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

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).

Second Call for workshop position statements and abstracts
 
Learning activities across physical and virtual spaces (AcrossSpaces2011)
 
to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2011, Palermo (Italy)
September 21, 2011
 
Web page: http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?option=com_content&id=18
 
Selected contributions will be invited to be extended and submitted to a Special Issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.
 
Extended deadline:... Read full post

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

Here are top 5 of web 2.0 which I ue for my research.

Mendeley
Moodle
Dropbox
Zotero
Google scholar

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

Today's Rendezvous workshop on Neuroscience and TEL was openend with a keynote given by Dan Schwartz, Stanford. Dan looked at achievements in this truly interdisciplinary area in the 'happy triangle' between education, technology, and biology. And it seems that there is still a huge gap that reflects not only in the differing research interests, but also in the types of questions being asked. Compelling findings presented include a study that demonstrates that it is possible to reduce... Read full post