Recently TrainingZone paid a visit to Online Educa, arguably the best elearning conference in the L&D industry, despite its skew towards education. Or perhaps because of it.
It's important to get out of your bubble every so often. That's how I feel about Online Educa. The breadth and scale of it is one thing, but another is the multicultural nature of it, and it's always fascinating hearing a training director from a German plastics company compare her challenges with a Saudi Arabian elearning marketing executive, for example.
Sometimes, in publishing at least, the L&D experience gets reduced to simple lines of text, zeroes and ones. Rich media content can bring these insights and issues to life, but events are the perfect place to re-energise and rediscover your passion for L&D (if you'd lost it, of course). And what better way to analyse your situation than have someone from a completely different walk of life take a look at it with fresh, critical eyes. Enter Online Educa, now in its 19th year and a temporary midweek home to over 2000 delegates from 91 countries.
For a short video about this year's event click here, audio and more video is this way, and some great pictures from the event are over here.
We decided to collate our experiences with Storify, so feast your eyes beneath.
