The meeting of the Young Minds is starting today. I take part as representative for the Evaluation Work Package. 

Monday 13 June, 5.00-7.30pm, Room 4.10:  LEARNING TO LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES – WHAT ARE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR?
Professor Keri Facer (Manchester Metropolitan University) talks about her new book which questions taken-for-granted assumptions about the future of education. Arguing that we have been working with too narrow a vision of the future, Keri Facer makes a case for recognising the challenges that the next two decades may bring, including: The emergence of new... Read full post

A workshop on Learning Analytics will be held at the 45th Hawaii International Conference of the System Sciences, January 4-7, 2012, Grand Wailea, Maui http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/apahome45.htm. Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. Workshop submissions are not due until November 30, 2011 (see appended call), but... Read full post

I tried to write a Stellar document that summarizes different views on 'orchestration'. As you guess, this is hardly possible. To accommodate all viewpoints, I should write such an ecumenical paper that it would be boring to read. We decided to proceed differently. I wrote a position paper, that reflects my viewpoint (shared by a few :-), and invited colleagues to write a 'response to'.  The compilation of the paper and the responses will provide a nice overview. It will be discussed in... Read full post

According to Nik Peachey, it's educational technology...
See http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/the-worst-thing-about-educational-technology-is-educational-technology

We finalized the schedule for the dataTEL workshop at ARV2011. In this posting you can find further information about the workshop that is organized by the dataTEL Theme Team.First of all, we are glad to annouce that we will have two keynote speakers related to the dataTEL topics: Shlomo Berkovsky (AU) and John Stamper (USA).
Shlomo Berkovsky is a Senior Research Scientist and Research Team Leader at the TLI project (CSIRO – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation,... Read full post

Lucia Pannese (Imaginary, Italy) talks about Serious games
Direct link: http://www.espaciotv.es/playId.swf?videoId1=1778, Language: EN (SP)
Available at:
- UNIR. MSc in e-learning and social networks: http://blog.unir.net/e-learning/complemento
- TELeurope: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/blog/owner/dburgos
- TELspain: http://www.telspain.es/blogs/dburgos
- EC-TEL 2011: http://www.ec-tel.eu
- eMadrid: http://www.emadridnet.org
Cheers,
Daniel
 

Ruth Drysdale (JISC, United Kingdom) talks about Students’ perspective on Technology
Direct link: http://www.espaciotv.es/playId.swf?videoId1=1776, Language: EN (SP)
Available at:
- UNIR. MSc in e-learning and social networks: http://blog.unir.net/e-learning/complemento
- TELeurope: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/blog/owner/dburgos
- TELspain: http://www.telspain.es/blogs/dburgos
- EC-TEL 2011: http://www.ec-tel.eu
- eMadrid: http://www.emadridnet.org
Cheers,

Daniel

Dragan Gasevic (Simon Fraser Univ., Athabasca Univ., Canada) talks about Integration of Learning with daily life activities
Direct link: http://www.espaciotv.es/playId.swf?videoId1=1769, Language: EN (SP)
Available at:
- UNIR. MSc in e-learning and social networks: http://blog.unir.net/e-learning/complemento
- TELeurope: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/blog/owner/dburgos
- TELspain: http://www.telspain.es/blogs/dburgos
- EC-TEL 2011: http://www.ec-tel.eu
- eMadrid:... Read full post

Vladan Devedzic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) talks about Learning at the workplace
http://www.espaciotv.es/playId.swf?videoId1=1756, Language: EN (SP)
Available at:
- UNIR. MSc in e-learning and social networks: http://blog.unir.net/e-learning/complemento
- TELeurope: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/blog/owner/dburgos
- TELspain: http://www.telspain.es/blogs/dburgos
- EC-TEL 2011: http://www.ec-tel.eu
- eMadrid: http://www.emadridnet.org
Cheers,Daniel