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

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

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).

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/

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

Follow our tweets #arvmupemureThe Alpine Rendez-Vous 2011 tweets can be found here:#arv11