both last year and this year I had the privilege to participate in the International Vocational Education and Training (VET) conferences organised by Stockholm University in the beginning of May. These conferences have become already a tradition - the 2017 conference was already the sixth and this year it was ... -
Highlights from the Pontydysgu Studio - Learning lessons from key projects
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 ... -
Bye bye "Pontydysgu Studio" - good luck Pontydysgu Ltd & Pontydysgu SL!
Pontydysgu headquarters in Pontypridd, Wales and 'Pontydysgu Studio' as its filial in Bremen - that is how we have experienced it quite a long time. The name "Pontydysgu Studio" was used by Graham Attwell and Dirk Stieglitz when they worked with projects that had a radio program as its major ...
