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

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

I just came across the online event about the STELLARNET Network of Excellence held by Ulrike Cress, Nina Heinze and Christine Plesch on the 07/03/2011. The event will show different facets of STELLARNET: Ulrike Cress and Nina Heinze will talk about the context and challenges of research projects on european level and will show possibilites of participation. Christine Plesch will present results of the STELLARNET delphi study, a study about future trends and areas of tensions in... Read full post

EC-TEL 2011
Sixth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Towards Ubiquitous Learning
 
http://www.ec-tel.eu
 
20-23 September 2011, Palermo, Italy
 
EC-TEL is a unique setting for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in Technology Enhanced Learning from Europe and other continents to meet together and exchange on the current challenges and advances in the field. At EC-TEL, experts and young researchers in Computer Science, Education, Psychology,... Read full post

1.Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
 
Up to 70 available across all disciplines (Mathematics won two last
year). Fellowship provides 3 years of salary plus a small support fund
of £6 k pa
 
Scheme is suitable for those early career researchers who have not yet
held a permanent academic position. Up to 5 years post doc experience
measured from the date of viva to the deadline (March 10^th 2011). All
applicants should have either a degree from, or hold a fixed... Read full post

CollabTech 2011
The 6th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies
 
Dates: August, 29-31, 2011
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Conference Website: http://www.collabtech.org
 
Co-organized by IPSJ SIG-GN, HIS SIG-CE, and VRSJ SIG-CyberSpace
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CollabTech 2011 will be the sixth international conference on
collaboration technologies. Due to marked advances in networking,
computing and interaction technologies, we are at the... Read full post

Computer Science Education Research Conference(CSERC '11)7 - 8 April 2011Heerlen, the Netherlands
Over the years, it has become clear that there is a need for more fundamental knowledge about and input into computer science education. To contribute to this, an international scientific conference will be organised, creating a platform for researchers in the field of computer science education. The conference is organised in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE.Contributions at the scientific conference... Read full post

Function descriptionPhD candidate at CELSTEC under auspices of NeLLL
 
Social support in Learning Networks: enhancing the organizational socialization of new teachers A Learning Network is an online, social network that provides learning opportunities in a particular domain. A Learning Network is not hierarchically organised, has no set curriculum; it organises itself through the interactions that learners engage in with each other. Because of this self-organising character a Learning... Read full post

Mobile devices, technologies, applications and services are providing unique opportunities for teachers, academic institutions, businesses and others to develop and deliver access to educational and training materials efficiently, regardless of location, and to support the social process of learning – whether in developed or developing countries. Today, mLearning can take place in any location, at any time, including traditional learning environments such as classrooms as well as in... Read full post

 
C a l l f o r P a p e r s
 
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7th IEEE Int. Workshop on PervasivE Learning, Life, and Leisure
(PerEL 2011)
March 25, 2011 in Seattle, WA, USA @ IEEE PerCom 2011
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http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2011/
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PerEL 2011 is the successor of six... Read full post