Work-based Learning news

EFMD announces OpenScout portal with free management resources

Submitted Monday, May 14, 2012 - 15:43

The OpenScout portal, which provides a range of free services to anyone who wishes to learn or teach management topics using Open Educational Resources (OER) has been launched by EFMD. OpenScout has been designed to help students, teachers, business people and entrepreneurs learn, develop and discuss management topics and save time and money at the same time. There is a wealth of quality, free management learning information from renowned and trusted educational institutions available on OpenScout. More is being added daily by EFMD members. The portal will be officially launched with a series of four webinars taking place in May showing you how you can take full advantage of OER in Business and Management topics. Find out more from the OpenScout Portal.

Survey into the work-based learning experience

Submitted Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 10:20

Well-known UK-based eLearning guru, Jane Hart, has launched an interesting survey about learning in the workplace. The main objective of this survey is to find out how extensively people in the workplace are learning on the job and to understand more about their motivation, is it to keep up to date with what is going on outside or inside their organisation for example. As always, Jane will report back on her findings on her website, Learning in the Social Workplace, where you will also find a link to the survey.

E-ViEW news

E-ViEW at EUCEN Conference in Austria

Submitted Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 10:46

Alfredo Soeiro showing the E-ViEW poster at EUCEN

A poster about EVIEW was presented as a peer reviewed poster in the 43th EUCEN conference held at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria from 9 to 11 May 2012. This EUCEN European Conference addressed two major aspects of University Lifelong Learning (ULLL): its diversity (the "lifewide" dimension) and its potential for providing learning opportunities throughout one’s life (the "lifelong" dimension). One of the sessions was dedicated to the University-Industry relationship and it discussed several modes of working together. One of the issues was the support to virtual training and to WBL. The poster was placed in the entrance of the exhibition, had many visitors and generate quite some questions. Most of them were related with the availability of tools with interest in the project outputs and case studies. The conference had 157 participants from 26 countries including the president of EUA, a representative from DGEAC and a representative from the European Economic and Social Committee.

Partners meet in University of Porto to plan international collaboration

Submitted Friday, April 27, 2012 - 07:35

E-ViEW partners are meeting this week in the University of Porto. The main topics for discussion are the final plans for the international activities amongst students from Portugal, Poland, Ireland and the UK. These activities follow on from the the national activities that have taken place amongst work-based learners in most of the partner countries. Several of these activities will take place against the backdrop of the Olympics taking place in London and the European Football Championship takng place in Poland. Theye will focus on several of the cometencies identified in the E-ViEW Framework for work-based learning and will utilise the online E-ViEW Virtual Campus.

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