Winter Warmers in Berlin
06-December-2005
permalink email thisOk - I promised a bit more about On line Educa Berlin and here it is - before I forget.
Overall impressions - it is too bloody big. Nearly 2000 visitors and goodness knows how many trade stands. Mobile devices were needed to find anyone.
I thought the conference programme was only at best average. Perhaps I am being a bit cheeky given I spent most of my time avoiding the sessions and having a great time nattering to people.
So a quick roll call of people (just to make it sound like an A list blog) - great to see Brian from the Commission, Fred from the Dutch OU, Doris from somewhere in germany, Serge from Eiffel, Colin from the OU, Kathy from Crete, Dai from Mallorca, Wilfred, Elmo and Nick form the ICT and SME project, Elaria from Italy and all my friends and colleagues from JISC and Surf. Sorry for those I have left out - there were an awful olot of receptions which just had to be attended and my memory may have suffered.
JISC colleagues win this months prize for self abuse in consuming a ridiculous quantity of the euphemistically named Winter warmer.
back to the conference proper. there seemed to me a big increase in interest in open content - this is a very welcome development which I hope continues and some number of presentations on Open Source. But applications continue to be VLE and VLE type dominated - with Social Software yet to really arrive.
And the keynote sessions were largely dominated by the sponsors - which would have been OK if any of them had anything to say.
So - good fun was had by all - and I'll get down to that pile of emails I have promised to send people.
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