[recording] Second Online Round Table on „Personal Learning Environment“

educamp_logoThe recording of the second Online Round Table is now online available. Thanks again to our great speackers, Erik Duval and Ralf Klamma, for their exciting talks.
The slides are also online:

  • Erik Duval on „Learning is Personal – The Snowflake Effect“

  • Ralf Klamma on „No country on old men“

[conference] USAB 2009 „Usability & HCI Learning from the Extreme“

uni_linzDie USAB 2009 findet heuer vom 9. – 10. November 2009 in Linz unter dem Motto „Usability & HCI Learning from the Extreme“ statt.

Our 2009 topic is Human–Computer Interaction for eInclusion (HCI4eIn), culminating in the 5th annual Usability Symposium USAB 2009.

Mission Statement: “Interfacing the Interface” for a better eInclusion!

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pervaded many parts of our daily lives. Due to its flexibility (multimedia connected with multimodality) it offers a huge potential for people with disabilities and others with functional limitations to interact with electronic systems and services.

Hier geht es zur Webseite / Programm. Wir werden auch mit einer Publikation / Präsentation vertreten sein und freuen uns auf spannende Diskussionen – cu there.

[publication] Personal Learning Environments for Higher Education: A Mashup Based Widget Concept

Our paper about “Personal Learning Environment for Higher Education – A MashUp Based Widget Concept” within the MUPPLE 09 Workshop at this year ECTEL conference is now online available (presentation).
Abstract:

Due to the enormous growth of distributed applications, services, tools and resources, it is not easy for end users to come across existing services, manage and use them in a matter which is customized according to their personal needs. Mashups can be a very interesting approach to overcome challenges of distributed (unknown) services. Using mashups in a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) can help to connect resources and applications in one environment customized to the needs of individual users. In this paper a first approach and the concept of a PLE especially for higher education is described. The technological concept is introduced and design issues are pointed out as well as the first prototype is described.

Reference:Taraghi, B.; Ebner, M.; Schaffert, S. (2009) Personal Learning Environment for Higher Education – A MashUp Based Widget Concept, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mashup Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE09), Nice, France, 2009, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-506, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-506/

8. Blogcarnival: Sind Edu- oder BarCamps nur eine Modeerscheinung?

educamp_logoEs freut mich ganz besonders, dass ich zum 8. Carnival des Wissenwert Blogs einladen darf und ich nahm das bevorstehende EduCamp in Graz als Anlass um der Community folgende Frage zu stellen:

Mit dieser durchaus provokanten Frage möchte ich eigentlich diese Form einer Zusammenkunft durchaus kritisch reflektieren. Ich bin wirklich gespannt auf die Vorschläge, Meinungen und Eindrücke die ihr schildert, d.h. beteiligt euch daran und wir können die Ergebenisse ja gerne auch am EduCamp in einer Session diskutieren.
Hier geht’s zum Carnival.

Welcome Days TU Graz + Toolbar

Es freut uns auch heuer wieder, dass wir die Welcome Days der TU Graz entscheidend mitgestalten können – in den nächsten 2 Tagen möchten wir den Erstsemestrigen wichtige Information mitgeben.

Weiters freut es mich auch, dass wir es geschafft haben die Version 2.0 unserer TU Graz Toolbar fertig zustellen und zum Download anzubieten.

Moblog vom Nokia N95:


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Online Round Table on „Personal Learning Environment“

educamp_logoI am happy that we can invite to the second Online Round Table on „Personalization and Learning“ which will lead to the upcoming EduCamp Event in Graz, Austria (November, 6-7):

The first online event is on Thursday October 8. Erik Duval and Ralf Klamma will be our guest speakers. They will guide us through an informal discussion around ‘Personal Learning Environments and how we learn in future’, a topic that will certainly generate a lively debate. Make sure to contribute to it too. 😉 We look forward to ‘seeing’ you there.

The details about the speakers, their talks as well as how you will be able to contribute you will find here.

Summary of Special Track MASHL 2009

The Special Track on “MashUps for Learning (MASHL09)” within the ICL 2009 conference is over and Sandra and I are very happy that we had a great time, great presentations as well as discussions. We like to thank also our „Best Paper Award“ sponsored by ROLE project (represented by Ralf Klamma) for their help.

Again, thanks to Michael Auer to be part of his conference, to all presenters for their great work as well as all participants to create such successful sessions.
A special thanks also to Sandra from mine for creating the overview slides, the YouTube Video and for the great team work – it was simply a pleasure to work with you: