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My colleagues are tired and overwhelmed with all the impressions and ideas they have got at the conference. Most of them were never before at such a big conference and they really appreciate the workshops, sessions and the exhibition.
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Just now we had our presentation. Hence the audience was not so large as expected (because the session takes place not at the main conference hotel) we had a very lively discussion afterwards. Regarding our project topic we talked about what we have find out about motivating disadvantaged adults learners.
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It was a bit an unusual presentation because we persuated Laura, a girl from Cornwall who droped out of school as she was ten, to talk about whats motivated her to turn back to a college ten years later. It was very emotional and the audience really appreciate her video and her speach.

George Siemens from [url=http://www.elearnspace.org/]elearnspace[/url], Canada, will hold a keynote speach about the nature of knowlegde, knowledge transfer and learning processes at [url=http://www.online-educa.com/]Online Educa[/url] Berlin.
The special on that keynote speach will be the way of creating it. G. Siemens prepared a short presentation for all online educa participants to invite them to write together in a [url=http://www.knowingknowledge.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page]wiki [/url]on the topic of his keynote.

Here is a short summary of the wiki & blog session at online educa from friday Dec, 2. The room was to small and in front of the doors were waiting a huge amount of people trying to enter the session!
For me it was i sign, that the topic slow by slow is coming to germany.

Dr. Yael Ravin, IBM Learning Technologies, USA
Trends in the next 4 years.
- Collaborative
- power to the learner
- embedded learning in the worktime
- learning from others
Technologies:
- Instant Messaging,
- Web conferencing
- Expertise locators
- Blogs
- Wikis
If a company has 300.000 employees (like IBM) it is not easy to find the experts or the right person!

e-learning in the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIS_countries]CIS countries[/url].

Prof. Yuri Rubin, [url=http://www.mifp.ru/cgi/gs.pl?lang=eng]The Moscow University of Finance and Industry (MIFP)[/url], Russia
The Status of E-Learning in CIS Countries:
- about 400 universities are changing the paradigma of learning.
- the relations between universities and business are close
- he describes eLearning as Extreme Learning.

Prof. Valery Ovsyannikov, [url=http://www.minedu.unibel.by/]Education Ministry[/url] of the Republic of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus]Belarus[/url].

Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Content!
What does this mean in practical terms?
What, for example, are the organisational issues to overcome in making content freely available?

Susan D'Antoni, Head of the Virtual Institute, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, France
Open Source and Open Content: Creating International Communities. They build a virtual University!
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/
It is hard to look behind the scenes of this project in her presentation, but it looks quite good. They talk a lot with different countries, they use forums to discuss. They use open source software.

in the session during my presentation
It was exciting for me because we were three speakers.
- me
- [url=http://craft.epfl.ch/page21625.html]Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg[/url]
- Joel Brazil, MEDMG WW Channel Services, Microsoft, UK & William Bush, Via Training Ldt., UK [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/[/url]

The NGO view, the university view and the business model.

the online educa has 1862 participants from 73 countries. About 50 people come from russia. In the exhibition are 120 exhibitors.

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KEYNOTE;
At the moment Professor Riccarda Petrella, President of the Group of Lisbon, Economist and Political Scientist, Belgium is talking.
[i]Auf Initiative von Riccardo Petrella arbeitete eine internationale Expertengruppe 1992-95 an einem Dokument.
Zentrale Aussagen:
ungezügelter Wettbewerb zerstört die Weltzivilisation; deshalb benötigen wir neue globale Sozialverträge.
Wirtschaftlicher und politischer Wettbewerb ist wichtiges Grundprinzip unserer Gesellschaftsordnung.

I arrived straight in Berlin. The [url=http://www.online-educa.com/de/]Online Educa[/url] takes place at the [url=http://berlin.intercontinental.com/]Intercontinental hotel[/url] in [url=http://www.berlin.de/english/index.html]Berlin[/url]. The exhibition is open and I am strolling around. There is a free wifi access and the exhibition is opened. At 7:30 pm is a speakers meeting. I am very impressed. It is a very international flair.