Inside Learning Technologies & Skills - June 2016
The magazine contains in-depth articles from leading contributors on the latest learning trends and developments as well as covering all the major issues affecting organisational learning and learning technology. It is the dedicated publication that supports the Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills exhibition and conference and is published six times in the lead up to the exhibition and conference at Olympia in January and the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June.
Inside Learning Technologies & Skills - January 2016
The magazine contains in-depth articles from leading contributors on the latest learning trends and developments as well as covering all the major issues affecting organisational learning and learning technology. It is the dedicated publication that supports the Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills exhibition and conference and is published six times in the lead up to the exhibition and conference at Olympia in January and the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June.
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
The Great Exhibition
'Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the unique assemblage of all things. Whatever human industry has created you find there. It seems as if only magic could have gathered this mass of wealth from all the ends of the earth.' So wrote Charlotte Bronte in 1851 after visiting the Great Exhibition set in the vast Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park.
By the time the exhibition closed, one quarter of the entire British population had visited Crystal Palace, the first pre-fabricated building of its kind, to marvel at an extraordinary array of exhibits amongst which were: the biggest diamond in the world, a carriage drawn by kites, furniture made of coal, and a set of artificial teeth fitted with a swivel devise which allowed the user to yawn without displacing them.
Its impact was huge in terms of the development of British manufacturing, the burgeoning of a global consumer market, the development of museums and the international standing of Britain culturally and technologically.
How did the Exhibition crystallise a particular moment in early Victorian Britain? In what way did it capitalise on the dawn of mass travel and greater levels of international co-operation? How did fears of revolutionary Europe define the policing and organisation of the event? And how far, if at all, did the Great Exhibition go in blurring class distinctions?
