The call for contributions to the WWW'12 Workshop on "Emerging Web Technologies, Facing the Future of Education" is open.

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

I think this is a terribly cool Open University eBook showing some nice embedded controls. And Yes, those are my hands!

After 3 successful Alpine Rendez-Vous events the previous organizers (Kris Lund, Frank Fischer, Pierre Dillenbourg), the European TEL community, the ISLS/CSCL community, and the members of STELLAR, are engaged to continue the story for many years. Therefore a Call for the organisation has been published. For further details, please, follow the link: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/

During the summer school on Technology-Enhanced Learning Peter Kraker, who led the session on "Using Web 2.0 in your PhD", asked the question, what are your five Web 2.0 tools you are using for your research? Here are mine:

Google Scholar: Mostly I use it in combination with the Publish or Perish tool, which ranks the results as a hint of highly cited papers (although I am not a big fan of such metrics, but it helps). Sometimes I cross check with Microsoft Academic Search, which has... 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

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

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

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