Business Intelligence and Learning Analytics – The Challenges, Impact and Benefits to L&D

Organisations can’t escape the hype surrounding Business Intelligence (BI) - it’s everywhere! BI refers to a broad category of applications and technologies for capturing, storing, analysing and transforming data into meaningful and useful…

High Potential Start-Up Showcase – Take a Bow Class of 2012!

Enterprise Ireland held its annual showcase of High Potential Start-Ups (HPSUs) on Wednesday last at the Mansion House in Dublin. This exciting showcase event puts the spotlight on the 97 HPSUs and 60 early stage entrepreneurs that were supported…

Flipping the Pedagogical Model

Technology is enabling new models of teaching and learning. Educators are acutely aware of a disconnect between the way 21st century students access and interact with information in their everyday lives and how it happens in the classroom. Outside…

BETT 2013 at the ExCeL Centre

The annual BETT tradeshow took place from the 30th January – 2nd February 2013. This year the event moved to a new home, ExCeL Centre, London and attracted around a whopping 30,000 visitors. With just over 700 exhibitors there were technologies…

Learning Technologies 2013: the future?

As usual, there was a lot of really interesting stuff going on at this year’s Learning Technologies event. Too much, in fact, for one blog post – but a discussion about the future of technology and learning really caught my eye (and ear). On…