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

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