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

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

Here is the privacy document of the other project, eTwinning, that I talked about: http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/misc/privacy_statement.htm#i2450
It's been in making for many months, because many stakeholders were involved (e.g. EAC Agency who owns the data (data controller), EUN who is the data processor, Commission's data privacy expert)
Part 2 is important, it outlines what data is collected (2. What personal information do we collect, for what purpose and through which technical... Read full post

Here are my slides building up why social data that users add on learning resources is important for the discovery of learning resources in a multilingual context. This, of course, has ramifications also for what kind of datasets I would like to see in the future!

Discovering and using learning resources across contexts: eQnet
(Oops, I don't seem to be able to embed content here!)

For example, to pursue this type of work, it would be imporant that the dataset would indicate:... Read full post

Just a few quick remarks on this crucial point of Data privacy from the work that we've done in European Schoolnet. In this post I refer to the Privacy policy of LREforschools portal, to find the policy scroll down and click on "privacy policy". It's well hidden, right ;)
First and foremost, the use of data (e.g. what is gathered, who has access to it) will always need to be explained in the privacy policy. For example, in the LRE we say:

Information such as user IP address, internet... Read full post

The deadline for the Research 2.0 workshop at the ECTEL 2010 conference is extended to the 4th of July 2010.

Paper submission: 27 June 2010 04 July 2010
Paper acceptance: 11 July 2010 18 July 2010
Final camera ready: 04 September 2010
Workshop date: 28 or 29 September 2010

For more information go to: http://qone.eu/s2t

Introduction As a follow-up to a successful workshop on the same theme at ECTEL09, we are organizing a workshop on Research2.0 approaches to TEL research at ECTEL10.
Research2.0 is in essence a Web2.0 approach to how we do research. Research2.0 creates conversations between researchers, enables them to discuss their findings and connects them with others. Thus, Research2.0 can accelerate the diffusion of knowledge.
Topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Evaluation... Read full post