Apparently Windows 7 started life as codename Vienna, and there is even a current facebook campaign to get the Ultravox song to the top of the UK singles chart by 4 April 2010. There’s also coffee and cakes…
However, more importantly the Austrian capital will be hosting the imminent BILETA conference from Sunday 28 – Tuesday 31 March.
The full programme is available here, and there are a number of interesting e-learning papers with three sessions on ‘E-learning Tools‘ and even sessions on ‘Legal Issues of E-learning‘ and ‘Future E-learning Strategies in Education‘. In addtion there will be a round table session on ‘E-learning at Vienna University‘. A workshop on the last day will also focus on ‘Multisensory Law and Legal Education‘ so this conference does seem to offer a wide spread of papers on education, as well as the usual papers on information and technology.
There’s also a Heuriger at a local wine tavern and a reception at the Vienna City Hall as part of the conference social events. I will bring blog reports from the conference, but much reather depends on how good these two events turn out to be!
This is the 25th BILETA conference, and therefore a bit of a milestone for the organisation. Having visited a range of diverse hosts across Britain and Ireland, the organisation has ventured further afield to conferences in Amsterdam and Malta in the past.