My first blog, to be honest it’s more of an experiment than an actual blog. I’m very curious to see how long it takes before anyone picks this up. It’s like spreading a ridiculous gossip in your village and see how long it takes for you self to hear it back
I’m working in the field of E-learning. I’m ‘Manager Learning Technology’ at Stoas (See my Linkedin profile for more details). We are trying to build a consistent learning framework so that we can create working learning solutions for our customers. Therefore I visited last week the online Educa in Berlin, it was my first visit.
At Stoas I’m responsible for partner relations and selecting new partners and products, so this was more or less home for me, almost everybody was there. Very convenient to catch up live instead of through a conference call, Skype session or web ex meeting.
We are the Moodle partner in the Netherlands and we had an Moodle stand with the European Moodle partners. Therefore we stayed in the same hotel as the Moodle partners and it was the first time I met Martin Dougiamas, the founding father of Moodle (the number 1 CMS in the world). I must say it was a pleasure. Seldom I met someone who was as influential and modest as he is, great guy.
Meeting Martin was one of the highlights of the conference, but there where some downers too. I saw too many bad presentations. Maybe we have to ban PowerPoint from these gatherings, I think it would improve the quality. My most interesting session was an unconference led by Jay Cross, I think that says enough…..
If anyone reads this post, I might post another sometime
The Learning 2019 conference
I have been to a ton of learning conferences but this will be my first time at #learning2019. I’m looking forward to it and I’m planning to report on all interesting sessions via this blog.
