After a two year break, I attended the Online Educa Berlin conference. Three changes stand\u00a0<\/strong>out: the number of Finns has decreased, the exhibitors seemed to be smaller players, and the event has become more interactive.<\/p>\n The absence of Finns may be due to the fact that there are not enough new topics for the top league, and for late adopters there is still enough to learn at home. Exhibitors, in turn, weigh the cost-benefit\u00a0<\/strong>ratio; the Educa participant profile has probably changed so that vendors do not reach enough decision makers.\u00a0For example, the only exhibitor from Finland\u00a0was Tuudo<\/a>.<\/p>\n In my opinion, adding interactivity is a good solution and reflects the state of online pedagogy. In the session I co-presented, our topics were related to communication:\u00a0Vasilis Tsilivis<\/em>\u00a0called for Socratic dialogue and I spoke about the diversified utilization of social media in educational communication.\u00a0This year’s presentations were shorter in duration, leaving more opportunity for public discussion. This is a great way to enliven a topic, but the obligation to engage in different learning caf\u00e9s could also explain why we introvert Finns stay away.<\/p>\n Online Educa is\u00a0<\/strong>still going strong. The 2017 event drew more than two thousand\u00a0well-informed professionals\u00a0from 80 countries. As a practical matter, I appreciate that it was\u00a0again\u00a0organized in the best German manner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a two year break, I attended the Online Educa Berlin conference. Three changes stand\u00a0out: the number of Finns has decreased, the exhibitors seemed to be smaller players, and the event has become more interactive. The absence of Finns may be due to the fact that there are not enough new topics for the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}