Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK 3 year fully-funded PhD (Oct. 2012-Sept.2015) Stipend: £40,770 (£13,590/year)
Application Deadline>> 7th June 2012 <<

An abundance of research papers and learning materials are shared today digitally on the web, often with open, machine-readable access available for free. At the same time, virtual presence solutions such as FlashMeeting create ample opportunity for online collaboration as part of the... Read full post

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Mobile technologies are a vibrantly developing and constantly create new challenges for education and learning in a wide range of contexts and settings. In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012) in Helsinki, Finland we are delighted to announce the unique opportunity for holding a limited number of scientific workshops and practice-oriented tutorials on mobile and contextual learning.  This... Read full post

CHI 2012 - It's the Experience!May 5-10, 2012 - Austin, Texashttp://chi2012.acm.org/The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. The experience of CHI 2012 is centered in vibrant Austin, Texas, the Live Music Capital of the World.STUDENT GAME COMPETITIONDeadline: 9 January 2012http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-studentgame.shtmlThe student game competition is new within CHI. The competition is aimed at meeting the... Read full post

Antti Oulasvirta used MS academic search to calculate a simple statistic for the HCI conferences: a ranking of average citations per paper. Since MS academic search also offers the same conference citation count for the category Computer Science/ Computer Education (which arguable does not contain all revelant conferences for TEL, but quite a few interesting ones), I played a bit with the data to gauge what you see.
On my first impression, I was very astonished to see numerous conferences pop... Read full post

Running low in sleep already (EC-TEL is THE spot for proposal building for call 8), I am sitting in exactly the right mood in the TEL think tank workshop jointly organised by the projects STELLAR, TELMAP, GALA, and the UK TLRP TEL projects: deprivation turned me into a tank, not open to any new idea. No! I’m joking! Finally the Roman weather gods favour us and we are firing up an explosive workshop in what already indicates to be a beautiful day. A fresh breeze coming in through the... Read full post

From one island to the other: freezing at 3:00 in the morning in London Heathrow with 10˚. Jumping on a plane to be hit by scalding 29˚ into the face when exiting the plane in Palermo. EC-TEL 2011, here we come! Thank god we are back to a proper British summer today with a bit of rain to cool down :)
The first day of project meetings has started, to be followed by more project meetings and two days of workshops ahead of the main conference on Thursday and Friday. It's going to be great!

Find below an interesting initiative to collect realistic use cases for the establishment of a widespread metadata format supporting technology enhanced learning: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI (via Paul Libbrecht).

The Open Universiteit is a leader in the application of new learning technologies and educational concepts, both in its own right and through collaboration with partners. A key concept is competency-based lifelong learning in a virtual learning environment, which is flexible, personalised and of high quality. The Open University has 26.000 students and about 750 employees. The main campus is in Heerlen. Spread over the Netherlands there are 13 study centres and 3 support centres. There are also... Read full post

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

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